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The Shadow Hero

Gene Luen Yang · Turtleback Books
Pages: 158
Format: Book

In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity... The Green Turtle was the first Asian...
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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

Steven D Levitt · William Morrow
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more.Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have...
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Curious Minds: A Knight and Moon Novel

Janet & Sutton Phoef Evanovich · Bantam
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, teams up with Emmy-winning writer Phoef Sutton for a brand-new series of mysteries featuring Emerson Knight and Riley Moon, a dynamic duo with instant and undeniable chemistry. Emerson Knight is introverted,...
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The Trials of Apollo Book One The Hidden Oracle

Rick Riordan · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover

"After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. He must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor"--
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Green Room

Anton Yelchin · LIONSGATE
Format: DVD

AFTER WITNESSING A MURDER, A PUNK ROCK BAND IS FORCED INTO A VICIOUS FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL AGAINST A GROUP OF MANIACAL SKINHEADS.
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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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Go Set a Watchman: A Novel

Harper Lee · Harper
Pages: 278
Format: Print book

"Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout"--Returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming...
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Rich People Problems: A Novel

KEVIN KWAN · Doubleday
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend, is back with an uproarious new novel of a family riven by fortune, an ex-wife driven psychotic with jealousy, a battle royal fought through couture gown sabotage, and the heir to one of Asia's greatest fortunes...
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The Hirschfeld Century: Portrait of an Artist and His Age

Al Hirschfeld · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

I am down to a pencil, a pen, and a bottle of ink. I hope one day to eliminate the pencil. Al Hirschfeld redefined caricature and exemplified Broadway and Hollywood, enchanting generations with his mastery of line. His art appeared in every major publication during nine decades of the twentieth...
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Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor

James M. Scott · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic account of one of America's most celebrated -- and controversial -- military campaigns: the Doolittle Raid.In December 1941, as American forces tallied the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt gathered with his senior military counselors to plan an ambitious...
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China Rich Girlfriend: A Novel

Kevin Kwan · Doubleday Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers...
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Ed Catmull · Random House
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover

From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, the Academy Award-winning studio behind Inside Out and Toy Story, comes an incisive book about creativity in business - sure to appeal to readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath....
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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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The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories

Joy Williams · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The legendary writers first collection in more than ten years—and, finally, the definitive one. A literary event of the highest order. Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in the shifting...
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Jenny Han · Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pages: 355
Format: Book

Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control in this heartfelt novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer I Turned Pretty series.What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them ... all at once? Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters...
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