Ten years ago Joe Lakota had left behind his small Oregon town and the only woman he'd every truly loved for the empty promises of the big city. Now he's returned, seeking to raise his young son with values you can only find at home, and longing to rekindle the passion he'd once had with beautiful Marilee Nelson. But Marilee isn't anything like the gentle yet self-assured girl he'd left behind. In her place is a woman tormented by a secret she refuses to share, even with Joe.
Chemistry examines 10 people who made some of the most progressive steps in the field. Entries include Gerty Cori, John Dalton, Emil Hermann Fischer, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Percy Julian, Irving Langmuir, Antoine Lavoisier, Dmitry Mendeleyev, Linus Pauling, and Joseph Priestley.
The price of everything solving the mystery of why we pay what we do (audiobook)
Many of the prices we pay seem to make little sense. We shell out $2.29 for a coffee at Starbucks when a nearly identical brew can be had at the corner deli for less than a dollar. We may be less willing to give blood for $25 than to donate it for free. Americans hire the cheap labor of illegal immigrants to fix the roof or mow the lawn and vote for politicians who promise to spend billions to keep them out of the country. And citizens of the industrialized West pay hundreds of dollars a year in taxes or cash for someone to cart away trash that would be a valuable commodity in poorer parts of the world.....
Added by: isabeljimenez | Karma: 1202.60 | Fiction literature | 10 February 2011
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Divine Justice
Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who destroyed Stone's life and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced.
But his freedom comes at a steep price: The assassinations he carried out prompt the highest levels of the U.S. government to unleash a massive manhunt. Behind the scenes, master spy Macklin Hayes is playing a very personal game of cat and mouse. He, more than anyone, wants Stone dead.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 1 February 2011
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CSI - Sin City
Meet the little known and even less understood heroes of police work in Las Vegas - the forensic investigators, as they work to untangle the evidence behind the yellow police tape. LAS VEGAS, NV--Lynn Peirce, devoted wife and mother, has disappeared without a trace--but her best friends have an audio tape of her husband threatening to cut her up into little pieces. Stripper Jenna Patrick, on the other hand, has just been found--strangled to death in a private room of the club where she worked. Crime Scene Investigation director Gil Grissom and his CSI team must uncover the evidence and unravel the truths behind both shocking murders.
