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Bob Walter
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MaddAddam trilogy volume 3
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"Bringing together characters from Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction trilogy confirms the ultimate endurance of humanity, community, and love. Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is being fortified against...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 13
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How do we think without thinking, seem to make choices in an instant--in the blink of an eye--that actually aren't as simple as they seem? Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others? Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology,...
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Bach shows you how every dollar you spend is really a battle between you and the businesses--and the government--who want to take it as profit, and gives you the tools you need to save money on everything from your cell phone contract to a car purchase, from credit cards to 401(k) plans, and from life insurance to airfare and hotel bills, and much more.
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2014.
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"In his first book of essays since his 1997 bestseller, Wry Martinis, Buckley delivers a rare combination of big ideas and truly fun writing. Tackling subjects ranging from 'How to Teach Your Four-Year-Old to Ski' to 'A Short History of the Bug Zapper,' and 'The Art of Sacking' to literary friendships with Joseph Heller and Christopher Hitchens, he is at once a humorous storyteller, astute cultural critic, adventurous traveler, and irreverent historian."--www.Amazon.com....
7) Tragic
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Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 25
Pub. Date
c.2013
Description
Longshoremen's union leader Charlie Vitteli is a cold-blooded villain who clawed his way to the top of the heap and no one's going to take him down. Like Vince Carlotta. The union boss's fiercest rival has accused Vitteli of embezzlement, election rigging, and other abuses. Now Carlotta is just another corpse on the waterfront. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Vitteli is somehow involved. But proving it is a whole other story. Enter...
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Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 26
Pub. Date
c.2014
Description
When the CIA director is murdered before he is set to testify about a government cover-up involving a terrorist attack on the US mission in Chechnya, New York District Attorney Butch Karp finds himself battling a heavyweight opponent: the US government. The presidential election campaign's foreign policy mantra has been that the terrorists are on the run. There are rumors that the CIA chief was going to deviate from the administration's version...
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©2010
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"More years ago than I care to reckon up, I met Richard Feynman." So begins American master Herman Wouk's gem on navigating the divide between science and religion. Told by Feynman that he must first learn "the language God talks"-- calculus-- Wouk set in motion a lifelong inquiry. Here, in one compact volume, he draws on stories from his life as well as on key events from the 20th century to address the eternal questions of why we are here, what...
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