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The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 4:43:25 PST

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Judgment Day

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 0:16:03 PST

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Paradise Screwed

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 0:12:35 PST

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New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen takes you on a wide-ranging safari of South Florida's wildlife in its natural habitat-from fat-cat politicians to migrating mobsters, drowning Dolphins to stray chads. This collection of Miami Herald columns-written with a satiric wit and biting humor-will give Hiaasen fans a glimpse of the facts that inspire-and prove far stranger than-his frenetic ...

Heat

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 0:11:12 PST

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From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs – a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook. Expanding on his James Beard Award-winning New Yorker article, Bill Buford gives us a richly evocative chronicle of his experience as “s ...

Boomerang

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 5:35:55 PST

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The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pi ata stuffed with cash ...

Cuckoo's Egg

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:20:13 PST

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Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized users on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter"-- a mystery invader hiding inside a twisting electronic labyrinth, breaking into U.S. computer systems and stealing sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hu ...

Love in the Time of Cholera

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:53:32 PST

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This love story, translated from the Spanish, tells the story of Florentino Ariza who has loved Fermina Daza for 50 years. When her husband dies, his chance for happiness comes.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:44:02 PST

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One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magne ...

Cause of Death

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:06:53 PST

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4 cassettes / 4 hours Read by Blair Brown Also available Unabridged and on CD From the New York Times bestselling author of Point of Origin and Unnatural Exposure comes a mesmerizing new thriller that takes Dr. Kay Scarpetta into the very vortex of evil--far beyond anything she has heretofore encountered as Chief Medical Examiner. Together with her niece Lucy and police captain Pete Marino, S ...

The Hotel New Hampshire

Thu, 4 Aug 2011 2:42:28 PST

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'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels'. So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the fami ...

Still Life

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 7:50:07 PST

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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montréal and yet a world away. Jane Neal, a long-time resident of Three Pines, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it’s a tragic hunting accident and nothing more but Gamache smells something foul this holiday season ...

Moonwalking with Einstein

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 7:49:11 PST

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On average, people squander forty days annually trying to remember things they've forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people. But after a year of training, he found himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. He also discovered a truth we too often forget: In every way, we are the sum of our memories. In "Moonwalking with Einstein", Foer draws on cutting-edge research, the c ...

The Hungry Tide

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 3:24:36 PST

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Noah's Garden

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:42:47 PST

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Published to rave reviews in 1993, Noah's Garden shows us how our landscape style of neat yards and gardens has devastated suburban ecology, wiping out entire communities of plants and animals by stripping bare their habitats and destroying their food supplies. When Stein realized what her intensive efforts at making a traditional garden had done, she set out to "ungarden." Her book interweaves a ...

Gone For Good

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 8:44:24 PST

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Read by Dylan Baker 5 CDs, 5 hrs. 15 min. Harlan Coben earned the raves of critics everywhere for his "New York Times bestselling thriller, Tell No One, hailed as "pulse-pounding" ("People), "compelling and original" ("Los Angeles Times), and "a thriller of runaway tension" ("Iris Johansen). Now, in a bold new novel, Coben continues to stake out new ground in suspense, unleashing a haunting ta ...

God's Lunatics

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 7:32:10 PST

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From the dawn of civilisation humankind has looked for answers to the meaning of existence. The big questions like, 'where did we come from?', 'how should we live?', and 'where do we go when we die?' have perplexed and puzzled. Each generation has been eager to follow the prophets who might manifest and offer their guidance. The roads taken to find certain truths were varied, ranging from the rid ...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 7:32:01 PST

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My Stroke of Insight

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 7:31:54 PST

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A brain scientist's journey from a debilitating stroke to full recovery becomes an inspiring exploration of human consciousness and its possibilities On the morning of December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist, experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain. A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed ...

Neither Here Nor There

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 7:31:47 PST

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In a Sunburned Country

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 7:31:39 PST

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Blink

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 7:31:24 PST

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In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision maker ...

Six Suspects

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:51:02 PST

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There’s a caste system even in murder. Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters with a gun in their possession, each of them steaming with a secret motive. India’s wiliest investigative journalist, Arun Advani, makes it his mission to nail the ...

The Shadow of the Wind

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 22:27:15 PST

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The international literary sensation-a runaway bestseller in Spain, rights sold in more than 20 countries-about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget. Barcelona, 1945-just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes ...

An Object of Beauty

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 9:07:07 PST

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Willful Blindness

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 9:06:11 PST

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Satori

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:46:19 PST

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In a prequel to Trevanian's best-selling Shibumi, amid the chaos of the Korean War,the CIA offers Nicholai Hel his freedom only if he kills the Soviet Union's ...

Summer of Katya

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:36:05 PST

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Trevanian’s books have been translated into more than fourteen languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. He lives in the French Basque mountains. His new novel, The Crazyladies of Pearl Street, is now available in hardcover. Look for these other Trevanian classics from Three Rivers Press: Shibumi, The Eiger Sanction, The Loo Sanction, and The Main. From the Trade Paperback editi ...

Shantaram

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:05:52 PST

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A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. 'In the early 80s, Gregory David Roberts, an armed robber and heroin addict, escaped from an Australian prison to India, where he lived in a Bombay slum. There, he established a free health clinic and also joined the mafia, working as a money launderer, fo ...

The Sands of Time

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:03:06 PST

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