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1421 - The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
The incredible true story of the discovery of America before Columbus was even born.Gavin Menzies's extraordinary findings rewrite history. On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the f ...Show more
A Crack in the Edge of the World - America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous sub ...Show more
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Category: Natural History | Series: P. S. Ser.
First published in 1975, Animal Liberation created a sensation upon its release, shaking the world's philosophical and animal-protection circles to their cores. Now, forty years later, Peter Singer's landmark work still looms large as a foundational and canonical text of animal advocacy. Arguing that al ...Show more
As Nature Made Him - The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
Category: Biography | Series: P. S. Ser.
In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine--and a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally ...Show more
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
Winner of the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the author of State of Wonder and Commonwealth. Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honour of the powerful ...Show more
Big Bang - The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
We've all heard of the Big Bang, and yet few of us truly know what it is.Renowned for making difficult ideas much less difficult than they might first appear, Simon Singh is our perfect guide to explaining why cosmologists believe that the Big Bang is an accurate description of the origin and evolution ...Show more
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit | Series: P. S. Ser.
From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller "The Alchemist," comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life. Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar i ...Show more
Checker and the Derailleurs by Lionel Shriver
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
From the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin this is a novel about what it takes to make it in music. How charisma is worth its weight in gold. And how jealously can grow until it has eaten away at a musician's heart. He has that thing that they'd all pay for but can't buy: on sta ...Show more
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende; Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser.
A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of 'The House of the Spirits'. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling Eliza Sommers who grows up in the bustling ...Show more
Fluffy Strikes Back by Ashley Spires
Category: Picture Books | Series: A\P. U. R. S. T. Adventure Ser.
Sergeant Fluffy Vandermere's number-one job is protecting the world from alien domination (aka bugs), and he takes his responsibility very seriously. So when the unthinkable happens and aliens invade headquarters --- bzzzzzz --- Fluffy sets out on a daring solo mission to defeat the intruders, rescue th ...Show more
Genome : The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
Category: Science | Series: P. S. Ser.
Following in the tradition of James Gleick' Chaos, Matt Ridly vividly explores the most profound scientific discovery of the century--the mapping of the human genome. But what does that mean? In witty, clear language, Ridley answers this question for your students. Genome helps them understand what the ...Show more
God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean En ...Show more