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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover


In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from...

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In the Afterlight: A Darkest Minds Novel

Alexandra Bracken · Disney Hyperion
Format: eBook

The exciting conclusion to THE DARKEST MINDS trilogyRuby cant look back Fractured by an unbearable loss she and the kids who survived the governments attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup With them is a prisoner Clancy Gray son of the president and one of the few people Ruby has encountered...
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The Walking Dead: A Continuing Story of Survival Horror, Book 1

Robert Kirkman · Image Comics
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

- This hardcover features the first 12 issues of the hit series along with the covers for the issues in one oversized hardcover volume. Perfect for long time fans, new readers and anyone needing a slightly heavy object with which to fend off the walking dead.
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The Lager Queen of Minnesota: A Novel

J. Ryan Stradal · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"The perfect pick-me-up on a hot summer day."
- Washington Post

"[A] charmer of a take. . . Warm, witty and--like any good craft beer--complex, the saga delivers a subtly feminist and wholly life-affirming message."
- People Magazine
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Homegoing: A novel

Yaa Gyasi · Random House Large Print Publishing
Pages: 468
Format: Large print book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Homegoing"is an inspiration. Ta-Nehisi Coates A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow,...
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Extraordinary Means

Robyn Schneider · Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 324
Format: Print book

John Green's The Fault in Our Stars meets Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park in this darkly funny novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Beginning of Everything.

Up until his diagnosis, Lane lived a fairly predictable life. But when he finds himself at a tuberculosis...

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The Vegetable Gardener's Bible, 2nd edition

Edward C. Smith · Storey Publishing, LLC; Anv edition
Format: Hardcover

The invaluable resource for home food gardeners! Ed Smith's W-O-R-D system has helped countless gardeners grow an abundance of vegetables and herbs. And those tomatoes and zucchini and basil and cucumbers have nourished countless families, neighbors, and friends with delicious, fresh produce....
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Antoni in the Kitchen

Antoni Porowski · Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Antoni Porowski, the food and wine guru on Netflix's sensation Queer Eye, meets people where they live - literally. With appealing vulnerability, he shows cooks of all levels how to become more confident and casual in the kitchen. The verve and naturalness of his approach earned...
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The Bane Chronicles

Cassandra Clare · Margaret K. McElderry Books; Reprint edition
Format: Book

Fans of The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices can get to know warlock Magnus Bane like never before in this paperback collection of New York Times bestselling tales, each with comic-style art.This collection of eleven short stories illuminates the life of the enigmatic Magnus...
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The Fast Metabolism Diet: Eat More Food and Lose More Weight

Haylie Pomroy · Harmony; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Haylie Pomroy has helped countless clients lose up to 20 pounds in just 4 weeks -all through the fat-burning power of food. Hailed as "the metabolism whisperer," Haylie reminds us that food is not the enemy, it's the rehab needed to rev-up your sluggish, broken-down metabolism...
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Make It Ahead: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

Ina Garten · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

For the first time, trusted and beloved cookbook author Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, answers the number one question she receives from cooks: Can I make it ahead?If you've ever found yourself stuck in front of the stove at your own party, scrambling to get everything to the table...
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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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Yes Please

Amy Poehler · Dey Street
Pages: 329
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Do you want to get to know the woman we first came to love on Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade? Do you want to spend some time with the lady who made you howl with laughter on Saturday Night Live, and in movies like Baby Mama, Blades of Glory,...

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Crave the Night: A Midnight Breed Novel

Lara Adrian · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 273
Format: Book

With the acclaimed Midnight Breed series, New York Times bestselling author Lara Adrian has written thrilling novels of electrifying romance and heart-pounding suspense - page-turners in which humans and vampires live tenuously side by side. In Crave the Night, Adrian brings the Breed and its world...
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Bay of Sighs: Book Two of the Guardians Trilogy

Nora Roberts · Berkley Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The new Guardians Trilogy novel from the bestselling author of Stars of Fortune.

To celebrate the rise of their new queen, three goddesses of the moon created three stars, one of fire, one of ice, one of water. But then they...
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