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The Curious Life of Robert Hooke

The Curious Life of Robert Hooke

Lisa Jardine

HARPER PERENNIAL
2020
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"Fascinating. . . . Jardine takes a complex view, according Hooke with the respect and dignity that eluded him for so long. . . and] with this compelling and empathetic portrait, she succeeds in making a convincing case for his place in history. . . as] a founding father in Europe's scientific revolution." -- Los Angeles TimesThe brilliant, largely forgotten maverick Robert Hooke was an engineer, surveyor, architect, and inventor who worked tirelessly with his intimate friend Christopher Wren to rebuild London after the Great Fire of 1666. He was the first Curator of Experiments at the Royal Society, and his engravings of natural phenomena seen under the new microscope appeared in his masterpiece, the acclaimed Micrographia, one of the most influential volumes of the day.But Hooke's irascible temper and his passionate idealism proved fatal for his relationships with important political figures, most notably Sir Isaac Newton: their quarrel is legendary. As a result, historical greatness eluded Robert Hooke. Eminent historian Lisa Jardine does this original thinker of indefatigable curiosity and imagination justice and allows him to take his place as a major figure in the seventeenth century intellectual and scientific revolution.
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Heaven

Heaven

Lisa Miller

HarperPerennial
2011
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Many people say they believe in heaven, but very few of them are able to articulate anything specific about their belief, leaving only questions. Is heaven a real place? Is it a city or a garden or both? Can you keep your body there? If so, can you eat, drink, make love? Are you recognizable as yourself in heaven? Do your relationships continue there? Or is heaven something else? A radical idea? A disembodied, unconscious existence? A sense of progression toward perfect understanding, justice, beauty, truth? Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians and scholars have dissected these questions - and others like them - for thousands of years, yet in today's world, most people leave them pretty well alone, content to live with a shallow or incomplete sense of what they do believe. Lisa Miller dissects these ancient theologies and their different ideas regarding an afterlife by looking at what the beliefs are, how they have impacted one another, and also how they have reacted to the needs and lifestyles of their followers through the ages. By looking at profiles of real people and history, and analyzing conversations with scholars, "Heaven" forces people to grapple with their beliefs about heaven. It holds up a mirror to allow Americans to gauge how their ideas about heaven measure up to traditional and popular ideas throughout history in an accessible, palatable way.
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Devil in Winter: The Wallflowers, Book 3

Devil in Winter: The Wallflowers, Book 3

Lisa Kleypas

Avon Books
2016
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Desperate to escape the clutches of her greedy and unscrupulous relatives, heiress Evangeline Jenner makes a deal with Viscount St. Vincent, the most dangerous rake in London, to exchange her fortune for a marriage of convenience, only to discover the true nature of passion in the arms of her libertine husband. Original.
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Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban

Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban

Lisa Wixon

HARPER PERENNIAL
2006
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Learning on her mother's deathbed that her real father is a Cuban translator, upper-class American Alysia Vilar journeys to communist Cuba, where she falls in with a middle-aged Englishman, his fifteen-year-old lover, and a circle of educated professionals who are forced to prostitute themselves in order to survive. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death

Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death

Lisa Takeuchi Cullen

HARPER BUSINESS
2007
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In Remember Me, Time writer Lisa Takeuchi Cullen has created a humorous and poignant chronicle of her travels around the country to discover how Americans are reinventing the rites of dying. What she learned is that people no longer want to take death lying down; instead, they're taking their demise into their own hands and planning the afterparty. Cullen hears stories of modern-day funerals: lobster-shaped caskets and other unconventional containers for corpses; cremated remains turned into diamonds; and even mishaps like dove releases gone horribly wrong. Eye-opening, funny, and unforgettable, Remember Me gives an account of the ways in which Americans are designing new occasions to mark death--by celebrating life.
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Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory

Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory

Lisa Jardine

HARPER PERENNIAL
2009
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In Going Dutch, renowned writer Lisa Jardine tells the remarkable history of the relationship between England and Holland, two of Europe's most important colonial powers at the dawn of the modern age. Jardine, the author of The Awful End of Prince William the Silent, demonstrates that England's rise did not come at the expense of the Dutch as is commonly thought, but was actually a "handing on" of the baton of cultural and intellectual supremacy to a nation expanding in international power and influence.
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Swallowing Stones

