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The Weekenders

Mary Kay Andrews · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 451
Format: Print book

"Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Some people come only for the weekends-and it's something they look forward to all week long. When Riley Griggs is waiting for her husband to arrive at the ferry one Friday afternoon, she is instead...
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Revolution: Mapping the Road to American Independence, 1755-1783

Richard H. Brown · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

The spectacular legacy and importance of early American cartographers.Historians of the Revolutionary War in America have been fortunate in their resources: few wars in history have such a rich literary and cartographic heritage. The high skills of the surveyors, artists, and engravers...
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Sue Grafton · Marian Wood Books/Putnam
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only two letters left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment.X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross....
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Sheet Pan Suppers: 120 Recipes for Simple, Surprising, Hands-Off Meals Straight from the Oven

Molly Gilbert · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 295
Format: Paperback

It's the one-pot meal reinvented, and what is sure to become every busy cook's new favorite way of getting dinner on the table. It's Sheet Pan Suppers - a breakthrough full-color cookbook with more than 120 recipes for complete meals, snacks, brunch, and even dessert, that require nothing...
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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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Heartsong Cottage

Emily March · St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2015.
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

Two weary strangers are about to rest their burdens in Eternity Springs, where there's hope for every broken heart. Haunted by the loss of his wife and son, Daniel Garrett left the police force to devote his life to finding missing children. But he still hasn't found a way to mend the wounds...
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The art of the Good dinosaur

John Lasseter · Chronicle Books LLC
Pages: 165
Format: Print book

"What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? The Good Dinosaur takes you on an epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. Showcasing the stunning...
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Food52 Genius Recipes: 100 Recipes That Will Change the Way You Cook

Kristen Miglore · Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

"An essential collection of more than 100 foolproof recipes from food luminaries such as Julia Child, Alice Waters, and David Chang--curated, introduced, and photographed by the team behind the leading food website Food52. This debut title from Food52 Works, a new imprint from Ten Speed...
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A Little Life: A Novel

Hanya Yanagihara · Doubleday
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTSHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEBrace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction...
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The Complete Book of Chalk Lettering: Create and Develop Your Own Style

Valerie McKeehan · Workman Publishing
Pages: 171
Format: Print book

Ubiquitous at boutiques and cafés, on Etsy and Pinterest, in stationery and home decor, the art of chalk lettering is hotter than ever. Valerie McKeehan, an Etsy standout whose work has been featured in magazines and websites from Good Housekeeping to RealSimple.com, teaches us everything...
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success

Shane Snow · HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

Entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow (Wired, Fast Company, The New Yorker, and cofounder of Contently) analyzes the lives of people and companies that do incredible things in implausibly short time.How do some startups go from zero to billions in mere months? How did Alexander the Great,...
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My name is Mahtob : a daring escape, a life of fear, and the forgiveness that set me free

Mahtob Mahmoody · Nelson Books
Pages: 213
Format: Print book

Two decades ago, millions of readers worldwide thrilled to the story told in the international bestseller Not Without My Daughter - subsequently made into a film starring Sally Field - that told of an American mother and her six-year-old child's daring escape from an abusive and tyrannical...
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Cannabis Pharmacy: The Practical Guide to Medical Marijuana

Michael Backes · Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Evidence-based information on using cannabis for ailments and conditions, plus a comprehensive guide to the most popular varietiesThe most comprehensive, easy-to-use book available on understanding and using medical marijuana There are currently 4.2 million medical cannabis patients in the United...
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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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Dragonmark

Sherrilyn Kenyon · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

Centuries ago, Illarion was betrayed- a dragon made human against his will, then forced to serve humanity as a dragonmount in their army, and to fight for them in barbaric wars, even while he hated everything about them. Enslaved and separated from everyone he knew and from his own dragon...
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