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Beach Read

Emily Henry · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

"Sparklingly bright." --Sally Thorne, USA Today bestselling author of The Hating GameA romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.Augustus...
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The House in the Cerulean Sea

TJ Klune · Tor Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Lambda Literary Award-winning author TJ Klune's breakout contemporary fantasy

Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world.

Arthur...

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Eat Pray Love

Julia Roberts · Sony Pictures
Format: DVD

A woman who once made it her goal in life to marry and rear a family finds her priorities suddenly shifting in Ryan Murphy and Jennifer Salt's adaptation of author Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir. In the eyes of many, Liz Gilbert (Julia Roberts) was a woman who had it all -- a loving...
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The Truth about Forever

Sarah Dessen · Viking
Pages: 374
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller Expect the unexpected. Macy's got her whole summer carefully planned. But her plans didn't include a job at Wish Catering. And they certainly didn't include Wes. But Macy soon discovers that the things you expect least are sometimes the things you need...
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Love Poems for the Office

John Kenney
Format: Hardcover

With the same brilliant wit and biting realism that made Love Poems for Married People, Love Poems for People with Children, and Love Poems for Anxious People such hits, John Kenney is back with a brand new collection that tackles the hilarity of life in the office. From waiting in line...
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Eleanor & Park

Rainbow Rowell · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Best Seller!

"Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it's like to be young and in love with a book."-John Green, The New York Times Book Review

Bono met his wife...

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Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie · Orbit
Pages: 409
Format: Paperback

The only novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards and the first book in Ann Leckie's New York Times bestselling trilogy.
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.
Once, she was the Justice of Toren...
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Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1965)

Shi pi bo · Turner Home Ent
Format: DVD

David Lean focused all his talent as an epic-maker on Boris Pasternak's sweeping novel about a doctor-poet in revolutionary Russia. The results may sometimes veer toward soap opera, especially with the screen frequently filled with adoring close-ups of Omar Sharif and Julie Christie,...
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The Simple Wild: A Novel

K A TUCKER · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

City girl Calla Fletcher attempts to reconnect with her estranged father, and unwittingly finds herself torn between her desire to return to the bustle of Toronto and a budding relationship with a rugged Alaskan pilot in this masterful new romance from acclaimed author K.A. Tucker.Calla...
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Ugly Love: A Novel

Colleen Hoover · Atria Books
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with a new heart-wrenching love story.When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. They wouldn't even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate...
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One to Watch: A Novel

Kate Stayman-London · Dial Press Trade Paperback
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

Real love...as seen on TVBea Schumacher is a devastatingly stylish plus-size fashion blogger who has amazing friends, a devoted family, legions of Insta followers--and a massively broken heart. Like the rest of America, Bea indulges in her weekly obsession: the hit reality show Main Squeeze....
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In the Company of Crows and Ravens

John M. Marzluff
Format: Paperback

From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and ravens influence human culture. Yet this influence is not unidirectional, say the authors of this fascinating book: people profoundly...
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Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

Jay Shetty · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Jay Shetty, social media superstar and host of the #1 podcast On Purpose, distills the timeless wisdom he learned as a monk into practical steps anyone can take every day to live a less anxious, more meaningful life.Shetty writes, "I grew up in a family where you could become one of three...
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Alix E. Harrow · Redhook
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"A gorgeous, aching love letter to stories, storytellers and the doors they lead us through...absolutely enchanting."--Christina Henry, bestselling author of Alice and Lost Boys
In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery...
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