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Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present...
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Bestselling author William Peter Blatty warms our hearts with a funny yet deeply moving nostalgic tale of memory, mystery...and miracles.
New York, 1941: Joey El Bueno is just a smart-aleck kid, confounding the nuns and bullies at St. Stephen's school on East 28th Street when he first meets Jane Bent, a freckle-faced girl with red pigtails and yellow smiley-face barrettes who seems to know him better than he knows himself. A magical afternoon at...
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most significant of all Tibetan Buddhist writings in the West and one of the most inspirational and compelling texts in world literature. In Meditations on Living, Dying and Loss, Graham Coleman, the editor of Viking's acclaimed unabridged translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, collects the most beautifully written passages, ones that draw out the central perspectives most relevant to modern experience: What...
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This is a book for anyone who feels they've fallen short of their career potential, or wondered if the things they do-or don't do-at work are sabotaging their careers. The truth is, most people learn their greatest lessons not from grasping the brass ring but from letting go of negative influences and behaviors. Now Dr. Daniel T. Drubin helps readers identify what he terms the "rotten bananas"-unhealthy habits, relationships, jobs, and beliefs-that...
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Men's Health(r) editor-in-chief David Zinczenko, the New York Times best-selling author of The Abs Diet, has applied his highly popular voice and insightful research methods to solving one of the great challenges of the day-helping women understand men. From the first moment they meet, through every stage of courtship to the inevitable conclusion-success or breakup-Zinczenko outlines with vivid, compassionate, and irreverent detail exactly what goes...
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The task for those in charge of professionalizing the military in the first half of the nineteenth century and transforming it from a militia-led army to a highly disciplined standing army was a difficult job. Americans had long supported a tradition of militia and distrusted professional soldiers. However, by the time of the Civil War, the high command positions in the Union army and the nascent army of the Confederacy were filled with graduates...
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On a remote island a crack medical team has been sent to explore a radical theory that could uncover a cure for the epidemic of walking dead. Based on the team's research and the observations of renowned zombie expert Dr. Stanley Blum, "The Zombie Autopsies" documents for the first time the unique biology of zombie organisms .Detailed drawings of the internal organs of actual zombies provide an accurate anatomy of these horrifying creatures. Zombie...
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In novels such as Mars, Moonbase, and The Rock Rats, Ben Bova told stories about rivalries and wars, of outsized individuals, public crusades, and the private passions that drive us as we expand into the solar system and make use of its vast resources. Bova wrote short fiction about some of the same characters and events- Sam Gunn, Martin Humphries, Klaus Fuchs, Dan Randolph, and the Asteroid Wars- featured in those works,...
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Combining short fiction with speculative history, this entertaining book invites listeners to look at what didn't happen to gain a richer understanding of what did. What if Napoleon had become emperor of the United States? Could one faulty screw have altered America's atomic-bomb policy? If Lincoln had been assassinated during the Gettysburg Address, would the Confederate States have remained a separate country?
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Perhaps no figure in biblical scholarship has been the subject of more controversy and debate than Mary Magdalene. Although she is discussed in the gospels of Philip, Thomas, Peter, and Bartholomew - in the collection of writings known as the Gnostic gospels that were rejected by the early Christian church - there is no better insight into this mysterious and influential woman than Mary's own gospel. The gospel text and the spiritual interpretation...