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Off the Deep End: Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty

Giancarlo Granda - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Giancarlo Granda finally reveals the truth about his relationship with Becki Falwell and her husband Jerry Falwell Jr., and the hidden world of political influence, high finance, and criminal intrigue.Jerry Falwell Jr. is a prominent figure in the evangelical world whose support for presidential...
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The Cases That Haunt Us

John E. Douglas - Pocket Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Violent. Provocative. Shocking. Call them what you will...but don't call them open and shut. Did Lizzie Borden murder her own father and stepmother? Was Jack the Ripper actually the Duke of Clarence? Who killed JonBenet Ramsey? America's foremost expert on criminal profiling and twenty-five-year...
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A Year of Misreading the Wildcats

Orchid Tierney - Operating System
Format: Paperback

"This book is evidence of unusually ebullient thinking about the spongy and interbred archives of petropolitics & necropolitics--life and death produced for/from the manna of fossil fuels--which Tierney parses, imbricates, and translates into poems that are wet and living, petrified...
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Butterflies: Beautiful Flying Insects

TOM JACKSON - Amber Books
Format: Hardcover

Butterflies is an outstanding collection of photographs showcasing nature's most beautiful and often elusive butterflies and moths - members of the Lepidoptera order - in the variety of their natural habitats. With 17,500 species of butterfly and 160,000 species of moth in the world...
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Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films

Nina Nesseth - ?Tor Nightfire
Format: Hardcover

Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth is a pop-science look at fear, how and why horror films get under our skin, and why we keep coming back for more.Do you like scary movies?Have you ever wondered why?Nina Nesseth knows what scares you. She also knows why.In Nightmare Fuel, Nesseth explores...
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How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

Lee McIntyre - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

"Climate change is a hoax--and so is coronavirus." "Vaccines are bad for you." These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. They are not merely uninformed--they are misinformed. They cite cherry-picked evidence, rely...
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Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity

Antonio Padilla - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A fun, dazzling exploration of the strange numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of reality.For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac, or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths led to strange new understandings of the ultimate...
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Dataclysm: Who We Are

Christian Rudder - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times BestsellerAn audacious, irreverent investigation of human behaviorand a first look at a revolution in the making Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we dont need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly...
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Slime

Susanne Wedlich - ?Melville House
Format: Hardcover


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I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

Barbara Rae-Venter - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

The amateur DNA sleuth who cracked the most infamous cold case in American history -- that of the Golden State Killer - tells the incredible true story of how she did it, and explains how her methods have changed the course of criminal investigations forever.For twelve years he terrorized...
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