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The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II

Winston Groom · National Geographic Society
Pages: 496
Format: Audiobook

Celebrated historian Winston Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall - from the World War I battle that shaped them to their greatest victory: leading the allies to victory in World War II. These three remarkable men-of-arms...
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The House by the River

Lena Manta · AmazonCrossing
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback

The first novel by acclaimed Greek writer Lena Manta to appear in English translation, The House by the River is an intimate, emotionally powerful saga following five young women as they realize that no matter the men they choose, the careers they pursue, or the children they raise, the only...
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The Burning Room

Michael Connelly · Little, Brown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, Detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner investigate a cold case that gets very hot... very fast.In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs...
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Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink

Elvis Costello · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 674
Format: Print book

Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance-band vocalist. Costello went into the family business and before he was twenty-four took the popular...
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Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California

Frances Dinkelspiel · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

On October 12, 2005, a massive fire broke out in the Wines Central wine warehouse in Vallejo, California. Within hours, the flames had destroyed 4.5 million bottles of California's finest wine worth more than $250 million, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. The fire...
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Four: A Divergent Collection

Veronica Roth · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 285
Format: Hardcover

Fans of the Divergent trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by Four: A Divergent Collection, a companion volume that includes four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view.

This...

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Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits: A Novel

David Wong · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 374
Format: Print book

A Winner of the 2016 Alex Awards

Nightmarish villains with superhuman enhancements.

An all-seeing social network that tracks your every move.

Mysterious, smooth-talking power players who lurk behind the scenes.

A young woman from the trailer park.

And...

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The Coincidence of Coconut Cake

Amy E. Reichert · Gallery Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

You've Got Mail meets How to Eat a Cupcake in this delightful novel about a talented chef and the food critic who brings down her restaurant - whose chance meeting turns into a delectable romance of mistaken identities.In downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Lou works tirelessly to build...
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The Game of Lives

James Dashner · Delacorte Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From James Dashner, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, comes The Game of Lives, the final book in the Mortality Doctrine series, an edge-of-your-seat cyber-adventure trilogy that includes The Eye of Minds and The Rule of Thoughts. Michael used to live to game,...
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The Beast: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

J.R. Ward · New American Library
Pages: 508
Format: Print book

Rhage and Mary return in a new novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, a series "so popular, I don't think there's a reader today who hasn't at least heard of [it]" (USA Today) .

Nothing is as it used to be for the Black Dagger Brotherhood. After avoiding...

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The Cuban Table: A Celebration of Food, Flavors, and History

Ana Sofia Pelaez · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Nominated for a James Beard Award in the international cookbook categoryThe Cuban Table is a comprehensive contemporary overview of Cuban food recipes and culture as recounted by serious home cooks and professional chefs restaurateurs and food writers Cuban-American food writer Ana Sofia...
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The Bands of Mourning

Brandon Sanderson · Tor
Pages: 447
Format: Print book

The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns to the world of Mistborn with the follow-up to Shadows of Self

With The Alloy of Law and Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson surprised readers with a New York Times bestselling...

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Heretics: A Novel

Leonardo Padura · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author

In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel...

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Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

Marc Goodman · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLEROne of the world's leading authorities on global security, Marc Goodman takes readers deep into the digital underground to expose the alarming ways criminals, corporations, and even countries are using new and emerging technologies against...
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Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs

Henry Carroll · Laurence King Ltd.
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Photography is now more popular than ever thanks to the rapid development of digital cameras. Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs is for this new wave of DSLR dabblers and users of compact system, and bridge cameras. It contains no graphs, no techie diagrams and no camera club...
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