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Feast of Ice and Fire, A

Dinner Is Coming Authors: Chelsea Monroe-Cassel, Sariann Lehrer Cookbooks are one of my favorite things to check out from the library. Haven’t we all been burned by forking out $40 on some fancy gourmet tome, only to watch it gathering dust on the shelf? (Well, I have.) I much prefer to borrow a cookbook, browse through it for the handful of recipes I might actually use, and then guiltlessly return it when I’m done. Especially when the cookbook in question is a collection of pseudo-medieval cookery inspired by HBO’s hit fantasy show Game of Thrones. But don’t dismiss this as [...]

2016-12-31T17:56:24-07:00April 5th, 2013|Tags: , , , , |

Universe Within, The

We Are All Made of Stars... Author:  Neil Shubin I hope this doesn’t make you feel old, but every hydrogen atom in your body – its most abundant atom and a key constituent in every protein and DNA molecule – is about 13.7 billion years old.  Formed shortly after the Big Bang, hydrogen atoms have been slowly cycling throughout the universe, combining to create other elements and building stars, planets and people.  If these kinds of deep science thoughts get your intellectual juices flowing, I’ve got a splendid book for you, The Universe Within. With this work, author Neil Shubin [...]

2016-12-31T17:56:25-07:00March 19th, 2013|Tags: |

Killer of Little Shepherds, The

CSI: Lyon... Author: Douglas Starr He was one of the most fearsome serial killers of the 19th century, terrorizing the denizens of the French countryside for much of the 1890s.  Yet the criminal science of the time was so primitive, that it wasn’t until he’d killed his 27th victim that Joseph Vacher was finally captured and convicted.  In The Killer of Little Shepherds, Boston University professor Douglas Starr tells Vacher’s gruesome story, as well as the story of the heroic criminology pioneers who caught him. Growing up poor and attending a strict Catholic school, Vacher appears to have always been [...]

2016-12-31T17:56:26-07:00March 19th, 2013|Tags: , , , |
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