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If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran

Carla Power · Holt McDougal
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

"Carla Power's intimate portrait of the Quran captures the extraordinary, living debate over the Muslim holy book's very essence. A spirited, compelling read."-Azadeh Moaveni, author of Lipstick JihadIf the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power's eye-opening story of how she and her longtime...
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Where We Belong: Journeys That Show Us The Way

Hoda Kotb · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 252
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling author and beloved Today show co-anchor Hoda Kotb - inspiring stories of people who find their life's purpose in unexpected ways, often surprising themselves and the ones they love.Most of us wonder what we're doing. We float around in the glass half-empty,...
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Batman Vol. 6: Graveyard Shift

Scott Snyder · DC Comics
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In the wake of the death of his son Damian, Batman is in danger of losing his humanity. However, the foes of this grief-ridden Dark Knight mean to strike him when he's at his weakest. Has Batman's worst foe become... Bruce Wayne?Plus, three pivotal chapters from the epic ZERO YEAR...
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Red Rising

Pierce Brown · Ballantine Books
Pages: 382
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, BUZZFEED, AND SHELF AWARENESS"Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow." - Scott Sigler Pierce Brown's relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne...
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The Christmas Joy Ride

Melody Carlson · Revell
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover

Miranda did not put adventure on her Christmas list, but thanks to her eighty-five-year-old neighbor Joy, that's exactly what she's getting this year. When Joy tells Miranda that she plans to drive an old RV decked out in Christmas decorations from their Chicago neighborhood to her new retirement...
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Blood Magick

Nora Roberts · Berkley Pub Group
Pages: 322
Format: Paperback

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a trilogy about the land we're drawn to, the family we learn to cherish, and the people we long to love ... Book Three of The Cousins O'Dwyer TrilogyBlood MagickCounty Mayo is rich in the traditions of Ireland, legends...
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Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart

James M D Doty · Avery Pub Group, 2016.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Extraordinary things happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion...
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What the Lady Wants: A Novel of Marshall Field and the Gilded Age

Renée Rosen · NAL
Format: Book

In late-nineteenth-century Chicago, visionary retail tycoon Marshall Field made his fortune wooing women customers with his famous motto Give the lady what she wants. His legendary charm also won the heart of socialite Delia Spencer and led to an infamous love affair.  The night of the Great...
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The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers

Gillian Tett · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning columnist and journalist Gillian Tett comes a brilliant examination of how our tendency to create functional departments - silos - hinders our work ... and how some people and organizations can break those silos down to unleash innovation.One of the characteristics of industrial...
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The Furniture Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Identify, Restore & Care for Furniture

Christophe Pourny · Artisan
Format: Hardcover

Christophe Pourny learned the art of furniture restoration in his father's atelier in the South of France. In this, his first book, he teaches readers everything they need to know about the provenance and history of furniture, as well as how to restore, update, and care for their furniture...
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The Wolves

Alex Berenson · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 389
Format: Print book

The latest thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author of Twelve Days, Alex Berenson. John Wells has just barely managed to stop an operation designed to drive the United States and Iran into war, but the instigator himself disappeared behind an impenetrable war of security....
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Vegetable Literacy: Cooking and Gardening with Twelve Families from the Edible Plant Kingdom, with over 300 Deliciously Simple Recipes

Deborah Madison · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 405
Format: Book

In her latest cookbook, Deborah Madison, America's leading authority on vegetarian cooking and author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, reveals the surprising relationships between vegetables, edible flowers, and herbs within the same botanical families, and how understanding these connections...
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The Girl in the Spider's Web: A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series

David Lagercrantz · Random House Large Print
Pages: 607
Format: Large print book

Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return She is the girl with the dragon tattoo - a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusading journalist whose championing of the truth often brings him to the brink of prosecution. Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from...
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Extreme Transformation: Lifelong Weight Loss in 21 Days

Chris Powell · Hachette Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

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Wild Cat

Christine Feehan · Jove Books
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

In the new Leopard novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Cat's Lair and Leopard's Prey, passions explode like wildfire when a young woman's feral instincts are ignited by a man who's too dangerous not to desire ... A simple request for Siena Arnotto: deliver...
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