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Inland: A Novel

Téa Obreht · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife returns with "a bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West" (Entertainment Weekly) .

In the lawless, drought-ridden lands...
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Live Original: How the Duck Commander Teen Keeps It Real and Stays True to Her Values

Sadie Robertson · Howard Books
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Seventeen-year-old Sadie Robertson - star of A&E's Duck Dynasty and daughter of Willie and Korie Robertson - shares her outlook on life as she opens up about herself and the values that make her family what it is.Sadie Robertson represents everything that a well-adjusted teenager...
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The Dutch House CD: A Novel

Ann Patchett · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go.

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the princess saves herself in this one

AMANDA LOVELACE · Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Winner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award, the princess saves herself in this one is a collection of poetry about resilience. It is about writing your own ending.


From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first...
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My Sunshine Away

M O Walsh · Amy Einhorn Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Instant New York Times BestsellerAn Entertainment Weekly 'Must List' Pick"The last page is as satisfying as the first." - Kathryn Stockett"I really loved this book... I can't praise it enough." - Anne Rice"It's a book to read and reread, one that...
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Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House

Kathleen Grissom · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 370
Format: Print book

From the author of the New York Times bestseller and beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House, a novel of family and long-buried secrets along the treacherous Underground Railroad.

Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, has a deadly secret that...
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UnDivided

Neal Shusterman · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover


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The New Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook: 150 Fresh Ideas for America's Favorite Pan

Ellen Brown · Sterling Pub Co Inc
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

Cast iron skillets are booming in popularity: they're versatile, they're relatively inexpensive, and they don't have the toxic chemicals released by artificial nonstick pans. Though cast iron was the only pan in grandma's kitchen, these 150 recipes are fresh and updated,...
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The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories

Otto Penzler · Pantheon Books
Pages: 789
Format: Print book

Presenting Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's latest anthology, "The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories, " the largest collection of Sherlockian tales ever assembled now in a deluxe hardcover edition, perfect for the collector and gift markets. Arguably no other character...
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The Summer List: A Novel

Amy Mason Doan · Graydon House
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

In the tradition of Judy Blume's Summer Sisters, The Summer List is a tender yet tantalizing novel about two friends, the summer night they fell apart, and the scavenger hunt that reunites them decades later - until the clues expose a breathtaking secret that just might shatter them once...
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Ordinary Grace

William Kent Krueger · Atria Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVELWINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARDA SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since...
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Sausage Making: The Definitive Guide with Recipes

Ryan Farr · Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

By the author of Whole Beast ButcheryWith the rise of the handcrafted food movement, food lovers are going crazy for the all-natural, uniquely flavored, handmade sausages theyre finding in butcher cases everywhere. At San Franciscos 4505 Meats, butcher Ryan Farr takes the craft of sausage...
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The Martian

Andy Weir · Crown
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.

Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.

After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces...
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Dark Corners: A Novel

Ruth Rendell · Scribner
Pages: 228
Format: Print book

A spectacularly compelling story of blackmail, murders both accidental and opportunistic, and of one life s fateful unraveling from Ruth Rendell one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation ("People") writing at her most acute and mesmerizing. When his father dies,...
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The Theory of Death: A Decker/Lazarus Novel

Faye Kellerman · William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 371
Format: Print book

Now living in upstate New York, former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is plunged into a bizarre web involving academia, underworld crime, and calculating killers in this compulsive novel in New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman's beloved Decker and Lazarus series.Former LAPD...
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