Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Joshua Foer

"Joshua Foer invents a new genre of nonfiction. This is a work of science journalism wrapped around an adventure story, a bildungsroman fused to a vivid investigation of human memory."--Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist   On average, people squander forty days annuall...

The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander #4)

Henning Mankell; Laurie Thompson (Translator)

The New York Times called Henning Mankell "that unusual thing: a European thriller writer whose work holds up as literature and who has broken out as an international phenomenon," and his brilliant creation Detective Kurt Wallander is worthy of comparison to Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo's Martin Beck and ...

What If...?

Anthony Browne

Joe is nervous about his first big party, and as Mum walks him along the darkening street to his friend's house, his imagination starts to run wild. They search for the right place, looking through the windows, wondering "What if...?" while making surprising discoveries along the way....