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Revelation Part II: "The Fruit of Life"

Stephen Marley
Format: CD

Fruit of Life is the second installment of Stephen Ragga Marley's two part series, following Revelation Part I: The Root of Life (2011) . Whereas The Root of Life is more a traditional roots reggae album, The Fruit of Life will utilize a diversified sonic palette to express the far-reaching...

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The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead · Doubleday
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South

Cora is a slave on a cotton...
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The Art of Communicating

Thich Nhat Hanh · HarperOne
Format: Print book

Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, bestselling author of Peace is Every Step and one of the most respected and celebrated religious leaders in the world, delivers a powerful path to happiness through mastering life's most important skill.How do we say what we mean in a way that the other person...
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J. J. Abrams · Mulholland Books; Slp edition
Format: Hardcover

One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire. A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger,...
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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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Writer's Market 2016: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published

Robert Lee Brewer · Writer's Digest Books
Pages: 896
Format: Paperback

THE MOST TRUSTED GUIDE TO GETTING PUBLISHEDWant to get published and paid for your writing? Let Writer's Market 2016 guide you through the process with thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, including listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests and awards,...
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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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The Paying Guests

Sarah Waters · Riverhead Books
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling novel that has been called "a tour de force" (Wall Street Journal) , "unputdownable" (The Washington Post) , "a delicious hothouse of a novel" (USA Today) , "effortless"...
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How to Cook Everything Fast: A Better Way to Cook Great Food

Mark Bittman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 2 edition
Format: Hardcover

Homemade wonton soup in 30 minutes. Chicken Parmesan without dredging and frying. Fruit crisp on the stovetop. The secret to cooking fast is cooking smart - choosing and preparing fresh ingredients efficiently. In How to Cook Everything Fast, Mark Bittman provides a game plan for becoming...
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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir

Roz Chast · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller

2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

In her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family...

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Exhale

Thousand Foot Krutch
Format: Audio CD

2016 release. Just a year-and-a-half after Thousand Foot Krutch landed their second consecutive Hard Rock #1 and Billboard Top 10 album with the understated experiment Oxygen: Inhale, the adrenaline-doused rockers are back to the aggressive side of the dial with the entirely new companion...

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Learning to Walk in the Dark

Barbara Brown Taylor · HarperOne; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Offers advice for finding spirituality in times of darkness, questioning the traditional association of darkness with evil and danger, and suggesting that being in the dark may lead to greater spiritual growth.
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Bossypants

Tina Fey · Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback

Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian...
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The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

Naoki Higashida · Random House
Pages: 135
Format: Hardcover

"One of the most remarkable books I've ever read. It's truly moving, eye-opening, incredibly vivid."--Jon Stewart, "The Daily Show" NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - "The Wall Street Journal - Bloomberg Businessweek - Bookish" FINALIST FOR THE BOOKS...
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