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The Art Forger: A Novel

B. A. Shapiro · Algonquin Books; Later Printing edition
Format: Paperback

Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—still the largest unsolved art theft in history—one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain...
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Take Me With You

Catherine Ryan Hyde · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 351
Format: Book

August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been sober since his 19-year-old son died. Every year he s spent the summer on the road, but making it to Yellowstone this year means everything. The plan had been to travel there with his son, but now August is making the trip with Philip s ashes...
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Elvis & Nixon

Kevin Spacey · Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

On a December morning in 1970, the King of Rock 'n Roll showed up on the lawn of the White House to request a meeting with the most powerful man in the world, President Nixon. Starring Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon as Elvis Presley and two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey...
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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 Paying Guests

Sarah Waters · Riverhead Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

The volcanically sexy USA Today   bestseller about a widow and her daughter who take a young couple into their home in 1920s London.   It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel...
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Mindy Kaling · Three Rivers Press
Format: Paperback

Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck-impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers...
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My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One

Elena Ferrante · Europa Editions
Pages: 331
Format: Paperback

Book One in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan QuartetA modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante's inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait...
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101 Uses For A Dachshund

Willow Creek Press. · Willow Creek Press
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

Dachshunds have a knack for helping out any way they can. In their desire to please, they are ready, willing and able to perform a myriad of tasks useful to their owners. Whether you need a door stop, seat warmer, personal trainer, Miracle Grow, wash cloth or home security system, look...
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Bright Kids Who Can't Keep Up: Help Your Child Overcome Slow Processing Speed and Succeed in a Fast-Paced World

Ellen Braaten PhD · The Guilford Press
Pages: 207
Format: Paperback

Do you find yourself constantly asking your child to "pick up the pace"? Does he or she seem to take longer than others to get stuff done--whether completing homework, responding when spoken to, or getting dressed and ready in the morning? Drs. Ellen Braaten and Brian Willoughby...
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Asylum

Madeleine Roux · HarperCollins
Pages: 313
Format: Hardcover

Madeleine Roux's New York Times bestselling Asylum is a thrilling and creepy photo-illustrated novel that Publishers Weekly called "a strong YA debut that reveals the enduring impact of buried trauma on a place." Featuring found photographs from real asylums and filled with chilling...
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The Paris Architect: A Novel

Charles Belfoure · Sourcebooks Inc
Pages: 374
Format: Print book

"A beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man's unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war." --Malcolm GladwellA thrilling debut novel of World War II Paris, from an author who's been called "an up and coming Ken Follett." (BOOKLIST...
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