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Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living

Jason Gay · Doubleday
Pages: 209
Format: Print book

The Wall Street Journal's popular columnist Jason Gay delivers a hilarious and heartfelt guide to modern living.

"The book you hold in your hand is a rule book. There have been rule books before - stacks upon stacks of them - but this book is unlike...

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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History

Brian Kilmeade · Sentinel
Pages: 238
Format: Print book

"Another blockbuster! Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates reads like an edge-of-your-seat, page-turning thriller. You will love this book and also wonder why so few people know this story. No one captures the danger, intrigue, and drama of the American Revolution and its aftermath...
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Frank Zappa For President

Frank Zappa
Format: CD

Frank Zappa For President? You betcha!  We know at various times he wanted to run for office.  In the spirit of the 2016 dramatic presidential election adventures, comes a release that gives us a glimpse into what could have been. This album is comprised of unreleased compositions realized...
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The Beatles Lyrics: The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs

Hunter Davies · Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The definitive book of Beatles songs, shown as first written by their own hands and put into authoritative context, for the 50th anniversary of the Beatles coming to America.For the Beatles, writing songs was a process that could happen anytime -- songs we all know by heart often began...
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And Yet...: Essays

Christopher Hitchens · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

These seminal, uncollected essays by the late Christopher Hitchens, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller god is not Great, showcase the notorious contrarian's genius for rhetoric, and offer sharp rebukes to tyrants and the ill-informed everywhere.Christopher Hitchens was arguably...
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The Dust That Falls from Dreams: A Novel

Louis de Bernieres · Pantheon Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Corelli's Mandolin, here is a sumptuous, sweeping, powerfully moving new novel about a British family whose lives and loves are indelibly shaped by the horrors of World War I and the hopes for its aftermath. In the brief golden years of the Edwardian...
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Every Fifteen Minutes

Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

"Bestseller Scottoline casts an unflinching eye on the damaged world of sociopaths in this exciting thriller." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Scottoline has plenty of tricks up her sleeve." -BOOKLIST (starred review) "A mounting-stakes actioner."...
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Skinny Meals: Everything You Need to Lose Weight-Fast!

Bob Harper · Ballantine Books; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Bob Harper, the bestselling author of The Skinny Rules and Jumpstart to Skinny and the star of NBC's ongoing smash reality show The Biggest Loser, comes 100 delicious new recipes (all of them under 330 calories!) , a month of new menu plans, and indispensable...
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A Short Guide to a Long Life

David Agus · Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Pages: 190
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling book of simple rules everyone should follow in order to live a long, healthy life, featuring illustrations throughout, from the author of The End of Illness.In his international bestseller, The End of Illness, Dr. David B. Agus shared what he has learned from...
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Every Last Word

Tamara Ireland Stone · Hyperion, 2015.
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

New York Times Bestseller
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 685
Format: Book

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard...

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A Wild Swan: And Other Tales

Michael Cunningham · Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Pages: 134
Format: Print book

Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The HoursA poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest,...
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Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality

Jim Obergefell · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades - the legalization of same-sex marriage.

In June 2015, the Supreme Court...

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A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties

Ben Carson · Sentinel
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Dear Reader, Many people have wondered why I ve beenspeaking out on controversial issues forthe last few years. They say I ve never heldpolitical office. I m not a constitutional scholar. I m not even a lawyer. All I can sayto that is Guilty as charged. It s true that I ve never voted for a budget...
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Above the Waterfall: A Novel

Ron Rash · Ecco
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In this poetic and haunting tale set in contemporary Appalachia, New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash illuminates lives shaped by violence and a powerful connection to the land.Les, a long-time sheriff just three-weeks from retirement, contends with the ravages of crystal meth and his own duplicity...
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