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Non-fiction and Biographies
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Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestseller-WINNER OF ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD FOR NONFICTION-WINNER BLACK CAUCUS OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NAACP IMAGE AWARD BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE COMMUNICATION AWARDThe phenomenal... |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells... |
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Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption.On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific... |
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The Butler: A Witness to History
Wil Haygood - Atria / 37 INK; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow Wil Haygood comes a mesmerizing inquiry into the life of Eugene Allen, the butler who ignited a nation's imagination and inspired a major motion picture: Lee Daniels' The Butler, the highly anticipated film that stars... |
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Susannah Cahalan - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a flight risk, and her medical recordschronicling a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory... |
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Orange Is the New Black
Piper Kerman - Spiegel & Grau; Mti edition
Format: Paperback
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NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted... |
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis - W.W. Norton
Format: Hardcover
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"One of the best baseball -- and management -- books out.... Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame." -- ForbesMoneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange... |
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Graphic Novels
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Watchmen
Alan Moore - DC Comics Inc.
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times Best Seller! This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin. One of the most... |
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Fiction
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Outlander
Diana Gabaldon - Delacorte Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon—when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient... |
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A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin - Bantam
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONESNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadFrom a master of contemporary fantasy comes the first novel of a landmark series unlike any you've ever read before. With A Game of Thrones, George... |
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Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty - G. P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestseller that Entertainment Weekly called "a surefire hit."NOW AN HBO LIMITED SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, ALEXANDER SKARSGRD, LAURA DERN, ADAM SCOTT, AND ZO KRAVITZ FROM THE DIRECTOR OF WILD AND DALLAS... |
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Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Soon to be a Hulu limited series, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington!Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads,... |
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The Devil Wears Prada: A Novel
Lauren Weisberger - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback
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From the author of REVENGE WEARS PRADA, a delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses. Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job "a million girls would die for." Hired as the assistant to Miranda... |
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Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadMarriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable... |
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The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks - Warner Books
Format: Paperback
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Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story-it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe... |
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The Color Purple
Alice Walker - Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused... |
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of Alias Grace and the MaddAddam trilogy, here is the #1 New York Times bestseller and seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author.Now a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Includes... |
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Defending Jacob: A Novel
William Landay - Delacorte Books
Format: Print book
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly * The Boston Globe * Kansas City Star "A legal thriller that's comparable to classics such as Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent . . . Tragic and shocking, Defending Jacob is sure to generate buzz."... |
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The Outsider
STEPHEN KING - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories.An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably... |
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Life of Pi
Yann Martel - Mariner Books; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for FictionPi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity... |
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter: A Novel
Jeffry P Lindsay - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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Meet Dexter, a polite wolf in sheep's clothing . . . a monster who cringes at the site of blood . . . a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likable: he only kills bad people.Dexter Morgan isn't exactly the kind of man you'd bring home to Mom. Though he's... |
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The Surgeon
Tess Gerritsen - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil--and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again.He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping,... |
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The Surgeon by Tess Gerristen was adapted into the tv series Rizzoli and Isles. It is part of a series of books written by Gerristen about the characters.
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Dj Dead
Kathy Reichs - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The raves are in -- from Edgar-winning authors and internationally acclaimed forensic experts: Kathy Reichs and Dj Dead are something special. Rarely has a debut crime novel inspired such widespread excitement. A born storyteller, Dr. Kathy Reichs walks in the steps of her heroine, Dr. Temperance... |
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Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs was adapted into the tv series Bones. It is part of a series of books written by Reichs about these characters.
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You: A Novel
Caroline Kepnes - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Hardcover
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Love hurts…When aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe works, he’s instantly smitten. Beck is everything Joe has ever wanted: She’s gorgeous, tough, razor-smart, and as sexy as his wildest dreams. Beck doesn’t know it yet,... |
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Practical Magic
Alice Hoffman - Putnam
Format: Print book
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Sorcery is the legacy of Gillian and Sally Owens, a legacy they both try to escape until they realize their magic is a gift, not an affliction. By the author of Turtle Moon and Second Coming. |
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A Simple Favor: A Novel
Darcey Bell - Harper
Format: Print book
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"Riveting and brilliantly structured, A Simple Favor is an edge-of-your seat domestic thriller about a missing wife and mother that relies on a rotating cast of unreliable narrators to ingeniously examine the cost of competitive mom-friends, the toll of ordinary marital discontent... |
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In the Woods
Tana French - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing... |
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In the Woods and the second book in the series by Tana French, The Likeness, were adpated into the Dublin Murders for BBC and Starz.
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The Pelican Brief
John Grisham - Bantam Dell/Random House
Format: Paperback
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In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student... |
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