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Lucifer Effect_ Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, The - Philip Zimbardo
What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it?Renowned so... -
Devil in the White City_ Murder, Magic & Madness and the Fair That Changed America, The - Erik Larson; Tony Goldwyn
From BooklistStarred Review Larson's ambitious, engrossing tale of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 focuses primarily on two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect who was the... -
War Stories (Book 1) - Keith R.A. DeCandido
Twice, Overseer Biron of the Androssi has been thwarted by the crew of the U.S.S. da Vinci. In order to be prepared for their next encounter, he has obtained the records of the cre... -
Unbillable Hours_ A True Story - Ian Graham
Review“...engrossing memoir"" — LA Magazine “Graham’s telling of the overwrought work environment at Latham Watkins brings John Grisham’s The Associate to re... -
To a Mountain in Tibet - Colin Thubron
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. œThe mountain path is the road of the dead, writes Thubron (Shadow of the Silk Road) in this engrossing and affecting travel memoir that tran... -
The witching hour - Anne Rice
Amazon.com ReviewIn this engrossing and hypnotic tale of witchcraft and the occult spanning four centuries, we meet a great dynasty of witches--a family given to poetry and incest,... -
The Library of Shadows - Mikkel Birkegaard
EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** **An engrossing Danish literary thriller of intrigue, conspiracy, and the extraordinary power of reading****** Imagine that some people have the power to affec... -
The Last Town on Earth_ A Novel - Thomas Mullen
Amazon.com ReviewWow. This stunning book succeeds on so many different levels--as an engrossing story, a character study, a history lesson, a modern day political allegory--I don't... -
The Hindus - Wendy Doniger
From one of the world's foremost scholars on Hinduism, a vivid reinterpretation of its historyAn engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers ... -
The Fortune of War - Patrick O'Brian
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat."'Times Literary Sup...