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The Paris Wife: A Novel

Paula McLain · Ballantine Books
Pages: 331
Format: Paperback

A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures the love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness - until she meets...
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Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn · Three Rivers Press
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRLFresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic,...
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The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War

JEFF SHAARA · Ballantine Books
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The master of military historical fiction turns his discerning eye to the Korean War in this riveting new novel, which tells the dramatic story of the Americans and the Chinese who squared off in one of the deadliest campaigns in the annals of combat: the Battle...
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A Tale Dark and Grimm

Adam Gidwitz · Puffin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

From the Newbery Honor-winning, New York Times bestselling author - with cover and interior illustrations by Dan Santat!Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm (and Grimm-inspired) fairy tales. An irreverent, witty narrator leads us through encounters...
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Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It

Gabriel Wyner · Harmony
Pages: 326
Format: Paperback

The ultimate rapid language-learning guide! For those who've despaired of ever learning a foreign language, here, finally, is a book that will make the words stick. At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn't learn them in school -- who does? -- rather,...
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The Prime Minister's Secret Agent

Susan Elia MacNeal · Bantam
Pages: 306
Format: Paperback

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All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 531
Format: Hardcover

A BAM! President's Pick and National Book Award Finalist From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation...
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Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food

Charles Wilson · Houghton Mifflin; Reprint edition
Pages: 318
Format: Paperback

In the New York Times bestseller Chew on This, Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson unwrap the fast-food industry to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at a business that both feeds and feeds off the young. Find out what really goes on at your favorite restaurants—and what lurks between...
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Drama

Raina Telgemeier · Graphix/Scholastic
Pages: 233
Format: Paperback

From Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile and Sisters! Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon over Mississippi, she can't really sing. Instead she's the set designer...
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Personal

Lee Child · Dell; Reissue edition
Format: Print book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERJack Reacher returns in the latest fast-moving, action-packed, suspenseful book from Lee Child. You can leave the army, but the army doesn't leave you. Not always. Not completely, notes Jack Reacher - and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled...
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Sycamore Row

John Grisham · Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

John Grisham takes you back to where it all began . . . John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that...
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Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary

Rick Steves · Avalon Travel Publishing; Seventh Edition edition
Format: Book

Buon giorno! From ordering calamari in Venice to making new friends in Tuscan hill towns, it helps to speak some of the native tongue. Rick Steves, bestselling author of travel guides to Europe, offers well-tested phrases and key words to cover every situation a traveler is likely to encounter....
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The Virgin Diet Cookbook: 150 Easy and Delicious Recipes to Lose Weight and Feel Better Fast

J.J. Virgin · Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Hardcover

The companion to the New York Times bestseller The Virgin Diet brings the groundbreaking health and weight loss program into your kitchen. With more than 150 delicious and practical recipes, THE VIRGIN DIET COOKBOOK is designed to show you how to incorporate anti-inflammatory, healing foods...
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Andre the Giant: Life and Legend

Box Brown · First Second Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAndre Roussimoff is known as both the lovable giant in The Princess Bride and a heroic pro-wrestling figure. He was a normal guy who'd been dealt an extraordinary hand in life. At his peak, he weighed 500 pounds and stood nearly seven and a half feet tall. But the huge...
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