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  With No Strings Attached -...

  Randall Garrett

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  Sometimes an invention is so good that no one will believe you. There you are, with a fabulous new piece of technology that is worth millions and you are still starving to death because you are a 'crackpot'. Well, if you are smart, like the inventor in this story, you learn your lesson and start telling people your invention is just something they know and use every day, just a bit better. Sure it's a lie but people have to believe before they will part with the big bucks. If it works, it ain't stupid. And this inventor is definitely not stupid. Randall Garrett gives us a wonderfully wry story about human nature in his unique and very entertaining way. Listen and enjoy.

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  Forever - The Bureaucracy of...

  Robert Sheckley

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  Forever by Robert Sheckley - Of all the irksome, frustrating, maddening discoveries—was there no way of keeping it discovered? 
  With so much at stake, Charles Dennison should not have been careless. An inventor cannot afford carelessness, particularly when his invention is extremely valuable and obviously patentable. There are too many grasping hands ready to seize what belongs to someone else, too many men who feast upon the creativity of the innocent. 
  A touch of paranoia would have served Dennison well; but he was lacking in that vital characteristic of inventors. And he didn't even realize the full extent of his carelessness until a bullet, fired from a silenced weapon, chipped a granite wall not three inches from his head. 
  Then he knew. But by then it was too late. 
  Charles Dennison had been left a more than adequate income by his father. He had gone to Harvard, served a hitch in the Navy, then continued his education at M.I.T. Since the age of thirty-two, he had been engaged in private research, working in his own small laboratory in Riverdale, New York. Plant biology was his field. He published several noteworthy papers, and sold a new insecticide to a development corporation. The royalties helped him to expand his facilities. 
  Dennison enjoyed working alone. It suited his temperament, which was austere but not unfriendly. Two or three times a year, he would come to New York, see some plays and movies, and do a little serious drinking. He would then return gratefully to his seclusion. He was a bachelor and seemed destined to remain that way. 
  Not long after his fortieth birthday, Dennison stumbled across an intriguing clue which led him into a different branch of biology. He pursued his clue, developed it, extended it slowly into a hypothesis. After three more years, a lucky accident put the final proofs into his hands.

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  Sherlock Holmes: The Empty House

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Alex Woolf

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  Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure. 
   
  The whole of London is shocked and baffled by the murder of Ronald Adair. It seems like an impossible crime! Can our sensational sleuth solve the mystery of how Adair was killed before the murderer strikes again? 
   
  Adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf, this thrilling tale will delight children aged 7+.

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  The tale of Peter Rabbit

  Beatrix Potter

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  A beautiful children book

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  Nighttime Encounter - Nicodemus...

  Silas Mary

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  Nicodemus, a Pharisee and a member of the Jewish ruling council (Sanhedrin), comes to Jesus at night. The time of his visit is significant—it could suggest either his desire for privacy due to his social status or his willingness to seek out the truth away from the public eye. 
  "Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.’" 
  Jesus immediately begins to enlighten Nicodemus' understanding of spiritual rebirth. Jesus speaks of being "born again" or "born from above," a concept that confuses Nicodemus. Jesus explains that this rebirth is not physical but spiritual—through the Holy Spirit. 
  Jesus answered, "Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit." 
  Nicodemus continues to be perplexed, asking how these things can be. Jesus responds by revealing that knowledge of these spiritual truths should be accessible to one like Nicodemus, a teacher of Israel. He then moves on to talk about the importance of faith in the Son of Man and references the story of Moses lifting up the serpent in the wilderness as a foreshadowing of His own crucifixion. 
  Jesus famously declares God's love for the world, stating that God sent His Son not to condemn the world, but to save it. John 3:16 is one of the most quoted verses in Christianity, encapsulating the Gospel message of salvation through faith in Christ. Jesus also explains that light has come into the world, but many prefer darkness because their deeds are evil.

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  On a Gold-Blooming Day - Finding...

  Buffy Silverman

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  On a gold-blooming, bee-zooming, sun-dazzling day . . . / Snakes glide. / Spiders hide. / Crickets chirp. / Butterflies slurp.
   
  From Buffy Silverman, author of On a Snow-Melting Day, comes an exciting companion book. As autumn begins, plants and animals in nature begin to change in all kinds of ways to prepare for winter. Brilliant photos and rhyming text work together in this engaging read-aloud to highlight these changes, and back matter offers more information about each creature and change featured.

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