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Someone Else’s Love Story
Joshilyn Jackson
A botched robbery at a southern convenience store sets in motion an unlikely interaction between a college-age mother and a scientist.
Miss Manners Minds Your Business
Judith Martin and Nicholas Ivor Martin
Miss Manners and her son tackle business etiquette and boundaries in this new guide to navigating the workplace.
A British transplant offers his latest travel take on his adopted country.
Doubt, discovery and the power of the Internet.
The First Rule of Swimming
Courtney Angela Brkic
The yearning for and promise of refuge are symbolized by a fictional Croatian island in this novel about two devoted sisters, survivors who learn that the first rule of swimming is to stay afloat.
The Self Beyond Itself
Heidi M. Ravven
An Alternative History of Ethics, The New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will.
The New Digital Age
Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
In this “guide” to the future of technology the authors forecast a human existence of constant connectedness and deepening dependence on the cloud.
