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Popular Mechanics How to Fix Anything: Essential Home Repairs Anyone Can Do

POPULAR MECHANICS. · Hearst
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

For any home repair, big or small, homeowners can turn to this practical and portable reference. Got a squeaky floor or a rattling door? Is your grout a color you don't recognize anymore? From quick fixes like linking broken chains and patching drywall to more involved projects like replacing...
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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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Wintering

Peter Geye · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 299
Format: Print book

The Eide family finds themselves changed forever after their elderly, demented patriarch runs into the wilderness of northern Minnesota in an attempt to reenact a similar adventure sixty years earlier.
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New Power: How Movements Build, Businesses Thrive, and Ideas Catch Fire in Our Hyperconnected World

JEREMY HEIMANS · Doubleday
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From two visionary thinkers and practitioners comes a big idea about how power works differently in our hyperconnected age.Why do some leap ahead while others fall behind in today's chaotic, connected world? In New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms confront the biggest stories of our age--the...
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Pandemic

ROBIN COOK · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the cutting-edge world of gene-modification in this pulse-pounding new medical thriller.When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upon reaching the hospital, her case...
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GATHERING OF SECRETS

LINDA CASTILLO · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A deadly fire exposes the dark side of Amish life in A Gathering of Secrets, a harrowing new thriller in the New York Times bestselling series (July 2017) by Linda Castillo.When a historic barn burns to the ground in the middle of the night, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called...
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Archmage

R A SALVATORE · WIZARDS OF THE COAST
Format: Print book

DRIZZT RETURNS TO THE UNDERDARK! "After a quarter of a century, R.A. Salvatore just keeps getting better and better, and The Companions is another masterful leap forward for one of the greatest fantasy epics of all time." - Philip Athans, best-selling author of Annihilation and Writing...
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The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

Nina Teicholz · Free Press
Pages: 479
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller Named one of The Economist's Books of the Year 2014 Named one of The Wall Street Journal's Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 Forbes's Most Memorable Healthcare Book of 2014 Named a Best Food Book of 2014 by Mother...
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Hockey Abstract Presents... Stat Shot: The Ultimate Guide to Hockey Analytics

Rob Vollman · ECW Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

"Hockey Abstract Presents... Stat Shot" is a guide fans can use to understand and enjoy what analytics brings to the game of hockey. In a fun and informative way, it explores how to build a team, what can be learned from a player s junior numbers, how to measure faceoff success,...
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The End of All Things

John Scalzi · Tor
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Hugo-award winning author, John Scalzi returns to his best-selling Old Man's War universe with The End of All Things, the direct sequel to 2013's The Human DivisionHumans expanded into space...only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction....
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25: Untitled: A Novel

JOHN GRISHAM · Doubleday
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author John Grisham returns to Clanton, Mississippi, to tell the story of an unthinkable murder and the bizarre trial that follows it, in this powerful new legal thriller. Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent...
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Joshua Tree: The Complete Guide: Joshua Tree National Park

James Kaiser · Destination Press
Pages: 215
Format: Print book

Joshua Tree National Park is a stunning desert getaway that boasts some of southern California's most dramatic scenery. From the weird and wonderful Mojave Desert to the vast and stark Sonoran Desert, Joshua Tree: The Complete Guide shows readers the park's highlights and hidden...
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Battlefront: Twilight Company

Alexander Freed · Del Rey Books
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED * A companion novel inspired by the hotly anticipated videogame Star Wars: Battlefront, this action-packed adventure follows a squad of soldiers caught in the trenches of the ultimate galactic war between good and evil.The bravest soldiers....
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Kitchen Science Lab for Kids: 52 Family Friendly Experiments from Around the House

Liz Lee Heinecke · Quarry Books
Pages: 144
Format: Flexibound

Cook up some science in your home with Kitchen Science Lab for Kids. Do physics, chemistry, and biology experiments with tools and ingredients found in any kitchen! At-home science provides an environment for freedom, creativity and invention. It's simple to do science in your own kitchen,...
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Einstein's God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit

Krista Tippett · Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

Albert Einstein did not believe in a personal God. And his famous quip that "God does not play dice with the universe" was a statement about quantum physics, not a statement of faith. But he did leave behind a fascinating, largely forgotten legacy of musings and writings-some...
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