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The Glass Universe

Dava Sobel · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with the captivating, little-known true story of a group of women whose remarkable contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe In the mid-nineteenth...
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Don't Turn Out the Lights

Bernard Minier · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

"You did nothing." Christine Steinmeyer knows the suicide note she found in her mailbox on Christmas Eve has nothing to do with her. But the man calling in to her radio show seems convinced otherwise. "You let her die..." That's only the beginning. Bit by bit, her life...
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Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories

Kathleen Collins · Ecco Press
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Now available in Ecco's Art of the Story series: a never-before-published collection of stories from a brilliant yet little known African American artist and filmmaker - a contemporary of revered writers including Toni Cade Bambara, Laurie Colwin, Ann Beattie, Amy Hempel, and Grace Paley...
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Relentless Spirit: The Unconventional Raising of a Champion

Missy Franklin · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

What does it take to become a champion? Gold medalist Missy Franklin, along with her parents, D.A. and Dick, tell the inspirational and heartwarming story of how Missy became both a legendary athlete and a happy and confident woman, something they accomplished by doing things their own way and making...
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Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance

Mark Greaney · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 742
Format: Print book

The #1 New York Times-bestselling series is back with the most shocking revelation of all. After years of facing international threats, President Jack Ryan learns that the greatest dangers always come from within... It begins with a family dinner in Princeton, New Jersey. After months at sea,...
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The One Hundred Nights of Hero: A Graphic Novel

Isabel Greenberg · Little
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

In the tradition of The Arabian Nights, a beautifully illustrated tapestry of folk tales and myths about the secret legacy of female storytellers in an imagined medieval world.In the Empire of Migdal Bavel, Cherry is married to Jerome, a wicked man who makes a diabolical wager with his friend...
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Jump: Take the Leap of Faith to Achieve Your Life of Abundance

Steve Harvey · Harpercollins
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

The number-one New York Times bestselling author shares the secret of his success and teaches you how to achieve the blessed full life that belongs to youOn January 13, 2016, at the close of a taping of Family Feud, Steve Harvey spontaneously began to speak. Not knowing that the cameras...
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Beyond the Truth: Hanne Wilhelmsen Book Seven

Anne Holt · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From internationally bestselling and award-winning author Anne Holt - hailed as "the godmother of Norwegian crime fiction" by Jo Nesbø - the exciting seventh installment in the Hanne Wilhelmsen series in which the brilliant female detective investigates a mass killing in the luxurious...
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds

Michael Lewis · W W Norton
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Best-selling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making...
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Out of Bounds

Val Mcdermid · Atlantic Monthly
Pages: 400
Format: Book

Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, whose gripping, impeccably plotted novels have garnered millions of readers worldwide. In her latest, Out of Bounds, she delivers a riveting cold case novel featuring detective Karen Pirie.

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Island of Glass

Nora Roberts · Berkley
Pages: 339
Format: Print book

"Three stars--of fire, water, and ice--have fallen from the skies, and now three women and three men have come together to find them. But on the quest for the final star, they'll discover that possessing it won't be enough to stop the destruction of themselves--and of their world......
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18 and Life on Skid Row

Sebastian Bach · HarperCollins Publishers 2015.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

18 And Life on Skid Row tells the story of a boy who spent his childhood moving from Freeport, Bahamas to California and finally to Canada and who at the age of eight discovered the gift that would change his life. Throughout his career, Sebastian Bach has sold over twenty million records...

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Buried in the Country

Carola Dunn · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

An isolated spot in the Cornish countryside is no safe haven when a determined foe is out for blood...Having worked for an international charity in her days before retiring to Cornwall, Eleanor Trewynn is asked by the Commonwealth Relations Office to assist in secret negotiations about...
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River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope

Naomi Judd · Center St
Pages: 320
Format: Print book



Bestselling author and Grammy-winning musical superstar Naomi Judd shares her devastating personal story with depression to spread awareness and encourage others with the disease.

The world knows Naomi Judd as one of the most successful and best-loved country music...
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The Wars of the Roosevelts: The Ruthless Rise of America's Greatest Political Family

William J Mann · Harpercollins
Pages: 640
Format: Print book

The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America's greatest and most influential families - the Roosevelts - exposing heretofore unknown family secrets and detailing complex family rivalries with his signature cinematic...

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Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

Joi Ito · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Today, not only is everything digital getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, we also have the Internet. When these two revolutions-one in technology and the other in communications-joined, an explosive force was unleaded that changed the very nature of innovation....
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Wood for the trees : one man's long view of nature

Richard Fortey · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the author of Earth: An Intimate History, an exuberant "biography" of four acres of woodland, evoking a cosmos of living and inanimate things and imagining its millennia of existence

A few years ago, award-winning scientist Richard Fortey purchased four...
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Great British Bake Off - Perfect Cakes & Bakes to Make at Home: Official Tie-in to the 2016 Series

Linda Collister · Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Pages: 318
Format: Print book

Over 100 recipes from simple to showstopping bakes and cakes Bake like you're in the tent - from the comfort of your own home. Make brilliant bakes at home with this companion cookbook to the 2016 series. This essential baking book of recipes from the Great British Bake Off team is appropriate...
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