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The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks
Ben Cohen · Custom House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant and buoyant investigation into the existence (or not) of streaks, from a rising star at the Wall Street Journal. For decades, statisticians, social scientists, psychologists, and economists (among them Nobel Prize winners) have spent massive amounts of precious... |
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Untamed
Glennon Doyle · The Dial Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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In her most revealing and powerful book yet, the beloved activist, speaker, and author of the bestselling sensations Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and start trusting the voice... |
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The Mirror & the Light
Hilary Mantel · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover
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"If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?" England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors.... |
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A Good Neighborhood
Therese Anne Fowler · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"Therese Anne Fowler has taken the ingredients of racism, justice, and conservative religion and has concocted a feast of a read: compelling, heartbreaking, and inevitable. I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, it's that good." -- Jodi Picoult, #1 New York... |
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Capital and Ideology
Thomas Piketty · Belknap Press
Pages: 1104
Format: Hardcover
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The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system. Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century... |
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My Dark Vanessa: A Novel
Kate Elizabeth Russell · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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"A hard story to read and a harder one to put down . . . a well-constructed package of dynamite." - Stephen King Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant,... |
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New Waves: A Novel
Kevin Nguyen · One World
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Set in the New York City tech world, a wry and edgy debut novel about a heist gone wrong, a secret online life exposed, and a young man's search for true connection
Lucas and Margo are fed up. Margo is a brilliant programmer tired of being talked over as the company's sole black... |
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Powershift: Transform Any Situation, Close Any Deal, and Achieve Any Outcome
Daymond John · DOUBLEDAY & CO
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author and Shark Tank star Daymond John reveals the secrets to cultivating influence, building relationships, and negotiating your way to any deal or outcome. Getting what you want in life is all about relationships: establishing them, leveraging them at the right... |
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Precious You: A Novel
Helen Monks Takhar · Random House
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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An obsessive power struggle between an editor and her millennial intern turns dangerous in this debut psychological thriller - for readers of Luckiest Girl Alive and You.
Trusting you was my first mistake.
To Katherine, twenty-four-year-old Lily Lunt... |
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