<p>Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in Dead Lagoon, gives us a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenviable task it is to combat crime in a country where today's superiors may be tomorrow's defendants.Zen returns to his native Venice. He is searching for the ghostly tormentors of a half-demented contessa and a vanished American millionaire whose family is paying Zen under the table to determine his whereabouts-dead or alive. But he keeps stumbling over corpses that are distressingly concrete: from the crooked cop found drowned in one of the city's noisome "black wells" to a brand-new skeleton that surfaces on the Isle of the Dead. The result is a mystery rich in character and deduction, and intensely informed about the history, politics, and manners of its Venetian setting.</p>

Dead Lagoon

MICHAEL DIBDIN

Pantheon

The Assault

Literature & Fiction

MULISCH, HARRY

White, Claire (translator)

Literary

War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War

History

Dower, John

Americas

<p>A thriller featuring Mungo Cameron, for whom the mysterious world of espionage is his whole existence. From the author of AN UNKINDNESS OF RAVENS, THE VEILED ONE and THE SPEAKER OF MANDARIN.</p>

Talking to Strange Men

RENDELL,RUTH

World Literature

This is the story of a grand scientific quest: the quest for a unifying theory of nature--one that can explain forces as different as the cohesion inside the atom and the gravitational tug between the sun and the earth. Writing with dazzling elegance and clarity, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg retraces the steps that have led modern scientists from relativity theory and quantum mechanics to the notion of superstrings and the idea that our universe may coexist with others. Along the way, he voices the questions that are always present: Why does each explanation of the way nature works point to other, deeper explanations? Why are the best theories not only logical but beautiful? And what implications will a final theory have for our philosophy and religious faith? Intellectually daring, rich in anecdote and aphorism, Dreams of a Final Theory launches us into a new cosmos and helps us make sense of what we find there.

Dreams of a final theory

Science & Math

STEVEN WEINBERG

Physics

When a pelican hatches from the large egg Paul finds, he must teach the bird how to fish. Includes split pages.

Pelican

Brian Wildsmith

The Eternal Present: A Contribution on Constancy and Change, The Beginnings of Art,

Giedion, S.

David Reich describes how the revolution in the ability to sequence ancient DNA has changed our understanding of the deep human past. This book tells the emerging story of our often surprising ancestry - the extraordinary ancient migrations and mixtures of populations that have made us who we are.

Who We Are and How We Got Here

Politics & Social Sciences

Reich, David

Anthropology

Lewis Percy

BROOKNER, ANITA

Contemporary

Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation

Computers & Technology

LEVY, Steven

Computer Science

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