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World Order

Henry Kissinger · Penguin Books
Pages: 420
Format: Print book

Walter Isaacson, Time:
"Dazzling and instructive... [a] magisterial new book."

Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen...
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Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded

Douglas W. Tallamy · Timber Press; Enlarged,Expanded Edition edition
Format: Book

As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. But there is an important and simple step toward reversing this alarming trend: Everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining...
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Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Diana Gabaldon · Random House Inc
Pages: 1008
Format: Print book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKLIST

In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946,...
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The Immortalists

Chloe Benjamin · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 346
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"A captivating family saga." - The New York Times Book Review

"You won't be able to put it down." - The Skimm (Skimm Reads Pick)

"This literary family saga is perfect for fans...
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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 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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Retire Inspired: It's Not an Age, It's a Financial Number

Chris E Hogan · Ramsey Press
Pages: 260
Format: Print book

When you hear the word retirement, you probably don't imagine yourself scrambling to pay your bills in your golden years. But for too many Americans, that's the fate that awaits unless they take steps now to plan for the future.

Whether you're twenty-five and starting your first...

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The Martian

Andy Weir · Crown
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

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

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.

Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.

After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces...
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The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin · Bantam
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * THE NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN HISTORY OF WESTEROS AND THE LANDS BEYOND * WITH HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF ALL-NEW MATERIAL FROM GEORGE R. R. MARTINIf the past is prologue, then George R. R. Martin's masterwork - the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time...
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The Versions of Us

Laura Barnett · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 402
Format: Print book

In one moment, two lives will be changed forever . . . and forever . . . and forever. The one thing that s certain is they met on a Cambridge street by chance and felt a connection that would last a lifetime. But as for what happened next . . . They fell wildly in love, or went their separate...
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Upstream: Selected Essays

Mary Oliver · Penguin Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

"In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be." So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which...
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Personal

Lee Child · Dell; Reissue edition
Format: Print book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERJack Reacher returns in the latest fast-moving, action-packed, suspenseful book from Lee Child. You can leave the army, but the army doesn't leave you. Not always. Not completely, notes Jack Reacher - and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled...
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A Fall of Marigolds

Susan Meissner · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 370
Format: Paperback

A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away....September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved...
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Insidious

Catherine Coulter · Gallery Books
Pages: 358
Format: book_largeprint

"Insidious is the twentieth thriller in #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter's FBI series. FBI agents Savich and Sherlock must discover who is trying to murder eighty-six-year-old Venus Rasmussen, a powerful, wealthy society icon. They soon find out that the danger...
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Girl in a Band: A Memoir

Kim Gordon · Dey Street Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story - a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty...
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