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Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World

by Jill Jonnes

Published: 2004-10-12

Paperback: 464 pages

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In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes ...

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All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir

by Shulem Deen

Published: 2015-03-24

Paperback: 288 pages

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Named one of "forty-two books to read before you die" by the Independent (UK)2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner 2016 Winner of the GLCA New Writers Award in NonfictionOne of Star Magazine's "Fab 5 Can't-Miss Entertainment Picks"A moving and revealing exploration of Hasidic life, and...

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The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

by Loren Eiseley

Published: 1959-01-12

Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages

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Anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley blends scientific knowledge and imaginative vision in this story of man.

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A Breath of Witchy Air: A Wicked Witches of the Midwest Mystery

by Amanda M. Lee

Published: 2018-04-29

Kindle Edition: 328 pages

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Hemlock Cove is mired in a cold snap, which means the town is calm and quiet. That all changes in an instant when a beer truck tips over on the highway and half the town shows up to get drunk.Bay Winchester is about to be the sole owner of the town newspaper so she heads out to take photos...

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The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table

by Rick Bragg

Published: 2018-04-24

Hardcover: 512 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother. Including seventy-four mouthwatering Bragg family re...

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The Seventh Most Important Thing

by Shelley Pearsall

Published: 2016-10-04

Paperback: 288 pages

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This “luminescent” (Kirkus Reviews) story of anger and art, loss and redemption will appeal to fans of Lisa Graff’s Lost in the Sun and Vince Vawter’s Paperboy.NOMINATED FOR 16 STATE AWARDS!AN ALA NOTABLE BOOKAN ILA TEACHERS CHOICEA KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR  Arthur T...

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First Love

by Gwendoline Riley

Published: 2017-03-28

Paperback: 176 pages

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Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for FictionCatastrophically ill-suited for each other, and forever straddling a line between relative calm and explosive confrontation, Neve and her husband, Edwyn, live together in London. For the moment they have reached a place of peace in the...

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Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories

by Mariana Enriquez

Published: 2017-02-21

Hardcover: 208 pages

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In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling author Mariana Enriquez brings contemporary Argentina to vibrant life as a place where shocking inequality, violence, and corruption are the law of the land, while military dictatorship and leg...

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MEM

by Bethany C. Morrow

Published: 2018-05-22

Hardcover: 192 pages

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MEM is a rare novel, a small book carrying very big ideas, the kind of story that stays with you long after you’ve finished reading it.Set in the glittering art deco world of a century ago, MEM makes one slight alteration to history: a scientist in Montreal discovers a method allowing pe...

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The Cloister: A Novel

by James Carroll

Published: 2018-03-06

Hardcover: 384 pages

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From National Book Award-winning writer James Carroll comes a novel of the timeless love story of Peter Abelard and Héloïse, and its impact on a modern priest and a Holocaust survivor seeking sanctuary in Manhattan.Father Michael Kavanagh is shocked to see a friend from his seminary days...