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How to Be a Man:

Duff McKagan , · Da Capo Press
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

Duff McKagan is one of the most respected survivors in hard rock. In How to Be a Man, he shares the wisdom he gained on the path to superstardom - from his time with Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver to getting sober after a life of hard living to achieving his personal American...
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

Helen Oyeyemi · Riverhead Books
Pages: 331
Format: eBook

"Transcendent." - The New York Times Book Review

"Flawless. . . another masterpiece from an author who seems incapable of writing anything that's less than brilliant." - NPR

From the award-winning author of Boy,...
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Fool Me Once

Harlan Coben · Dutton
Pages: 392
Format: eBook

#1 New York Times bestseller Harlan Coben delivers his next impossible-to-put-down thriller.

In the course of eight consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers, millions of readers have discovered Harlan Coben's page-turning thrillers, filled with his trademark...
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The Summer Before the War: A Novel

Helen Simonson · Random House
Pages: 496
Format: eBook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community." - The Washington...
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Brush of Wings: A Novel

Karen Kingsbury · Howard Books
Pages: 352
Format: eBook

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the third novel in an unforgettable series about divine intervention and the trials and triumphs of life for a group of friends.

Despite needing a heart transplant and against the advice of her doctor, Mary Catherine...
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The Nest

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney · ECCO
Pages: 368
Format: eBook

A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives.

Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional....

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Jane Steele

Lyndsay Faye · Penguin Group USA 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: eBook

A reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer, from the author whose work The New York Times described as "riveting" and The Wall Street Journal called "thrilling."

"A thrill ride of a novel. A must read for lovers...
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Thursday's Children: A Frieda Klein Mystery

Nicci French · Penguin Books
Pages: 351
Format: eBook

"Fierce, fascinating and full of insight, Frieda Klein is irresistible." - Val McDermid, bestselling author of Splinter the Silence

The electrifying fourth book in the internationally bestselling Frieda Klein Mystery series


Frieda Klein is uninterested...
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Off the Books: A Novel Idea Mystery

Lucy Arlington · Berkley Prime Crime
Pages: 293
Format: eBook

Literary agent and amateur sleuth Lila Wilkins is back to seal the deal in the New York Times bestselling Novel Idea Mystery series.

Lila is showcasing some of her biggest authors at a bridal expo. But when the joyous event turns deadly, she'll have to figure...
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The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture

Glen Weldon · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 324
Format: eBook

A witty, intelligent cultural history from NPR book critic Glen Weldon explains Batman's rises and falls throughout the ages - and what his story tells us about ourselves.

Since his creation, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy...
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Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening

John Elder Robison · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 320
Format: eBook

An extraordinary memoir about the cutting-edge brain therapy that dramatically changed the life and mind of John Elder Robison, the New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye

Imagine spending the first forty years of your life in darkness, blind...
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Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe

Dawn Clifton Tripp · Random House
Pages: 318
Format: eBook

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In a dazzling work of historical fiction in the vein of Nancy Horan's Loving Frank, Dawn Tripp brings to life Georgia O'Keeffe, her love affair with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and her quest to become an independent artist.

This is not a love...
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All Things Cease to Appear: A novel

Elizabeth Brundage · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 416
Format: eBook

A dark, riveting, beautifully written book - by "a brilliant novelist," according to Richard Bausch - that combines noir and the gothic in a story about two families entwined in their own unhappiness, with, at its heart, a gruesome and unsolved murder

Late one winter...
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The Travelers: A Novel

Chris Pavone · Crown/Archetype
Pages: 448
Format: eBook

A pulse-racing international thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Expats and The Accident

It's 3:00am. Do you know where your husband is?

Meet Will Rhodes: travel writer, recently married, barely solvent, his idealism...
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Lust & Wonder: A Memoir

Augusten Burroughs · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 305
Format: eBook

In chronicling the development and demise of the different relationships he's had while living in New York, Augusten Burroughs examines what it means to be in love, what it means to be in lust, and what it means to be figuring it all out. With Augusten's unique and singular observations...
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Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

Peggy Orenstein · Harper
Pages: 303
Format: eBook

The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a clear-eyed picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the post-princess stage - high school through college - and reveals how they are negotiating it.

A generation gap has emerged between parents...

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Dimestore: A Writer's Life

Lee Smith · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 224
Format: eBook

For the inimitable Lee Smith, place is paramount. For forty-five years, her fiction has lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own story.

Set deep in the mountains of Virginia, the Grundy of Lee Smith's youth...
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Journey to Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Jacqueline Winspear · Harper
Pages: 309
Format: eBook

Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler's Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue - the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear's New York Times bestselling "series that seems to get better with each entry"...

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