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Lisa Napoli was in the grip of a crisis, dissatisfied with her life and her work as a radio journalist. When a chance encounter with a handsome stranger presented her with an opportunity to move halfway around the world, Lisa left behind cosmopolitan Los Angeles for a new adventure in the ancient Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan—said to be one of the happiest places on earth.
In Be Different, Robison shares a new batch of endearing stories about his childhood, adolescence, and young adult years, giving the reader a rare window into the Aspergian mind. In each story, he offers practical advice—for Aspergians and indeed for anyone who feels “different”—on how to improve the weak communication and social skills that keep so many people from taking full advantage of their often remarkable gifts.
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Corporations need her. Governments pay her. Criminals fear her.
But nobody sees her coming. Vanessa Munroe is…
THE INFORMATIONIST
by Taylor Stevens
Part Jack Reacher, part Sydney Bristow, Vanessa “Michael” Munroe deals in information—expensive information—for corporations, government agencies, and private clients who can pay for her unique [...]
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Chris Cillizza, editor of The Fix,
to write book in time for 2012 presidential election
World and eBook rights were sold to Sean Desmond at Crown Archetype for Broadway Paperbacks by Gail Ross.
Cillizza, also a contributor for MSNBC, will write “The Gospel According to The Fix: Everything You Need to Know about Politics.” It [...]
In early 2009 Roger Housden traveled extensively throughout Iran in search of the human face of an ancient culture that has been branded part of the “axis of evil.” The result is his eye-opening new book, Saved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran. Housden illuminates this complex country and its people by meeting with creative individuals, from sheikhs and philosophers, to artists, poets, and political analysts. Along the way, he himself is changed by the beauty, the depth, and also the sorrow of this misunderstood culture.
Born in 1920 in Clover, Virginia, Henrietta Lacks was a poor tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors. In 1951, she developed a strangely aggressive cancer, and doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took a tissue sample without her knowledge. She died without knowing that her cells would become immortal—the first to grow and survive indefinitely in culture. HeLa cells, as they are called, were essential in developing the polio vaccine. They have aided in the development of in-vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping, and have helped us to better understand the workings of cancer and innumerable viruses. Even today, HeLa is the most widely used cell line in labs worldwide, bought and sold by the billions. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they would weigh more than fifty million metric tons—more than a hundred Empire State Buildings.
In A NEW KIND OF MONSTER: The Secret Life and Shocking True Crimes of an Officer . . . and a Murderer, Timothy Appleby’s extensive and provocative look at one of the most shocking criminal sprees in Canadian history. “Thoughout his long military career, [Williams had] been almost universally seen as a smart, decent guy, a stickler for organization, and a bit awkward socially, but also very generous and kind. What had changed him?” That is the question that Timothy Appleby has been asking himself since news broke of Russell Williams’s arrest.
In a dramatic tale that reads like the best of thrillers, Frank discusses what life was like growing up as the son of a violent mobster, his own entrance into the Outfit at the age of eighteen, and the painful, life-threatening chain of events that would follow as he and a dedicated team of FBI agents and federal prosecutors worked to put his father away for good.
In Carolyn Turgeon’s mystical retelling, MERMAID: A TWIST ON THE CLASSIC TALE, she spins the original story of the Little Mermaid in a beautifully written, compulsively readable novel that will make you think twice about the fairy tale you heard as a child.
Secrets of Eden shines the light on the issue of domestic violence. Written in Chris’s elegant, page-turning style, the book builds to the sort of ending that left millions of readers of The Double Bind and Midwives speechless and stunned—and hungry for his next novel.
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