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The Lord of the Rings
J R R Tolkien
Format: Book
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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all |
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The Orchid Thief
Susan Orlean
Format: Book
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In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In 1994, Laroche and three Seminole Indians were a |
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The Danish Girl
David Ebershoff - Viking
Format: Print book
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A shockingly original first novel about one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the 20th centuryInspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks "What do you do when someone you love wants... |
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Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
Philip K Dick
Format: Book
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Philip K. Dick was a master of science fiction, but he was also a writer whose work transcended genre to examine the nature of reality and what it means to be human. A writer of great complexity and subtle humor, his work belongs on the shelf of great twentieth-century literature, |
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Be Cool
Elmore Leonard
Format: Book
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New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard is back, and he's brought Get Shorty's Chili Palmer along for the ride. An unforgettable, hilarious, and spot-on insider's look at Hollywood as only Leonard could write it, Be Cool takes readers on a back-side |
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The Accidental Tourist: A Novel
Anne Tyler - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author - an irresistible novel exploring the slippery alchemy of attracting opposites, and the struggle to rebuild ones life after unspeakable tragedyTravel writer Macon Leary hates travel, adventure, surprises, and anything... |
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
Frances Mayes - Chronicle Books; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Buying a villa in the spectacular Italian countryside is a wonderful fantasy -- even if 17 rooms and a garden in need of immediate loving care are included in the asking price. Frances Mayes -- gourmet cook, widely published travel writer, and poet -- changed her life by doing just that.... |
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Deliverance
James Dickey - Audible Studios
Format: Paperback
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Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine) The smash-hit best seller that inspired the acclaimed 1972 film starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox is now available in unabridged audio for the very first time. The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states... |
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The African Queen
C S Forester
Format: Paperback
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First published in 1935, C.S. Forester's classic romantic adventure is a tale of opposites attracted. Allnut and Rose, a disreputable Cockney and an English spinster missionary, wend their way down a river in Central Africa in a rickety, asthmatic steam launch, and are gradually j |
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Master and Commander
Patrick O'Brian - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The beginning to the sweeping Aubrey/Maturin series. "The best sea story I have ever read." -- Sir Francis Chichester This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence... |
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Sideways: A Novel
Rex Pickett
Format: Book
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Sideways is the story of two friends-Miles and Jack-going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack plans to marry, the pair heads out from Los Ang |
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Fight Club: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Book
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With more than 300,000 copies sold, Chuck Palahniuk's brilliant first novel and cult classic is being reissued with a new Introduction by the author An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, Fight Club is widely recognized as one of the most |
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Bridget Jones's Diary
Helen Fielding - Alexandria Library
Format: Print book
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"130 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds overnight? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier (repulsive, horrifying notion) ) ; alcohol units 2 (excellent) cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow) ; number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better,... |
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fannie Flagg - Random House
Format: Print book
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A folksy, funny and endearing story of life in a small town in Alabama in the Depression and in the 1980s. However, the novel's laughter and tears are interrupted by a strange murder and a still stranger trial. |
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The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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In 1949 four Chinese women-drawn together by the shadow of their past-begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club.Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died, and her daughter... |
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Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream
Buzz Bissinger
Format: Paperback
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Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and rac |
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GIRL, INTERRUPTED
Susanna Kaysen - Turtle Bay Books
Format: Print book
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In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was sent to McLean Hospital, where she spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert... |
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The Green Mile : The Complete Serial Novel
Stephen King - Scribner; 1st Scribner ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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The 1 New York Times bestselling dramatic serial novel and inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film of the same name starring Tom Hanks, the literary event Entertainment Weekly of The Green Mile is now available in its entirety. When The Green Mile first appeared, serialized as one volume... |
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Stardust
Neil Gaiman
Format: Book
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In the sleepy English countryside at the dawn of the Victorian Era, life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall--a secluded hamlet so named for an imposing stone barrier that surrounds a fertile grassland. Armed sentries guard the sole gap in the bulwark to keep the in |
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The Children Of Men
P D James
Format: Print book
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Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civil |
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The Neverending Story
Michael Ende
Format: Hardcover
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In this classic fantasy novel from author Michael Ende, small and insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux is nobody's idea of a hero, least of all his own. Then, through the pages of an ancient, mysterious book, he discovers the enchanted world of Fantastica, and only Bastian hi |
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Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner
F X Toole
Format: Paperback
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This hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales based on the experiences of the late, great fight manager and cut man Jerry Boyd, who wrote under the pen name F.X. Toole, is the basis for the Oscar-winning motion picture starring Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. Breat |
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The Maze Runner
James Dashner - Delacorte Press
Format: Paperback
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Book one in the blockbuster Maze Runner series that spawned a movie franchise and ushered in a worldwide phenomenon! And don't miss The Fever Code, the highly-anticipated series conclusion that finally reveals the story of how the maze was built! When Thomas wakes up in the lift,... |
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick - Del Rey
Format: Paperback
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A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living... |
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American Hero
Larry Beinhart
Format: Book
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Lee Atwater is on his deathbed, and in his efforts to protect the "king," he has to entrust his last--and greatest--reelection scam to Jim Baker. |
