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You Can't Make This Stuff Up: Life-Changing Lessons from Heaven

Theresa Caputo · Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

For fans of TLC's Long Island Medium and anyone interested in the big questions of life, death, and finding out what's important in between, New York Times bestselling author and medium Theresa Caputo shares the insights and lessons she's learned through her exceptional gift...
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Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces

MICHAEL CHABON · Harper
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

"Magical prose stylist" Michael Chabon (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) delivers a collection of essays - heartfelt, humorous, insightful, wise - on the meaning of fatherhood, anchored by the viral sensation, "My Son, The Prince of Fashion".

For the September...

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Good Cheap Eats Dinner in 30 Minutes or Less: Fresh, Fast, and Flavorful Home-Cooked Meals, with More Than 200 Recipes

Jessica Fisher · The Harvard Common Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In over 200 recipes, Jessica Fisher shows time-pressed cooks how they can eat remarkably well without breaking the bank. Good Cheap Eats serves up 65 two-course dinners, consisting of a main dish and a substantial side, salad, or soup, all of which take 30 minutes or less to prepare....
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American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest

Hannah Nordhaus · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning journalist and author of The Beekeeper's Lament attempts to uncover the truth about her great-great-grandmother, Julia--whose ghost is said to haunt an elegant hotel in Santa Fe - in this spellbinding exploration of myth, family history, and the American West.The dark-eyed...
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The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger

Elizabeth H Blackburn · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 398
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease...
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The Chopped Cookbook: Use What You've Got to Cook Something Great

Food Network · Crown Publishing Group
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Never again let the question, "What's for dinner?" stump you. The Chopped Cookbook features secrets for combining pantry staples to make exciting meals. If you've ever looked into your fridge, hoping for inspiration to strike, let The Chopped Cookbook help you shake...
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The Cat Encyclopedia

DK · DK
Format: Hardcover

More than 86 million Americans own at least one cat (that's 10 million more than own a dog) . Cats are truly Americans' favorite pets. Offering everything you need to know about cats in one easy-reference volume, The Cat Encyclopedia features stunning photographs of cat breeds...
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Moon Blue Ridge & Smoky Mountains

Jason Frye · Avalon Travel
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

Travel writer Jason Frye offers his firsthand experience and advice on the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains - including North Carolina High Country, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and the Cherokee Indian Reservation. Huso includes travel strategies, such as More Than a Drive: Top Hikes...
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America's Test Kitchen Twentieth Anniversary TV Show Cookbook: Best-Ever Recipes from the Most Successful Cooking Show on TV

America's Test Kitchen · America's Test Kitchen
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

A giftable and gorgeous book featuring the very best recipes from the America's Test Kitchen TV show in celebration of its 20th anniversary and its renowned celebrity cast. More than 500 recipes from the show's 500-plus episodes are included here along with all the recipes from the 20th...
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The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream

BRYAN MEALER · Flatiron Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Think of it as a Texas version of Hillbilly Elegy."
-- Bryan Burrough, New York Times bestselling author of THE BIG RICH and BARBARIANS AT THE GATE

"Bryan Mealer has given us a brilliant, and brilliantly entertaining, portrayal of family, and a bursting-at-the-seams...

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The Rough Guide to Mexico

Rough Guides · Rough Guides
Pages: 888
Format: Paperback

World-renowned 'tell it like it is' guidebook available now with a free eBook

Discover Mexico with this comprehensive, entertaining, 'tell it like it is' Rough Guide, packed with comprehensive practical information and our experts' honest and independent recommendations.

Whether...

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Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History

Yunte Huang · HighBridge Audio
Format: Audiobook

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874) , twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were "discovered" in Siam by a British merchant...
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The Great American Sports Page: A Century of Classic Columns from Ring Lardner to Sally Jenkins: A Library of America Special Publication

John Schulian · Library of America
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A first-of-its-kind celebration of the newspaper scribes who made sportswriting a glorious popular art, and immortalized America's greatest games and athletes

Spanning nearly a century, The Great American Sports Page presents essential columns from more than three dozen masters...
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Why Sinatra Matters

Pete Hamill · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

In honor of Sinatra's 100th birthday, Pete Hamill's classic tribute returns with a new introduction by the author.In this unique homage to an American icon, journalist and award-winning author Pete Hamill evokes the essence of Sinatra--examining his art and his legend from the inside,...
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J D Vance · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD

"You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist

"A...

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