A true story of code breakers during the second world war. Silk refers to the material used for recording key information and cyanide refers to the suicide pills that agents carried with them.

Between Silk and Cyanide : A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945

Marks, Leo

Biographies & Memoirs

Touchstone/Simon & Schuster

"This is a powerful, moving, at times shocking account of three generations of Chinese women, as compelling as Amy Tan." --Mary Morris."An evocative, often astonishing view of life in a changing China." -- The New York Times

Wild Swans: Three Daughters Of China

Jung, Chang

Community & Culture

This Book Needs No Title: Paradoxes, Labyrinths and Conundrums

Smullyan, Raymond M.

A beguiling new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Last Voyage of the Valentina   When an elegant French antiques dealer dies in her adopted hometown of New York City, her son, Misha, is astonished to learn that she owned a priceless, uncataloged Titian known as The Gypsy Madonna. Misha wonders how she could have kept such a secret from him, bonded inseparably as they were since his childhood in German-occupied France. Now with the discovery of the Titian masterpiece and the loss of his mother, he must at last journey back to Bordeaux to uncover the truth about The Gypsy Madonna -- and himself.

Gypsy Madonna

Literature & Fiction

SANTA MONTEFIORE

Contemporary

Kill and Tell

Linda Howard

Lynda Howard

Genre Fiction

Addresses the ultimate scientific question of the nature of life, using the hypothetical scenario that life originated on earth when a rocket carrying primitive spores was sent to earth by a higher civilization

Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature

Science & Math

Crick, Francis

Biological Sciences

A collection of four new and thirty-one previously published essays, Edward Hoagland offers his observations on a remarkably broad range of topics, including life, love, marriage, children, suffering, the city, and isolation.

Heart's Desire: The Best of Edward Hoagland: Essays from Twenty Years

Hoagland, Edward

Essays & Correspondence

"This landmark book" (San Francisco Chronicle) dispels the common myths about the causes and uses of anger— for example, that expressing anger is always good for you, that suppressing anger is always unhealthy, or that women have special "anger problems" that men do not. Dr. Carol Tavris expertly examines every facet of that fascinating emotion—from genetics to stress to the rage for justice. Fully revised and updated, Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion now includes: * A new consideration of biological politics: Should testosterone or PMS excuse rotten tempers or aggressive actions? * The five conditions under which anger is likely to be effective—and when it's not. * Strategies for solving specific anger problems—chronic anger, dealing with difficult people, repeated family battles, anger after divorce or victimization, and aggressive children.

Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Tavris, Carol

Mental Health

Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country

William Greider’s groundbreaking bestseller reveals how the mighty and mysterious Federal Reserve operates—and manipulates and the world’s economy. This ground-breaking best-seller reveals for the first time how the mighty and mysterious Federal Reserve operates—and how it manipulated and transformed both the American economy and the world's during the last eight crucial years. Based on extensive interviews with all the major players, Secrets of the Temple takes us inside the government institution that is in some ways more secretive than the CIA and more powerful than the President or Congress.

Secrets of the Temple By Greider William

GREIDER, WILLIAM

History

The Wise Woman (Stone of Light)

christian-jacq

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