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A curious mind : the secret to a bigger life

Brian Grazer · Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

"From Academy Award-nominated producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed business journalist Charles Fishman comes a brilliantly entertaining peek into the weekly "curiosity conversations" that have inspired Grazer to create some of America's favorite and iconic movies and television...
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Bury Me In My Boots

The Cadillac Three
Format: Audio CD

2016 album from Nashville southern rock trio. Includes 'The South' featuring Dierks Bentley, Mike Eli & Florida Georgia Line.
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The Saturday Evening Girls Club: A Novel

Jane Healey · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 242
Format: Paperback

For four young immigrant women living in Boston's North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesn't come easy. But at least they have one another and the Saturday Evening Girls Club, a social pottery-making group offering respite from their hectic home lives - and hope for a better...
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Old Yeller

Fred Gipson · Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback

When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller; to read this eloquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable...
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Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy

Judd Apatow · Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the writer and director of Knocked Up and the producer of Freaks and Geeks comes a collection of intimate, hilarious conversations with the biggest names in comedy from the past thirty years - including Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Roseanne Barr,...
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The Nature of the Beast: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Louise Penny · Minotaur Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

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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Saint Anything

Sarah Dessen · Viking
Pages: 417
Format: Print book

A New York Times bestsellerA TIME Magazine Top 10 Children's Book of 2015 "Saint Anything is a poignant, honest story about how we might suffer the misfortune of someone else's bad choices, how people who love us can become family when we desperately need it, and how starting over...
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Robert D. Putnam · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 386
Format: Print book

A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility.It's the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success. This is the America...
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100 of the Most Beautiful Piano Solos Ever

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard; 1 edition
Format: Musical score

100 pop and classical standards that every piano player should master, including: Air on the G String * Bridge over Troubled Water * Canon in D * Clair de Lune * Fields of Gold * Fur Elise * I Dreamed a Dream * I Will Always Love You * Imagine * Lullaby of Birdland * Memory * Misty * Moon...
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2016: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

Richard N. Bolles · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 353
Format: Print book

What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world's most popular job-hunting guide, revised and updated annually, with more than ten million copies sold. This 2016 edition features the latest studies and perspectives on today's job-market, including proven strategies for finding jobs even when...
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Station Eleven

Emily St John Mandel · Random House Inc
Pages: 333
Format: Book

2014 National Book Award FinalistA New York Times BestsellerAn audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts...
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Mr. Mercedes: A Novel

Stephen King · Scribner
Pages: 437
Format: Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2015 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands.In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city,...
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Circling the Sun: A Novel

Paula McLain · Ballantine Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, BOOKPAGE, AND SHELF AWARENESS * "Paula McLain is considered the new star of historical fiction, and for good reason. Fans of The Paris Wife will be captivated by Circling the Sun, which . . . is both beautifully...
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Flipping Houses For Dummies

Ralph R. Roberts · For Dummies
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Not just another house flipping book You can find plenty of books about flipping houses that claim "anyone can do it." Flipping Houses For Dummies takes a different approach - honesty. We don't claim that flipping houses is "easy" or "simple" or "risk-free,"...
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Make It Ahead: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

Ina Garten · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

For the first time, trusted and beloved cookbook author Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, answers the number one question she receives from cooks: Can I make it ahead?If you've ever found yourself stuck in front of the stove at your own party, scrambling to get everything to the table...
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