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Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Jim Al-Khalili · Picador Pages: 240 Format: Print book |
In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss just what that might look like. Since 2000, science has seen a surge in data and interest on several fronts related... |
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The Berlin Project
Gregory Benford · Saga Press Pages: 528 Format: Print book |
New York Times bestselling author Gregory Benford creates an alternate history of the creation of the atom bomb that explores what could have happened if the bomb was ready to be used by June 6, 1944.
Karl Cohen, a chemist and mathematician who is part of The Manhattan Project,... |
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Some Rise by Sin: A Novel
Philip Caputo · Henry Holt and Company Pages: 352 Format: Print book |
New York Times bestselling author Philip Caputo tells the story of a Franciscan priest struggling to walk a moral path through the shifting and fatal realities of an isolated Mexican village The Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish... |
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We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
Jorge Cham · Riverhead Books Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover |
Prepare to learn everything we still don't know about our strange, mostly mysterious universe.
PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to spelunk through the enormous gaps in our cosmological knowledge, armed with their popular... |
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Sycamore: A Novel
Bryn Chancellor · Harper Pages: 320 Format: Book |
"In this masterful performance, Bryn Chancellor explores the loss around which an entire community has calcified with humanity and wisdom. Chancellor digs deep in these pages, unearthing broken hearts, secrets, betrayals, passion and - most impressively - grace. What a joy to find... |
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The Book of Summer: A Novel
MICHELLE GABLE · ST MARTIN'S Press Pages: 416 Format: Print book |
Physician Bess Codman has returned to her family's Nantucket compound, Cliff House, for the first time in four years. Her great-grandparents built Cliff House almost a century before, but due to erosion, the once-grand home will soon fall into the sea. Though she's purposefully avoided... |
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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
DAVID GARROW · WILLIAM MORROW Pages: 1472 Format: Print book |
As epic in vision and rigorous in detail as Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson series, the definitive account of Barack Obama's life before he became the 44th president of the United States - the formative years, confluence of forces, and influential figures who helped shaped... |
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There Your Heart Lies: A Novel
Mary Gordon · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover |
From the award-winning novelist Mary Gordon, here is a book whose twentieth-century wisdom can help us understand the difficulties we face in the twenty-first: There Your Heart Lies is a deeply moving novel about an American woman's experiences during the Spanish Civil War,... |
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel
Gail Honeyman · Pamela Dorman Books Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover |
"Move over, Ove (in Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove) - there's a new curmudgeon to love." --BOOKLIST (starred review)
"Eleanor Oliphant is a truly original literary creation: funny, touching, and unpredictable. Her journey out of dark shadows... |
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Since We Fell
DENNIS LEHANE · Ecco Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover |
The new novel from New York Times bestseller Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island "Lehane is the master of complex human characters thrust into suspenseful, page-turning situations." - Gillian Flynn Since We Fell follows Rachel Childs,... |
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Woman No. 17: A Novel
EDAN LEPUCKI · HOGARTH Pages: 320 Format: Print book |
A sinister, sexy noir about art, motherhood, and the intensity of female friendships, set in the posh hills above Los Angeles, from the New York Times bestselling author of California High in the Hollywood Hills, writer Lady Daniels has decided to take... |
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The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
PENELOPE LIVELY · VIKING Pages: 256 Format: Print book |
A glimmering collection of new short fiction from the Booker Prize winner
"Lively writes with an astringent blend of sympathy and detachment, emotional wisdom and satiric wit." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
In such acclaimed novels... |
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Jackie's Girl: My Life with the Kennedy Family
Kathy Mckeon · Gallery Books Pages: 309 Format: Hardcover |
An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny - and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady.
In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just nineteen years old and newly arrived... |
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A Rising Man: A Novel
ABIR MUKHERJEE · Pegasus Books Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover |
In the days of the Raj, a newly arrived Scotland Yard detective is confronted with the murder of a British official -- in his mouth a note warning the British to leave India, or else... Calcutta, 1919. Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta.... |
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Men Without Women: Stories
Haruki Murakami · Knopf Pages: 227 Format: Hardcover |
A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers... |
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The Thirst: A Harry Hole Novel
JO NESBO · Knopf Pages: 480 Format: Hardcover |
#1 International Best Seller
In this electrifying new thriller from the author of Police and The Snowman, Inspector Harry Hole hunts down a serial murderer who targets his victims . . . on Tinder. The murder victim, a self-declared Tinder addict.... |
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The Road to Camelot: Inside the Kennedy Campaign
Tom Oliphant · Simon & Schuster Pages: 432 Format: Print book |
A behind-the-scenes, revelatory account of John F. Kennedy's wily campaign to the White House, beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956. A young and undistinguished junior plots his way to the presidency and changes the way we nominate and elect... |
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Nature Poem
TOMMY PICO · Tin House Books Pages: 128 Format: Paperback |
Nature Poem follows Teebs -- a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet -- who can't bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night... |
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Dinner with DiMaggio: Memories of An American Hero
Rock G Positano · Simon & Schuster Pages: 352 Format: Print book |
The real Joe DiMaggio, remembered by the man who knew him best in the last decade of his life - candid and little-known stories about icons from Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, and his Yankees teammates on the field to Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and other great celebrities off the field.
Dr.... |
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The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness
Paula Poundstone · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Pages: 288 Format: Print book |
"The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness is a remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat." - Lily Tomlin Is there a secret to happiness? Beloved comedian Paula Poundstone conducts a series of "thoroughly scientific"... |
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The Girl Who Knew Too Much
AMANDA QUICK · Berkley Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover |
Amanda Quick, the bestselling author of 'Til Death Do Us Part, transports readers to 1930s California, where glamour and seduction spawn a multitude of sins ... When Hollywood moguls and stars want privacy, they head to an idyllic small town on the coast, where... |
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Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
Condoleezza Rice · Twelve Pages: 496 Format: Hardcover |
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} From the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom.
From the end of the Cold War and the collapse... |
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Saints for All Occasions: A novel
J Courtney Sullivan · Alfred A. Knopf Pages: 368 Format: Print book |
A sweeping, unforgettable novel from The New York Times best-selling author of Maine, about the hope, sacrifice, and love between two sisters and the secret that drives them apart.
Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small... |
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Mother Land
Paul Theroux · Houghton Mifflin Pages: 560 Format: Print book |
A richly detailed, darkly hilarious novel of a family held together and torn apart by its narcissistic matriarch
To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children, she is the selfish, petty tyrant of Mother... |
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House of Names: A Novel
Colm Toibin · Scribner Pages: 288 Format: Print book |
From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm TóibÃn comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra - spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling - and her children.
"I have been acquainted with the smell of death."... |
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Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way
Ryan White · Touchstone Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover |
From acclaimed music critic and author of Springsteen: Album by Album comes the real story behind the legendary beach bum, rock star, and billionaire musician Jimmy Buffett - who has enchanted audiences of Parrotheads for over four decades with his tropical fantasy world of Margaritaville.
Jimmy... |
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