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Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work

ALISON GREEN - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

A witty, practical guide to navigating 200 difficult professional conversations, from the host of the popular website Ask A Manager, and New York Magazine's work advice columnist.There's a reason Alison Green has been dubbed the "Dear Abby of the work world." Ten years...
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The Smart One and the Pretty One

Claire LaZebnik - 5 Spot
Format: Paperback

"This sparkling novel about two sisters is both witty and stylish. Even if you don't have a sister of your own, you won't be able to resist LaZebnik's charming take on modern relationships. Read it!" - Holly Peterson, bestselling author of The Manny When Ava Nickerson...
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Epic Fail

Claire LaZebnik - HarperTeen
Format: Paperback

Will Elises love life be an epic win or an epic failAt Coral Tree Prep in Los Angeles, who your parents are can make or break you. Case in pointAs the son of Hollywood royalty, Derek Edwards is pretty much prince of the schoolnot that he deigns to acknowledge many of his loyal subjects.As...
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If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now

Claire LaZebnik - 5 Spot; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

From the well-loved author of Knitting Under the Influence and The Smart One and the Pretty One comes a new novel about a young single mother trying to move out of her family's shadow.Rickie left home a long time ago-so how is it that at the age of twenty-five, she's living with...
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Families and Other Nonreturnable Gifts

Claire LaZebnik - 5 Spot; Original edition
Format: Paperback

Despite her name, Keats Sedlak is the sanest person in her large, nutty family of brilliant eccentrics. Her parents, both brainy academics, are barely capable of looking after themselves, let alone anyone else, and her two uber-intelligent siblings live on their own planets. At least she can count...
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Hey, Duck!

Carin Bramsen - Random House
Format: Print book

An adorable little duckling is trying to befriend another "duck." However, he is oblivious to the fact that his potential pal is, in fact, a cat. Though resistant and stubborn at first, the cat soon realizes labels don't matter in the least - and before you know it, meowing and quacking...
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Between Shades of Gray

Ruta Sepetys - Speak
Format: Paperback

"Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both."--The Washington PostFrom New York Times bestseller Ruta Sepetys, author of the upcoming Salt to the Sea A New York Times notable bookAn International BestsellerA Carnegie...
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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

DON'T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK'S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. Nominated as one of America's...
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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Bantam
Format: Paperback

"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion." A summer evening's ghost...
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A Discovery of Witches: A Novel

Deborah Harkness - Penguin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Book one of the New York Times–bestselling All Souls trilogy—"a wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight” (People) Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight...
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Anna Dressed in Blood

Kendare Blake - Tor Teen; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing...
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Hippie

PAULO COELHO - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

If you want to learn about yourself, start by exploring the world around you. Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established...
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Ready Player One: A Novel

Ernest Cline - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadThe worldwide bestseller - now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into...
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