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The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones—Confronting A New Age of Threat

Benjamin Wittes · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

From drone warfare in the Middle East to digital spying by the National Security Agency, the U.S. government has harnessed the power of cutting-edge technology to awesome effect. But what happens when ordinary people have the same tools at their fingertips? Advances in cybertechnology,...
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Extraordinary Means

Robyn Schneider · Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 324
Format: Print book

John Green's The Fault in Our Stars meets Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park in this darkly funny novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Beginning of Everything.Up until his diagnosis, Lane lived a fairly predictable life. But when he finds himself at a tuberculosis sanatorium...
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Golden son

Pierce Brown · Del Rey
Pages: 446
Format: Print book

"With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender's Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown's genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling...
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Learning to Walk in the Dark

Barbara Brown Taylor · HarperOne; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Offers advice for finding spirituality in times of darkness, questioning the traditional association of darkness with evil and danger, and suggesting that being in the dark may lead to greater spiritual growth.
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Not a Drill: A Jack Reacher Short Story

Lee Child · Delacorte Press

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this eBook exclusive short story from Lee Child Jack Reacher is again on the move But even a pleasant hike on a beautiful summer day turns into a walk on the wild side and perhaps something far more sinisterDonrsquot miss a gripping preview of Lee Childrsquos...
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Yoga Girl

Rachel Brathen · Touchstone Books
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the yoga instructor who inspires more than one million followers on Instagram every day.Whether she's practicing handstands on her stand-up paddleboard or teaching Downward-Facing Dog to the masses, Rachel Brathen - Instagram's @Yoga_Girl - has made...
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

Hampton Sides · Random House Inc
Pages: 454
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded AgeIn the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress...
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Please Be Honest

Guided By Voices
Format: Audio CD

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The Weekenders

Mary Kay Andrews · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 451
Format: Print book

"Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Some people come only for the weekends-and it's something they look forward to all week long. When Riley Griggs is waiting for her husband to arrive at the ferry one Friday afternoon, she is instead...
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Candlelight Christmas

Susan Wiggs · Harlequin MIRA; Reprint edition
Format: eBook

1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR SUSAN WIGGS INVITES YOU TO AN UNFORGETTABLE CHRISTMAS IN THE CATSKILLS A single father who yearns to be a family man, Logan ODonnell is determined to create the perfect Christmas for his son, Charlie. The entire ODonnell clan arrives to spend the holidays...
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Don't Let Go: A Hope Novel

Jaci Burton · Jove Pubns, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In the latest novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Love After All and the Play-By-Play novels, running from the past isn't nearly as satisfying as facing the future ... Brady Conners is hardly the settling type, but when tragedy strikes in his family, he has no choice but to return...
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History

Cynthia Barnett · Crown Publishers
Pages: 355
Format: Print book

Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents...
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The Last Ranch: A Novel of the New American West

Michael Mcgarrity · Dutton
Pages: 525
Format: Print book

The grand saga of an American ranching family continues in The Last Ranch, the final, mesmerizing book of New York Times bestseller Michael McGarrity's gripping and richly authentic American West trilogy.When Matthew Kerney returns to his ranch in the beautiful San Andres Mountains after...
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Aeneid Book VI: A New Verse Translation

Virgil · Farrar
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

A masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the centuryIn a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones,...
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