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The Cigar: Carmine Galante, Mafia Terror

Frank Dimatteo - Citadel
Format: Hardcover

From the godfathers of American Mafia history, the brutal and blood-stained biography of Carmine Galante, the ruthless Bonnano boss who rose from tenement street thug to masterminding the legendary global heroin trafficking network, the French Connection - always with a cigar in his mouth.....
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We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

Lydia Millet - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by the Washington Post, Oprah Daily, and Literary Hub. This lucent anti-memoir from celebrated novelist Lydia Millet explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child, and human at a moment when the richness of the planet's life is deeply threatened.Across...
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A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You

Sean B. Carroll - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these questions for millennia, but startling scientific discoveries over the past half century are revealing that we live...
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The Miracle of the Cell

Michael Denton - Discovery Institute; Illustrated edition
Format: Paperback

The Miracle of the Cell provides compelling evidence that long before life emerged on our planet, the design of the carbon-based cell was foreshadowed in the order of nature, in the exquisite fitness of the laws of nature for this foundational unit of all life on Earth. Nowhere is this...
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Believing Is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith

Michael Guillen PhD - Tyndale Refresh
Format: Hardcover

Dr. Michael Guillen, a best-selling author, Emmy award-winning journalist and former physics instructor at Harvard, used to be an Atheist -- until science changed his mind. Once of the opinion that people of faith are weak, small-minded folks who just don't understand science, Dr. Guillen...
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Venus (Kosmos)

William Sheehan - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover

From the latest scientific advances to observation advice for amateur astronomers, a beautifully illustrated exploration of one of Earth's closest neighbors. This book is a new, beautifully illustrated account of Venus, taking in the most recent research into this mysterious, inhospitable...
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Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle

Douglas J. Emlen - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The story behind the stunning extreme weapons we see in the animal world--teeth and horns and claws--and what they can tell us about the way humans develop and use arms and other weaponsIn Animal Weapons Doug Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where hes been...
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Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature

Robert N. Cahn - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

An enthralling and accessible account of humanity's quest to make sense of our physical world, told through interwoven tales of inspiration, tragedy, and triumph.. How do the remarkable recent discoveries of the Higgs boson, dark matter, and dark energy connect with the equally revolutionary...
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The Secret Life of Stars: Astrophysics for Everyone

Lisa Harvey-Smith - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover

In The Secret Life of Stars, award-winning astronomer Lisa Harvey-Smith takes us on a cosmic journey to meet some of the weirdest, most extreme, and enigmatic stars in the universe.We all know the Sun, the powerhouse of our solar system, but what about Luyten's Flare, the Rosino-Zwicky...
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Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began

Guido Tonelli
Format: Hardcover

Curiosity and wonderment about the origins of the universe are at the heart of our experience of the world. From Hesiod's Chaos as found in his poem about the origins of the Greek gods, Theogony, to today's mind-bending theories of the multiverse, we have been consumed by the relentless...
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