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Welcome Local Authors! We are now accepting applications for the July 19, 2023 Local and Independent Author Event. If you are a Connecticut author who has published a MYSTERY book, to be considered for the July 19 event, please complete an application. Read more.
This is an entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking — and why we all need to understand it.
In telling their stories, Shapiro, professor of law and philosophy at Yale Law School, exposes the hackers’ toolkits and gives fresh answers to vital questions: Why is the internet so vulnerable? What can we do in response?Read more. | Signed copies.
SCOTT J. SHAPIRO is a professor of law and philosophy at Yale Law School and the director of the Yale Center for Law and Philosophy and its CyberSecurity Lab. He is also the author of Legality and the coauthor, with Oona Hathaway, of The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World.
The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann’s recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O’Brian, his portrayal of the castaways’ desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. Read more. | Signed copies.
KRISTAN HIGGINS is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of more than twenty novels, which have been translated into more than two dozen languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. The happy mother of two snarky and well-adjusted adults lives in Connecticut with her heroic firefighter husband, cuddly dog, and indifferent cat.
The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation — from the foods Americans eat to the sports they play to the way they live today — and what its future might look like on a swiftly warming planet. Read more. | Signed copies.
AMY BRADY is the executive director of Orion magazine and co-editor of The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate. Brady has made appearances on the BBC, NPR, and PBS. She holds a Ph.D. in literature and American studies and has won writing and research awards from the National Science Foundation, the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and the Library of Congress.
The ultimate keepsake for every pickleball fan — from a dink shot to the kitchen, everything a pickleballer needs to know in this fully illustrated guide to the world’s greatest recreational sport, packed with lots of joy, good humor, and even a little bit of wisdom. Read more. | Signed copies.