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Patriot Games
Tom Clancy
Format: Book
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Filled with exceptional realism and authenticity, Patriot Games puts readers on the cutting edge of a different type of war but one no less deadly: the international battle against terrorism. From the author of The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising. |
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Cycle of the Werewolf
Stephen King
Format: Paperback
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When the full moon shines, a paralysing fear descends on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next, but snarls that sound like human words can be heard and all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated. |
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Out of Africa: and Shadows on the Grass
Isak Dinesen - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya. |
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Out of Africa: and Shadows on the Grass
Isak Dinesen - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya. |
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Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck - Penguin
Format: Paperback
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They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable... |
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Planet of the Apes
Pierre Boulle
Format: Book
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In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system. He finds there a planet which resembles his own, but on Soror humans behave like animals, and are hunted by a civilised race of primates. Captured and sent |
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Dances With Wolves
Michael Blake - Newmarket Pr; Book Club edition
Format: Hardcover
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Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever. Relive the adventure and beauty of the incredible movie,... |
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The shining
Stephen King - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he'll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic... |
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The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Editon
Alice Walker - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that tells the story of two sisters through their correspondence. With a new Preface by the author. |
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Forrest Gump
Winston Groom
Format: Book
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The life of an endearing idiot savant is marked by encounters with some of the most famous figures of the twentieth century. Reprint. Movie tie-in. |
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
Sylvia Nasar
Format: Paperback
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In a masterful blend of biography and science writing, Nasar traces John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s rise to the heights of intellectual achievement and his harrowing descent from eccentricity to insanity. Released as a major motion picture directed by Ron Howard and starring Russell Crowe |
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Hes Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
Greg Behrendt - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Why didnt he call you back? Why doesnt he talk to your friends? Why does he keep putting off your dates? This book has the answers. Now the international bestseller is re-released to change the lives of a new generation. This is a hilarious, playful, honest explanation of male behaviour... |
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The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy - Naval Institute Press
Format: Hardcover
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Also Availble as an Audio Edition from Audible via Amazon Tom Clancy's rich imagination and his remarkable grasp of the capabilities of advanced technology give this novel an amazing ring of authenticity. It is a thriller with a new twist, a "military procedural" with an ingenious,... |
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A River Runs Through It
Norman Maclean
Format: Book
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From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing", to the last, "I am haunted by waters", A River Runs Through It is an American classic.Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, |
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Capote: A Biography
Gerald Clarke
Format: Book
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An American original, Truman Capote was one of the best writers of his generation, a superb and almost matchless stylist. His short stories made him a literary celebrity while still in his teens, and for the next thirty years he was a comet of genius, fame, and finally self-destru |
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The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
Format: Paperback
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With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II.The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Carava |
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1)
Cormac McCarthy - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen... |
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Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal
Dick Lehr - PublicAffairs
Format: Paperback
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Now a major motion picture starring Johnny DeppA New York Times BestsellerA Boston Globe BestsellerAn ABA Indie BestsellerJames "Whitey" Bulger became one of the most ruthless gangsters in US history, and all because of an unholy deal he made with a childhood friend. John Connolly... |
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Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters
Jeffrey Zaslow - William Morrow; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Gripping and genuinely heartwarming." - New York Daily News The inspirational New York Times bestselling autobiography of a true American hero, in Highest Duty Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger - the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York's... |
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Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
E L James - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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MORE THAN 100 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDENOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREWhen literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants... |
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Me & Earl & the Dying Girl
Jesse Andrews - FBA Powersetup
Format: Hardcover
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It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he's figured it out. The answer to the basic existential question: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad? His strategy: remain at the periphery at all times.... |
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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This story of a proud rural beauty and the three men who court her is the novel that first made Thomas Hardy famous.Despite the violent ends of several of its major characters, Far from the Madding Crowd is the sunniest and least brooding of Hardy's great novels. The strong-minded Bathsheba... |
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Secretariat
William Nack - Hyperion; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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“Secretariat is an elegantly crafted, exhilarating tale of speed and power, grace and greatness, told with such immediacy that the reader is lost in the rush of horses and the clatter and ring of the grandstand.” —Laura Hillenbrand, bestselling author of Seabiscuit Updated... |
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I Am Number Four
Pittacus Lore - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books... |
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Divergent
Veronica Roth - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Paperback
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This first book in Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy is the novel the inspired the major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet. This dystopian series set in a futuristic Chicago has captured the hearts of millions of teen and adult... |
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The Martian
Andy Weir
Format: Print book
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Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone... |
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Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
Format: Paperback
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Marriage 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 masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chic |
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