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Artemis: A Novel

Andy Weir · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller - a heist story set on the moon. Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire....
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Higher Is Waiting

Tyler Perry · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

An inspirational memoir about persevering through hard times and choosing faith over fear - a spiritual guidebook for the modern generation from award-winning auteur, playwright, and bestselling author Tyler Perry
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Future Home of the Living God: A Novel

LOUISE ERDRICH · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.The world...
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Everything You Need to Know about Social Media: Without Having to Call A Kid

Greta Van Susteren · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

A simple, step-by-step guide to the major social media platforms - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat, and more - by MSNBC anchor and media maven Greta Van Susteren.The most practical, thorough, and reader-friendly guide around to living well on social media. From answering...
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Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales

P D JAMES · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

No one gets inside the head of the murderer - or makes it a more thrilling read - than the late, great P. D. James. Fast on the heels of her latest best seller: a new, fiendishly entertaining gathering of previously uncollected stories, from the author of Death Comes to Pemberley and The Private...
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Remodelista: The Organized Home: Simple, Stylish Storage Ideas for All Over the House

JULIE CARLSON · Artisan
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Buy fewer (and better) things. Store like with like. Get rid of the plastic. Display - don't stash - your belongings. Let go of your inner perfectionist and remember that rooms are for living. These are a few of the central principles behind Remodelista: The Organized Home, the new book...
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The Ghosts of Galway

KEN BRUEN · Mysterious Press
Pages: 330
Format: Hardcover

Ken Bruen is a singular voice in crime fiction "with his ear for lilting Irish prose and his taste for the kind of gallows humor heard only at the foot of the gallows" (New York Times Book Review) . In The Ghosts of Galway, he brings those elegiac talents to bear on a case...
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Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

NOT AVAILABLE. · Flatiron Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country. In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant in what...
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Perennials

Julie Cantrell · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

"If Julie Cantrell isn't on your reading list, she should be." - Lisa Wingate, national bestselling author of Before We Were YoursWhen two estranged sisters reunite for their parents' 50th anniversary, a family tragedy brings unexpected lessons of hope and healing amid the flowers...
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe

DEBORAH CADBURY · PublicAffairs
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother.By the 1890s, Queen Victoria had over thirty grandchildren, and to maintain and increase British royal power she was determined to maneuver them into...
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Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

RUTH EMMIE LANG · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Told with brains and heart" -- Michelle Gable, New York Times bestselling author of A Paris Apartment"Bristles with charm and curiosity" -- Winston Groom, New York Times bestselling author of Forrest Gump"A wholly original and superbly crafted work of art, Beasts...
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Supernormal: The Untold Story of Adversity and Resilience

Meg Jay · Twelve
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Clinical psychologist and author of The Defining Decade, Dr. Meg Jay reveals the world of the "supernormal": those who soar to unexpected heights after childhood adversity.Whether it is bullying, the loss of a parent to divorce or death, an alcoholic or mentally ill family member,...
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