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Ruined

Amy Tintera · HarperTeen
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Amy Tintera's new YA fantasy trilogy blends the romance of Kiera Cass's Selection series and the epic stakes of Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen in a story of revenge, adventure, and unexpected love.Emelina Flores has nothing. Her home in Ruina has been ravaged by war; her parents were killed...
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Person of Interest: Season 5

Jim Caviezel · Warner Home Video
Format: DVD

For years, the Person of Interest team of tech genius Harold Finch, ex-agent John Reese, NYPD Detective Lionel Fusco, cyber-hacker Root and missing-in-action operative Sameen Shaw have been protected by The Machine, but as worlds collided and a rival AI known as Samaritan finally cornered...
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The Language of Flowers

Vanessa Diffenbaugh · Large Print Press; Lrg edition
Format: Large Print

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it's been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent...
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert · Picador; Reprint edition
Format: Book

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTA major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful...
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Takedown Twenty

Janet Evanovich · Bantam; Reissue edition
Format: Print book

1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPowerhouse author Janet Evanovichs Stephanie Plum novels are as entertaining as ever Entertainment Weekly, brilliantly evocative The Denver Post, and making trouble and winning hearts USA Today.   Stephanie Plum has her sights set on catching a notorious mob boss....
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W is for Wasted

Sue Grafton · Marian Wood Books/Putnam; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Kinsey Millhone series, NPR said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters."Two dead men changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue.The first was a local...
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The Shark Club

Ann Kidd Taylor · Viking
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover

"A delicious summer read." -Redbook A warm and wonderfully vivid novel about taking second chances - in life and in the sea One summer day on the beach in Florida, two extraordinary things happen to Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel, the boy of her dreams. Then,...
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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir

Roz Chast · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover

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The Big Book of Science Fiction

Anne VanderMeer · Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pages: 1216
Format: Print book

Quite possibly the greatest science fiction collection of all time - past, present, and future! What if life was neverending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the pope were a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases...
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The Storyteller

Jodi Picoult · Atria/Emily Bestler Books; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Some stories live forever . . . Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage’s grief...
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Sweet Tomorrows: A Rose Harbor Novel

Debbie Macomber · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

The much-anticipated conclusion to Debbie Macomber's beloved Rose Harbor series, set in the picturesque town of Cedar Cove, Sweet Tomorrows is a vibrant and poignant novel of letting go of fear, following your heart, and embracing the future - come what may. Nine months ago, Mark Taylor...
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The Burning Room

Michael Connelly · Little, Brown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, Detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner investigate a cold case that gets very hot... very fast.In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs...
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Red Rising

Pierce Brown · Ballantine Books
Pages: 382
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, BUZZFEED, AND SHELF AWARENESS"Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow." - Scott Sigler Pierce Brown's relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne...
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Out of My Mind

Sharon M. Draper · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 295
Format: Paperback

From award-winning author Sharon Draper comes Out of My Mind, the story of a brilliant girl who cannot speak or write. "If there is one book teens and parents (and everyone else) should read this year, Out of My Mind should be it" (Denver Post) .Melody is not like most people....
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