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Apollo 11

· Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

From director Todd Douglas Miller (Dinosaur 13) comes a cinematic event 50 years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo...

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Know My Name: A Memoir

Chanel Miller · Viking
Format: Book

She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly...

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The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

"Agatha Christie meets Groundhog Day...quite unlike anything I've ever read, and altogether triumphant." -- A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Woman in the WindowThe Rules of BlackheathEvelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m. There are eight days,...
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One Day in December: A Novel

JOSIE SILVER · Broadway Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

"Josie Silver writes with a warmth so palpable her characters sneak their way into your heart and stay for a long time." - Jill Santopolo, New York Times-bestselling author of The Light We Lost (a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick)

Two people. Ten chances....
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The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Terry Gilliam
Format: Book

Toby, a cynical but supposedly genius film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions...

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Red at the Bone: A Novel

Jacqueline Woodson · Riverhead Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.

Two families from different social classes are joined together...
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Dungeons & Dragons: Escape from Castle Ravenloft: An Endless Quest Book

Matt Forbeck
Format: Paperback

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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Sheri Fink · Broadway Books
Pages: 565
Format: Print book

One of the New York Times's Best Ten Books of the YearWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2014 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Ridenhour Book Prize, the 2014 American Medical...
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong.
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville...
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Amazing Grace

Aretha Franklin · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

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Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card · Macmillan Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula AwardsIn order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic...
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The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth

Josh Levin · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

"THE QUEEN is an invaluable work of nonfiction." -- David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon Slate editor Josh Levin's masterful account of the life and crimes of America's original "welfare queen"
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The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

H. G. Parry · Redhook
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate book-lover's fantasy, featuring a young scholar with the power to bring literary characters into the world, for fans of The Magicians, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, and The Invisible Library.
For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed...
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The Biggest Little Farm

John Chester · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

The Biggest Little Farm chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature's conflicts, the Chesters...
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Gamechanger

L. X. Beckett · Tor Books
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

Neuromancer meets Star Trek in Gamechanger, a fantastic new book from award-winning author L. X. Beckett.

First there was the Setback.

Then came the Clawback.

Now we thrive.

Rubi Whiting is a member of the Bounceback Generation....

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#MurderTrending

Gretchen McNeil · Freeform
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

@doctorfusionbebop: Some 17 y. o. chick named Dee Guerrera was just sent to Alcatraz 2.0 for killing her stepsister. So, how long do you think she'll last?


@morrisdavis72195: I hope she meets justice! She'll get what's coming to her! BWAHAHA!


@EltonJohnForevzz:...

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Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

Mira Jacob · One World
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing.

"By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it's exactly the book America needs at this...
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The Institute

Stephen King · Scribner
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It - publishing just as the second part of It, the movie, lands in theaters.

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street...
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Hatchet

Gary Paulsen · Listening Library
Pages: 3
Format: Audio CD

ALONE

Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present...

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To Shake the Sleeping Self: A 14,000-Mile Bike Trip, and One Man#s Quest to Live a Life with No Regrets

JEDIDIAH JENKINS · Convergent Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From travel writer and Instagram phenomenon Jedidiah Jenkins, a long-awaited memoir of adventure, failure, and lessons learned while bicycling the 10,000 miles from Oregon to Patagonia.On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being sucked into a life he didn't choose, Jedidiah Jenkins...
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Paper Girls Volume 6

Brian K. Vaughan · Image Comics
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

THE END IS HERE!After surviving adventures in their past, present and future, the Paper Girls of 1988 embark on one last journey, a five-part epic that includes the emotional double-sized series finale. Featuring a new wraparound cover from Eisner Award-winning co-creator CLIFF CHIANG,...
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