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World War II: The Definitive Visual History

DK · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover

World War II: The Definitive Visual History is a comprehensive, authoritative, yet accessible guide to the people, politics, events, and lasting effects of World War II. Perhaps the most complex, frightening, and destructive event in global history, the Second World War saw the heights...
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Eileen: A Novel

Ottessa Moshfegh · Penguin Press
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover

Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
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Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To

Melanie Cullen · NOLO; Sixth edition
Format: Paperback

Get your life organized with the best workbook available!Paperwork and personal information isn't always easy to find, and organizing your records can seem like an intimidating task. But, whether you need to organize records for yourself, your family or your executor, Get It Together...
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All Dogs Go to Kevin: Everything Three Dogs Taught Me

Jessica Vogelsang · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

ALL DOGS GO TO KEVIN is a humorous and touching memoir that will appeal to anyone who has ever loved an animal or lost hours in James Herriot's classic veterinary stories. You can't always count on people, but you can always count on your dog. No one knows that better than veterinarian...
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If You Give a Mouse an iPhone: A Cautionary Tail

Ann Droyd · Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

If you give in to temptation and give a bored little mouse your iPhone, even for ten minutes, hes probably going to beam to some faraway place beyond time, space, and the sound of your pleading voice. And if hes that far gone, he wont have any idea whats going on around him, and he might...
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In Defense of a Liberal Education

Fareed Zakaria · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria argues for a renewed commitment to the world's most valuable educational tradition.The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing...
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You're Never Weird on the Internet

Felicia Day · Touchstone Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The Instant New York Times Bestseller - Featuring a Foreword by Joss Whedon "Felicia Day is a lot of fun, and so is her book." - George R. R. Martin From online entertainment pioneer, actress, and "queen of the geeks" Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet...
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Love Poems for Married People

John Kenney · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

Based on his wildly popular New Yorker piece, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious collection of love poems for, well, married people. First published on Valentine's Day in 2016, John Kenney's collection of poems for married people quickly became one of the most...
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The Sellout: A Novel

Paul Beatty · Farrar
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionNamed one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street JournalA biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's...
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The Grain Brain Cookbook: More Than 150 Life-Changing Gluten-Free Recipes to Transform Your Health

David Perlmutter · Little Brown & Co
Pages: 337
Format: Print book

The authorized companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller Grain Brain, with more than 150 life-changing gluten-free recipes for complete health and vitality. Dr. David Perlmutter's groundbreaking bestseller Grain Brain revolutionized the way we think about our health, exposing the devastating...
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The Photograph

Beverly Lewis · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Inspiring New Novel from the "Biggest Name in Amish Fiction"Eva Esch and her sisters are in a predicament. With the passing of their widowed mother, Eva's older brother Menno plans to move his growing family into the Eden Valley farmhouse where they all grew up, leaving little...
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Welcome to Braggsville: A Novel

T. Geronimo Johnson · William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Print book

National BestsellerFrom the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold It 'Til It Hurts comes a dark and socially provocative Southern-fried comedy about four UC Berkeley students who stage a dramatic protest during a Civil War reenactment - longlisted for the 2015...
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Last Bus to Wisdom: A Novel

Ivan Doig · Riverhead Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Named a Best Book of the Year by the Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Kirkus ReviewThe 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...
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Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

Eric Greitens Navy SEAL · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling author, Navy SEAL, and humanitarian Eric Greitens offer a masterpiece of warrior wisdom that will change your life. You cannot bounce back from hardship. You can only move through it. There is a path through pain to wisdom, through suffering to strength, and through fear to courage...
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The Book of Summer: A Novel

MICHELLE GABLE · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestselling Author of A Paris ApartmentThe ocean, the wild roses on the dunes and the stunning Cliff House, perched atop a bluff in Sconset, Nantucket. Inside the faded pages of the Cliff House guest book live the spellbinding stories of its female inhabitants: from Ruby,...
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