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Soon I Will Be Invincible
by Austin Grossman
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Meet Doctor Impossible: a genius in the top half percent of his class who gains his superpowers, inhuman strength and hardened skin in a lab accident while researching his doctoral thesis. Like many extraordinarily intelligent people, he suffers from “Malign Hypercognition Disorder” - or, simply put, he’s an evil genius. After all, genius follows its own path; it can’t be restricted by the law
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The Terror [audiobook]
by Dan Simmons
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The Terror follows a fictional account of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, a long and terrifying steam-powered voyage in search of the Northwest Passage. As the 129 crew members aboard
Erebus and Terror find themselves frozen solid in the Artic Circle throughout their second year, they are plagued with poisonous food, dwindling supplies, scurvy, and two ships which continue to undergo damage from the ice in which they are encased.
Narrated by Simon Vance.
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When I'm Not Myself
by Deborah J. Wolf
Read Patricia Denehy's review
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The title of Deborah Wolf’s second book, When I'm Not Myself,
is eminently appropriate and captures the theme of this notable novel. In it,
the author brings us into the world of female friendships and explores the
dynamics of such relationships when life is cruel - when one person has lost a
piece of her identity and is floundering to become whole once more.
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IN CURRENT EVENTS |
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A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
by Alfred McCoy
Read Amitrajeet A. Batabyal's
review
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In April 2004, the American public was first exposed to the grisly and riveting images of Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison, some with hoods over their faces, others contorted in humiliating positions, yet others apparently subject to attack by growling dogs, all under the auspices of - occasionally smiling -
U.S. soldiers. Click here for more on A Question of Torture.
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IN
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Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean by Douglas Wolk
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Those who believe the study of comic art as a mass-produced media does not involve highly developed tools of deconstruction would do well to stay away from Douglas Wolk. Rightly so, he believes that the Golden Age of Comics—a specific term originally meant to refer to the 1930 through early 1950s era of comic book product—is upon us today.
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FEATURED CHILDREN'S BOOK |
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The Necklace of Stones
by Philip J. Carraher
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This is an
extraordinarily good adventure/fantasy in the “Harry
Potter” mold - well, sort of. Like Harry, Morgan is a
young boy (twelve years old) who comes from a less than
perfect home. Morgan lives in Manhattan’s Lower East
Side (a less than stellar neighborhood at the time), his
father is in jail, and Morgan is unsure if his working
mother wants him around or would rather be rid of the
“little nuisance.” [Young readers]
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(BOOK) NEWS OF THE WORLD
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B&N NIXES O.J.
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 If you've been following the attorney firings scandal sweeping the Department of Justice hoping for more than the endless loop of "I don't recall" responses to Congressional investigators' questions, April 2008 will shed a welcome light on the subject.
Former U.S. attorney of the District of New Mexico David Iglesias, who was fired for questionable reasons following a positive performance review in 2006, has sold the rights to his as yet unnamed memoir to publishing house John Wiley.
Details are said to include what Gonzales told Iglesias in 2001 while White House Counsel and how the fired U.S. attorneys came together in preparation for their Senate testimonies. April '08 is the projected publication date.
Source:
Publishers Weekly
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  One of the nation's book retailing giants has no plans to stock O.J.
Simpson's fictionalized, ghost-written If I Did It when it is released after a year of controversy this October.
After being awarded the rights to the book by a federal bankruptcy judge last month, the family of Ron Goldman has contracted with a small New York house, Beaufort Books, to publish the book, which HarperCollins dropped last fall after public outrage.
B&N cites lack of customer interest in the decision, and they will make the book available either through special in-store orders and online. Rival bookselling chain Borders says that while they do intend to stock the book, they have no plans to "promote or market the book in any way."
Source:
AP/Yahoo! News
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