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Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Ed Tarkington · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016.
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

"Love can make people do terrible things." Welcome to Spencerville, Virginia, 1977. Eight-year-old Rocky worships his older brother, Paul. Sixteen and full of rebel cool, Paul spends his days cruising in his Chevy Nova blasting Neil Young, cigarette dangling from his lips, arm slung...
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Emily Post's Wedding Etiquette, 6e

Anna Post · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 380
Format: Hardcover

Emily Post's Wedding Etiquette is the classic indispensable, comprehensive guide to creating the wedding of your dream, now in its sixth edition.Today's weddings are more complicated than ever, with new traditions replacing old, and new relationships to consider as family life grows...
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The Invention of Wings

Sue Monk Kidd · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 373
Format: Print book

From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world...
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The Japanese Lover: A Novel

Isabel Allende · Atria Books
Pages: 321
Format: Print book

Named one of the most anticipated novels of the year by New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Publishers Weekly, The Huffington Post, and more. From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely...
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Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise

Oscar Hijuelos · Grand Central Publishing, 2015.
Pages: 465
Format: Print book

An Amazon Best Book of November 2015
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Brain Rules

John Medina · Pear Press; Second Edition edition
Format: Book

Most of us have no idea whats really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should knowlike the need for physical activity to get your brain working its best. How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains?...
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A Banquet of Consequences: A Lynley Novel

Elizabeth George · Viking
Pages: 576
Format: Print book

"George's mystery unfolds with great psychological depth, finely drawn characters and gorgeous portraits of the English countryside. . . . [George] is an essential writer of popular fiction today." - The Washington PostThe #1 New York Times bestselling author's award-winning...
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Face Paint: The Story of Makeup

Lisa Eldridge · Abrams Image
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Makeup, as we know it, has only been commercially available in the last 100 years, but applying decoration to the face and body may be one of the oldest global social practices. In Face Paint, Lisa Eldridge reveals the entire history of the art form, from Egyptian and Classical times up through...
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The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation

Adam Steltzner · Portfolio / Penguin
Pages: 246
Format: Print book

From Adam Steltzner, who led the Entry, Descent, and Landing team in landing the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars, comes a profound book about breakthrough innovation in the face of the impossible The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is home to some of history's most jaw-dropping...
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The Muralist: A Novel

B. A. Shapiro · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

When Alizée Benoit, a young American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) , vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her arts patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt....
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