#hardcover #exlib #law #science #laser The inventor, the Noble Laureate, and the thirty-year patent war. 

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The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War

Laser is the fascinating, true story of Gordon Gould's successful 30-year struggle to assert himself as the right inventor of the laser, and a myth-shattering, behind-the-scenes account of the American patent process. of photos.

Laser

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The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan

From the New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's Way comes a true-life story of American soldiers overcoming great odds to achieve a stunning military victory. Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy across mountainous terrain and, after a series of intense battles, captured the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, which was strategically essential if they were to defeat the Taliban. The bone-weary American soldiers were welcomed as liberators, and overjoyed Afghans thronged the streets. Then the action took a wholly unexpected turn. During a surrender of six hundred Taliban troops, the Horse Soldiers were ambushed. Dangerously outnumbered, they fought for their lives in the city's immense fortress, Qala-i-Janghi, or the House of War. At risk were the military gains of the entire campaign: if the soldiers perished or were captured, the effort to defeat the Taliban might be doomed. As the Americans struggled to hold the fortress, they faced some of the most intense urban warfare of our time. But until now the full story of the Horse Soldiers has never been told. Doug Stanton received unprecedented cooperation from the U.S. Army's Special Forces soldiers and Special Operations helicopter pilots, as well as access to voluminous after-battle reports. In addition, he interviewed more than one hundred participants and walked every inch of the climactic battleground. This exciting story is filled with unforgettable characters: brave Special Forces soldiers, tough CIA operatives, cunning Afghan warlords, anxious stateside soldiers' wives who do not know where their husbands have gone, and humble Afghan boys spying on the Taliban. Deeply researched and beautifully written, Stanton's account of America's quest to liberate an oppressed people touches the mythic. The Horse Soldiers combined ancient strategies of cavalry warfare with twenty-first-century aerial bombardment technology to perform a seemingly impossible feat. Moreover, their careful effort to win the hearts of local townspeople and avoid civilian casualties proved a valuable lesson for America's ongoing efforts in Afghanistan. Horse Soldiers is a big-hearted and thrilling read, with an epic story that reaches not just across the cold mountains of Afghanistan but into the homes of small-town America, and confirms Doug Stanton as one of our country's preeminent storytellers.

Horse Soldiers

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The Soviet War in Afghanistan

"Fascinating....A highly readable history of the conflict." --New York Times Book Review

In The Great Gamble, a groundbreaking account of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer vividly depicts the war that contributed greatly to the demise of the USSR, and that offers striking lessons for the 21st century, as well. Told from the perspective of the Russians who fought it, The Great Gamble offers valuable insight into the history of Afghanistan's troubled government and the rise of the Mujahideen and Al-Qaeda. In the words of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "Feifer has done truly extraordinary research... For all its heft, [The Great Gamble] is an effortless read--an unusual and gratifying combination."

The Great Gamble

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#hardcover #darwin #nonfiction #humor #exlib 

Evolution in Action

A satirical "award" celebrating the worst examples of human intelligence features stories about the man who used a cigarette lighter to check his gas level, the terrorist who opened his own letter bomb, and other stories of human idiocy.

The Darwin Awards (I and II) 

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Delaware

Abandoned by both his Irish father and Congolese mother, Bruno Salvador has long looked for someone to guide his life. He has found it in Mr. Anderson of British Intelligence.Bruno's African upbringing, and fluency in numerous African languages, has made him a top interpreter in London, useful to businesses, hospitals, diplomats -- and spies. Working for Anderson in a clandestine facility known as the Chat Room, Salvo (as he's known) translates intercepted phone calls, bugged recordings, snatched voice mail messages. When Anderson sends him to a mysterious island to interpret during a secret conference between Central African warlords, Bruno thinks he is helping Britain bring peace to a bloody corner of the world. But then he hears something he should not have....Building upon the box office success of le Carre's The Constant Gardener (like The Mission Song, built around turmoil and conspiracy in Africa) and le Carre's laser eye for the complexity of the modern world (seen in Absolute Friends' prediction that the Iraq war would be based on phony and manipulated intelligence), this new novel is a crowning achievement, full of politics, heart, and the sort of suspense that nobody in the world does better.

