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Beyond the Ice Limit: A Gideon Crew Novel

Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 375
Format: Print book

BEYOND THE ICE LIMITThat thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now...With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth.Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable...
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Angela Duckworth · Scribner
Pages: 333
Format: Print book

In this instant New York Times bestseller, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed - be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people - that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence...
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The Heavenly Table: A Novel

Donald Ray Pollock · Doubleday
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors. It is 1917, in that sliver of border...
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Truly Madly Guilty

Liane Moriarty · Flatiron Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Entertainment Weekly's "Best Beach Bet" A USA Today Hot Books for Summer SelectionA Miami Herald Summer Reads PickThe new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot, about how sometimes we don't...
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J D Vance · Harpercollins
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working classHillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white...
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel

Fredrik Backman · Atria Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the internationally bestselling A Man Called Ove, a charming, warmhearted novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother's fairy tales.Elsa is seven years...
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The Girls: A Novel

Emma Cline · Random House
Pages: 355
Format: Print book

An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong - this stunning first novel is perfect for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. Northern California, during...
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Journey to Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Jacqueline Winspear · Harpercollins
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler's Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue - the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear's New York Times bestselling "series that seems to get better with each entry" (Wall...
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The Swans of Fifth Avenue: A Novel

Melanie Benjamin · Delacorte Press
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York's "Swans" of the 1950s - and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley. Of all the glamorous...
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The Nest

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney · Ecco
Pages: 353
Format: Print book

Instant New York Times Bestseller"Hilarious and big-hearted, The Nest is a stellar debut." - People, Book of the Week"Her writing is like really good dark chocolate: sharper and more bittersweet than the cheap stuff, but also too delicious not to finish in one sitting."...
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Boys in the Trees: A Memoir

Carly Simon · Flatiron Books
Pages: 376
Format: Print book

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A People Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year!"Intelligent and captivating. Don't miss it." - People Magazine"One of the best celebrity memoirs of the year." -The Hollywood ReporterRock Star. Composer and Lyricist. Feminist Icon....
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Kitchens of the Great Midwest: A Novel

J. Ryan Stradal · Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pages: 312
Format: Large Print Library Binding

Who is Eva Thorvald? To her single father, a chef, she's a pint-sized recipe tester and the love of his life. To the chilli chowdown contestants of Cook County, Illinois, she's a fire-eating demon. To the fashionable foodie goddess of supper clubs, she's a wanton threat. She's an enigma,...
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Maestra

L S Hilton · Putnam, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

With the cunning of Gone Girl's Amy Dunne, and as dangerous as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's Lisbeth Salander, the femme fatale of this Talented Mr. Ripley-esque psychological thriller is sexy, smart, and very, very bad in all the best ways. Judith Rashleigh spends her days as a put-upon...
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Dear Fang, With Love: A novel

Rufi Thorpe · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed author of The Girls from Corona del Mar, a sprawling, ambitious new novel about a young father who takes his teenage daughter to Europe, hoping that an immersion in history might help them forget his past mistakes and her uncertain future. Lucas and Katya were boarding...
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A Gathering of Shadows

V. E. Schwab · Tom Doherty Associates
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

Four months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Rhy was wounded and the Dane twins fell, and the stone was cast with Holland's dying body through the rift, and into Black London. In many...
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Lab Girl

Hope Jahren · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers,...
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Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood

Drema Hall Berkheimer · Zondervan
Pages: 203
Format: Print book

"Mining companies piled trash coal in a slag heap and set it ablaze. The coal burned up, but the slate didn't. The heat turned it rose and orange and lavender. The dirt road I lived on was paved with that sharp-edged rock. We called it red dog. Grandma told me, Don't you go running...
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City of Secrets: A Novel

Stewart O'Nan · Viking
Pages: 194
Format: Print book

"Stewart O'Nan's City of Secrets will keep you up all night reading - what a beautifully crafted novel." - Alan Furst, New York Times bestselling author of Mission to ParisFrom master storyteller Stewart O'Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem...
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