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The Lost Tudor Princess : The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas

Alison Weir · Ballantine Books
Pages: 537
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE INDEPENDENT * From New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir comes the first biography of Margaret Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry VIII of England who used her sharp intelligence...
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Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 460
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestseller that Entertainment Weekly called "a surefire hit."NOW AN HBO® LIMITED SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD, LAURA DERN, ADAM SCOTT, AND ZOË KRAVITZ FROM THE DIRECTOR OF WILD AND DALLAS...
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The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs

Elaine Sciolino · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. "I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs, " Sciolino explains, as she celebrates...
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Warriors of the Storm: A Novel

Bernard Cornwell · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The ninth installment of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London) - the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series.A fragile peace reigns in Wessex,...
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Julian Fellowes's Belgravia

Julian Fellowes · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 402
Format: Print book

FROM THE CREATOR OF DOWNTOWN ABBEY The New York Times bestselling novel about scandalous secrets and star-crossed lovers On the evening of 15 June 1915, the great and the good of British society have gathered in Brussels at what is to become one of the most tragic parties in history - the Duchess...
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Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Celeste Ng · Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet . . . So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright...
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The Sleeper and the Spindle

Neil Gaiman · HarperCollins
Pages: 66
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling and Newbery and Carnegie Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman and Kate Greenaway-winning illustrator Chris Riddell have created a thrillingly reimagined fairy tale, "told in a way only Gaiman can" and featuring "stunning metallic artwork" (GeekInsider.com)...
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The Book

Amaranth Borsuk · The MIT Press
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback

The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface.What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access to entire libraries? The codex, the book as bound paper sheets, emerged around 150 CE. It was preceded...
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The Well-Tuned Brain: Neuroscience and the Life Well Lived

Peter C. Whybrow · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

In this optimistic and inspiring book, Peter Whybrow, the prize-winning author of American Mania, returns to offer a prescription for genuine human progress.The Well-Tuned Brain is a call to action. Swept along by the cascading advances of today's technology, most of us take for granted...
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Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World

Bill Nye · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

Just as World War II called an earlier generation to greatness, so the climate crisis is calling today's rising youth to action: to create a better future.In UNSTOPPABLE, Bill Nye crystallizes and expands the message for which he is best known and beloved. That message is that with a combination...
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Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance

Christopher McDougall · Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Pages: 337
Format: Print book

The best-selling author of Born to Run now travels to the Mediterranean, where he discovers that the secrets of ancient Greek heroes are still alive and well on the island of Crete, and ready to be unleashed in the muscles and minds of casual athletes and aspiring heroes everywhere. After...
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Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez · Vintage
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

"A love story of astonishing power." - Newsweek The International Bestseller and modern literary classic by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia MarquezIn their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy,...
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Glass Sword

Victoria Aveyard · HarperTeen
Pages: 6
Format: Print book

Mare's blood is red -- the colour of common folk -- but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from the prince and friend who betrayed...
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Sisi: Empress on Her Own: A Novel

Allison Pataki · The Dial Press
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * For readers of Philippa Gregory, Paula McLain, and Daisy Goodwin comes a sweeping and powerful novel by Allison Pataki. Sisi tells the little-known story of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, the Princess Diana of her time, in an enthralling work of historical...
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A.D. 33: A Novel

Ted Dekker · Center Street, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker delivers the gripping story of Maviah, a slave who becomes a queen in Arabia, A.D. 33. They call her the Queen of the Outcasts. Maviah, a woman whose fate was sealed on her birth by this world-unwanted, illegitimate, female, a slave-subject...
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