Robert Fass
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on groundbreaking research in computational linguistics to explain what language choices reveal about feelings, self-concept, and social intelligence, in a lighthearted treatise that also explores the language personalities of famous individuals.
22) West: A Novel
Author
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
3 audio discs (3.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When widowed mule breeder Cy Bellman reads in the newspaper that colossal ancient bones have been discovered in the salty Kentucky mud, he sets out from his small Pennsylvania farm to see for himself if the rumors are true: that the giant monsters are still alive and roam the uncharted wilderness beyond the Mississippi River. Promising to write and to return in two years, he leaves behind his daughter, Bess, to the tender mercies of his taciturn sister...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An internationally recognized neurologist presents a revolutionary brain-optimization program that, despite research to the contrary, proves that as humans get older, they can actually get smarter and increase their brain speed.
24) The other me
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
x, 290 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"1986, London: Klaudia is about to start high school. She's embarrassed by her German father. He's the janitor at her school, he has a funny accent and a limp. And when the kids at school taunt her by saying that he was a Nazi, she can't dispute them with confidence. She's never known exactly what he may or may not have done during the war. It's a period of time no one will ever discuss. 1995, Leeds: Eliza is in love. She has dropped out of university...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 103 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
If you were a mouse trapped in a maze and someone kept moving the cheese, what would you do? In a world where most mice dutifully accept their circumstances, ask no questions, and keep chasing the cheese, Deepak Malhotra tells an inspiring story about three unique and adventurous mice-Max, Big, and Zed-who refuse to accept their reality as given.
“I Moved Your Cheese” reveals what is possible when we finally discard long-held and widely accepted...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the authors grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed {28}perhaps the twentieth centurys most discriminating publisher
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Our narrator, Francisco Goldberg, an American writer, has been living and working in Mexico City as a journalist for over a decade, but has recently returned to New York City in hopes of 'going home again.' It's been five years since the end of his last relationship and he is falling in love again with a new woman. Soon, though, he is beckoned back to Boston by his former high school girlfriend who was witness to his greatest youthful humiliations,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A holistic look at the underlying emotional, physical, and spiritual causes of anger cites the shortcomings of traditional anger-management techniques while explaining how to shift one's perspective to maintain a state of calm.
When we fight the urge to blow up or melt down, we fight against our own nature. Sometimes a change in perspective is all that is needed to help keep from flying off the handle. Lieberman reveals how to see anger through a...
30) Adam in Eden
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A respected Mexican businessman finds his idyllic life crumbling in the face of his wife's infidelity with a corrupt director of national security, his brother-in-law's worship of a child preacher, and his mistress' break with reality.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Scott Cunningham's classic introduction to Wicca is about how to live life magically, spiritually, and wholly attuned with nature. It is a book of sense and common sense, not only about magick but also about religion and one of the most critical issues of today: how to achieve the much-needed and wholesome relationship with our Earth. Cunningham presents Wicca as it is today: a gentle, Earth-oriented religion dedicated to the Goddess and God. Wicca...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
403 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Their names were Bob Palmer, Gordy Cox, Tim McCoy, and Chuck Vervalin, and in 1941, when they joined the navy, they were not trying to prove their patriotism-they were just looking for a job that would provide "three hots and a cot." But on April 22, 1943, the war took a terrible turn for them. While on patrol deep in enemy waters, their submarine, the USS Grenadier, was torpedoed and sent crashing to the ocean floor. Listed as lost in action and...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Howie Jeffries -- avid fisherman, longtime GE wastewater plant worker, social recluse -- lives in isolation, out on rural Rt. 29 in Glen Falls, NY. Well, not alone exactly -- there's one other house adjacent to his own. But although Howie and Emily Phane have been neighbors since the day she was born twenty-odd years earlier, they've never actually spoken. Both have their reasons--Howie is debilitatingly shy and Emily tries to hide the fact that she...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 244 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on cutting-edge scientific studies to discuss the U-shaped trajectory of happiness, which declines from the optimism of youth before surging upward again after age fifty, and offers ways to endure the slump during midlife.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in England in 1606 affected Shakespeare and shaped the three great tragedies he wrote that year--King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James of Scotland, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed, and it may have seemed to some that his prolific...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As the "Titanic" and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the "SS Californian" sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the "Titanic" fired. The next morning, the "Titanic" was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead. When they learned the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
470 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Sam Deker travels back in time to Nazi-occupied Greece to steal a formula for an ultimate weapon only to discover that Hitler's Secret Service is a front for a centuries-old organization that would seize power in the twenty-first century.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
206 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"We tend to think of Edgar Allan Poe as a loner, living in a world of his own imagination and detached from his physical environment. Poe might seem like a Nowhere Man, but of course he was always somewhere - just not at the same address for very long. The Man of the Crowd chronicles Poe's rootless life, focusing on the American cities where he lived the longest: Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. The Poe who emerges in The Man of the...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
752 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidentally meets military intelligence operator Tristan Lyons in a hallway at Harvard University, it is the beginning of a chain of events that will alter their lives and human history itself. The young man from a shadowy government entity approaches Mel, a low-level faculty member, with an incredible offer. The only condition: she must sign a nondisclosure agreement in return for the...