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A doctor copes with the anguish of dying children in this searching medical memoir.

The youngsters notice that each type of butterfly is a different size, with various colors and markings; even their wings are differently shaped. The kids frolic through a meadow, gleefully observing ...

An eager amateur sleuth solves a series of baffling murders that have confounded Tokyo for more than 40 years.

A law professor contributes to a Mars colonization project in Alexander’s novel.

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An existence of pleasingly dull normality is upended when a gastropod becomes a creature of the night. Bob lives an uneventful snail life until one evening, after a series of sounds—a scream, three ...

DeLisi presents a science primer in the form of talks between a mother, a father, and their very curious teenage child.