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• Ice Ghosts

  the Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition

  Watson, Paul, 1959-

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  Spanning nearly 200 years, Ice Ghosts is a fast-paced detective story about Western science, indigenous beliefs, and the irrepressible spirit of exploration and discovery. It weaves together an epic account of the legendary Franklin Expedition of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sisters Brothers

  deWitt, Patrick, 1975-

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  Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unless

  a Novel

  Shields, Carol

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  “Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.” Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rosie Project

  Simsion, Graeme C.

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  A classic screwball romance about a handsome but awkward genetics professor and the woman who is totally wrong for him. A first-date dud, socially awkward and overly fond of quick-dry clothes, genetics professor Don Tillman has given up on love,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cold Comfort Farm

  Gibbons, Stella, 1902-1989

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  The deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is "very probably the funniest book ever written" (The Sunday Times, London), a hilarious parody of D. H. Lawrence's and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels. When the recently orphaned socialite…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cold Comfort Farm

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  Recently orphaned, Flora ignores the sage advise of Mrs. Smiley and moves to the country to live on a decrepit farm with her eccentric relatives, where she finds ample material for the novel she wishes to write. - Val’s Pick

• The Wind in the Willows

  Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932

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  The enchanting tales of Ratty sculling his boat on the River, Badger grumpily entertaining his friends in his comfortable underground home, and the exasperating Toad being driven into one tangle after another by his obsession with motor cars. -…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beyond Words

  What Animals Think and Feel

  Safina, Carl, 1955-

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  “Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color of Water

  a Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

  McBride, James, 1957-

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  Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Are a Badass

  How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living An Awesome Life

  Sincero, Jen, 1965-

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  Offers a blunt and irreverent guide to achieving the money, relationships, career, and happiness that one desires through recognizing and doing away with self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors. - Emma’s Pick

• Born a Crime

  Noah, Trevor, 1984-

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  “One of the comedy world's fastest-rising stars tells his wild coming of age story during the twilighT of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Noah provides something deeper than traditional memorists:…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Who Moved My Cheese?

  An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life

  Johnson, Spencer

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  A timeless business classic, Who Moved My Cheese? uses a simple parabel to reveal profound truths about dealing with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your life. It would be all so easy if you had a map…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bridge of Spies

  a True Story of the Cold War

  Whittell, Giles

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  Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin's Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first and most legendary prisoner exchange between East and West? Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bridge of Spies

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  James Donovan is a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot. - Hui’s pick

• Indictment, the McMartin Trial

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  Fact-based film about the child molestation trial involving the McMartin Pre-School in Manhattan Beach, California. - Hui’s Pick

• Jurassic Park

  a Novel

  Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008

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  An American bioengineering research firm erects a theme park on a Caribbean island, complete with living dinosaurs, and invites a group of scientists to be its first terrified guests. - Alan’s Pick

• Jurassic Park

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  A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA. - Alan’s Pick

• Dragon Teeth

  a Novel

  Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008

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  The year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They are hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other…Read moreRead more of this annotation