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The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There

Vincent T. DeVita · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Cancer touches everybody's life in one way or another. But most of us know very little about how the disease works, why we treat it the way we do, and the personalities whose dedication got us where we are today. For fifty years, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. has been one of those key players:...
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Social Security For Dummies

Jonathan Peterson · For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Print book

Praise for Social Security For Dummies Social Security for Dummies is a must read for people of any age who want a comfortable retirement. Jonathan Peterson does a great job of explaining this complicated system and helps you understand how to get the most from the benefits youve earned....
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Zen Pencils Cartoon Quotes from Inspirational Folks.

Gavin Aung Than · Andrews McMeel Pub
Pages: 175
Format: Print book

Zen Pencils turns your favorite quotes into fun and unique comics that will inspire and motivate even the most cynical of readers. Famous words modern thinkers, including Neil Gaiman, Stephen Fry, John Green, Roger Ebert, and Neil deGrasse Tyson as well as historic greats Marie Curie, C.S....
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Jill Bolte Taylor

The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisp
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The Painter's Daughter

Julie Klassen · Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pages: 458
Format: Print book

Julie Klassen Is the Gold Standard for Inspirational Regency FictionSophie Dupont, daughter of a portrait painter, assists her father in his studio, keeping her own artwork out of sight. She often walks the cliffside path along the north Devon coast, popular with artists and poets. It's...
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The First Hostage: A J. B. Collins Novel

Joel C Rosenberg · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 425
Format: Print book

"The president of the United States . . . is missing."With these words, New York Times journalist J. B. Collins, reporting from the scene of a devastating attack by ISIS terrorists in Amman, Jordan, puts the entire world on high alert. The leaders of Israel and Palestine are critically...
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Edge of Eternity: Book Three of the Century Trilogy

Ken Follett · Dutton
Pages: 1098
Format: Print book

The sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, The Century Trilogy.In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they made their way through...
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

Nate Silver · Penguin Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

"Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise is The Soul of a New Machine for the 21st century." —Rachel Maddow, author of DriftNate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth,...
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Heritage

Sean Brock · Artisan; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times best sellerWinner, James Beard Foundation Award, Best Book of the Year in American CookingWinner, IACP Julia Child First Book Award Sean Brock is the chef behind the game-changing restaurants Husk and McCradys, and his first book offers all of his inspired recipes. With a drive...
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Last Bus to Wisdom: A Novel

Ivan Doig · Riverhead Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The final novel from a great American storyteller.Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination....
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The Versions of Us

Laura Barnett · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 402
Format: Print book

In one moment, two lives will be changed forever . . . and forever . . . and forever. The one thing that s certain is they met on a Cambridge street by chance and felt a connection that would last a lifetime. But as for what happened next . . . They fell wildly in love, or went their separate...
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Confess: A Novel

Colleen Hoover · Atria Books
Pages: 308
Format: Print book

Winner of the 2015 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a new novel about risking everything for love - and finding your heart somewhere between the truth and lies.At age twenty-one, Auburn Reed has already lost everything important...
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The Pursuit: A Fox and O'Hare Novel

Janet Evanovich · Bantam Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Janet Evanovich, author of the blockbuster Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, writer for the Monk television show, team up once again in their rollicking, New York Times bestselling Fox and O'Hare series!Nicolas Fox, international con man, thief, and one of the top ten fugitives on the FBI's...
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Edward E. Baptist · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution - the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy.As historian Edward Baptist reveals in The Half...
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A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World W ar II

Adam Makos · Berkley Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFour days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly, a sleek, dark shape pulled...
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