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All Systems Red

MARTHA WELLS - Tor.com
Format: Paperback

A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence."As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."In a corporate-dominated...
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An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

Barbara Brown Taylor - HarperOne; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

In the New York Times bestseller An Altar in the World, acclaimed author Barbara Brown Taylor continues her spiritual journey by building upon where she left off in Leaving Church.  With the honesty of Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) and the spiritual depth of Anne Lamott (Grace,...
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Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

MAX LUCADO - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Anxiety is at an all time high, but there's a prescription for dealing with it. Max Lucado invites readers into a study of Philippians 4:6-7 where the Apostle Paul admonishes the followers of Christ, "Do not be anxious about anything . . ." Philippians 4:6 encourages the believer...
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Beholding and Becoming: The Art of Everyday Worship

Ruth Chou Simons - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Ruth is such a gift to us - her voice is strong and honest, yet believably grace-filled and kind. We learn and grow into who we want to be when Ruth's words and art lead us. - Annie F. Downs, bestselling author of 100 Days to Brave and host of That Sounds Fun podcastBecome What You Behold...
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The Bohemians: A Novel

Jasmin Darznik
Format: Hardcover


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The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel

Ruth Ozeki - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"No one writes like Ruth Ozeki - a triumph." - Matt Haig, New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library "Inventive, vivid, and propelled by a sense of wonder." - TIME "If youve lost your way with fiction over the last year or two, let The Book of Form...
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The Chosen and the Beautiful

Nghi Vo - Tordotcom
Format: Hardcover

"Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society -- she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction...
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A Closed and Common Orbit

Becky Chambers - Harper Voyager
Format: Paperback

Embark on an exciting, adventurous, and dangerous journey through the galaxy with the motley crew of the spaceship Wayfarer in this fun and heart-warming space opera - the sequel to the acclaimed The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence....
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Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel

Anthony Doerr - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are trying to figure out the world around them: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar...
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Crazy love overwhelmed by a relentless God

Francis Chan - Findaway World
Format: Audiobook

Sometimes I feel like when I make decisions that are remotely biblical, people who call themselves Christians are the first to criticize and say I'm crazy, that I'm taking the Bible too literally, or that I'm not thinking about my family's well-being. . . When people gladly...
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The Dead Romantics

ASHLEY POSTON - Berkley
Format: Paperback

A disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, has to find her way back home in this sparkling adult debut from national bestselling author Ashley Poston.Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry,...
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Gideon the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir - Tor.com
Format: Hardcover

A USA Today Best-Selling Novel!"Unlike anything I've ever read. " -- V.E. Schwab"Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!" -- Charles Stross"Brilliantly original, messy and weird straight through." -- NPRThe Emperor needs necromancers.The...
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The Golden Couple: A Novel

Greer Hendricks - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

If Avery Chambers can't fix you in 10 sessions, she won't take you on as a client. Her successes are phenomenal--she helps people overcome everything from domineering parents to assault--and almost absorb the emptiness she sometimes feels since her husband's death.Marissa and Mathew...
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Her Faith Restored

Cynthia Herron

Can two polar opposites meet in the middle to achieve a winning outcome?

Sunset Meadows' activity director Melinda Brewer has her work cut out for her. As a five-year veteran with the cutting-edge retirement community, "Mel" wears many hats. But her

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Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

Barbara Brown Taylor - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerThe renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world's religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia,...
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith - Little, Brown & Company
Format: Hardcover

Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s...
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I'm Glad My Mom Died

JENNETTE MCCURDY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor - including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother - and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years...
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The Inferno of Dante

Dante Alighieri - Recorded Books
Format: Audio CD

AUDIO BOOK..........
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The Ink Black Heart

Robert Galbraith
Format: Hardcover

The latest installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in another winding, wicked case.
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The Library of the Unwritten

A. J. Hackwith - Ace
Format: Paperback

In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, and it is up to the Librarian to track down any restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories.Many years ago, Claire was named...
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Malibu Rising: A Novel

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Ballantine
Format: Hardcover

Malibu: August 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer;...
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My Lovely Wife

Samantha Downing - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting... Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other...
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Once Upon a Wardrobe

Patti Callahan - Harper Muse
Format: Hardcover

From Patti Callahan, the bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis, comes another enchanting story that pulls back the curtain on the early life of C. S. Lewis."Where did Narnia come from?"The answer will change everything.Megs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations,...
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Project Hail Mary: A Novel

Andy Weir - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows...
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
Format: Paperback

From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution - a #1 international bestseller - that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human."One hundred thousand...
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The Satanic Verses: A Novel

Salman Rushdie - Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight....
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Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

Brom - Tor Nightfire; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Connecticut, 1666. An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector. The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil.To Abitha, a recently widowed outcast, alone and vulnerable in her pious village, he is the only one she can turn to for help. Together,...
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Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

bell hooks - Routledge
Format: Book

In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today. In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks explores the confounding and sometimes...
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Trust

Hernan Diaz - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends comes his much-anticipated novel about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception.Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask....
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The Violin Conspiracy

Brendan Slocumb - Anchor
Format: Hardcover

Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical...
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What Moves the Dead

T. Kingfisher
Format: Hardcover

From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher."When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline...
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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent,...
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel

Maria Semple - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this whip-smart and "divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times) . Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband,...
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The Yellow Wife: A Novel

Sadeqa Johnson
Format: Hardcover

Born on a plantation in Charles City Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a privileged life. Shielded by her mother's position as the plantation's medicine woman, and cherished by the Master's sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither...
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