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  • Day the Universe Changed

    by James Burke ...
    The companion volume for the award-winning PBS and BBC series from "one of the most intriguing minds in the western world" ( The Washington Post).The Day the Universe Changed presents a sweeping view of the history of science, technology, and human civilization and examines the moments in history when a change in knowledge radically altered man's understanding of himself and the world around him ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Connections

    by James Burke ...
    Connections is a brilliant examination of the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major technological achievements of today.How did the popularity of underwear in the twelfth century lead to the invention of the printing press? How did the waterwheel evolve into the computer? How did the arrival of the cannon lead eventually to the development of movies?In this highly ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Hadacol Boogie

    A Dave Robicheaux Novel

    by James Lee Burke ...
    Series Book 25 - Dave Robicheaux
    Dave Robicheaux, James Lee Burke’s iconic detective, returns to investigate the death of an unidentified woman, pulling him into a vortex of corruption and violence in the Louisiana bayouWhen a cloaked, disfigured man leaves a dead woman in a garbage bag on Dave Robicheaux’s property, he knows his world and family are about to change.With Valerie Benoit, a detective new to the Iberia Parish ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Circles

    Fifty Round Trips Through History Technology Scien

    by James Burke ...
    From the bestselling author of The Knowledge Web come fifty mesmerizing journeys into the history of technology, each following a chain of consequential events that ends precisely where it began. Whether exploring electromagnetic fields, the origin of hot chocolate, or DNA fingerprinting, these essays -- which originally appeared in James Burke's popular Scientific American column -- all ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Harbor Lights

    by James Lee Burke ...
    A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” (Denver Post), the New York Times bestselling James Lee BurkeHarbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Twin Tracks

    The Unexpected Origins of the Modern World

    by James Burke ...
    Twin Tracks is a landmark book of real-world stories that investigates the nature of change and divines as never before the unlikely origins of many aspects of contemporary life. In each of the work's twenty-five narratives, we discover how the different outcomes of an important historical event in the past often come together again in the future.Each chapter starts with an event -- such as the U ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Jolie Blon's Bounce

    A Novel

    by James Lee Burke ...
    Series series Dave Robicheaux
    Dave Robicheaux is back in this powerful New York Times bestseller that takes him into the underbelly of New Iberia’s mafia to solve the brutal murder of two teenage girls.When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, New Iberia police detective Dave Robicheaux senses that the most likely suspect, Tee Bobby Hulin, is not the actual killer. Though a drug addict and general neer-do-well, Hulin just doesn ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Morning for Flamingos

    by James Lee Burke ...
    A cajun cop infiltrates the mob...but is he too close?A Morning for Flamingos is a classic Dave Robicheaux Louisiana mystery by New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke.Clutching the shards, of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New lberia police force.His partner is dead -- slain during a condemned prisoner's bloody flight to freedom that left Robicheaux ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Tin Roof Blowdown

    A Dave Robicheaux Novel

    by James Lee Burke ...
    Series series Dave Robicheaux
    Dave Robicheaux returns in an adventure as timely as real life: the fight against crime, and the fight for life in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.In the waning days of summer 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Black Cherry Blues

    A Novel

    by James Lee Burke ...
    In this Edgar Award-winning thriller, former Louisiana homicide cop Dave Robicheaux is trying to start a new life after the murder of his wife — but he can't escape his past forever.Dave Robicheaux was once a Louisiana homicide cop. Now he's trying to start a new life, opening up a fishing business and caring for his adopted girl, Alafair.Compared to Louisiana, Robicheaux thought Montana would be ... Read more

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  • The New Iberia Blues

    A Dave Robicheaux Novel

    by James Lee Burke ...
    Series series Dave Robicheaux
    Named one of the best crime novels of the year by The New York Times Book Review.The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana in this New York Times bestselling crime novel from “modern master” (Publishers Weekly) James Lee Burke.D... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set

    Jolie Blon's Bounce, Last Car to Elysian Fields, Crusader's Cross

    by James Lee Burke ...
    Three classic novels from the Bard of the BayouThis boxed set includes three novels featuring fan favorite Detective Dave Robicheaux as he does battle with the forces of evil, and with his own soul, in Louisiana’s famous bayou country. New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke is a rare winner of two Edgar Awards and in 2009 was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.Jolie ... Read more

    $41.99 USD