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The Burning Girl: A Novel

CLAIRE MESSUD · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A bracing, hypnotic coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor's Children.Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their...
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Soul Survivor: A Biography of Al Green

Jimmy McDonough · Da Capo Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

With songs like "Love and Happiness," "I'm Still in Love with You," and "Tired of Being Alone," Al Green is considered by many to be the greatest soul singer of all time. He has sold more than 20 million records, been sampled by countless hip-hop artists, and even...
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The Diesel Brothers: A Truckin' Awesome Guide to Trucks and Life

Heavy D · Gallery Books
Pages: 213
Format: Hardcover

Feel like somebody hit the brakes on your Diesel Brothers cravings? Discover how you can keep the gas going with this rip-roaring ride behind the scenes of Discovery Channel's popular series Diesel Brothers.In the world of monster trucks, no one builds bigger and more extreme rides - and has more...
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The Perfect Cookie: Your Ultimate Guide to Foolproof Cookies, Brownies, and Bars

America's Test Kitchen (Firm) · America's Test Kitchen
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

America's Test Kitchen aggregates many years of cookie baking knowledge, breaking down key steps and recipe techniques in this comprehensive cookbook that features recipes for any cookie you can dream up--from favorite cookie jar classics to new and unique cookies, brownies, bars, and candies...
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Snap Judgment

Marcia Clark · Thomas & Mercer
Format: Hardcover

In the third installment of Marcia Clark's bestselling series, attorney Samantha Brinkman's investigation into a family's deadly secrets is compromised by a threat from her past.When the daughter of prominent civil litigator Graham Hutchins is found with her throat slashed, the woman's...
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4th and Goal Every Day: Alabama's Relentless Pursuit of Perfection

PHIL SAVAGE · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

With a Preface by Alabama Football Coach Nick Saban and a Foreword by ESPN's College Gameday Host Rece Davis.Phil Savage first worked with Nick Saban when they both joined the Cleveland Browns' coaching staff in 1991. They were reunited in 2009 when Savage became part of the Crimson Tide...
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Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

Tim Harford · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy. Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? And what is the connection between...
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Sip

Brian Allen Carr · Soho Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A lyrical, apocalyptic debut novel about addiction, friendship, and the struggle for survivalIt started with a single child and quickly spread: you could get high by drinking your own shadow. At night, lights were destroyed so that addicts could sip shadow in the pure light of the moon.Gangs...
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No Is a Four-Letter Word: How I Failed Spelling but Succeeded in Life

Chris Jericho · Da Capo Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover

Written in Chris Jericho's trademark style-jam-packed with ridiculous stories and hilarious references-No Is a Four Letter Word is organized around twenty-two principles on what it takes to make it to the top of your field, featuring stories from legends and influencers along the way. Whether...
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The Resurrection of Joan Ashby: A Novel

Cherise Wolas · Flatiron Books
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

"A stunning debut...Reminds me of my most favorite authors: J.D. Salinger, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Joan Didion." -- A.M. HomesI viewed the consumptive nature of love as a threat to serious women. But the wonderful man I just married believes as I do -- work is paramount,...
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My Absolute Darling: A Novel

GABRIEL TALLENT · Riverhead Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding...
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Séance Infernale: A novel

JONATHAN SKARITON · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel - dark, fast-paced, thrilling - set in contemporary and nineteenth-century Europe, the United States, and Scotland, involving the true inventor of moving pictures; his lost film made in Edinburgh in 1888; and a shocking series of crimes terrorizing the city...
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Grand Opening 2: A Family Business Novel

Carl Weber · Urban Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the minds of New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber and Essence bestseller La Jill Hunt comes the newest entry into the game-changing Family Business saga. The year is 1978, the Duncan brothers and their tough-as-nails women have vanquished their rivals and taken their place...
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Judgment at Appomattox

RALPH PETERS · Forge Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

The ferocious final weeks of the Civil War come alive in Judgment at Appomattox, the final novel of New York Times bestselling author Ralph Peters's breathtaking, Boyd Award-winning seriesA great war nears its end. Robert E. Lee makes a desperate, dramatic gamble. It fails. Ulysses S. Grant...
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Kill the Heroes

David Thurlo · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Charlie Henry, co-owner of a pawnshop and Iraq war veteran, has, for the most part, settled into his somewhat quieter life in Albuquerque. He is invited to attend the dedication of a memorial in a park, where he, other local heroes, and first responders are to be honored for their military...
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