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The Ship of Brides: A Novel

Jojo Moyes · Penguin Books, 2014.
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You, After You, and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over...
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The Girl in the Spider's Web: A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series

David Lagercrantz · Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Pages: 399
Format: Print book

Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return She is the girl with the dragon tattoo - a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusading journalist whose championing of the truth often brings him to the brink of prosecution. Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from...
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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

Bruce Schneier · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

You are under surveillance right now.Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who's with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends....
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Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Mary Norris · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The most irreverent and helpful book on language since the #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves.Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer,...
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This Was a Man

Jeffrey Archer · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 403
Format: Print book

This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies? In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game?Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus,...
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Scents and Sensibility: A Chet and Bernie Mystery

Spencer Quinn · Atria Books, An Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2015. ©2015
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

When a mysterious case of illegal cactus smuggling comes to their attention, Chet and his human P.I. companion, Bernie Little, find themselves in a prickly situation in this eighth book in the New York Times bestselling mystery series.In the latest entry in the immensely popular Chet and Bernie...
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Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure

Jason Fry · Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Luke Skywalker returns 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 finds Luke Skywalker, C-3PO, and R2-D2 stranded on a mysterious planet, and explores a dangerous duel between Luke...
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Tiffany Girl: A Novel

Deeanne Gist · Howard Books
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback

From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair and Fair Play comes a compelling historical novel about a progressive New Woman—the girl behind Tiffanys chapel—and the love that threatens it all. As preparations for the 1893 Worlds Fair set Chicago and the nation on fire, Louis...
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The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

Naoki Higashida · Random House
Pages: 135
Format: Hardcover

"One of the most remarkable books I've ever read. It's truly moving, eye-opening, incredibly vivid."--Jon Stewart, "The Daily Show" NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - "The Wall Street Journal - Bloomberg Businessweek - Bookish" FINALIST FOR THE BOOKS...
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Double Fudge Brownie Murder

Joanne Fluke · Kensington Publishing Corp., 2015.
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

Life in tiny Lake Eden, Minnesota, is usually pleasantly uneventful. Lately, though, it seems everyone has more than their fair share of drama--especially the Swensen family. With so much on her plate, Hannah Swensen can hardly find the time to think about her bakery--let alone...
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The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance---What Women Should Know

Katty Kay · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

Following the success of Lean In and Why Women Should Rule the World, the authors of the bestselling Womenomics provide an informative and practical guide to understanding the importance of confidence - and learning how to achieve it - for women of all ages and at all stages of their career.Working...
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Avenue of mysteries

John Irving · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 460
Format: Hardcover

John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego - a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico - has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe,...
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Barkskins: A Novel

Annie Proulx · Scribner
Pages: 717
Format: Print book

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Best Novel A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Best Book of the Year From Annie Proulx - the Pulitzer Prize-­ and National Book Award-­winning author of The Shipping News and "Brokeback Mountain,"...
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Walking Disaster: A Novel

Jamie McGuire · Atria Books; Original edition
Format: Book

Finally, the highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Disaster. Can you love someone too much? Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died: Love hard. Fight harder. In Walking Disaster, the life of Travis is full of fast women, underground...
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel

Richard Flanagan · Random House Inc
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Man Booker Prize"Nothing since Cormac McCarthy's The Road has shaken me like this." - The Washington PostFrom the author of the acclaimed Gould's Book of Fish, a magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present....
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