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The Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Novel

Christy Lefteri · Ballantine Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable. "Courageous and provocative, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a beautifully crafted novel of international significance...
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Scam Me If You Can: Simple Strategies to Outsmart Today's Ripoff Artists

Frank Abagnale · Portfolio
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Frank Abagnale (whose life as a con man was depicted in the movie Catch Me If You Can) reveals the methods used by the world's most skillful con artists to steal billions of dollars each year from unsuspecting Americans--and teaches 5 simple rules that will help us protect our money.Former...
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A Door in the Earth

Amy Waldman · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Cutting for Stone and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new novel from the author of the national bestseller The Submission, about an idealistic young Afghan-American woman trapped between her ideals and the complicated truth. Twenty-two-year-old Parveen is an Afghan-American...
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More to Life

ReShonda Tate Billingsley · Dafina
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

In this stunning sequel to her acclaimed debut My Brother's Keeper, #1 national bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley brings her real-deal insight to a heartfelt new novel about a wife and mother on a daring rescue mission - to save herself. Freshly forty-five, Aja James knows...
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Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

Laura Cumming · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother's mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village - and how that event reverberated her own family and her art for decades.In the fall of 1929,...
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Everything Inside: Stories

Edwidge Danticat · Knopf
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love.Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean and beyond,...
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Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death

Anthony Everitt · Random House
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait. More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built an empire...
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The Truth Behind the Lie: A Novel

Sara Lövestam · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The Truth Behind The Lie is Sara Lovestam's award-winning and gripping novel about blurred lines, second chances, and the lengths one will go to for the truth.When a six-year-old girl disappears and calling the police isn't an option, her desperate mother Pernilla turns to an unlikely source...
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End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World

Bryan Walsh · Hachette Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

What is going to cause our extinction?How can we save ourselves and our future?End Times answers the most important questions facing humankindEnd Times is a compelling work of skilled reportage that peels back the layers of complexity around the unthinkable--and inevitable--end of humankind....
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The Ventriloquists: A Novel

E.R. Ramzipoor · Park Row
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

In this triumphant debut inspired by true events, a ragtag gang of journalists and resistance fighters risk everything for an elaborate scheme to undermine the Reich.Brussels, 1943. Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country's most...
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