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by Peter Hayes - Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

MY LADY OF THE BOG follows American anthropologist Xander Donne as he seeks to unravel the ultimate "cold case": that of a beautiful young woman found in an English bog. Donne identifies her as an ancient sacrifice, wondrously preserved by the bog's airless waters, and dead for 700 years! His investigation into her identity and frightful death embroils him in an illicit passion with a gorgeous, enigmatic Deshi princess with, just maybe, a penchant for murder.

by Richard W. Lewis - Business, Nonfiction, Self-Help

WHY HIRE JENNIFER? is a modern manual that arms job seekers to find their first “real” job and every job thereafter. It's written for college students, grads, twentysomethings, and all the people who know them. Finding your unique positioning or brand, and communicating why its components are useful to the firms is the key to finding a good job. The problem with most college career services is they emphasize the students' similarities as opposed to their differences. It's all backwards.

by N. E. Lasater - Fiction

What do you do when you can't read? It's 1971 and nobody knows what's wrong with you. So how do you answer when your father calls you his defective son? Bobby McAllister doesn't know it, but his dyslexia isn't the only secret his family keeps. And it's not the only truth he himself will hide when he too becomes a farmer and fathers his own sons, passing on to them a lethal shame that will suddenly and tragically claim a cherished life.

by Amanda Vaill - Biography, History, Nonfiction

HOTEL FLORIDA traces the tangled wartime destinies of three couples against the backdrop of a critical moment in history. From the raw material of unpublished letters and diaries, official documents, and recovered reels of film, Amanda Vaill has created a narrative of love and reinvention that is, finally, a story about truth: finding it out, telling it and living it --- whatever the cost.

by Victoria Sweet - Medicine, Nonfiction

San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital gave Victoria Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished. Gradually, the place transformed the way she understood her work. Alongside the modern view of the body as a machine to be fixed, her extraordinary patients evoked an older idea --- of the body as a garden to be tended. GOD'S HOTEL tells their story and the story of the hospital itself.

by Errol Morris - Nonfiction, True Crime

Academy Award-winning filmmaker and former private detective Errol Morris examines the nature of evidence and proof in the infamous Jeffrey MacDonald murder case. A WILDERNESS OF ERROR shows us that almost everything we have been told about the case is deeply unreliable, and crucial elements of the case against MacDonald simply are not true.