Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales
Melissa Marr, Tim Pratt
Master Class in Fiction Writing: Techniques from Austen, Hemingway, and Other Greats: Lessons from the All-Star Writer's Workshop
Adam Sexton
AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State
Charles Freeman
The Science of Ghosts: Searching for Spirits of the Dead
Joe Nickell
Dracula
James Adams, Simon Prebble, Steven Crossley, John Lee, Susan Duerden, Katherine Kellgren, Simon Vance, Tim Curry, Alan Cumming, Bram Stoker, Graeme Malcolm
The Art of Reading (Great Courses Series)
Timothy Spurgin
The Benghazi Hoax
Media Matters for America, Ari Rabin-Havt, David Brock
Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time
Sean Carroll
A fascinating account of Carlos II, the last of the Spanish Habsburgs, whose death without heirs set off the War of the Spanish Succession. A product of several generations of first cousin and uncle-niece marriages, Carlos was a genetic disaster - mentally incapacitated, impotent and with such an extreme version of the Habsburg jaw that he was unable to chew his food properly. Against all expectations he lived to be almost forty, but spent his entire sad life as a pawn of various advisers, his mother and two wives - none of whom did Spain any good as it slid more deeply into decline.
