Life in Boston is predictable and dull for 14 year old Max Murphy-go to school, play video games, complain about his inaccessible archeologist parents, complain about the strange food his 'nanny', Zia, cooks for him. When his parents suddenly cancel his much-anticipated summer vacation trip to Italy because of their need to visit an important dig in Central America, he feels furious and abandoned.
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Charles Darwin's name is synonymous with evolution and all the controversy and discussion it has aroused. In this informative and entertaining book, Deborah Heiligman presents the chronology of the events in Darwin's life and explores how the people he knew and the things he experienced help to shape the ideas he developed and which came to form the basis of his The Origin of the Species.
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Nine Dragons is another electrifying story featuring Los Angeles homicide detective Harry Bosch. Now divorced, Harry's wife is living with their daughter in Hong Kong. Harry keeps in touch with his daughter via trips to Hong Kong and by phone and video. Harry is investigating the robbery and murder of a Chinese
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Imagine a story where serial killers send a warning postcard to the media and follow it up with pictures of the crime scene. When his daughter and her fiancé are murdered in Rome, Jacob Kanon a NYC homicide detective goes to Europe to find out what is going on with
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'Life is good' is the expected greeting exchanged by residents of Tuckernuck Island, an enclave of private homes without stores, electricity or cell phone service off Nantucket, but that sentiment is not especially true in the case of the Tate family. Birdie Tate Cousins and her sister
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Rejected by an uncaring mother and left homeless by the death of her beloved Gran, Meggy Swann finds herself on her way to London to live with her father, an alchemist. When her father sees that his child is a girl and a crippled one at that, he ignores her, leaving Meggy to hobble around Elizabethan London on her walking sticks looking for
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Fiction and history combine to create a most interesting story about a young Lakota Sioux boy who was not only a witness to the Battle of Little Big Horn, but who worked on the construction of Mt. Rushmore. In this extensive coverage of the people and events of the time, the legends of the Lakota Sioux
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