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Iced Under

Barbara Ross · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The snow is deep in Maine's Busman's Harbor and the mighty rivers are covered in ice. Snowden Family Clambake Company proprietor Julia Snowden and her mother, Jacqueline, are hunkered down for the winter when a mysterious package arrives - heating up February with an unexpected...
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Thanks A Thousand: A Gratitude Journey

A. J. Jacobs · Simon & Schuster/ TED
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

The idea was deceptively simple: New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs decided to thank every single person involved in producing his morning cup of coffee. The resulting journey takes him across the globe, transforms his life, and reveals secrets about how gratitude can make us all happier,...
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Stowed Away

Barbara Ross · Kensington
Format: Mass Market Paperback

It's June in Busman's Harbor, Maine, and Julia Snowden and her family are working hard to get their authentic Maine clambake business ready for summer. Preparations must be put on hold, however, when a mysterious yacht drops anchor in the harbor - and delivers an unexpected dose...
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Adequate Yearly Progress: A Novel

Roxanna Elden · Rivet Street Books
Pages: 318
Format: Paperback

A workplace novel that captures teaching with insight, humor, and heart. This perspective-hopping debut follows teachers at an urban high school as their professional lives impact their personal lives and vice versa.Each year brings familiar educational challenges to Brae Hill Valley, a struggling...
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I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

ABBI JACOBSON · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a hilarious and poignant collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew.When Abbi Jacobson announced to friends and acquaintances that she planned to drive across...
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Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter

Scott Adams · Portfolio
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

"If you watched the entire election cycle and concluded that Trump was nothing but a lucky clown, you missed one of the most important perceptual shifts in the history of humankind. I'll fix that for you in this book." Adams was one of the earliest public figures to predict...
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About My Mother: True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother: A Memoir

Peggy Rowe · Rowe, Peggy
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A Message from Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs Guy: Just to be clear, About My Mother is a book about my grandmother, written by my mother. That's not to say it's not about my mother - it is. In fact, About My Mother is as much about my mother as it is about my grandmother. In that sense,...
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You Are a Badass Every Day

JEN SINCERO · Viking
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The new book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Are a Badass and You Are a Badass at Making Money.
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How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't

LANE MOORE · Atria Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book.Lane Moore is best known as an award-winning sex and relationships editor, a comic, a rock singer,...
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The Evasion-English Dictionary: Expanded Edition

Maggie Balistreri · Em Dash Group
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback

"Cultural criticism takes the form of a dictionary in this slender, amusing volume." A must read for a post-factual world, the expanded edition of The Evasion-English Dictionary is an insightful roadmap to popular words and phrases that reveal what we really mean, despite our use of what...
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