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My Prairie Cookbook - Recipes & Melissa Gilbert's Recollections On-Set

Melissa Gilbert · My Prairie Cookbook - Recipes & Melissa Gilbert's Recollections On-Set
Format: Print book

In My Prairie Cookbook, Melissa Gilbert, star of Little House on the Prairie, offers fans comforting family recipes and childhood favorites. From prairie breakfasts and picnic lunches to treats inspired by Nellie's restaurant, the 80 simple and delicious dishes - crispy fried chicken,...
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The Hatred of Poetry

Ben Lerner · Farrar
Pages: 86
Format: Print book

No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life...
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Skink--No Surrender

Carl Hiaasen · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 281
Format: Print book

Carl Hiaasen serves up his unique brand of swamp justice in the New York Times bestseller Skink - No Surrender. A National Book Award Longlist Selection When your cousin goes missing under suspicious circumstances, who do you call? There's only one man for the job: a half-crazed, half-feral,...
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The Burn: Why Your Scale Is Stuck and What to Eat About It

Haylie Pomroy · Harmony; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In the #1 New York Times bestseller The Fast Metabolism Diet, powerhouse nutritionist Haylie Pomroy showed readers how to heal a broken metabolism with the strategic use of macronutrients. But even in the best running systems, inflammation, digestive dysfunction, and hormonal imbalances...
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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 ReadSix 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 his crew to evacuate while...
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Luxe 2: A LaLa Land Addiction

Ashley Antoinette · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

In Luxe Two: A LaLa Land Addiction by New York Times bestselling author Ashley Antoinette, there is only one thing more powerful than anything...the love of the high...Bleu is addicted...addicted to the luxe life and it has led her down a road of self-destruction. She knows what it feels...
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China Rich Girlfriend: A Novel

Kevin Kwan · Doubleday
Pages: 4378
Format: Hardcover

Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers...
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

Rinker Buck · Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Pages: 450
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times Bestseller * #1 Indie Next Pick "Absorbing...Winning...The many layers in The Oregon Trail are linked by Mr. Buck's voice, which is alert and unpretentious in a manner that put me in mind of Bill Bryson's comic tone in A Walk in the Woods." - Dwight...
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Paradise Lodge

Nina Stibbe · Little
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A delightful story of growing up, getting old, and every step in between, from the acclaimed author of Man at the Helm and Love, Nina.After succeeding in her quest to help her unconventional mother find a new "man at the helm," fifteen-year-old Lizzie Vogel simply wants to be a normal...
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Snow Like Ashes

Sara Raasch · Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 422
Format: Hardcover

A striking fantasy tale of dark magic, dangerous politics, and discovering your true self - perfect for fans of Game of Thrones, An Ember in the Ashes and A Court of Thorns and Roses.Sixteen years ago the Kingdom of Winter was conquered and its citizens enslaved, leaving them without magic...
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My Sister's Grave

Robert Dugoni · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Print book

Tracy Crosswhite has spent twenty years questioning the facts surrounding her sister Sarah's disappearance and the murder trial that followed. She doesn't believe that Edmund House - a convicted rapist and the man condemned for Sarah's murder - is the guilty party. Motivated...
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The Beginning of Everything

Robyn Schneider · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 335
Format: Print book

Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything is a witty and heart-wrenching teen novel that will appeal to fans of books by John Green and Ned Vizzini, novels such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and classics like The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye.Varsity tennis captain,...
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Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles

Bernard Cornwell · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

#1 Bestseller in the U.K.From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought - a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's last...
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The Sell: The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone

Fredrik Eklund · Avery Publishing Group
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The nation's #1 real estate broker and star of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing New York shares his secrets for superstar success and getting what you want out of life - no matter who you are or what you do.Ten years ago, Fredrik Eklund moved to New York City from his native Sweden...
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable....
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