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Crown of Midnight

Sarah J. Maas · Bloomsbury
Pages: 420
Format: Print book

Celaena Sardothien is the king's Champion yet she is far from loyal to the crown, for the man she serves is bent on evil. But working against her master in secret is no easy task. As Celaena tries to untangle the mysteries buried within the glass castle, she can trust no one, not even her supposed...
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Ancillary Sword

Ann Leckie · Orbit
Format: Paperback

The sequel to Ancillary Justice, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, British Science Fiction, Locus and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Douglas A Blackmon · Anchor Books
Pages: 468
Format: Paperback

In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an "Age of Neoslavery" that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.Using a vast record of original documents...
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Art Before Breakfast: A Zillion Ways to be More Creative No Matter How Busy You Are

Danny Gregory · Chronicle Books
Format: Print book

Packed with the signature can-do attitude that makes beloved artist Danny Gregory a creativity guru to thousands across the globe, this unique guide serves up a hearty helping of inspiration. For aspiring artists who want to draw and paint but just can't seem to find time in the day,...
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The Norton Anthology of Poetry

Margaret W Ferguson · W.W. Norton
Pages: 2182
Format: Paperback

Offering over one thousand years of verse from the medieval period to the present, The Norton Anthology of Poetry is the classroom standard for the study of poetry in English. The Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while...
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The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

Mark Schatzker · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 259
Format: Print book

A lively and important argument from an award-winning journalist proving that the key to reversing America's health crisis lies in the overlooked link between nutrition and flavor.In The Dorito Effect, Mark Schatzker shows us how our approach to the nation's number one public health crisis...
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Get A Grip: How to Get Everything You Want from Your Entrepreneurial Business

Gino Wickman · BenBella Books, Inc., New York, NY
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback

It's time to take your business to the next level.Eileen Sharp and Vic Hightower were frustrated. After years of profitable, predictable growth, Swan Services was in a rut. Meetings were called and discussions held, but few decisions were made and even less got done. People were pointing...
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Diary of an Oxygen Thief

Anonymous. · Gallery Books
Pages: 151
Format: Print book

Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer's assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He's blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending...
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Superman: Red Son

Mark Millar · DC Comics; New edition edition
Format: Paperback

Imagine a reality where the worlds most powerful super-being does not grow up in Smallville, Kansas - or even America, for that matterSUPERMAN RED SON is a vivid tale of Cold War paranoia, that reveals how the ship carrying the infant who would later be known as Superman lands in the midst...
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How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life

Dr. Bob Rotella · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller "Straightforward and simple...Do the math. Read Rotella." - The Wall Street Journal America's preeminent sports psychologist delivers a groundbreaking guide to success in all aspects of life - not just sports - from business to relationships to personal...
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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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Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail

Dave Arnold · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2015 James Beard Award for Best Beverage Book and the 2015 IACP Jane Grigson Award.A revolutionary approach to making better-looking, better-tasting drinks.In Dave Arnolds world, the shape of an ice cube, the sugars and acids in an apple, and the bubbles in a bottle of champagne...
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A House Among the Trees: A Novel

Julia Glass · Pantheon
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In Julia Glass's fifth book since her acclaimed novel Three Junes won the National Book Award, she gives us the story of an unusual bond between a world-famous writer and his assistant - a richly plotted novel of friendship and love, artistic ambition, the perils of celebrity, and the power...
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Act Like Men: 40 Days to Biblical Manhood

James MacDonald · Moody Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Man up; it's the best thing you can do for others - and yourselfMen are so busy doing so many different things; when not working, their free time is often full of the trivial or sinful. But what society and church so desperately need are men who embrace all that God created them...
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The Wright Brothers

David G McCullough · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown...
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