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Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two yearsas well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleaguesWalter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality...
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The Price of Salt

Claire Morgan - Naiad Press
Format: Paperback

This reprint edition is based on the original and unrevised 1952 version of "The Price of Salt" whose copyright was never renewed in the 28th year following publication as required for renewal, and is not the Naiad Press version of 1984 which has slight revisions and an afterword....
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The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge

Michael Punke - Picador
Format: Print book

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh GlassThe year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company...
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The Martian

Andy Weir - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadSix 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...
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Brooklyn: A Novel

Colm Toibin - Scribner
Format: Print book

From the award-winning author of The Master, a hauntingly compelling novel - by far Tibn's most accessible book - set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s about a young woman torn between her family in Ireland and the american who wins her heart.Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town...
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Michael Lewis - W.W. Norton
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account -- character-rich and darkly humorous -- of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash,...
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The Danish Girl

David Ebershoff - HighBridge Company; Unabridged; 11.5 hours edition
Format: Audio CD

Inspired 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 to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic...
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