Malcolm Gladwell reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing"--...
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Author: Gladwell, MalcolmSummary: -
Author: Gladwell, MalcolmSummary:Malcolm Gladwell argues that something is very wrong with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting...
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Author: Johnstone, William W.Summary:When Malcolm Theordore Puddle, a 21-year-old shipping clerk from way back East, takes over his late father's crumbling 600-acre ranch, he falls victim to a greedy and ruthless cattle baron...
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Author: Akers, TimSummary:
Ruling with an iron hand, the Church has eliminated the ancient pagan ways. Yet demonic gheists terrorize the land, hunted by the Inquisition, while age-old hatreds rage between the north and the...
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Author: Griggs, TerrySummary:Strange things are happening in town, but only Nieve seems to notice that something is up. But when two strangers come to town, trailing night along behind them, and people, including Nieve's best...
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Author: Swanson, PeterSummary:
Bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders. But no one is more surprised than Mal, now the owner of the Old Devils Bookshop in Boston...
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Author: Syed, MatthewSummary:
In the vein of the international bestselling Freakonomics, award-winning journalist Matthew Syed reveals the hidden clues to success—in sports, business, school, and just about anything else that...
Genre: Math and science -
Author: Dick FrancisSummary:
Malcolm Pembroke never expected to make a million without making enemies. Nor did he expect his latest wife to be brutally murdered. All the clues suggest the killer comes from close to home. When...
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Author: Hillerman, TonySummary:It is 1973 and Malcolm Mathias, known as Moon, is devastated to learn of his brother's death in a helicopter crash in Cambodia. Moon travels to Asia to sort out his brother's affairs...
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Author: Lore, PittacusSummary:Here are Lost Files stories together in one volume. Legacies Reborn looks at the Mogadorian invasion from the view point of a human teen. Last Defense reveals what happens to Malcolm Goode after...
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Author: Fraser, MalcolmSummary:
The Juno award-winning Wooden Stars both epitomized and transcended the sound of mid-90s indie rock. One of Canada’s greatest bands, they helped build a scene whose members would go on to be...
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Author: Sears, DjanetSummary:
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama. Winner of the Chalmers Play Award. A rhapsodic blues tragedy. Harlem Duet could be the prelude to Shakepeare's Othello, and recounts the tale of...
Genre: Canadian drama -
Author: Lebbon, TimSummary:
On an Outer Rim moon, Captain Malcolm Reynolds ends a card game the lucky winner of an old map covered in mysterious symbols. The former owner insists it's worthless. Yet River Tam can read it,...
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Author: Dean, MichelleSummary:
Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the...
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Author: Moodie, AndrewSummary:
Andrew Moodie's Riot is a dramatic and often humorous look at six black Canadians of diverse backgrounds who share a Toronto house. Their lives unfold against a backdrop of civil unrest which...
Genre: Canadian drama