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|  | Riding for the Rest of Us by Jane Savoie, Jessica Jahiel
A helpful, informative book for the neglected majority of riders This title addresses everything the adult rider needs to know to perform to the best of his or her ability and resources. The focus is on setting and achieving realistic goals in terms of both fitness and finance. Photographs feature real adult riders and their often less than perfect horses. This book makes the world of riding available for everyone to experience and enjoy. AUTHOR: Jane Savoie, Jessica Jahiel
PUBLISHER: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Pets & Animals 
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 | Holes by Kerry Beyer, Louis Sachar
Following a miscarriage of justice, the ever-unlucky Stanley Yelnats is sentenced to imprisonment at a boys' juvenile detention center known as Camp Green Lake. There's just one thing about Camp Green Lake--there's no lake, just a dried-up lake bed. ...
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Following a miscarriage of justice, the ever-unlucky Stanley Yelnats is sentenced to imprisonment at a boys' juvenile detention center known as Camp Green Lake. There's just one thing about Camp Green Lake--there's no lake, just a dried-up lake bed. Every day, each boy must dig a hole in the dried-up lake bed: a hole five feet deep and five feet across. The sadistic warden claims that digging the holes helps the boys build character but Stanley soon discovers the real reason for all the digging--the warden and his cohorts are using the prisoners to search for a long-lost buried treasure. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. AUTHOR: Kerry Beyer, Louis Sachar
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Nexus by Mark Buchanan
How can geometry explain the puzzles of human behavior? In this incisive, insightful work Mark Buchanan presents the fundamental principles of the emerging field of small worlds theory--the idea that a hidden pattern is the key to how networks interact and exchange information, whether that network is the information highway or the firing of neurons in the brain. Mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, and social scientists are working to decipher this complex organizational system, for it may yield a blueprint of dynamic interactions within our physical as well as social worlds. Highlighting groundbreaking research behind network theory, Buchanan documents mounting support for the small-worlds idea and demonstrates its multiple applications to diverse problems--whether explaining the volatile global economy for the human Genome Project, the spread of infectious disease or ecological damage. NEXUS is an exciting introduction to the hidden geometry that weaves our lives so inextricably together. AUTHOR: Mark Buchanan
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Class Dismissed by Meredith Maran
In this account, a writer reveals what she discovered after spending one year following the lives of three seniors--one white, one African American, and one bi-racial--at Berkeley High School. In addition to revealing the numerous problems that plagued the school--such as arson, low-morale, and incompetence--she claims that there were many inequalities between white and minority students, pointing out that whites filled up more than 90 of all Advanced Placement Classes and were more likely to pursue college than their African-American classmates. AUTHOR: Meredith Maran
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Sparks of Genius by Michele M. Root-Bernstein, Robert Scott Root-Bernstein
This illustrated book describes how geniuses--from obvious choices such as Albert Einstein to less obvious figures like author Isabel Allende--have used specific mental skills that all individuals possess to create breakthrough ideas in the arts and sciences. The authors insist that all geniuses experience a slow process of intellectual evolution, and encourage people to work on the development of their mental tools. AUTHOR: Michele M. Root-Bernstein, Robert Scott Root-Bernstein
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Drowned Ammet by Diana Wynne Jones
Stunning new paperback editions of Diana Wynne Jones's spellbinding Dalemark Quartet designed for crossover appeal to the adult fantasy audience as well as young Harry Potter fans. In Drowned Ammet. a young man joins in a plot to assassinate a tyrannical earl. AUTHOR: Diana Wynne Jones
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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