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Barbara’s Recommends...
you keep your mind as active as your body this summer—Here’s
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By T.
C. Boyle
The first time
Bridger saw Dana she was dancing, her body throbbing with rhythms
and cross-rhythms that only she could hear. That night they
were both deaf, mouthing to each other over the booming bass.
And it was not until their first date, after he had agonized
over what CD to play in the car, that Bridger learned that her
deafness was profound and permanent. Now she is in a courtroom,
her legs shackled, as a list of charges is read out. She is
accused of assault with a deadly weapon, auto theft, and passing
bad checks, among other things. Clearly there has been a terrible
mistake. A man-his name is William “Peck” Wilson
as Dana and Bridger eventually learn-has been living a blameless
life of criminal excess at Dana’s expense. And as Dana and Bridger
set out to find him, they begin to test to its limits the life
they have started to build together.
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By Jacqueline
Carey
The eagerly
awaited fourth book in a landmark fantasy series has arrived.
At the royal court, where gossip is the chosen poison and assailants
wield slander instead of swords, a young prince fights character
assassins while struggling with his own innermost conflicts.
Stolen, tortured, and enslaved as a young boy, Imriel is now
a Prince of the Blood, third in line for the throne in a land
that revels in art, beauty, and desire. It is a court steeped
in deeply laid conspiracies... and there are many who would
see the young prince dead. Some despise him out of hatred for
his birth mother Melisandre, who nearly destroyed the realm
in her quest for power. Others because they fear he has inherited
his mother’s irresistible allure—and her dangerous gifts.
And, as he comes of age, plagued by darkyearnings, Imriel shares
their fears.
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By Al
Gore
With this book,
former Vice President Al Gore, who is hero of the environmental
movement—as well as a leading expert—brings together
leading-edge research from top scientists around the world;
photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdotes
and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of
global warming. He presents, with perfect clarity and alarming
conclusiveness—as well as with humor—that the fact
of global warming is not in question and that its consequences
for the world we live in will be disastrous if left unchecked.
This is both a riveting new book, written in an accessible,
entertaining style, that will open the eyes of even the most
skeptical, and a groundbreaking call to arms.
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The
Pirates!
An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab |
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By Gideon
Defoe
Not since Moby-Dick...No,
not since Treasure Island...Actually, not since Jonah
and the Whale has there been a sea saga to rival The
Pirates!, featuring the greatest sea-faring hero of
all time, the immortal Pirate Captain, who, although he lives
for months at a time at sea, somehow manages to keep his beard
silky and in good condition. Worried that his pirates are growing
bored with a life of winking at pretty native ladies and trying
to stick enough jellyfish together to make a bouncy castle,
the Pirate Captain decides it’s high time to spearhead
an adventure. While searching for some major pirate booty, he
mistakenly attacks the young Charles Darwin’s Beagle and
then leads his ragtag crew from the exotic Galapagos Islands
to the fog-filled streets of Victorian London. There they encounter
grisly murder, vanishing ladies, radioactive elephants, and
the Holy Ghost himself. And that’s not even the half of
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