Swallowing Stones

Lisa St Aubin de Teran

Ecco Press
2006
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Lisa St Aubin de Ter n's Swallowing Stones is a fictionalized account of the extraordinary life of one Oswaldo Barreto Miliani, code-named Otto -- adviser to Castro, confidant of Salvador Allende, and sharp thorn in the sides of both the CIA and the KGB. In the riveting and remarkable invented memoirs of the legendary seventy-year-old revolutionary scholar, the explosive history of twentieth-century Latin America unfolds before us -- viewed through the sharp, unflinching eyes of a uniquely indomitable character as he progresses, through consequence and fateful accident, from philosophy student to guerrilla fighter, political activist, and outlaw.
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Devil's Corner

Devil's Corner

Lisa Scottoline

Harper Large Print
2005
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New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline delivers a knockout stand-alone thriller featuring a young federal prosecutor who risks her life to bring down the kingpin of a conspiracy responsible for murders in West Philly. Assistant U.S. Attorney Vicki Allegretti goes to meet a confidential informant and finds herself facing a loaded 9 mm Glock semiautomatic weapon, wielded by a panicky teenager. Violence is the last thing this neophyte lawyer expects. The case is easy, the kind given to new ADAs to help them cut their teeth. Yet almost before she has time to react, her partner is dead, shot in the chest. From that high-octane introduction to her job, Vicki vows to continue with the case, protect her informant, and find the shadowy figure behind the death of her partner. This decision will take her to the depths of the federal detention center's &#8220bowl,&#8221 to a row house on the street where she grew up, and to the posh suburbs where her parents now live. Set against the gritty backdrop of a modern American city and imbued with Lisa Scottoline's trademark style and wit, Cater Street is the story of a determined young lawyer seeking justice.
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The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun

The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun

Lisa Jardine

HARPER PERENNIAL
2007
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Provides a compelling account of the 1584 shooting of the Protestant Prince William of Orange by a French Catholic, assessing the impact of the assassination on the history of Europe, the struggle of the Netherlands to overthrow Catholic rule, and its implications for other heads-of-state forced to confront threats against their own lives. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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The Thing about Georgie

The Thing about Georgie

Lisa Graff

Harpercollins
2008
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Fans of Kate DiCamillo and R. J. Palacio will love The Thing About Georgie, a warm and humorous story starring an unforgettable young boy with dwarfism, from acclaimed author Lisa Graff. "An upbeat and sensitive look at what it's like to be different, this novel will spark discussion." (Booklist)As far as Georgie is concerned, everyone has a "thing."The thing about poodles is that Georgie Bishop hates to walk them.The thing about Jeanie the Meanie is that she would rather write on her shoe than help Georgie with their Abraham Lincoln project.The thing about Andy's nonna is that she kisses Georgie's cheeks and doesn't speak one word of English.The thing about Georgie's mom is that she's having a baby--a baby who will probably be taller than Georgie very, very soon.The thing about Georgie . . . well, what is the thing about Georgie?
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A Valley in Italy

A Valley in Italy

Lisa St Aubin de Teran

HARPER PERENNIAL
2000
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Of all the romantic obsessions in novelist Lisa St Aubin de Teran's life, the search for a castle occupied her the longest--until she saw the magnificent Villa Orsola deep in the Umbrian hills. Only after eagerly signing the ownership papers did she and her husband, painter Robbie Duff-Scott, discover they were the owners of a vast ruin lacking windowpanes, parts of the roof, and other essentials. A Valley in Italy recounts its restoration in the grand style of impossible house and the charms of bohemian family life. It also offers a rare portrait of the life of a. Italian village, where "all things are made to be as enjoyable as possible." " Lisa St Aubin de Teran's intuitive sense of place, her affection for the people around her, and her appreciation for native Italian grace make this a memorable book that can stand beside the best accounts of Italian life.
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Every Visible Thing A Novel

