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This rich and revelatory memoir offers a cornucopia of memories and insights about writing and running and the integral impact both have made on the author's life as he prepares for the 2005 New Yo

The victim was young, female, and black. Her skull had been smashed in, her face decomposed beyond all recognition.

PI Joe Kozmarski is asked to clear an old friend, Bob, of murdering his girlfriend. Her death isn't a surprise. She had a taste for liquor, drugs, and stripping, and Bob has a history of violence.

Greg Samuelson hired PI Joe Kozmarski to dig up dirt on his wife and her lover, Eric Stone, but soon everything is turned upside down when it appears Samuelson has torched Stone's car, killed his b

After a run-in with a crew of thieves that includes some dirty cops, Chicago private detective Joe Kozmarski joins the gang and works as an inside man, facing suspicion from both sides of the law.

Telling the dramatic story of the quest to find "dark matter" and "dark energy," Panek offers a portrait of the  rivalries and collaborations, the eureka moments and blind alley

Two weeks of competition remain to decide the final teams for the Little League World Series.

In the third book of this series, pitcher Carter Jones and his Forest Park All-Stars move on to sectionals competition, but Carter and his cousin, catcher Liam McGrath, must deal with grudges that

The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified.

This book takes listeners alongside ultramarathoner Ed Ayres as he prepares for, runs, and finishes the JFK fifty-mile race at a then record-breaking time for his age division--sixty and older.

Allie Kim's deathly allergy to sunlight confines her to the night, and without her best friend Juliet, the night feels even darker.

Though Rachel Lazarus has confessed to her husband's murder, she's mounting a battered woman's defense.

This funny and poignant memoir is written by a woman who, at the age of nineteen, is told she'll be blind by thirty and how she chooses to hide her blindness--until she no longer can.

Months after plunging into a healthy, plant-based diet and a lifestyle that prioritized daily training, Rich Roll morphed from out-of-shape midlifer to endurance machine.

Glory's mother's suicide has Glory wondering if she will do the same - until a transformative night when she experiences an astonishing new power and encounters a terrifying future.