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If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: Relating to and Communicating with Others

Alan Alda · Random House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From iconic actor and bestselling author Alan Alda, an indispensable guide to communicating better - based on his experience with acting, improv, science, and storytellingThe acclaimed actor shares fascinating and powerful lessons from the art and science of communication, and teaches readers...
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Murder in Saint-Germain

CARA BLACK · Soho Crime
Pages: 336
Format: Book

Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aimee Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when she is accosted by Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals...

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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

Mark Bowden · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover

Not since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down has Mark Bowden written a book about a battle. His most ambitious work yet, Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam.


By January...
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Blackout: A Novel

Marc Elsberg · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 320
Format: Book

When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely it's a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. But something seems strange about this night. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. There...

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The People We Hate at the Wedding

GRANT GINDER · Flatiron Books
Pages: 336
Format: Book

Paul and Alice's half-sister Eloise is getting married! In London! There will be fancy hotels, dinners at "it" restaurants and a reception at a country estate complete with tea lights and embroidered cloth napkins.
They couldn't hate it more.

 

The...

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Grief Cottage

Gail Godwin · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin.

After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great...

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Sunshine Girls

JANE GREEN · BERKLEY PUB GROUP
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of Falling presents a warm, wise, and wonderfully vivid novel about a mother who asks her three estranged daughters to come home to help her end her life.

Ronni Sunshine left London for Hollywood to become a beautiful,...
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I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons

KEVIN HART · 37 INK
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Superstar comedian and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have the funniest, most heartfelt,...
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Odd Numbers (Hanne Wilhelmsen Series #9)

Anne Holt · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

When bombs explode at the Islamic Cooperation Council's headquarters in Oslo, detective Hanne Wilhelmsen is on the case in the ninth and penultimate installment of the award-winning series from Norway's bestselling crime writer Anne Holt - "the godmother of Norwegian crime fiction"...
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Magpie Murders: A Novel

Anthony Horowitz · Harper
Pages: 464
Format: Book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery.

When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript...

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The Weight of Ink

Rachel Kadish · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatt's Possession and Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book

Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women...
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Defectors: A Novel

JOSEPH KANON · Atria Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Leaving Berlin and The Good German comes a fast-paced and richly imagined novel about an American spy, the Cold War's most notorious defector, who gave up his country for the safety - and prison - of Moscow, but never lost his gift for betrayal.

In...
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He Said/She Said

Erin Kelly · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In the summer of 1999, Kit and Laura travel to a festival in Cornwall to see a total eclipse of the sun. Kit is an eclipse chaser; Laura has never seen one before. Young and in love, they are certain this will be the first of many they'll share.

But in the hushed moments after...

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The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany

DAVID KING · W W NORTON
Pages: 336
Format: Book

The never-before-told story of the scandalous courtroom drama that paved the way for the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

On the evening of November 8, 1923, the thirty-four-year-old Adolf Hitler stormed into a beer hall in Munich, fired his pistol in the air, and proclaimed...

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Love Story

Karen Kingsbury · Howard Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a new book featuring everyone's favorite family - the Baxters.

From the day they met, John and Elizabeth were destined to fall in love. Their whirlwind romance started when they were young college students and lasted...
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The Answers: A Novel

Catherine Lacey · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 304
Format: Book

An urgent, propulsive novel about a woman learning to negotiate her ailment and its various aftereffects via the simulacrum of a perfect romantic relationship

In Catherine Lacey's ambitious second novel we are introduced to Mary, a young woman living in New York...

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Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder: A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science

James A Mahaffey · Pegasus Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The latest investigation from acclaimed nuclear engineer and author James Mahaffey unearths forgotten nuclear endeavors throughout history that were sometimes hair-brained, often risky, and always fascinating.

Whether you are a scientist or a poet, pro-nuclear energy or staunch opponent,...
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Do Not Become Alarmed: A Novel

Maile Meloy · Riverhead Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation - and the children go missing.

When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities...
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The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

Finn Murphy · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A long-haul mover's rollicking account of life out on the Big Slab.

More than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Since then he's covered more than a million miles packing, loading, and hauling people's belongings all over America....

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The Essex Serpent: A Novel

SARAH PERRY · Custom House
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Costa Book Award Finalist and the Waterstones (UK) Book of the Year 2016

"I loved this book. At once numinous, intimate and wise, The Essex Serpent is a marvelous novel about the workings of life, love and belief, about science and religion, secrets, mysteries, and the complicated...

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The Alice Network: A Novel

Kate Quinn · William Morrow
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women - a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947 - are brought together in a mesmerizing...

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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

NINA RIGGS · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An exquisite memoir about how to live - and love - every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air.

"We are breathless, but we love...
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Arundhati Roy · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

A richly moving new novel--the first since the author's Booker Prize-winning, internationally celebrated debut, The God of Small Things, went on to become a beloved best seller and enduring classic.

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across...
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The Shark Club

Ann Kidd Taylor · Viking
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover

"A delicious summer read." -Redbook

A warm and wonderfully vivid novel about taking second chances - in life and in the sea

One summer day on the beach in Florida, two extraordinary things happen to Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel,...
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Impatient Foodie: 100 Delicious Recipes for a Hectic, Time-Starved World

ELETTRA WIEDEMANN · Scribner
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Sustainable and conscious eating made simple, fun, and delicious - the founder of Impatient Foodie shows how the "slow food" movement doesn't have to be slow with these inspired meals perfect for everyone.

Elettra Wiedemann didn't set out to be a foodie. At twenty-eight,...
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Before We Were Yours: A Novel

LISA WINGATE · BALLANTINE
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale.

Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical...
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