The Mission Song

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The Killing Ground

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The Judas Gate

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#hardcover #nonfiction #paperback #lobster #exlib

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Life on a Very Small Island

The author details her return to Isle au Haut, a tiny Maine island with a population of seventy year-round residents, many of whom are her relatives, to describe small-town life in a lobster-fishing village.

The Lobster Chronicles

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#hardcover #fiction #suspensethrillers #jasonbourne #robertludlum #exlib 

Searching for terrorists planning attacks on America's most strategic natural resources, Jason Bourne enlists the help of General Boris Karpov, the head of Russia's most feared spy agency, who has actually been tasked with Bourne's assassination.

Robert Ludlum's (TM) the Bourne Dominion

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Following her swindler father's death on a mission, Bianca St. Ives starts a mostly-aboveboard security company but is drawn back into the world of deceit when her father's family is threatened by forces who believe he is still alive.

The Ultimatum

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#hardcover #williamholland #fiction #thriller #exlib 

Moscow Twilight 

#hardcover #nonfiction #medical #autobiography #establishment #exlib #jamespatterson 

Ohio

A True Story

A nonfiction account by the best-selling suspense author follows a family's decades-long struggle with their son's mysterious medical disorder that from the age of five induced violent physical tics and prompted traumatic treatments, a nightmarish situation that also pitted the family against a disheartening medical establishment.

Against Medical Advice

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#hardcover #NYTbestseller #exlib The infamous John Wilkes Booth, mercurial son of an acclaimed British stage actor in a Covent Garden flower girl, has been the subject of more than a century scholarship, speculation, and even obsession. Booth is often portrayed as a shadow we figure, violent loner who single murderous act made him the most hated man in America. Lost to history until now is the story of the four women whom he left and who loved him in return.￼

A Novel of John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth's misguided quest to avenge the vanquished Confederacy led him to commit one of the most notorious acts in the annals of America. Four women were integral in his life: Mary Ann, the mother he revered above all but country; his sister and confidante, Asia; Lucy Lambert Hale, the senator's daughter who loved him; and the Confederate widow Mary Surratt, to whom he entrusted the secrets of his vengeful wrath. As their stories intertwine we witness a soul in turmoil-- and a country at the precipice of immense change.

Fates and Traitors

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#hardcover #fiction #exlib #Salvatore #forgottenrealms #Drizzt #dragonlance #fantasy 

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New Jersey

The NeverWinter Saga Book IV

A conclusion to the best-selling series finds Drizzt fearing the loss of Dahlia to his former enemy, while agents of the elite drow hide a secret agenda and Tiago Baenre enlists Bregan D'aerthe in his quest to destroy Drizzt.

The Last Threshold

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#hardcover #fantasy #fiction #forgottenrealms #salvatore #exlib

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Paths of Darkness book 4

After finding the mark of Aegis-fang branded on the back of an outlaw, Drizzt Do'Urden fears that his long-missing friend Wulfgar is in danger and sets out with Cattie-brie and Bruenor to find Wulfgar and ensure his safety.

Sea of Swords

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#hardcover #studycopy #exlib 1/5 book has pen underlining, used for college text book

Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.

Les Miserables

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#hardcover #memoir #exlib The republic of imagination describe the journey that let her to become an American citizen, building a new life in a country she first became to know through it’s fiction.￼

A Life in Books

A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change people’s lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran

Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating followup, Nafisi has written the book her fans have been waiting for: an impassioned, beguiling, and utterly original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society. What Reading Lolita in Tehran was for Iran, The Republic of Imagination is for America.

Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her in Seattle, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don’t care about books the way they did back in Iran, she energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite American novels—The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, among others—she invites us to join her as citizens of her “Republic of Imagination,” a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.

