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The Chesapeake

“Human endeavor rarely results in a world we want. One man’s utopia is another man’s dystopia.” So says the author in his chronicle of the gradual deconstruction of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem at the hands of man. One might... Read More

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Starry Night

by Aimee Houser

This book was a labor of love for the author, a science writer best known for co-discovering the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet. He establishes in the preface that poetry and stargazing have been early and abiding passions for him in almost... Read More

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Women's Sexual Passages

by Judy Hopkins

The idea that a woman’s romantic feelings might be due more to “biological promptings” than to her swain’s sweet talk is just one of the many observations offered in a book that represents women’s sexuality as a masterful... Read More

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Naipaul's Truth

by Erik Bledsoe

Over the course of five decades and two dozen books, V. S. Naipaul has taken his readers on journeys through the postcolonial landscapes of India, the West Indies, and the Middle East. (Some would consider his 1989 bestseller, A Turn in... Read More

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Absolute Truth

by Mary Beth Zeleznik

“The Truth cannot impose itself except by virtue of its own truth, as it makes its entrance into the mind, at once quietly and with power.” These words from the Second Vatican Council embody what is at the center of the world’s... Read More

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Simple Scrapbooks

by Tracy Fitzwater

Boxes of family photographs may invite conflicting feelings of joy and guilt—how to assemble all of those pictures in a meaningful way for the entire family to enjoy? Julian’s new book will inspire the scrapbook enthusiast regardless... Read More

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How to Reach Your Goals

by E. James Lieberman

Confident, kind, knowledgeable, Everett puts his psychiatric and philosophic tools in the hands of his readers. He sets an example of that aspect of human nature called “instrumental,” devoted to improving the world and making people... Read More

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