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Wiser: The Scientific Roots of Wisdom, Compassion, and What Makes Us Good
From the field's pioneer, an exploration of the neurobiology and psychology of wisdom what science says it is and how to nurture it within yourself--at any stage of your life.What …
The Search for the Silver Witch
The Water Horse
When eight-year-old Kirstie brings home a strange egg from the Scottish shore, her family never expects it to hatch. But the next day, Kirstie discovers a baby sea monster swimming …
The 10 p.m. Question
Frankie Parsons is a worrier. Are the smoke alarm batteries dead? Does the cat have worms? Could that odd-shaped spot on his chest be cancer? What about bird flu? Most of the …
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
The New Yorker-Australian writer Geraldine Brooks is now known internationally for her bestselling novels, but as a foreign correspondent Geraldine spent six years covering the …
Burning for Revenge
When you're on your knees there's only one thing to do...stand up again Ellie and her friends have stared defeat in the face. They have felt its hot breath. They have been bashed …
The Third Day, the Frost
Book 3 of the Tomorrow series What's the biggest danger you can think of? This is bigger. What's the toughest challenge you can imagine? This is tougher. What's the greatest fear …
Death in the Stocks
A Moonlit Night, a Sleeping Village, and an Unaccountable Murder...In the dead of the night, a man in an evening dress is found murdered, locked in the stocks on the village green. …
The Castlemaine Murders
"An unforgettable character, with a heart as big as her pocketbook, a fine disregard for convention and an insatiable appetite for life." --Denver PostThe fabulous Phryne Fisher, …
Carpentaria
Carpentaria is Alexis Wright's second novel, an epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland. The novel's portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of …
How Proust Can Change Your Life
For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-million words of In Search of Lost Time (while bedridden no less), Alain de Botton …