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To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout...
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Avenue of mysteries

John Irving · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 460
Format: Hardcover

John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego - a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico - has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe,...
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Pacific : silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers

Simon Winchester · Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 492
Format: Print book

The New York Times best-selling author of The Men Who United the States traces the geological history of the Pacific Ocean to assess its relationship with humans and indelible role in the modern world.A colorful and provocative exploration of the modern Pacific Ocean--what it has been,...
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Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

Carl Safina · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 461
Format: Print book

I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain,...
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Archmage

R. A. Salvatore · Wizards of the Coast
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

DRIZZT RETURNS TO THE UNDERDARK! "After a quarter of a century, R.A. Salvatore just keeps getting better and better, and The Companions is another masterful leap forward for one of the greatest fantasy epics of all time." - Philip Athans, best-selling author of Annihilation and Writing...
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

Steve Silberman · Avery, a member of Penguin Group USA
Pages: 534
Format: Print book

A New York Times bestsellerWinner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fictionA groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. What is autism?...
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The Daughter of Time

Josephine Tey · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback

Voted greatest mystery novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990, Josephine Tey recreates one of history's most famous - and vicious - crimes in her classic bestselling novel, a must read for connoisseurs of fiction, now with a new introduction by Robert Barnard.Inspector...
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Aurora

Kim Stanley Robinson · Orbit
Pages: 466
Format: Print book

A major new novel from one of science fiction's most powerful voices, AURORA tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, it is the work of a writer at the height of his powers. Our voyage from Earth began generations...
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Hell's Corner

David Baldacci · Grand Central Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Book

Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in #1 bestselling author David Baldacci's most stunning adventure yet. An attack on the heart of power . . . In sight of the White House . . . At a place known as . . . HELL'S CORNER John Carr, aka Oliver Stone-once the most skilled assassin...
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Two If by Sea

Jacquelyn Mitchard · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean, an epic story of courage and devotion that spans three continents and the entire map of the human heart.Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami in Brisbane, American expat...
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Everyday Super Food

Jamie Oliver · Ecco
Pages: 309
Format: Print book

This is the most personal book I've ever written, and in order to write it I've been on a complete journey through the world of health and nutrition. Now, using the thing I know best - incredible food - my wish is that this book will inspire and empower you to live the healthiest, happiest,...
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The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu · Tor
Pages: 399
Format: Print book

The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple award winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into...
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Tell No One

Harlan Coben · Dell
Format: Kindle Edition

For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.Everyone tells him it's time to move...
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Study in sable : an elemental masters novel.

Mercedes Lackey · DAW Books
Pages: 313
Format: Print book

Psychic Nan Killian and Medium Sarah Lyon-White - along with their clever birds, the raven Neville and the parrot Grey - have been agents of Lord Alderscroft, the Elemental Fire Master known as the Wizard of London, since leaving school. Now, Lord Alderscroft assigns them another commission:...
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Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance In Your Twenties and Thirties

Beth Kobliner · Simon & Schuster; 3rd edition
Format: Book

“A highly readable and substantial guide to the grown-up realms of money and business.” —Deborah Stead, The New York Times, If you've been meaning to get your finances in shape but have no idea where to start, this is your playbook: The all-new edition of the New York...
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