Terri

Terri busies herself with the more mundane aspects of life at Village Books- those involving accounting. So her reading tastes take her pretty far from reality, mostly science fiction and fantasy with the occasional mystery thrown in. When a nonfiction book finds itself on her shelf, it is probably history, science or Judaica.

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Freeman (Paperback)

By Leonard Pitts

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9781932841640
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Published: Agate Bolden, 5/2012

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Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning (Hardcover)

By Gary Marcus

$25.95

ISBN-13: 9781594203176
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Published: Penguin Press HC, The, 1/2012

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How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (But True) Stories of Common Vegetables (Paperback)

By Rebecca Rupp

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9781603429689
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Published: Storey Publishing, 10/2011

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I Shall Wear Midnight (Hardcover)

By Terry Pratchett

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ISBN-13: 9780061433047
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Published: HarperCollins, 10/2010

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“Crivins!” Tiffany Aching is back, this time as the witch of the Chalk, in the latest young adult book by Terry Pratchett. And of course, if Tiffany is around, so are the wonderfully funny Nac Mac Feegele, as well as some of my favorite Discworld characters. Tiffany is a teenager now, and the story allows her to handle some more grown-up situations than we saw in Wee Free Men or Hat full of Sky. She is the witch, and people count on her to do all the difficult unglamorous things they don't care to do themselves, equal parts nurse, teacher, and social worker. Even so, someone out there is stirring up evil against these industrious service workers. Lots of people are there to help (Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Rob Anybody) but some things a witch has to do for herself. Tiffany is an intelligent, determined, philosophical character. She is also very human and still a teen. This is a perfect book for a fantasy-loving middle or high school girl...just as soon as the adults will part with it long enough for her to read it.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Paperback)

By Charles Yu

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9780307739452
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Published: Vintage, 9/2011

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Sacred Treasure - The Cairo Genizah: The Amazing Discoveries of Forgotten Jewish History in an Egyptian Synagogue Attic (Hardcover)

By Mark Glickman

$24.99

ISBN-13: 9781580234313
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Published: Jewish Lights Publishing, 10/2010

Most of us who know about the Cairo Genizah, a repository for no longer usable sacred documents, learned of it in connection with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Among the manuscripts found there in the 19th century were copies of some of the stranger scrolls also found at Qumran––the Damascus Document. But when Rabbi Solomon Schechtor came from Cambridge in 1896 to gather and study thousands of manuscripts and scraps, the Dead Sea Scrolls were half a century away, and the science of archeology was new. Rabbi Glickman, of the Seattle area, has told an exciting adventure tale of discovery and cut-throat academic competition. This fun and quick-moving book also sheds great light on the Genizah documents and shares some of the millennium- old stories contained in them.

The Dovekeepers (Hardcover)

By Alice Hoffman

$27.99

ISBN-13: 9781451617474
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Published: Scribner, 10/2011

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Yoon provides us with a history of taxonomy, an understanding of the human need which drives this practice and a fantastic overview and synthesis of related research to tie it all together. It is intelligent but not intimidating and full of wonderful insights.