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English
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"Michael Mann, four-time-Oscar-nominated writer-director of The Last of the Mohicans, The Insider, Ali, Miami Vice, Collateral, and Heat teams up with Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann's first novel, an explosive return to the universe and characters of his classic crime film--with an all-new story unfolding in the years before and after the iconic movie. One day after the end of Heat, Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer) is holed up...
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Publisher
Menucha Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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""We checked the whole drawer, the whole desk. The certificate has disappeared. It would be simplest if you just tell me you have it now... I wouldn't even need to call your parents." Was Rebbe and the entire class accusing me of taking the gift certificate?! Why me? *** Nosson Cooperman is a clever, creative, and occasionally careless fourth grader who cracked his father's favorite CD and helped himself to half his sister's chocolate bar without...
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Maverick Arts Publishing, Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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A family of giants are enjoying a Christmas feast with an enormous Christmas Yule Log as the centerpiece! However, when the princess drops a crumb, she worries about wasting it, but Mom reassures her "it is only a crumb". But, that crumb rolls out of the castle and ends up in Pip and his mom’s sparse cottage ― it is a Christmas gift! They dig in, but when Pip drops a crumb, that crumb rolls into a mouse hole where it will help them survive the...
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English
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Drawing on newly declassified files, this is the story of how a book forbidden in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout paid a visit to Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the manuscript of Pasternak's first and only novel, entrusted to him with these words: "This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world." Pasternak...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"'A stirring, vividly told story of a young woman's quest to find the family she lost...an impressive debut'-Peter Balakian; Born into poverty in southern New Jersey and raised in a commune of single mothers, Mary Anna King watched her mother give away one of her newborn sisters every year to another family. All told, there were seven children: Mary, her older brother, and five phantom sisters. Then one day, Mary was sent away, too. Living in Oklahoma...
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Karen Alpert, writer of the blog Baby Sideburns, shares funny stories and pictures from her experiences raising her young son and daughter.
Alpert shares stories, lists, and deep thoughts on the pleasant and unpleasant surprises of raising children. Underneath her snarky (but hilariously true!) comments, it's obvious she loves her children -- when they're not being poopie trolls....
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Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"In boxing terms, a tough-looking fighter who can't take a punch is said to have a "glass jaw," and so it is these days with targets of controversy. Down the rabbit hole of scandal, the weak are strong, the strong are weak. GLASS JAW is a manifesto for these times, written by crisis management warhorse Eric Dezenhall who has spent three decades inside of some of the most intense controversies in recent memory. In the digital age of 24/7 news, information...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"How scientists are using simulations to recreate the universe, revealing the hidden nature of reality Cosmology is a tricky science-no one can make their own stars, planets, or galaxies to test its theories. But over the last few decades a new kind of physics has emerged to fill the gap between theory and experimentation. Harnessing the power of modern supercomputers, cosmologists have built simulations that offer profound insights into the deep...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Over Michael Bamberger's storied writing career, he has written five golf books and hundreds of Sports Illustrated stories about professional golf and those who play it. That is, the .001 percent. Now "the poet laureate of golf" (GOLF Magazine) trains his eye on the rest of us. In Bamberger's most intimate book yet, he takes the lid off a game that is both quasi-religious and a nonstop party. In this freewheeling and timeless book, an age-old question...