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[2015]
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"Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence. What is reality? Who are "you"? How do you make decisions? Why does your brain need other people? How is technology poised to change what it means to be human? In the course of his investigations, Eagleman...
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©1994
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To the spectator, the rodeo cowboy's eight-second ride has become the embodiment of freedom and the frontier spirit. But to the young men who chase glory on the backs of wild horses and angry bulls, those same eight seconds are a small chance at fame and fortune, a surer promise of broken bones and lonely roads, a moment in a much deeper struggle for survival. Dirk Johnson spent a year on the rodeo circuit with these brawny and battered cowboys, watching...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
DuckTales the movie: Huey, Dewey, Louie and Webbigail Vanderquack accompany their wealthy uncle Scrooge McDuck on a trip to Egypt in search of the long-lost riches of Collie Baba's ancient pyramid. After an epic battle with Merlock the evil sorcerer over a magic lamp, Scrooge and his companions discover that friendship and family are far more valuable than even the most fantastic fortune.
1565) Imaginary numbers: an anthology of marvelous mathematical stories, diversions, poems, and musings
Pub. Date
1999
Description
"Enter the wildly inventive world of Imaginary Numbers, in which a marvelous roster of acclaimed writers conjure up magical happenings, fantastic visions, and brainteasing puzzles, all based in some way on mathematical ideas. This anthology offers a connoisseur's selection of a special brand of creative writing in which the authors play with a vast array of mathematical notions - from the marvels of infinity to the peculiarities of space-time to quantum...
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Wonder Woman (2016) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Heroic. Iconic. Unstoppable. Armed with her Lasso of Truth and imbued with the power of the gods themselves, Princess Diana of Themyscira-- known to the world as Wonder Woman-- is one of the greatest superheroes in history. But who is she ... really? Not even Wonder Woman herself knows for sure. Diana's links to both the Amazons and the Gods of Olympus have been severed. Her memories are a tangle of contradictions that even her lie-detecting lasso...
1567) The diversity of life
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
""In the Amazon Basin the greatest violence sometimes begins as a flicker of light beyond the horizon. There in the perfect bowl of the night sky, untouched by light from any human source, a thunderstorm sends its premonitory signal and begins a slow journey to the observer, who thinks: the world is about to change." Watching from the edge of the Brazilian rain forest, witness to the sort of violence nature visits upon its creatures, Edward O. Wilson...
1569) The Holder of the World
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Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
In her luminous new novel, Bharati Mukherjee creates a vivid, complex tale about the dislocation and transformation that arise in the face of a meeting of cultures: the terrain she has so brilliantly made her own in her acclaimed novels and stories. Here, in The Holder of the World, we witness an unlikely and intriguing meeting of two worlds, the Puritan American and the Mughal Indian. In a startling commingling of history and imagination, Mukherjee...
1570) Song of the fireflies
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"I loved every last word! Beautiful, heartfelt, consuming -- I couldn't put it down. There's pure magic in J. A. Redmerski's pen." -- Katy Evans, New York Times bestselling author of the REAL series
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Edge of Never and The Edge of Always
The Truth Will Set Them Free
Brayelle Bates has always been a force of nature. Even as a child, Bray's wild and carefree spirit intimidated everyone around...
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Jack Reacher volume 7
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Persuader: Where there is trouble you will find Jack Reacher, ex-military cop and fearless tough guy. Ten years ago an investigation went sour and someone got away with murder. Now its Reacher's turn and he wants justice.
The enemy: An elite military cop, Jack Reacher was one of the army's brightest stars. But in every cop's life there is a turning point. One messy, tangled case that can make a lawman question words like honor, valor and duty. For...
1573) The purple bird mystery
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Pub. Date
2015
Description
What is the connection of "Fowl Relief" and an English golf-playing king? Does the nickname of Jimmy Douglas' great-great-grandfather have any significance? Tie these answers with the other clues and the mystery of the purple bird is solved, but not until DJuna, the brilliant young sleuth, and his pal Jimmy go through an ordeal that almost takes their lives. The boys tangle with an antique dealer and a tiger-skin diary - just to name a few of the...
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Presents the films of Fatty Arbuckle, the grown-up fat boy of American silent cinema, who dominated silent film comedy from the days of Keystone until tragic events in 1921 shattered his career, throwing his film triumphs into obscurity. Blacklisted by Hollywood, Arbuckle continued directing dozens of film comedies under the pseudonym "William Goodrich" for almost another decade.
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p2012
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Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Presents Volume Five of the Dangerous Old Woman Series"What makes an elder, a heartfelt spirit, a clear mind, a talented heart, one who is young while old and old while young, an activist for the Soul? Is it formulae, schemas, lexicons? It could be. But also, and often more so, I think it is very like the flowering of the trees in the forest, as we gather more years: we straggle and stride onward in our better learned ways...
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Sonic the hedgehog volume 15
Pub. Date
2023
Description
On a recon mission with the new Diamond Cutters--Tangle, Whisper, and Lanolin--Sonic discovers that the Eggperial City is harnessing the resources around it to grow ever larger. The Diamond Cutters are still getting the hang of working together which leads to trouble when they get trapped. Alone against an army of badniks and a self-replicating city, Sonic calls for back-up and gets more than he bargained for: Tails, Amy, Blaze, and Silver all answer...
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2017.
Description
"A juicy, powerful read featuring twin sisters who have drifted apart, and the shocking family secrets that bind them--for readers of The Woman in Cabin 10 and I Let You Go When the past knocks, someone must answer. In a bustling suburban neighborhood in Manchester, England, sits an unassuming house. There is no sign of life behind the unwashed windows, but Robin Marshall is inside. Driven by fears and obsessions, racked by anxiety, Robin is frantically...
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