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J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2016: For Preparing Your 2015 Tax Return

J.K. Lasser Tax Institute. · Wiley
Pages: 816
Format: Print book

Prepare your 2015 taxes with ease!

J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2016: For Preparing Your 2015 Tax Return is a bestselling tax reference that has been trusted by taxpayers for over seventy-five years. Updated to reflect the changes to the 2015 tax code, this authoritative text...

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Karolina's Twins: A Novel

Ronald H Balson · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 306
Format: Print book

In the tradition of The Nightingale, Sarah's Key, and Lilac Girls, comes a saga inspired by true events of a Holocaust survivor's quest to return to Poland and fulfill a promise, from Ronald H. Balson, author of the international bestseller Once We Were...

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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Anne Lamott · Anchor; 1 edition
Format: Book

"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded...
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The Atlas of Reds and Blues: A Novel

Devi S. Laskar · Counterpoint
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"Devi S. Laskar's The Atlas of Reds and Blues is as narratively beautiful as it is brutal. In prose that moves between cushioning characters' falls and ushering our understandings of characters' utopias, Laskar creates a world where the consequences of American terror never...
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Don't You Forget About Me: A Novel

Mhairi McFarlane · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

"Don't You Forget About Me is one of those books I couldn't put down. Crackling with energy and wit, I lost count of how many times I laughed out loud. Mhairi McFarlane's voice is as clear as a bell - she makes you laugh, but she also makes you feel. I adore her!" - Sally...

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Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

Austin Kleon · Workman Pub
Pages: 224
Format: Book

In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by "stealing" from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that...

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MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th Edition

Joseph Gibaldi · Modern Language Association of America
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback

Widely adopted by universities, colleges, and secondary schools, the MLA Handbook gives step-by-step advice on every aspect of writing research papers, from selecting a topic to submitting the completed paper. For over half a century, the MLA Handbook is the guide millions of writers have...
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The World of The Orville

Jeff Bond

Four-time Emmy Award winner Seth MacFarlane creates a new sci-fi dramedy universe on the Fox Network with his new show, The Orville. MacFarlane plays Captain Ed Mercer, an officer in the Planetary Union in the 25th century who gathers a crew from the farthest reaches of the galaxy
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Milk and Honey

Rupi Kaur · Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages: 204
Format: Print book

Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.

The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache....
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Everything Under: A Novel

DAISY JOHNSON · Graywolf Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

An eerie, watery reimagining of the Oedipus myth set on the canals of Oxford, from the author of Fen

The dictionary doesn't contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals...

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Dark in Death

J. D. Robb · Large Print Press
Pages: 555
Format: Paperback

Lieutenant Eve Dallas returns in Dark in Death, by J.D. Robb, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense, and takes on a case of death imitating art...It was a stab in the dark.On a chilly February night, during a screening of Psycho in midtown, someone sunk an ice pick into the back...
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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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Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn · Crown
Pages: 419
Format: Hardcover

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable...
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The Skinny Gut Diet: Balance Your Digestive System for Permanent Weight Loss

Brenda Watson C.N.C. · Harmony; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The secret to permanent weight loss revealed The real reason diets fail has nothing to do with calories and everything to do with the balance of bacteria in your gut A simple guide to show you how to finally achieve your ideal weight The trillion bacteria that live in your digestive tractmdashwhich...
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Swept Away

Robyn Carr · MIRA Books
Pages: 350
Format: Print book

The emotional story of a young woman s journey as she leaves behind all the things she thought she wanted only to discover who she really is. #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Robyn Carr explores the challenges facing women today as they are valued for what s on the outside...
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