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Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens Smuggler's Run: A Han Solo Adventure

Greg Rucka · Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pages: 183
Format: Print book

Han Solo and Chewbacca the Wookiee team-up for an all-new adventure in this thrilling upper middle grade novel. Set between Star Wars: A New Hope and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, the story follows everyone's favorite pair of smugglers as they fly the Millennium Falcon on a top-secret...
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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution

Jonathan Eig · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014' A Washington Post '50 Notable Works of Nonfiction & Best Science Books 2014' A Chicago Tribune 'Nonfiction Books to Gift 2014' A Slate 'Best Books 2014: Staff Picks' A Booklist '2014 Editor's Choice'...
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The Victory Garden: A Novel

Hoge Raad. · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 353
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Tuscan Child comes a beautiful and heart-rending novel of a woman's love and sacrifice during the First World War.As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced...
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The Bone Labyrinth: A Sigma Force Novel

James Rollins · William Morrow
Pages: 471
Format: Print book

A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today, all to reveal a true mystery buried deep within our DNA, a mystery that will leave readers changed forever . . .In this groundbreaking masterpiece of ingenuity...
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Jerusalem: A Cookbook

Yotam Ottolenghi · Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

A collection of 120 recipes exploring the flavors of Jerusalem from the New York Times bestselling author of Plenty, one of the most lauded cookbooks of 2011.In Jerusalem, Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi explore the vibrant cuisine of their home city - with its diverse Muslim, Jewish,...
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Somebody I Used to Know

David Bell · New American Library
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

The breakout author of The Forgotten Girl and Cemetery Girl, "one of the brightest and best crime fiction writers of our time" (Suspense Magazine) delivers a new novel about a man who is haunted by a face from his past....When Nick Hansen sees the young woman at the grocery...
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Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less

Robert I. Sutton · Crown Business
Pages: 346
Format: Book

Amazon Best Books of the Year list, Business & Investing Inc.com 10 Best Business Books of 2014Financial Times - The Pick of 2014's Management Books The Globe & Mail's list of 5 Best Business Books in 2014 Library Journal's list of 5 Best Business Books in 2014In Scaling Up Excellence,...
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Precious Gifts: A Novel

Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press
Pages: 318
Format: Print book

Handsome, widowed, sophisticated, utterly charming, Paul Parker won the heart of a wealthy young Frenchwoman - the daughter of an American financier, the granddaughter of a major French art dealer - as his second wife. In two marriages, he fathered a challenging son and three very different...
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The Walking Dead: Compendium Two

Robert Kirkman · Image Comics; 1st edition
Format: Comics

Returning with the second eight volumes of the fan-favorite, New York Times bestseller series, The Walking Dead, collected into one massive paperback collection! This is the perfect collection for any fan of the Emmy Award-winning television series on AMC over one-thousand pages chronicling...
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Leaving Time: A Novel

Jodi Picoult · Ballantine Books
Pages: 450
Format: Print book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThroughout her blockbuster career, Jodi Picoult has seamlessly blended nuanced characters, riveting plots, and rich prose, brilliantly creating stories that "not only provoke the mind but touch the flawed souls in all of us" (The Boston Globe) . Now,...
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The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives

Theresa Brown · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital's cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, lives can be lost,...
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Fates and Furies: A Novel

Lauren Groff · Riverhead Books
Pages: 390
Format: Print book

AMAZON'S 2015 BEST BOOK OF THE YEARNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NPR MORNING EDITION BOOK CLUB PICKNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY...
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The Murder House

James Patterson · Little, Brown, 2015.
Pages: 12
Format: Print book

It has an ocean-front view, a private beach--and a deadly secret that won't stay buried.No. 7 Ocean Drive is a gorgeous, multi-million-dollar beachfront estate in the Hamptons, where money and privilege know no bounds. But its beautiful gothic exterior hides a horrific past: it was the scene...
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Becky Albertalli · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 303
Format: Print book

William C. Morris Award WinnerNational Book Award LonglistEverybody is talking about Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda!"A remarkable gift of a novel." - Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle"I am so in love with this book." - Nina LaCour, author of Hold Still"Feels...
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Echo

Pam MunÌ?oz Ryan · Scholastic Press
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

Winner of a 2016 Newbery Honor, ECHO pushes the boundaries of genre, form, and storytelling innovation. Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades...
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