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Paradise Lodge
Paradise Lodge

Nina Stibbe · Little
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A delightful story of growing up, getting old, and every step in between, from the acclaimed author of Man at the Helm and Love, Nina.After succeeding in her quest to help her unconventional mother find a new "man at the helm," fifteen-year-old Lizzie Vogel simply wants to be a normal...
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Opening Belle: A Novel
Opening Belle: A Novel

Maureen Sherry · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 338
Format: Print book

Getting rich on Wall Street would be a lot more fun if the men would keep their hands off her assets. A whip-smart and funny novel told by a former Wall Street insider who reveals what it's like for a working woman to balance love, ambition, and family in a world of glamorous excess, outrageous...
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A Lowcountry Wedding
A Lowcountry Wedding

Mary Alice Monroe · Gallery Books
Pages: 410
Format: Print book

Wedding season has arrived in New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe's next novel in the "distinct, complex, and endearing" (Charleston Magazine) Lowcountry Summer series, set against the romantic, charming Charleston Lowcountry.Nothing could be more enchanting...
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Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book Trade Edition
Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book Trade Edition

AAWS
Format: Book

The fourth edition includes twenty-four new stories that provide contemporary sharing for newcomers seeking recovery from alcoholism in A.A. during the early years of the 21st century. Sixteen stories are retained from the third edition, including the "Pioneers of A.A." section, which helps...
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Pachinko
Pachinko

Min Jin Lee · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 490
Format: Hardcover

A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of A Fine Balance and Cutting for Stone.Profoundly moving and gracefully told, PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter...
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The Scam: A Fox and O'Hare Novel
The Scam: A Fox and O'Hare Novel

Janet Evanovich · Bantam Books
Pages: 335
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNicolas Fox is a charming con man and master thief on the run. Kate O'Hare is the FBI agent who is hot on his trail. At least that's what everyone thinks. In reality, Fox and O'Hare are secretly working together to bring down super-criminals the law can't...
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You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin

Rachel Corbett · W W Norton
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The extraordinary story of one of the most fruitful friendships in modern arts and letters. Paris, 1902: Renowned sculptor Auguste Rodin has just completed The Thinker. Rainer Maria Rilke is a delicate young visitor from Prague, broke and suffering from a case of writer's block. When Rilke...
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Jill Leovy · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man is shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of the thousands...
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The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control

Walter Mischel · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it. A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior...
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The Bands of Mourning
The Bands of Mourning

Brandon Sanderson · Tor
Pages: 447
Format: Print book

The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns to the world of Mistborn with the follow-up to Shadows of SelfWith The Alloy of Law and Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson surprised readers with a New York Times bestselling spinoff of his Mistborn books, set after the action of the trilogy,...
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Trowel and Error: Over 700 Tips, Remedies and Shortcuts for the Gardener
Trowel and Error: Over 700 Tips, Remedies and Shortcuts for the Gardener

Sharon Lovejoy · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Ever since she was old enough to help her grandmother in the garden, Sharon Lovejoy has spent her life working with plants--and along the way, through "trowel and error," she's accumulated hundreds and hundreds of remedies, tips, short-cuts, and cure-alls. Now Ms. Lovejoy--author...
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The Magician King: A Novel
The Magician King: A Novel

Lev Grossman · Plume; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to the New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon, The Magicians, from the author of the bestselling The Magicians Land.Quentin Coldwater should be happy. He escaped a miserable Brooklyn childhood, matriculated at a secret college for magic,...
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The Three-Body Problem
The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu · Tor
Pages: 399
Format: Print book

The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple award winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into...
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Counting Descent
Counting Descent

Clint Smith · Write Bloody Pub
Pages: 84
Format: Print book

Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while...
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We Were Liars
We Were Liars

E Lockhart · Delacorte Press
Pages: 227
Format: Book

I will LIE too, as to not spoil your reading. This is a book about a girl, about friendship, about summer. It's a book about money and a wealthy family. It's a book about values and about pretending. It's a book about LIES, those that we tell others and the ones that we tell ourselves....
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