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The Book of Life

Deborah E Harkness · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 561
Format: Print book

The highly anticipated finale to the #1 New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Discovery of Witches After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew...
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The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents

Ronald Kessler · Crown
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover

As in a play, presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates perform on stage for the public and the media. What the nation's leaders are really like and what goes on behind the scenes remains hidden. Secret Service agents have a front row seat on their private lives and those...
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The Pier Falls: And Other Stories

Mark Haddon · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Mark Haddon, author of the international bestselling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother, returns with a collection of unsparing short storiesIn the prize-winning story "The Gun," a man's life is marked by a single afternoon and a rusty...
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Brush Back

Sara Paretsky · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 459
Format: Hardcover

Chicago's V. I. Warshawski confronts crooked politicians and buried family secrets in the gritty new novel from New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky. No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but there are a few she'd be happy to avoid. High on that...
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Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

Timothy Keller · Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author and renowned pastor explores the power of prayer. Christians are taught in their churches and schools that prayer is the most powerful way to experience God. But few receive instruction or guidance in how to make prayer genuinely meaningful. In Prayer,...
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Hard Choices

Hillary Rodham Clinton · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Hillary Rodham Clinton's inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America's 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future."All of us face hard choices in our lives," Hillary Rodham Clinton...
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Mothering Sunday: A Romance

Graham Swift · Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

From the Booker Award winner: a luminous, intensely moving story that begins with an assignation in 1924 between a servant girl, Jane, and Paul, the young man of the neighboring house, then opens to reveal the whole life of a remarkable woman. Jane and Paul have been secret lovers for years....
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Scott MacCloud · Harper Collins
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.
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The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People

Dan Buettner · National Geographic; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In this groundbreaking book, Dan Buettner reveals how to transform your health using smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the communities he's identified as "Blue Zones" - those places with the world's...
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Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl · Beacon Press
Pages: 165
Format: Paperback

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife...
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Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success: Discovering Your Gift and the Way to Life's Riches

Steve Harvey · Amistad
Format: Hardcover

In his phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey told women what it takes to succeed in love. Now, he tells everyone how to succeed in life, giving you the keys to fulfill your purpose.Countless books on success tell you what you need to get that...
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain · Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet,"...
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

Jeff Hobbs · Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young African-American man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets - and of one's own nature - when he returns home.When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University,...
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Lila: A Novel

Marilynne Robinson · Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pages: 261
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardNational Book Award FinalistA new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and HousekeepingMarilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood...
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A.D. 30: A Novel

Ted Dekker · Center St
Pages: 557
Format: Large print book

A sweeping epic set in the harsh deserts of Arabia and ancient Palestine.A war that rages between kingdoms on the earth and in the heart.The harrowing journey of the woman at the center of it all.Step back in time to the year of our Lord...A.D. 30.The outcast daughter of one of the most...
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