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Careful: A User's Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds

STEVE CASNER · RIVERHEAD Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

"Gripping, page-turning material . . . a new way of thinking about survival in a world filled with hazards and distractions." - Charles Duhigg, author of Smarter Faster Better and The Power of HabitA safety expert reveals why few of us are as careful as we think we are, and what...
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Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover

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Confessions of a Domestic Failure

Bunmi Laditan · MIRA
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

From the creator of The Honest Toddler comes a fiction debut sure to be a must-read for moms everywhere There are good moms and bad moms - and then there are hot-mess moms. Introducing Ashley Keller, career girl turned stay-at-home mom who's trying to navigate the world of Pinterest-perfect,...
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The Play of Death

Oliver Po?tzsch · Mariner Books
Pages: 493
Format: Paperback

The mysterious sixth entry in the Hangman's Daughter series It is 1670 and Simon Fronwieser is in the town of Oberammergau to bring his seven-year-old son to boarding school. As he bids his boy a tearful farewell, news comes of a shocking murder: the man who was to play the part of Christ...
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The People We Hate at the Wedding

GRANT GINDER · Flatiron Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"Family dysfunction at its best. This novel is addicting and entertaining and I couldn't put it down!" - Jennifer Close, New York Times bestselling author of Girls in White Dresses and The HopefulsRelationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to the point where they start...
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The Fifth Petal: A Novel

Brunonia Barry · Crown
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

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The Arrangement: A Novel

Sarah Dunn · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 357
Format: Hardcover

Named one of the 9 Most Addictive Books of 2017 (So Far) by Kirkus, a Happily Ever After read by USA Today, and one of Entertainment Weekly's Best New Books.
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7 Ate 9

Tara Lazar · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

6 has a problem.
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Prussian Blue

Philip Kerr · Marian Wood Books/Putnam
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much-anticipated return of Bernie Gunther, our compromised former Berlin bull and unwilling SS officer. With his cover blown, he is waiting for the next move in the cat-and-mouse game that, even a decade after Germany's defeat, continues...
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Camino Island: A Novel

JOHN GRISHAM · DOUBLEDAY
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Bestselling author John Grisham stirs up trouble in paradise in his endlessly surprising new thriller. Priceless F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts stolen in a daring heist; a young woman recruited to recover them; a beach-resort bookseller who gets more than he bargained for - all in one long...
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Into the Water

PAULA HAWKINS · Riverhead Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

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South and West: From a Notebook

JOAN DIDION · Knopf
Pages: 126
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard...
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House of Spies

DANIEL SILVA · Harper
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Daniel Silva delivers another spellbinding thriller - the seventeenth novel in his acclaimed Gabriel Allon series."One of fiction's greatest spies," (Kirkus Reviews) , Gabriel Allon returns for his seventeenth adventure in the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author...
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Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die

Garrett Graff · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 529
Format: Hardcover

The eye-opening true story of the government's secret plans to survive and rebuild after a catastrophic attack on US soil - a narrative that span from the dawn of the nuclear age to today. Every day in Washington, DC, the blue-and-gold 1st Helicopter Squadron, code-named "MUSSEL,"...
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The Meaning of Michelle: 15 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own

Veronica Chambers · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover

A NEW IN NONFICTION PEOPLE PICK | NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Huffington Post * Glamour * Bustle * RedEyeA Los Angeles Times bestseller**One of BookRiot's '11 Books to Help Us Make It Through a Trump Presidency'****One of The Guardian's Essentials for Black History Month**"Whenever...
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