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The Rules of Magic

Alice Hoffman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From beloved author Alice Hoffman comes the spellbinding prequel to her bestseller, Practical Magic. Find your magic. For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Hundreds of years later, in New York City...
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Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together

VAN JONES · Ballantine Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of the political divide and points a way out of the tribalism that is tearing America apart - by the CNN political contributor and host hailed as "a star of the 2016 campaign" (The New York Times) who tries to "fight...
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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver · Penguin Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse,...
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The Book of Swords

Gardner Dozois · Bantam
Pages: 524
Format: Book

In The Book of Swords, acclaimed editor and bestselling author Gardner Dozois presents an all-new anthology of original epic tales by a stellar cast of award-winning modern masters - many of them set in their authors' best-loved worlds.

Join today's...

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Grant

RON CHERNOW · Penguin Press
Pages: 928
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.

Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically...
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Children of the Fleet

ORSON SCOTT CARD · Tor Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From Orson Scott Card, award-winning and bestselling author of Ender's Game, his first solo Enderverse novel in years.

Children of the Fleet is a new angle on Card's bestselling series, telling the story of the Fleet in space, parallel to the story on Earth...

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Crimes of the Father: A Novel

Thomas Keneally · Atria Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From one of our greatest living writers, a bold and timely novel about sin cloaked in sacrament, shame that enforces silence, and the courage of one priest who dares to speak truth to power.

Sent away from his native Australia to Canada due to his radical preaching against the Vietnam...
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The Shattered Lens: A War Photographer's 81 Days of Captivity in Syria -- A Story of Survival

JONATHAN ALPEYRIE · Atria Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Discover a gripping and harrowing tale of war and torture from the man who lived it in this powerful memoir by the celebrated war journalist who not only documented over a dozen conflict zones worldwide but was also captured and held hostage by Syrian rebels in 2013.

Capturing history...
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Here in Berlin: A Novel

Cristina Garci?a · Counterpoint
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Here in Berlin is a portrait of a city through snapshots, an excavation of the stories and ghosts of contemporary Berlin -- its complex, troubled past still pulsing in the air as it was during World War II. Critically acclaimed novelist Cristina García brings the people of this...
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Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History

Chuck D · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive, chronological survey of rap and hip hop from 1973 to the present by Chuck D, arguably the most influential rapper in the world.

In the more than 40 years since the days of DJ Kool Herc and "Rapper's Delight," hip hop and rap have become a billion-dollar...
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Never Coming Back

Alison McGhee · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondacks town for college, she never looked back. Her mother, Tamar, a loving but fiercely independent woman who raised Clara on her own, all but pushed her out the door, and so Clara built a new life for herself, far from her roots and the world she had always...
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Code girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers who helped win World War II

Liza Mundy · Hachette Books
Format: Book

"Code Girls reveals a hidden army of female cryptographers, whose work played a crucial role in ending World War II.... Mundy has rescued a piece of forgotten history, and given these American heroes the recognition they deserve."---Nathalia Holt, bestselling...

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A Hunt in Winter: A Joe Swallow Mystery

Conor Brady · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

In Dublin, newly promoted detective inspector Joe Swallow's life looks to be taking a turn for the better. In addition to his promotion, he's settled into a comfortable arrangement with his landlady and paramour, Maria Walsh. That is, until his newfound peace is chaotically uprooted when...
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