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We Were Liars

E Lockhart · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 227
Format: Print book

A New York Times Bestseller"Haunting, sophisticated . . . a novel so twisty and well-told that it will appeal to older readers as well as to adolescents."--Wall Street Journal"A rich, stunning summer mystery with a sharp twist that will leave you dying to talk about the book...
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Saint Anything

Sarah Dessen · Viking
Pages: 417
Format: Print book

A New York Times bestsellerA TIME Magazine Top 10 Children's Book of 2015 "Saint Anything is a poignant, honest story about how we might suffer the misfortune of someone else's bad choices, how people who love us can become family when we desperately need it, and how starting over...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson · Broadway; 1 edition
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

Bill Bryson is one of the worlds most beloved and bestselling writers. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, he takes his ultimate journeyinto the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer. Its a dazzling quest, the intellectual odyssey of a lifetime,...
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The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body

Cameron Diaz · HarperWave; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Cameron Diaz shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide grounded in science and inspired by personal experience, now a #1 New York Times bestseller.Throughout her career, Cameron Diaz has been a role model for millions of women. By her own candid...
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The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden

Rick Darke · Timber Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife. But they also want beauty, a space for the kids to play, privacy, and maybe even a vegetable patch. Sure, it's a tall order, but The Living Landscape shows how to do it. By combining the insights of two outstanding...
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The Cuckoo's Calling

Robert Galbraith · Little Brown & Company
Pages: 455
Format: Hardcover

The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide.
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Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him

David Henry · Algonquin Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

“Addictively readable . . . Someday, when fewer people know Richard Pryor’s name, Furious Cool will be the best defense against the worst sort of forgetting--the kind that involves who we are now, who we loved once, and why.” —EsquireRichard Pryor was arguably...
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Splat the Cat: What Was That?

Rob Scotton · HarperFestival; Ltf edition

Splat the Cat and his friends have a Halloween adventure in Splat the Cat: What Was That?, a  lift-the-flap book by Rob Scotton, creator of the beloved Russell the Sheep.Halloween should be a black cat’s favorite holiday, but Spat the Cat is nervous about visiting a creepy haunted...
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

William Finnegan · Penguin Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writerBarbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding...
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Finders Keepers: A Novel

Stephen King · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far - a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes."Wake up, genius." So begins King's...
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