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250 Best Meals in a Mug: Delicious Homemade Microwave Meals in Minutes
250 Best Meals in a Mug: Delicious Homemade Microwave Meals in Minutes

Camilla Saulsbury · Robert Rose
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback

The craze for microwaving portion-size dishes in a mug is only gaining steam. Meals in a mug are a perfect solution for solo dining, and they're also quick and easy options for busy people. And they are a convenient and budget-friendly way to eat delicious and healthy meals when...
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The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

Pico Iyer · Simon & Schuster/ TED
Format: Hardcover

A follow up to Pico Iyer's essay "The Joy of Quiet," The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug.Why might a lifelong traveler like Pico...
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All Summer Long: A Novel
All Summer Long: A Novel

Dorothea Benton Frank · William Morrow
Pages: 375
Format: Print book

Dorothea Benton Frank novels are filled with smart and witty fiction that every reader wants on their bookshelf: soulful, edgy stories about realistic characters familiar to us all that explore the most deeply felt moments of life with wry humor and heart.All Summer Long follows one charming...
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American Sniper
American Sniper

Chris Kyle · William Morrow Paperbacks; Mti Rei edition
Format: Movie Tie-in Edition]: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History Paperback

Flesh and Blood: A Scarpetta Novel
Flesh and Blood: A Scarpetta Novel

Patricia Daniels Cornwell · HarperCollins
Pages: 369
Format: Print book

It's Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday, and she's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids' game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny...
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The Cartel: A novel
The Cartel: A novel

Don Winslow · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the internationally best-selling author of the acclaimed novel The Power of the Dog comes The Cartel, a gripping, true-to-life, ripped-from-the-headlines epic story of power, corruption, revenge, and justice spanning the past decade of the Mexican-American...
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The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money
The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money

Ron Lieber · Harper
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Wendy Mogel's The Blessing of a Skinned Knee and Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman's Nurture Shock, New York Times "Your Money" columnist Ron Lieber delivers a taboo-shattering manifesto that explains how talking openly to children about money can help parents...
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The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope
The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope

Austen Ivereigh · Henry Holt; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A biography of Pope Francis that describes how this revolutionary thinker will use the power of his position to challenge and redirect one of the world's most formidable religionsAn expansive and deeply contextual work, at its heart The Great Reformer is about the intersection of faith...
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The ABLES
The ABLES

Jeremy Scott · Clovercroft Publishing
Format: Print book

I did have fantastic hearing, mostly by virtue of being blind.But that couldn't actually mean that he's trying to tell me I have super powers, right? Because that would be ridiculous. It wasn't the "sex talk" he expected. Phillip Sallinger's dad has told him he's...
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Wiring, Updated 6th Edition: Current with 2014-2017 Electrical Codes
Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Wiring, Updated 6th Edition: Current with 2014-2017 Electrical Codes

Editors of Cool Springs Press · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

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Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

Brent Schlender · Random House Inc
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times BestsellerThere have been many books - on a large and small scale - about Steve Jobs, one of the most famous CEOs in history. But this book is different from all the others. Becoming Steve Jobs takes on and breaks down the existing myth and stereotypes about Steve Jobs....
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Modern Romance
Modern Romance

Aziz Ansari · Penguin Press
Pages: 277
Format: Print book

Now a New York Times BestsellerA hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from one of this generation's sharpest comedic voicesAt some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships,...
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The Nature of the Beast: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
The Nature of the Beast: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Louise Penny · Minotaur Books
Pages: 376
Format: Print book

Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie...
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

Holly Madison · Dey St., an imprint of WilliamMorrowPublishers
Pages: 334
Format: Print book

The shocking, never-before-told story of the bizarre world inside the legendary Playboy Mansion - and, finally, the secret truth about the man who holds the key - from one of the few people who truly knows: Hef's former #1 girlfriend and star of The Girls Next DoorA spontaneous decision...
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Bounty Hunter Code: From The Files of Boba Fett
Bounty Hunter Code: From The Files of Boba Fett

Daniel Wallace · Chronicle
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover - Revised Ed.

Legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett bound together two volumes of great personal significance: an edition of The Bounty Hunter's Guild Handbook, and a recruiting booklet issued by Death Watch, a secretive splinter group of Mandalorians. Together, these volumes make up The Bounty Hunter...
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