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A Certain Age: A Novel

Beatriz Williams · William Morrow
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York Society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm.As the freedom...
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The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money

Ron Lieber · Harper
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Wendy Mogel's The Blessing of a Skinned Knee and Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman's Nurture Shock, New York Times "Your Money" columnist Ron Lieber delivers a taboo-shattering manifesto that explains how talking openly to children about money can help parents...
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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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Pride Over Pity

Kailyn Lowry · Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover

Kailyn Lowry is the feisty, unapologetic, tattooed beauty whose determination to raise her son on her own terms has been documented on MTV’s critically acclaimed, hit series Teen Mom 2. Across five seasons, fans have watched her grow from a vulnerable, pregnant teen into a fiercely...
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The Real-Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career

Jack Welch · HarperBusiness
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller and New York Times BestsellerThe business titans and #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling authors of Winning return with a modern, essential guide for everyone in business today - and tomorrow - that explores the most pressing challenges...
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The Velveteen Daughter: A Novel

Laurel Davis Huber · She Writes Press
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

The Velveteen Daughter reveals for the first time the true story of two remarkable women: Margery Williams Bianco, the author of one of the most beloved children's books of all time -- The Velveteen Rabbit -- and her daughter Pamela, a world-renowned child prodigy artist whose fame at one time...
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When We Collided

Emery Lord · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen year-old Jonah Daniels has lived in Verona Cove, California, his whole life, and only one thing has ever changed: his father used to be alive, and now he is not. With a mother lost in a deep bout of depression, Jonah and his five siblings struggle to keep up their home and the restaurant...
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

Hampton Sides · Random House Inc
Pages: 454
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded AgeIn the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress...
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Scents and Sensibility: A Chet and Bernie Mystery

Spencer Quinn · Atria Books, An Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2015. ©2015
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

When a mysterious case of illegal cactus smuggling comes to their attention, Chet and his human P.I. companion, Bernie Little, find themselves in a prickly situation in this eighth book in the New York Times bestselling mystery series.In the latest entry in the immensely popular Chet and Bernie...
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The Whites: A Novel

Richard Price · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege-by an unsolved murder, by his own dark past, and by a violent stalker seeking revenge.Back in the run-and-gun days of the mid-1990s, when a young Billy Graves worked in the South Bronx as part of an aggressive anti-crime...
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The Swans of Fifth Avenue: A Novel

Melanie Benjamin · Delacorte Press
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York's "Swans" of the 1950s - and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley. Of all the glamorous...
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The Knot Book of Wedding Lists

Carley Roney · Potter Style; English Language edition
Format: Book

For the first time TheKnot.com’s famous timelines, tools, and checklists have been compiled in one easy-to-carry book that will travel with you from florist to baker and everywhere in between. The Knot Book of Wedding Lists distills all the great information from The Knot and crafts...
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The Science Book

DK Publishing · DK ADULT
Format: Hardcover

With over 225,000 copies in print, DKs Big Ideas series has struck a chord with readers fascinated-but also intimidated-by complex subjects like philosophy, psychology, politics, and religion. The newest title in this successful and acclaimed series is The Science Book, an inventive visual...
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Edge of Eternity: Book Three of the Century Trilogy

Ken Follett · Dutton
Pages: 1098
Format: Print book

The sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, The Century Trilogy.In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they made their way through...
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Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition

Editors of Webster's New World College Dictionaries · Webster's New World; 5 edition
Format: Hardcover

Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition, presents the very best a college dictionary can offer, with all the user-friendly qualities that have distinguished the Webster's New World name for decades. It is a favorite of newsrooms and copy editors nationwide and it is the official...
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