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Flight Patterns

Karen White · New American Library
Pages: 401
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of The Sound of Glass and coauthor of The Forgotten Room tells the story of a woman coming home to the family she left behind - and to the woman she always wanted to be...Georgia Chambers has spent her life sifting through other people's pasts while...
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Being Jazz: My Life as a

Random House. · Crown
Pages: 265
Format: Print book

Teen advocate and trailblazer Jazz Jennings - named one of "The 25 Most Influential Teens" of the year by Time - shares her very public transgender journey, as she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their own truths. "[Jazz's] touching...
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The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power

Steve Fraser · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished.From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege....
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Corridors of the Night: A William Monk Novel

Anne Perry · Ballantine Books
Pages: 271
Format: Print book

Anne Perry, that incomparable novelist of life in Victorian England, has once again surpassed herself, with this twenty-first installment of her New York Times bestselling William Monk series. In Corridors of the Night, nurse Hester Monk and her husband, William, commander of the Thames...
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The End

Charlie Higson · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

Shadowman, realizing that Saint George's army is headed toward the center of London, has raced ahead to warn the kids of the impending disaster. He knows that he has to make them understand--somehow--that they are going to have to work together. This means that Nicola and her kids at the Houses...
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The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

Mark Schatzker · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 259
Format: Print book

A lively and important argument from an award-winning journalist proving that the key to reversing America's health crisis lies in the overlooked link between nutrition and flavor.In The Dorito Effect, Mark Schatzker shows us how our approach to the nation's number one public health crisis...
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Pirate

Clive Cussler · Putnam
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The outstanding new Sam and Remi Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. An 800-year-old treasure . . . an ancient cypher wheel . . . a brutal murder . . . and a man who will stop at nothing to claim what he considers rightfully his. Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting...
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The View from the Cheap Seats: A Collection of Introductions, Essays, and Assorted Writings

Neil Gaiman · William Morrow
Pages: 544
Format: Print book

An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics - from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories - observed in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman's probing, amusing, and distinctive style.An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous...
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Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot

Mark Vanhoenacker · Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys - and reawakens our capacity to be amazed. The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight - a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity - to the realm...
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War and Turpentine: A novel

Stefan Hertmans · Pantheon
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

An international best seller: a vivid, masterly novel about a Flemish man who reconstructs his grandfather's story - his hopes, loves, and art, all disrupted by the First World War - from the unflinching notebooks he filled with pieces of his life. The life of Urbain Martien - artist,...
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel

Madeleine Thien · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize "A vivid, magisterial novel that reaches back to China's civil war and up to the present day" -- The Guardian"In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage,...
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Lego Scooby-Doo. Haunted Hollywood

Health Corson; Duane Capizzi; Jim Krieg; Rick Morales; Frank Welker; All authors · Warner Bros. Entertainment
Format: DVD

Set in a LEGO world, the Scooby gang try to rescue and old movie studio, which is not only threatened by developers who want to tear it down, but by a series of movie monsters, which are suddenly haunting the place. After acting as 'live bait' in Fred's trap for a lighthouse-dwelling...
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

Rinker Buck · Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Pages: 450
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times Bestseller * #1 Indie Next Pick "Absorbing...Winning...The many layers in The Oregon Trail are linked by Mr. Buck's voice, which is alert and unpretentious in a manner that put me in mind of Bill Bryson's comic tone in A Walk in the Woods." - Dwight...
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Bull Mountain

Brian Panowich · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

"[Panowich] pulls off [a] daunting undertaking with astounding success . . . The storytelling is mesmerizing, with virtually every chapter set in a different timeline and focused on a single character, but the sense of immediacy carries over into each era. And while the violence...
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Nom Nom Paleo: Food for Humans

Michelle Tam · Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Crackling with humor and bursting with flavor, this James Beard Award nominated New York Times bestseller from the creators of the critically acclaimed Nom Nom Paleo website offers a fun, fresh approach to cooking with whole, unprocessed ingredients free of grains, legumes, and added sugar.
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