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The Treasures of Weatherby

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Three-time Newbery Honor winner Zilpha Keatley Snyder combines a cast of quirky characters with an eerie old mansion to create a spellbinding tale of mystery and magic.

Harleigh J. Weatherby IV feels misunderstood....

America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?

by Donald L. Barlett

A disturbing, eye-opening look at a tax system gone out of control.

Originally designed to spread the cost of government fairly, our tax code has turned into a gold mine of loopholes and giveaways manipulated...

Great Books

by David Denby

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER

At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical...

801 Things You Should Know: From Greek Philosophy to Today's Technology, Theories, Events, Discoveries, Trends, and Movements That Matter

by David Olsen

Discover how the world's biggest ideas, inventions, and actions changed the course of history!

What would life be like if the Age of Reason never challenged others to think differently, if the Industrial Revolution...

New College School, Oxford: A History

by Matthew Jenkinson

New College School is one of the oldest continually functioning schools in the United Kingdom and, indeed, the world. It was founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, to provide choristers...

The Secret History of Dante: Unearthing the Real-Life Mysteries of the Inferno

by Mark Booth

Mark Booth, author of the international bestseller The Secret History of the World, uncovers the real-life stories of Dante and The Inferno.

Why does Dante describe the Inferno as a real place? What secret society...

More Bitter Than Death: A Novel

Siri Bergman #2

by Camilla Grebe, Åsa Träff & Tara Chace

Its arainy evening in a Stockholm suburb and five-year-old Tilda is hiding under thekitchen table playing with her crayons when a man enters and beats her motherto death in cold blood. The only witness, Tilda...

Dexter the Tough

by Margaret Peterson Haddix & Mark Elliott

Im the new kid. I am tuf. This morning I beat up a kid.

Its only the first day of school for Dexter, but hes already mad at the principal, and the secretary, and the janitor, and the kids who laugh at him. When...

Frantastic Voyage

by Jim Benton

Frannys faithful Lab assistant, Igor, has swallowed a doomsday device that is ready to go off at any moment! For a regular scientist, it might seem like theres only one way to get the device outum...make that...

Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Ganster Dreams

by Richard Cohen

Award-winning writer Rich Cohen excavates the real stories behind the legend of infamous criminal enforcers Murder, Inc. and contemplates the question: Where did the tough Jews go?

In 1930s Brooklyn, there lived...

Star Cursed

The Cahill Witch Chronicles #2

by Jessica Spotswood

With the Brotherhood persecuting witches like never before, a divided Sisterhood desperately needs Cate to come into her Prophesied powers. And after Cate's friend Sachi is arrested for using magic, a war-thirsty...

The Engine of Complexity: Evolution as Computation

by John Mayfield

The concepts of evolution and complexity theory have become part of the intellectual ether permeating the life sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, and more recently, management science and economics....

In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods

by Matt Bell

In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods tells the story of a newly married couple who take up a lonely existence in the title's mythical location. In this blank and barren plot far from the...

Hour of the Rat

by Lisa Brackmann

Iraq War vet Ellie McEnroe has a pretty good life in Beijing, representing the work of controversial dissident Chinese artist Zhang Jianli. Even though Zhang’s mysterious disappearance of over a year ago has...

Masaryk Station

by David Downing

Berlin, 1948. Still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins, the city has become the cockpit of a new Cold War. The legacies of the war have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict,...

A Necessary Action

by Per Wahloo

From Per Wahlöö—co-author with his wife, Maj Sjöwall, of the internationally bestselling Martin Beck series of mysteries—comes a suspense novel about a former German soldier wanted for questioning about...

Instructions for a Heatwave

by Maggie O'farrell

Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O’Farrell’s beguiling novels—After You’d Gone, winner of a Betty Trask Award; The Distance Between Us, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The...

Crime of Privilege: A Novel

by Walter Walker

In the tradition of Scott Turow, William Landay, and Nelson DeMille, Crime of Privilege is a stunning thriller about power, corruption, and the law in America—and the dangerous ways they come together.

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Eleven Days

by Lea Carpenter

Powerful and lean, Eleven Days is an astonishing first novel full of suspense that addresses our most basic questions about war as it tells of the love between a mother and her son. When the story opens on May...

The Generals

by Per Wahloo

From Per Wahlöö—co-author with his wife, Maj Sjöwall, of the internationally bestselling Martin Beck series of mysteries—comes a political satire, told as a court transcript, about the court-martial...