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House Rules: A Joe DeMarco Thriller

Michael Lawson - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book

Mike Lawson's Joe DeMarco thrillers have drawn praise for their fine-tuned suspense, off-kilter characters, intricate plots, and revealing portrait of Washington, DC behind closed doors. In House Rules , a terrorist bombing of the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel is narrowly avoided. Then a private...
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The Southern Living Community Cookbook: Celebrating Food and Fellowship in the American South

The Editors of Southern Living Magazine - Oxmoor House
Format: Hardcover

Southern food and food stories are bound together. This book will reflect people, regardless of where they come form, who claim Southern food as their own, whether for a lifetime or a mealtime. People feel deep affection for their local community cookbooks, especially those well-worn volumes...
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Miller's Valley: A Novel

Anna Quindlen - Random House Large Print
Format: Large print book

In a small town on the verge of big change, a young woman unearths deep secrets about her family and unexpected truths about herself. Filled with insights that are the hallmark of Anna Quindlen's bestsellers, Miller's Valley is an emotionally powerful story about a family you will...
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Daniel Brown - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times-bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany, the inspiration for the PBS documentary The Boys of '36, broadcast to coincide with the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 80th anniversary of the boys' gold medal race.For readers of Unbroken,...
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Heartbreak Hotel

Anne Rivers Siddons - HarperTorch; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Alabama, 1956: While Elvis Presley was singing about love, one young woman was learning about life. Everyone loves Maggie Deloach, one of the most popular girls on campus with everything going for her. An impeccable lineage. Picture-perfect looks. The best sorority, and the best fraternity...
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Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

Marie Kondo - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

The follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, from the star of the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. Japanese decluttering guru Marie Kondo has revolutionized homes - and lives - across the world. Now, Kondo...
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The Road to Character

David Brooks - Random House
Format: Print book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST * "I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it." - David Brooks...
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The House at the Edge of Night: A Novel

Catherine Banner - Random House
Format: Print book

A sweeping saga about four generations of a family who live and love on an enchanting island off the coast of Italy - combining the romance of Beautiful Ruins with the magical tapestry of works by Isabel Allende. Castellamare is an island far enough away from the mainland to be forgotten,...
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The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time

Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington - Harmony
Format: Print book

We are in the midst of a sleep deprivation crisis, writes Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post. And this has profound consequences - on our health, our job performance, our relationships and our happiness. What is needed, she boldly asserts,...
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The Perfume Collector: A Novel

Kathleen Tessaro - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A remarkable novel about secrets, desire, memory, passion, and possibility.Newlywed Grace Monroe doesnt fit anyones expectations of a successful 1950s London socialite, least of all her own. When she receives an unexpected inheritance from a complete stranger, Madame Eva dOrsey, Grace is drawn...
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The Caregiving Wife's Handbook: Caring for Your Seriously Ill Husband, Caring for Yourself

Diana B. Denholm - Hunter House; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

A month after proposing marriage, Diana Denholm's husband was diagnosed with colon cancer and later congestive heart failure. Following a heart transplant several of her husband's body systems began failing forcing Diana to become his primary caregiver for more than a decade. The Caregiving...
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Commonwealth.

Ann Patchett - Harper
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times BestsellerThe acclaimed, bestselling author - winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize - tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives.One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows...
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The Wonder

Emma Donoghue - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A 2016 Shirley Jackson Awards FinalistA New York Times Book Review 'Paperback Row' selection*The latest masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room* In the latest masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village...
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The Couple Next Door

Shari Lapena - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERShari Lapena's new thriller, A STRANGER IN THE HOUSE, is available now from Viking Books!"The twists come as fast [as] you can turn the pages." - People"Provocative and shocking." - Lisa Gardner, New York Times...
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J D Vance - Harper
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD "You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist "A riveting book."...
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Escape Clause

John Sandford - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book

Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are "pure reading pleasure" (BOOKLIST ) . The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota...
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