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Buddha’s Orphans
Buddha’s Orphans uses Nepal’s political upheavals of the past century as a backdrop to the story of an orphan boy, Raja, and the girl he is fated to love, Nilu, a daughter of privilege. Their love story scandalizes both families and takes readers through time and across the globe, through the loss of and search for children, and through several generations, hinting that perhaps old bends can, in fact, be righted in future branches of a family tree.
What Is Left the Daughter
At seventeen, Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges—the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. The suicides cause Wyatt to move to small-town Middle Economy to live with his uncle, aunt, and ravishing cousin, Tilda. Life assumes a new kind of normality, until the handsome German student Hans Mohring arrives in town. With World War II as a backdrop, Wyatt’s compounding grief, desire, and jealousy gather momentum, leading to the tragedy that will define his life forever.
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Lives of the Pirates
Swashbucklers, Scoundrels (Neighbors Beware!)
Every kid knows that pirates talk funny, swing a big sword, and seek buried treasure—don’t they? What do we really know about Blackbeard, Madame Cheng, Sir Francis Drake, and other men and women of pirate history? What drove them to sail the high seas? The beloved Lives of... series returns with profiles of the nineteen most notorious pirates in history.
Ugly Pie
Ol’ Bear wakes one morning with a hankering for Ugly Pie, so he goes on a search from neighbor to neighbor. All he finds are pies that please the eye. Maybe it’s time for Ol’ Bear to start cookin’ up something ugly himself! Ol’ Bear shares that Ugly Pie with his generous neighbors—and he shares his secret recipe, too, in the back of this book. Lisa Wheeler’s story is a joy to read, and Heather Solomon’s illustrations aren’t the least bit ugly, but full of lovely details and charming bears with big ol’ appetites for pie.
Jekel Loves Hyde
When Jill Jekel’s dad is murdered and her college money disappears, she knows the answer could lie in the dusty old box that she has never been allowed to touch. It leads Jill to excitement and danger when she teams up with gorgeous, brooding Tristen Hyde—who has his own dark secrets locked away—in pursuit of a chemistry scholarship. As they re-create experiments based on the classic novel, Jill’s accidental taste of a formula unleashes her darkest nature and compels her to risk everything—even Tristen’s love—just for the thrill of being...bad.
Eating for Beginners
An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid
By Melanie Rehak
Melanie Rehak was always a passionate cook and food lover. But after the birth of her son, Jules, she wanted to know more. Eating for Beginners details the year she spent discovering how to be an eater and a parent in today’s increasingly complicated world. She joined the kitchen staff at applewood, a small restaurant featuring locally grown food, and worked on some of the farms that supplied it. Between prepping the nightly menu, milking goats, and sorting beans, Rehak gained an understanding of her own about what to eat and why. And as we follow her on her quest to find the pleasure in doing the right thing—and become a better cook in the bargain—we too will make our peace with food.
An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid
By Melanie Rehak
New Science Titles
Deep Blue Home
An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean
Deep Blue Home provides a penetrating exploration of a single vast ocean current—a veritable river more powerful than the Amazon connecting the seas—and of the creatures dependent on it. It’s a watery force connected to the earth’s climate control, and so to the eventual fate of the human race. No stranger to extreme adventure, Whitty travels the ocean-side and underwater world from the Sea of Cortez to Newfoundland to Antarctica. This book provides extraordinary armchair entree to gripping adventure, cutting-edge science, and an intimate understanding of our deep blue home.
Brilliant
The Evolution of Artificial Light
Brilliant offers an intriguing view of one evolving aspect of human history: the possession of light, from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. Jane Brox portrays the hellbent pursuit of whale oil, the street life opened up by gas lamps, and our familiar incandescent bulbs—soon to be illegal—as intersections between the road to illumination and the path of environmental destruction. Brilliant is infused with human voices, startling insights, and timely questions about how our lives are shaped by light.
The Men Who Would Be King
An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks
Nicole LaPorte goes behind the hype to reveal for the first time the delicious truth behind the wonder studio created by director Steven Spielberg, billionaire David Geffen, and Lion King producer Jeffrey Katzenberg. LaPorte’s fly-on-the-wall detail reveals Hollywood’s sometimes bizarre business behavior: the clashes of the moguls, the debacles of high-stakes filmmaking, and the Oscar-winning triumphs. We watch as the studio burns through billions, its rich owners get richer, and everybody else suffers. Here is Hollywood up close, glamorous, and gritty.
The New York Times says Hollywood gossip lovers “won’t be disappointed” and the L. A. Times asserts that “most reporters are not up to the task” of delivering the scoop as LaPorte does.
The New York Times says Hollywood gossip lovers “won’t be disappointed” and the L. A. Times asserts that “most reporters are not up to the task” of delivering the scoop as LaPorte does.
Dear Money
One summer weekend in Maine, a flamboyant investment maverick and a striving writer make an unlikely wager: that Win Johns can turn India Palmer, a debt-stricken mother and midlist novelist, into a world-class bond trader. Betting more than she knows, India plunges into the risks, payouts, and power struggles of the cutthroat securities industry. Set during the heyday of the subprime mortgage market, Dear Money lets us see just how precarious success can be to a Wall Street newcomer.
Rated 4 out of 4 stars by People and called a “funny, generous piece of social commentary” by the Boston Globe.
Rated 4 out of 4 stars by People and called a “funny, generous piece of social commentary” by the Boston Globe.
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The Taken
A Hazel Micallef Mystery
Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef is having a bad year. After major surgery, she has no choice but to suffer the humiliation of moving in with her ex-husband and his new wife. It’s almost a relief when Hazel gets a call about a body fished up by tourists in one of the lakes near Port Dundas. But what raises the hair on the back of Micallef’s neck is that days before, the local paper had published the first installment of a fiction serial perfectly describing the scenario. Even before they head out to the lake with divers to recover the body, she knows they are being played...
The Calling
Retirement is coming too soon for prickly Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef of small town Port Dundas, Ontario. Hobbled by a bad back and a dependence on painkillers, and feeling blindsided by divorce after nearly four decades of marriage, sixty-one-year-old Hazel has only the constructive criticism of her mother (the former mayor) to buoy her. But when a terminally ill woman is gruesomely murdered in her own home, Hazel and her understaffed department must spring to life. And as one terminally ill victim after another is found, Hazel finds herself tracking a truly terrifying serial killer while everything around her spins out of control.
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Exiles in the Garden
This is the resonant story of Alec Malone, a senator’s son who rejects politics and career in favor of photography. He and his Swiss wife, Lucia, share a quiet life, until the émigré gatherings of the couple next door remind Lucia of all the things Americans are not, a resentment that eventually leads to the end of their marriage. At the center of the novel is Alec’s unforeseen reckoning with Lucia’s father, Andre Duran, a Czech adventurer and former antifascist commando. Against a backdrop of the Vietman War, the encounter forces Alec to confront just how different a life where things&mdash“terrible things, terrible things”—happen is from a life where nothing much happens at all.
The Ignorance of Blood
As a sweltering Seville recovers from the shock of a terrorist attack, Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón struggles to find the bombers. The death of a gangster in a spectacular car crash offers vital evidence implicating the Russian mafia, but it pitches Falcón into the heart of a turf war over prostitution and drugs. Now threatened by vicious hoods, Falcón finds those closest to him are the targets of blackmail and torture. He might be able to bring the perpetrators of the bombing to justice, but there will be a devastating price to pay.
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