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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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Loom Knitting Primer: A Beginner's Guide to Knitting on a Loom, with over 30 Fun Projects

Isela Phelps · St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

Knitting looms are flying off the shelves in craft stores because loom-knitting is such an easy craft to take up—it can be learned by both children and adults alike in just a few hours. If you have fond memories of spool knitting (a round wooden spool with a central hole surrounded...
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Beautiful Disaster: A Novel

Jamie McGuire · Atria Books
Format: Paperback

The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning...
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The Dog Stars

Peter Heller · Vintage
Format: Kindle Edition

Publishers WeeklyIn the tradition of postapocalyptic literary fiction such as Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Jim Crace's The Pesthouse, this hypervisceral first novel by adventure writer Heller (Kook) takes place nine years after a superflu has killed off much of mankind. Hig, an amateur...
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Southern lights : a novel

Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press
Format:  eBook : Document : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats

Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, she's made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single...
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The Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Louise Penny · Minotaur Books
Pages: 373
Format: Hardcover

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The Rainbow Fish (Board Book)

Marcus Pfister · North-South / Night Sky Books
Pages: 6
Format: Board book

The award-winning book about a beautiful fish who finds friendship and happiness when he learns to share is now available in a board book edition for the youngest child.
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The Gifted School: A Novel

Bruce Holsinger · Random House Large Print
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback

"This addictive novel digs hard into the culture of striving parents and anxious children, exploring privilege, competition and the elusiveness of happiness. A deeply pleasurable read." - Meg Wolitzer Smart and juicy, a compulsively readable novel about a previously happy group...
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One Second After

William R. Forstchen · Forge Books
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover

New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark...
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Braver Than We Are

Meat Loaf
Format: CD

Meat Loaf, the rock legend who along with songwriter/producer Jim Steinman broke sales records with the classic multi-platinum albums "Bat Out of Hell" and "Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, " announces their reunion on the new album "Braver Than We Are"...
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The 17 Day Diet: A Doctor's Plan Designed for Rapid Results

Mike Moreno · Free Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

If you need to shed pounds fast and in a safe effective and lasting way this is the book for you Unlike many diet programs that starve you down to size Dr Mike Morenorsquos Day Diet relies on proven methods to help you take weight off and keep it off for goodmdashwhether yoursquove got pounds...
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A Time to Kill: A Novel (Jake Brigance Book 1)

John Grisham · Random House Audio
Pages: 14
Format: Audiobook

Before The Firm and The Pelican Brief made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and justice -- at last it's available in a Doubleday hardcover edition. In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial...
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The Calligrapher's Bible: 100 Complete Alphabets and How to Draw Them

David Harris · Barron's
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Both hobbyists and students of design will value this easy-to-use self-teaching book. Each of its 100 sections shows a complete A-to-Z calligraphy alphabet, with lessons on correct pen strokes and advice on avoiding errors. Beginners will find sound basic instruction, while experienced...
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Hardpressed: The Hacker Series #2

Meredith Wild · Forever; Reissue edition
Format: Print book

In HARDPRESSED, the highly anticipated second book of the Hacker Series that began with Hardwired, Blake and Erica face threats that put both their love and their lives on the line. Despite Blake Landons controlling ways, the young and wealthy hacker finally won the trust of the woman he loves....
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The Cast

Danielle Steel
Format: Paperback(Mass Market Paperback - Reprint)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Danielle Steel follows a talented and creative woman as she launches her first television series, helping to recruit an unforgettable cast that will bring a dramatic family saga to the screen. Kait Whittier has built her magazine column into a hugely respected...
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