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Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey

Alice Robb · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Science journalist and lucid dreamer Alice Robb explores fresh, revelatory research to uncover why we dream and how we can improve our dream life.While on a research trip in Peru, science journalist Alice Robb became hooked on lucid dreaming. With practice, she mastered the uncanny phenomenon...
 
 
My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel

Oyinkan Braithwaite · Doubleday
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"My Sister, the Serial Killer is a gem, in the most accurate sense: small, hard, sharp, and polished to perfection."--Edgar Cantero, New York Times bestselling author of Meddling KidsSatire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman...
 
 
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

Thomas Morris · Dutton
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its grisly weirdness. A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in the nineteenth century is just one of many strange tales that have long lain undiscovered...
 
 
City of Broken Magic

Mirah Bolender · Tor Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Mirah Bolender's fast-paced, adventure fantasy debut, City of Broken Magic, features a bomb squad that defuses magic weapons.Five hundred years ago, magi created a weapon they couldn't control. An infestation that ate magic -- and anything else it came into contact with. Enemies and allies...
 
 
Barking with the Big Dogs: On Writing and Reading Books for Children

NATALIE BABBITT · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Barking with the Big Dogs: On Writing and Reading Books for Children is an inspirational collection of essays and speeches filled with wisdom accumulated over a long career writing books for children, from Natalie Babbitt, the beloved author of Tuck Everlasting.
 
 
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KEIGO HIGASHINO · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

International bestseller Keigo Higashino returns with his latest mindbender -- newly transferred Tokyo Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga is assigned to a baffling murder.Detective Kyoichiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department has just been transferred to a new precinct in the Nihonbashi area...
 
 
Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones

BALLANTINE. · Bantam
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work by the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO's Game of Thrones. With all the fire and fury fans have come to expect from internationally bestselling author George R. R. Martin, this is the first...
 
 
All the Lives We Never Lived: A Novel

Anuradha Roy · Atria Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter, The Folded Earth, and An Atlas of Impossible Longing, a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present-day about a son's quest to uncover the truth about his mother. In my childhood, I was known...
 
 
Ways to Hide in Winter

Sarah St.Vincent · Melville House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In the wintery silences of Pennsylvania's Blue Ridge Mountains, a woman befriends a mysterious foreigner - setting in motion this suspenseful, atmospheric, politically charged debut After surviving a life-altering accident at twenty-two, Kathleen recuperates by retreating to a remote campground...