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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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OS X El Capitan: The Missing Manual

David Pogue · O'Reilly Media
Pages: 900
Format: Paperback

With El Capitan, Apple brings never-before-seen features to OS X - like a split-screen desktop, improved window controls, and amazing graphics. The new edition of David Pogue's #1 bestselling Mac book shows you how to use key new features such as swiping gestures, Notes, a new Spotlight...
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Summer Secrets: A Novel

Jane Green · St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Pages: 308
Format: Print book

"Gripping and powerful."-Emily Giffin"The quintessential beach novel, complete with juicy drama and characters you fall madly in love with. You will devour it!" -Elin Hilderbrand "Warm, witty, sharp and insightful. Jane Green writes with such honesty and zing."...
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The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science

Siddhartha Mukherjee · Simon & Schuster/ Ted
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world's premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine - and how understanding these principles can empower us all.Over...
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Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track

Philippe Margotin · Black Dog
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover

This is the most comprehensive account of Bob Dylans work yet published with the full story of every recording session, every album, and every single released during his remarkable and illustrious 53-year career. Bob Dylan All the Songs focuses on Dylans creative process and his organic,...
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For A Little While

Rick Bass · Little
Pages: 471
Format: Print book

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"A literary titan...Bass is, hands down, a master of the short form, creating in a few pages a natural world of mythic proportions." -- New York Times Book ReviewLong considered one of the most gifted practitioners of the short story,...
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The Rule of Thoughts

James Dashner · Delacorte
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From James Dashner, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Maze Runner series, which includes The Maze Runner - now a #1 movie worldwide - and The Scorch Trials - soon to be a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox that hits theaters on September 18, 2015 - comes The Rule...
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The Paying Guests

Sarah Waters · Riverhead Books
Pages: 576
Format: Audiobook

The New York Times bestselling novel that has been called "a tour de force" (Wall Street Journal) , "unputdownable" (The Washington Post) , "a delicious hothouse of a novel" (USA Today) , "effortless" (The Economist) , "seductive"...
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The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin · Bantam
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * THE NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN HISTORY OF WESTEROS AND THE LANDS BEYOND * WITH HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF ALL-NEW MATERIAL FROM GEORGE R. R. MARTINIf the past is prologue, then George R. R. Martin's masterwork - the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time...
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The Patriot Threat: A Novel

Steve Berry · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 386
Format: Audiobook

The 16th Amendment to the Constitution is why Americans pay income taxes. But what if there were problems associated with that amendment? Secrets that call into question decades of tax collecting? In fact, there is a surprising truth to this hidden possibility.Cotton Malone, once a member...
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

Rinker Buck · Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Pages: 450
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times Bestseller * #1 Indie Next Pick "Absorbing...Winning...The many layers in The Oregon Trail are linked by Mr. Buck's voice, which is alert and unpretentious in a manner that put me in mind of Bill Bryson's comic tone in A Walk in the Woods." - Dwight...
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Crossroads: Extraordinary Recipes from the Restaurant That Is Reinventing Vegan Cuisine

Tal Ronnen · Artisan Publishers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"A new kind of flavor-first vegan cooking. . . . Stunning." - Food & Wine Reinventing plant-based eating is what Tal Ronnen is all about. At his Los Angeles restaurant, Crossroads, the menu is vegan, but there are no soybeans or bland seitan to be found. He and his executive...
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So Sad Today: Personal Essays

Melissa Broder · Grand Central Publishing, 2016. ©2015
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

From acclaimed poet and creator of the popular Twitter account @sosadtoday comes a darkly funny and brutally honest collection of essays.Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate...
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Pati's Mexican Table: The Secrets of Real Mexican Home Cooking

Pati Jinich · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The host of a highly popular PBS series, Pati's Mexican Table, and a self-described "overloaded soccer mom with three kids and a powerful blender," Pati Jinich has a mission. She's out to prove that Mexican home cooking is quicker and far easier than most Americans think.Her dishes...
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The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Phil Szostak · Harry N Abrams, 2015.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Step inside the Lucasfilm art departments for the creation of fantastical worlds, unforgettable characters, and unimaginable creatures. The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens will take you there, from the earliest gathering of artists and production designers at Lucasfilm headquarters...
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