Every Visible Thing A Novel

Lisa Carey

HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INC
2007
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Five years ago the eldest Furey son, Hugh, ran off into the night and never returned. His parents, estranged by grief, are trying to put the tragedy behind them after a long, exhausting, and fruitless search. His mother, recovering from an emotional breakdown, has lost herself in a new career; Hugh's father, having abandoned his faith and his position as a theology professor, now cares halfheartedly for their two remaining children. Left more or less to fend for themselves, ten-year-old Owen and fifteen-year-old Lena struggle to hold on to their brother's memory--an increasingly self-destructive obsession that gives rise to angel fantasies, drug use, quixotic quests, and dangerous experimentation that will ultimately force a damaged family to confront its past and find a future.
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Love in the Asylum

Love in the Asylum

Lisa Carey

HARPER PERENNIAL
2005
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Believing herself to be a hopeless case due to her unending battle with manic depression, children's book writer Alba forges an unlikely relationship with drug addict Oscar and uncovers a century-old story hidden in the library of the rehabilitation institution where they pursue recovery. By the author of The Mermaids Singing. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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In the Country of the Young

In the Country of the Young

Lisa Carey

HARPER PERENNIAL
2002
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On a stormy November night in 1848, a ship carrying more than a hundred Irish emigrants ran aground twenty miles off the coast of Maine. Many were saved, but some were not -- including a young girl who died crying out the name of her brother.In the present day, the artist Oisin MacDara lives in self-imposed exile on Tiranogue -- the small island where the shipwrecked Irish settled. The past is Oisin's curse, as memories of the twin sister who died tragically when he was a boy haunt him still.Then on a quiet All Hallows' Eve, a restless spirit is beckoned into his home by a candle flickering in the window: the ghost of the girl whose brief life ended on Tiranogue's shore more than a century earlier. In Oisin's house she seeks comfort and warmth, and a chance at the life that was denied her so long ago.For a lonely man chained by painful memories, nothing will ever be the same again.
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The Palace

The Palace

Lisa St Aubin de Teran

Ecco Press
2000
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One of today's most imaginative and lyrical writers, Lisa St. Aubin de Teran weaves together passion, idealism, and adventures in this mesmerizing fable set against the ornate backdrop of nineteenth-century Italy. The palace is the vision of Gabriele del Campo, a young, idealistic stonemason's apprentice imprisoned for supporting Garibaldi's revolutionary unification of Italy. A poor peasant, he has falen in love at first sight with the rich and beautiful noblewoman Donna Donatella. He yearns to be pulled out of poverty, and dreams of winning Donatellaa's heart and building a palaceworthy of his love.As del Campo languishes in prison, he takes the first steps toward his dream. His cellmate Colonel Giovanni Vitelli, a nobleman, educates him in the customs of the gentry; meanwhile, in his mind elaborate plans for the palace's construction are already taking shape. Twice escaping execution, del Campo emerges from prison to find wealth as a fearless gambler in the corrupt underworld of Venice. Winning a large estate in Castello at a sinister high-stakes gambling house, Gabriele begins to build the palace of his dreams. At last he might win Donna Donatella's love.
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How Big Is God?

How Big Is God?

Lisa Tawn Bergren

Harpercollins
2008
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When a young boy asks his mother where God lives, her answer sparks a loving and meaningful conversation about God's existence that helps provide him with the understanding and reassurance he seeks. By the creators of God Gave Us You.
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God Found Us You

God Found Us You

Lisa Tawn Bergren

Harpercollins
2009
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A special picture book about adoption from the bestselling creators of the beloved God Gave Us You and God Gave Us EasterAs little fox gets ready for bed, Mama Fox tells him the miraculous story of his special arrival. This heartwarming and tender tale captures the immensity of looking at God through a young child's eyes and the profoundness of the blessings that adoption brings to both parent and child.A loving gift to celebrate a new adoption as well as for Mother's Day.Lisa Tawn Bergren's and Laura J. Bryant's God Gave Us series includes New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and ECPA bestsellers--don't miss their God Found Us You and How Big Is God? as well These books are perfect for sharing and as a gift at Christmas, Easter, and birthdays.
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