A profile of "Kick" Kennedy details her debut, marriage to aristocrat William Hartington, tragic deaths of her brother and husband, romance with the married Earl Fitzwilliam, and their deaths, in 1948, in a plane crash

Kathleen Kennedy

MCTAGGART, LYNNE

Biographies & Memoirs

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A collection of comic strips featuring the Peanuts characters playing baseball.

Big League Peanuts

Comics & Graphic Novels

SCHULZ, CHARLES M.

Comic Strips

Describes the local produce, herbs, meat, poultry, game, fish, and wines of each region in France, and recommends shops, bakeries, restaurants, and regional specialties

A Traveller's Guide to the Food of France

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

CHRISTIAN, Glynn

Cooking Education & Reference

Police

Vivid photographs and text portray the lives and experiences of two New York City policemen, who patrol the Times Square area

Politics & Social Sciences

Putterman, Jaydee

Lesur, Rosalynde

Politics & Government

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The Book of Country Living

Weiss, Jeffrey

Osborn, Susan

Henry Fonda

Goldstein, Norm

GILBERT W. KLIMAN M.D. AND ALBERT ROSENFELD

Responsible Parenthood: The Child's Psyche Through the Six-Year Pregnancy

Rosenfeld, Albert

Kliman, Gilbert W.

KALIMANTAAN - the old name for Borneo - is an epic novel about the founding of a small empire by an extraordinary man and a handful of his followers. It is also a beautifully written story about love surviving in the most hostile of circumstances. It is 1850 and a young Englishman, Gideon Barr, arrives in Borneo; within 10 years he has conquered an area the size of England and Wales, ruling through armies of tribal head-hunters. This is the story of Victorian social values superimposed on one of the most violent cultures on earth, of tenderness amid extreme brutality, and of a remarkable tribe of fugitives, missionaries, and romantics drawn to this remote outpost of the world. But the personal cost to Barr is enormous - he and his lovely wife, Amelia, lose three children to cholera and finally she has to return home to ensure the safety of their last surviving child. Full of fantastic descriptions of life in exotic conditions, this is a rare novel that immerses the reader in another, more wonderful world.

Kalimantaan

Literature & Fiction

Godshalk, C.S.

Contemporary

'One of the most original and audacious autobiographies ever written by a writer.' Le Monde Hand to Mouth tells the story of the young Paul Auster's struggle to stay afloat. By turns poignant and comic, Auster's memoir is essentially a book about money - and what it means not to have it. From one odd job to the next, from one failed scheme to another, Auster investigates his own stubborn compulsion to make art and, in the process, treats us to a series of remarkable adventures and unforgettable encounters. The book ends with three of the longest footnotes in literary history: a card game, a thriller about baseball, and three short plays. Hand to Mouth is essential reading for anyone interested in Paul Auster, in the figure of the struggling artist, in the nature of poverty, or in baseball.

Hand to Mouth : A Chronicle of Failure

AUSTER, PAUL.

The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex

From one of the architects of the new science of simplicity and complexity comes a highly personal, unifying vision of the natural world. As a theoretical physicist, Murray Gell-Mann has explored nature at its most fundamental level. His achievements include the 1969 Nobel Prize for work leading up to his discovery of the quark—the basic building block of all atomic nuclei throughout the universe. But Gell-Mann is a man of many intellectual passions, with lifelong interests in fields that seek to understand existence at its most complex: natural history, biological evolution, the history of language, and the study of creative thinking. These seemingly disparate pursuits come together in Gell-Mann's current work at The Santa Fe Institute, where scientists are investigating the similarities and differences among complex adaptive systems—systems that learn or evolve by utilizing acquired information. They include a child learning his or her native language, a strain of bacteria becoming resistant to an antibiotic, the scientific community testing new theories, an artist implementing a creative idea, a society developing new customs or superstitions, a computer learning to play chess, or the human race evolving ways of living in greater harmony with itself and with other inhabitants of the Earth. The Quark and the Jaguar is an engaging, elegantly written introduction to the life's work of one of this century's most accomplished and influential scientists. This is Gell-Mann's own story of finding the connections between the basic laws of physics and the complexity and diversity of the natural world. The simple: a quark inside an atom. The complex: a jaguar prowling its jungle territory in the night. Exploring the relationships between them becomes a series of exciting intellectual adventures.

Science & Math

GELL-MANN, MURRAY

Physics

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