Havana Black

At the start of the well-plotted second volume of Padura's seething, steamy Havana Quartet , Cuban detective Mario Conde - aka "the Count" - is approaching the end of his police career and his 36th birthday with drunken abandon while also anticipating, almost welcoming, the arrival of a devastating hurricane. Fed up with the latest departmental purges, which have claimed his boss and mentor, Major Rangel, Conde resigns from the department only to be offered a challenge and a bargain by Rangel's newly appointed replacement.

The Courts of Love - The Story of Eleanor of Aquitaine

Eleanor of Aquitaine was revered for her superior intellect, extraordinary courage, and fierce loyalty. She was equally famous for her turbulent relationships, which included marriages to the kings of both France and England.

The Scientist as Philosopher - Philosophical Consequences of Great Scientific Discoveries

Clearly written and well illustrated, the book first places the scientist-philosophers in the limelight as we learn how their great scientific discoveries forced them to reconsider the time-honored notions with which science had described the natural world.
Then, the book explains that what we understand by nature and science have undergone fundamental conceptual changes as a result of the discoveries of electromagnetism, thermodynamics and atomic structure.
The author concludes that the dance between science and philosophy is an evolutionary process, which will keep them forever entwined.

Troubletwisters

A spectacular new middle-grade fantasy series from NYT bestselling authors Garth Nix and Sean Williams, in which two twins find that they must act as wards against a threatening evil.

Jokes For All Occasions

 

The ways of telling a story are as many as the tellers themselves. It is impossible to lay down

precise rules by which any one may perfect himself in the art, but it is possible to offer suggestions by which to guide practice in narration toward a gratifying success. Broadly distinguished, there are two methods of telling a story. One uses the extreme of brevity, and makes its chief reliance on the point. The other devotes itself in great part to preliminaryelaboration in the narrative, making this as amusing as possible, so that the point itself serves to cap a climax.