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The Magician King: A Novel

Lev Grossman · Plume; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to the New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon, The Magicians, from the author of the bestselling The Magicians Land.Quentin Coldwater should be happy. He escaped a miserable Brooklyn childhood, matriculated at a secret college for magic,...
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Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day

Miranda Esmonde-White · Harperwave
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

PBS fitness personality on Classical Stretch and creator of the fitness phenomenon Essentrics, Miranda Esmonde-White offers an eye-opening guide to anti-aging that provides essential tools to help anyone turn back the clock and look and feel younger no matter what age.??Miranda Esmonde-White...
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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Greg McKeown · Crown Publishing Group
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized? Are you often busy but not productive? Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people's agendas?...
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The River

Beverly Lewis · Bethany House Publishers
Format: Paperback

When two sisters return home for a visit after leaving the Amish world, both are troubled by the secrets, and the people, they left behind.
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The Heart of Betrayal

Mary E. Pearson · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape. Desperate to save her life, Lia's erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komizar that she has the gift, and the Komizar's interest in Lia is greater than anyone could have foreseen.In...
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Harlan Coben · Random House Large Print
Pages: 640
Format: Large print book

The boy who had been missing for ten years was right in front of him ...A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced. For ten years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories...
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MEAT: Everything You Need to Know

Pat LaFrieda · Atria Books; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Pat LaFrieda, the third generation butcher and owner of Americas premier meatpacking business, presents the ultimate book of everything meat, with more than seventy-five mouthwatering recipes for beef, pork, lamb, veal, and poultry. For true meat lovers, a beautifully prepared cut of beef,...
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Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

Regina Calcaterra · William Morrow
Pages: 306
Format: Paperback

Regina's Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope.

Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings...

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Eat to Live Cookbook: 200 Delicious Nutrient-Rich Recipes for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Reversing Disease, and Lifelong Health

Joel Fuhrman · HarperOne; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Do you want to eat delicious food that allows you to lose weight and keep it off permanently without hunger or deprivation? Do you want to throw away your medications and recover from chronic illnesses such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes? Do you want to maintain...
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Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese · Vintage Books
Pages: 667
Format: Paperback

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come...
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The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease

Marc Lewis PhD · PublicAffairs
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery.The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have...
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The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful

Myquillyn Smith · Zondervan
Pages: 199
Format: Hardcover

Perfection is overrated. Popular blogger and self-taught decorator Myquillyn Smith (The Nester) is all about embracing reality -- especially when it comes to decorating a home bursting with boys, pets, and all the unpredictable messes of life.In The Nesting Place, Myquillyn shares the secrets...
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Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success

Adam M. Grant · Viking; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Explains how networking and leadership skills are subject to the professional interaction styles of takers, matchers, and givers, and how these personalities dramatically shape success rates.For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent,...
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An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny

Laura Schroff · Howard Books
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback

An Invisible Thread tells of the life-long friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy, and how both of their lives were changed by what began as one small gesture of kindness.

Stopping was never part of the plan...

She was a successful...
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If You Give a Mouse an iPhone: A Cautionary Tail

Ann Droyd · Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

If you give in to temptation and give a bored little mouse your iPhone, even for ten minutes, hes probably going to beam to some faraway place beyond time, space, and the sound of your pleading voice. And if hes that far gone, he wont have any idea whats going on around him, and he might...
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