The Republic of Imagination

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The worst school nightmares pale in comparison to these 13 stories that take academic anxiety to whole new realms. Edited by the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series.

LARGE PRINT An Apple for the Creature

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Oklahoma

When Malcolm Dawson's daughter Robyn is reported missing from her archeological dig in France, he sets out to look for her. The site seethes with age-old resentment and her colleagues all seem to have reason to wish her out the way. But the truth is more dangerous than anyone could have imagined.

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The nineteenth in the series of mysteries by the bestselling author of The Rosary Murders--a finalist for the American Book Award--The Man Who Loved God continues the adventures of Father Robert Koesler, the priest/sleuth who solves murders in Detroit.

The Man Who Loved God  Ex Lib 2085

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#hardcover #CivilWar #novel #exlib Rich in characters both heartbreaking and blood-curdling, comic and horrific, The Amalgamation Polka is shot through with politics and dreams, and it captures great swaths of the American experience, from village to metropolis to plantation, from the Erie Canal to the Bahamas, from bloody Kansas to the fulfillment of the killing fields.￼

From a star of the first magnitude (The Washington Post Book World) comes a Civil War novel like no other: heartbreaking and bloodcurdling, comic and horrific, and shot through with politics and dreams.

The Amalgamation Polka

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#hardcover #history #Medieval #Renaissance #exlib A World Lit Only By Fire is William Manchester’s grand journey into one of the most fascinating periods in the history of the western world. From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the middle ages.

The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age

William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages.

A World Lit Only by Fire

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#paperback #exlib #science The fascinating story of our emergence from dark and how we came to inhabit our world built of light

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The Evolution of Artificial Light

Brilliant, reminiscent of Lewis Hyde's The Gift in its reach and of Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time in its haunting evocation of human lives, offers a sweeping view of a surprisingly revealing aspect of human history--from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future.


Brox plumbs the class implications of light--who had it, who didn't--through the many centuries when crude lamps and tallow candles constricted waking hours. She convincingly portrays the hell-bent pursuit of whale oil as the first time the human desire for light thrust us toward an environmental tipping point. Only decades later, gas street lights opened up the evening hours to leisure, which changed the ways we live and sleep and the world's ecosystems.


Edison's "tiny strip of paper that a breath would blow away" produced a light that seemed to its users all but divorced from human effort or cost. And yet, as Brox's informative and hair-raising portrait of our current grid system shows, the cost is ever with us.


Brilliant is infused with human voices, startling insights, and--only a few years before it becomes illegal to sell most incandescent light bulbs in the United States--timely questions about how our future lives will be shaped by light.


Brilliant

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Chicago police detective Abe Lieberman races against time to find burglar Pitty-Pitty Patniks, who, in the course of a robbery, becomes an unwitting and reluctant witness to murder.

Nick Taylor

Laser

Doug Stanton

Horse Soldiers

Gregory Feifer

The Great Gamble

Wendy Northcutt

The Darwin Awards (I and II)

John Le Carré

The Mission Song

Jack Higgins

The Killing Ground

Jack Higgins

The Judas Gate

Linda Greenlaw

The Lobster Chronicles

Eric Van Lustbader

Robert Ludlum's (TM) the Bourne Dominion

Karen Robards

The Ultimatum

William E Holland

Moscow Twilight

James Patterson (Editor); Hal Friedman; Cory Friedman

Against Medical Advice

Jennifer Chiaverini

Fates and Traitors

R. A. Salvatore

The Last Threshold

R. A. Salvatore

Sea of Swords

Victor Hugo

Les Miserables

Azar Nafisi

The Republic of Imagination

Charlaine Harris; Toni L. P. Kelner

LARGE PRINT An Apple for the Creature

Susan Kelly

The Ghosts of Albi Ex Lib 2925

William X. Kienzle

The Man Who Loved God Ex Lib 2085

Stephen Wright

The Amalgamation Polka

William Manchester

A World Lit Only by Fire

Jane Brox

Brilliant

Stuart M. Kaminsky

Lieberman's Thief Ex Lib 3020