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To Capture What We Cannot Keep

Beatrice Colin · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young widow and an engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love.In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Émile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above...
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The Flame Bearer

Bernard Cornwell · Harpercollins
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Bernard Cornwell's epic story of the making of England continues in this tenth installment in the bestselling Saxon Tales series - "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer) - the basis of the hit BBC America television series The Last Kingdom.<i>His blood is Saxon....
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Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between

Lauren Graham · Ballantine
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

In her first work of nonfiction, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood recounts her experiences on Gilmore Girls - the first and second time - and shares stories about life, love, and working in Hollywood. This collection of essays is written in the intimate, hilarious, and down-to...
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When We Rise: Coming of Age in San Francisco, AIDS, and My Life in the Movement

Cleve Jones · Hachette Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The partial inspiration for the forthcoming ABC television mini-series from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, executive producer Gus Van Sant, and starring Guy Pearce, Mary-Louise Parker, Carrie Preston, and Rachel Griffiths. "You could read Cleve Jones's book...
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Field of Graves

J.T. Ellison · Mira Books
Pages: 448

With FIELD OF GRAVES, New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison goes back to where it all began ... All of Nashville is on edge with a serial killer on the loose. A madman is trying to create his own end-of-days apocalypse and the cops trying to catch him are almost as damaged as the killer....
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Normal: A Novel

Warren Ellis · Farrar
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

A smart, tight, provocative techno-thriller straight out of the very near future--by an iconic visionary writerSome people call it "abyss gaze." Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you.There are two types of people who think professionally about the future:...
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The Fate of the Tearling

Erika Johansen · Harper
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

"Katniss Everdeen, you have competition." - Entertainment WeeklyThe thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Tearling trilogy.In less than a year, Kelsea Glynn has transformed from a gawky teenager into a powerful monarch. As she has come into her own as the Queen...
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Moranifesto

Caitlin Moran · Harper Perennial
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology comes a collection of Caitlin Moran's award-winning London Times columns that takes a clever, hilarious look at celebrities, society, and the wacky world we live in today - including three major new pieces...
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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

David France · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 640
Format: Print book

From the creator of and inspired by the seminal documentary of the same name--an Oscar nominee--the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful, heroic stories of the gay activists who refused to die without a fight. Intimately reported, this...
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When All The Girls Have Gone

Jayne Ann Krentz · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Jayne Ann Krentz, the New York Times bestselling author of Secret Sisters, delivers a thrilling novel of the deceptions we hide behind, the passions we surrender to, and the lengths we'll go to for the truth... When Charlotte Sawyer is unable to contact her step-sister, Jocelyn, to tell...
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Thank You for Being Late: Finding a Job, Running a Country, and Keeping Your Head in an Age of Accelerations

Thomas L Friedman · Farrar
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observersIn his most ambitious work to date, Thomas L. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration--and explains how to live in it. Due to an exponential increase in computing power,...
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Apes and Angels

Ben Bova · Tor
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system. Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found...
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Moonglow: A Novel

Michael Chabon · HarperCollins
Pages: 448
Format: Large print book

Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure - and the forces that work to destroy us.In 1989, fresh...
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Victoria: A Novel

Daisy Goodwin · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

"They think I am still a little girl who is not capable of being a Queen." Lord Melbourne turned to look at Victoria. "They are mistaken. I have not known you long, but I observe in you a natural dignity that cannot be learnt. To me, ma'am, you are every inch a Queen."In...
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Conclave: A novel

Robert Harris · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling author of Enigma and Fatherland turns to today's Vatican in a ripped-from-the-headlines novel, and gives us his most ambitious, page-turning thriller yet--where the power of God is nearly equaled by the ambition of men. The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine...
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I'll take you there

Wally Lamb · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life - Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin' and Hopin' - and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it, in this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power...
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Kathy Griffin's Celebrity Run-Ins: My A-Z Index

Kathy Griffin · Flatiron Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From #1 NYT bestselling author Kathy Griffin, an A-Z compendium of the celebrities she's met over the years and the outrageous, charming, and sometimes bizarre anecdotes only she can tell about them. Last year, while watching Straight Outta Compton, Kathy Griffin realized that she knew...
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All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor

Donald Stratton · William Morrow
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

The extraordinary first and only memoir by a survivor of the USS Arizona, published in conjunction with the seventy-fifth anniversary of Pearl Harbor.An unforgettable and moving story of tragedy, heroism, resilience, and redemption that is sure to become an enduring document of American...
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Pogue's Basics: Money: Essential Tips and Shortcuts

David Pogue · Flatiron Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Following the success of the New York Times bestsellers Pogue's Basics: Tech and Pogue's Basics: Lifecomes the next book in the series: Pogue's Basics: Money which will be a timeless reference book of 200 simple tips and tricks for making managing your finances easier. This book will shed...
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The Brain Warrior's Way: Ignite Your Energy and Focus, Attack Illness and Aging, Transform Pain into Purpose

Daniel G. Amen · New American Library
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling authors Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen are ready to lead you to victory... When trying to live a healthy lifestyle, every day can feel like a battle. Forces are destroying our bodies and our minds. The standard American diet we consume is making us sick; we are constantly...
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Daily show - the book : an oral history

Chris Smith · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by its correspondents, writers, and host. For almost seventeen years, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart brilliantly redefined the borders between television comedy, political satire, and opinionated...
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The Princess Diarist

Carrie Fisher · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

From Princess Leia herself: another self-examination of unlikely life and times by the bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge and Wishful Drinking - ready to publish following the release of the latest Star Wars sequel. Carrie Fisher, that most idiosyncratic of Hollywood stars,...
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