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The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated

by Judith Rich Harris

Published: 2009-02-24

Paperback: 480 pages

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This groundbreaking book, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times notable pick, rattled the psychological establishment when it was first published in 1998 by claiming that parents have little impact on their children's development. In this tenth anniversary edition of The Nurture Ass...

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NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

by Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman

Published: 2009-09-03

Hardcover: 352 pages

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In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that matter? Why do cross-racial friendships decrease in schools that are more integrated? If 98% of kids think lying is morally wrong, then...

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Nutcase

by Charlotte Hughes

Published: 2009-02-24

Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages

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The Nutcracker

by Daniel Walden, E. T. A. Hoffmann

Published: 1996-09

Hardcover: 56 pages

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On Christmas Eve, Marie Stahlbaum huddles in the dark with her brother, Fritz, waiting for the Christ Child to come. When their parents open the doors to the parlor, the scene that awaits them is mesmerizing: a Christmas tree aglow with candles and more toys than they could have imagined. Godfather Drosselmeir...

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NW: A Novel

by Zadie Smith

Published: 2012-09-04

Hardcover: 416 pages

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New York Times Ten Best Books of 2012 ?A boldly Joycean appropriation, fortunately not so difficult of entry as its great model? Like Zadie Smith’s much-acclaimed predecessor White Teeth (2000), NW is an urban epic.” --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books This is t...

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NYPD Red

by James Patterson, Marshall Karp

Published: 2013-06-18

Paperback: 400 pages

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NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called. Then an ...

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Nyx in the House of Night: Mythology, Folklore and Religion in the PC and Kristin Cast Vampyre Series

Published: 2011-06-07

Paperback: 200 pages

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The House of Night is no ordinary school?and not just because it's for vampyres. It's a place where magic, religion, folklore, and mythology from multiple traditions merry meet and meld to create something incredible and new.In Nyx in the House of Night—a 2-color illustrated companion to...

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O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare

by Niall Williams, Christine Breen

Published: 2003-07-01

Paperback: 233 pages

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Niall and Christine left their careers in New York City for a simpler, more authentic life in a cottage outside the tiny village of Kilmihil in County Clare. "Their tale is a delightful romance."?The New York Times Book Review

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O Cortiço (Classicos Da Literatura Brasileira) (Portuguese Edition)

by Aluísio Azevedo

Published: 2005-02-04

Paperback: 200 pages

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Representing the height of Brazilian Naturalism, O Cortiço is Aluísio Azevedo's critique of unchecked ambition in Brazilian society of his day. João Romão, an imigrant Portuguese man, builds a tenement (Cortiço) on the money and work of his mulatto lover, Bertoleza. The tenement's residents fight...

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O Jerusalem (Mary Russell Novels)

by Laurie R. King

Published: 2009-04-28

Paperback: 448 pages

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At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England, Sherlock Holmes and his nineteen-year-old apprentice Mary Russell enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes's enigmatic brother, Mycroft. Their arrival coincides with a rash of unsolved murders that has baffled the ...