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Smoke: A Novel

Dan Vyleta · Doubleday
Pages: 431
Format: Print book

Readers of the Harry Potter series and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell are sure to be mesmerized by Dan Vyleta's thrilling blend of historical fiction and fantasy, as three young friends scratch the surface of the grown-up world to discover startling wonders - and dangerous secrets. "Dan...
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Go Set a Watchman: A Novel

Harper Lee · Harper
Pages: 278
Format: Print book

"Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout"--Returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming...
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All Points Patchwork: English Paper Piecing beyond the Hexagon for Quilts & Small Projects

Diane Gilleland · Storey Books
Pages: 222
Format: Print book

The key to perfect patchwork is getting all of the points to match up -- which is no easy feat! Thanks to the rediscovery of a traditional technique known as English paper piecing, success is now possible for quilters of all levels. By cutting the desired shapes from paper, basting the paper...
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Heir of Fire

Sarah J. Maas · Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak--but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth . . . a truth about her heritage that could change her life--and her future--forever. Meanwhile, brutal and monstrous forces are gathering...
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The Whole-Brain Child Workbook: Practical Exercises, Worksheets and Activities to Nurture Developing Minds

Daniel J Siegel · PESI Publishing & Media; Workbook edition
Format: Print book

Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson speak to audiences all over the world about their immensely popular best-sellers, The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline. The message Dan and Tina continually receive from their audiences, whether live or virtual, is that people are hungry...
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Bull Mountain

Brian Panowich · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

"[Panowich] pulls off [a] daunting undertaking with astounding success . . . The storytelling is mesmerizing, with virtually every chapter set in a different timeline and focused on a single character, but the sense of immediacy carries over into each era. And while the violence...
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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 BESTSELLERThe 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 fell from the sky, putting the fate...
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The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family Secret

Catherine Bailey · Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

For fans of Downton Abbey, this New York Times bestseller is the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWIAfter the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped room in the servants' quarters of Belvoir...
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The EveryGirl's Guide to Diet and Fitness: How I Lost 40 lbs and Kept It Off-And How You Can Too!

Maria Menounos · Zinc Ink/Ballantine Books
Pages: 325
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From Maria Menounos, self-proclaimed EveryGirl and host of E! News, comes a lasting weight-loss program based on the Mediterranean diet of her childhood that will encourage women to think "smarter, simpler, healthier" - a personal mantra that helped...
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Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market 2016: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published

Chuck Sambuchino · Writer's Digest Books
Pages: 412
Format: Paperback

THE MOST TRUSTED GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF CHILDREN'S PUBLISHINGIf you write or illustrate for young readers with the hope of getting published, Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market 2016 is the trusted resource you need. Now in its 28th edition, CWIM is the definitive...
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Make Up: Your Life Guide to Beauty, Style, and Success--Online and Off

Michelle Phan · Harmony
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover

Michelle Phan has believed in makeup since the first time she was allowed to try eyeliner. When she looked in the mirror and saw a transformed version of herself looking back, she fell in love with the sense of confidence that makeup could give her. Ever since she posted her first makeup...
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The Daily 5: Fostering Literacy in the Elementary Grades

Gail Boushey · Stenhouse Publishers
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

The Daily 5, Second Edition retains the core literacy components that made the first edition one of the most widely read books in education and enhances these practices based on years of further experience in classrooms and compelling new brain research. The Daily 5 provides a way for any teacher...
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The Badass Body Diet: The Breakthrough Diet and Workout for a Tight Booty, Sexy Abs, and Lean Legs

Christmas Abbott · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

CrossFit celebrity Christmas Abbott shows how to attain the body of your dreams with a targeted eating strategy and total-body workout plan that will whip glutes and hips - and every problem area - into top shape.As a formerly "skinny fat" woman, Christmas Abbott knows what real...
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The Rule of Thoughts

James Dashner · Delacorte
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From James Dashner, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Maze Runner series, which includes The Maze Runner - now a #1 movie worldwide - and The Scorch Trials - soon to be a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox that hits theaters on September 18, 2015 - comes The Rule...
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The Boston Girl: A Novel

Anita Diamant · Scribner, 2014.
Pages: 322
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century.Addie Baum is The Boston Girl,...
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