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Two Kinds of Truth

MICHAEL CONNELLY · Little
Pages: 402
Format: Hardcover

Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world...
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Origin

ANONYMOUS. · Doubleday
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Whoever You Are. Whatever You Believe. Everything Is About To Change. The stunningly inventive new novel from the world's most popular thriller writer Bilbao, Spain Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum...
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The Rooster Bar

JOHN GRISHAM · Doubleday
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham's newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that's on shaky ground. Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been...
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Capital Gaines: The Smart Things I've Learned by Doing Stupid Stuff

CHIP GAINES · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

The most important step is taking the first one. The funny and talented Chip Gaines is well known to millions of people as a TV star, renovation expert, bestselling author, husband to Joanna, and father of 4 in Waco, Texas. But long before the world took notice, Chip was a serial entrepreneur...
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Uncommon Type: Some Stories

Tom Hanks · Knopf
Pages: 405
Format: Hardcover

A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves...
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World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech

FRANKLIN FOER · Penguin Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence. Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge and information. This rapid change has imperiled...
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Mr. Dickens and His Carol: A Novel of Christmas Past

SAMANTHA SILVA · Flatiron Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"A charming, comic, and ultimately poignant story about the creation of the most famous Christmas tale ever written. It's as foggy and haunted and redemptive as the original; it's all heart, and I read it in a couple of ebullient, Christmassy gulps." -- Anthony Doerr, #1 New York...
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Paris in the Present Tense: A Novel

Mark Helprin · The Overlook Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The magnificent new novel by the gifted, singular #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great WarMark Helprin's powerful, rapturous new novel is set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. Seventy-four-year-old...
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Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography.Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries...
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House of Shadows: An Enthralling Historical Mystery

Nicola Cornick · Graydon House
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

The wooded hills of Oxfordshire conceal the remains of the aptly named Ashdown House - a wasted pile of cinders and regret. Once home to the daughter of a king, Ashdown and its secrets will unite three women across four centuries in a tangle of romance, deceit and destiny ... In the winter...
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