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You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television

Al Michaels · William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In this highly entertaining and insightful memoir, one of television's most respected broadcasters interweaves the story of his life and career with lively firsthand tales of some of the most thrilling events and fascinating figures in modern sports.No sportscaster has covered more...
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell · Back Bay
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in...
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Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

Bill Nye · St Martins Pr
Pages: 309
Format: Hardcover

"Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful...
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Travels with Charley in Search of America

John Steinbeck · Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover...
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The Trials of Apollo Book One The Hidden Oracle

Rick Riordan · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover

"After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. He must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor"--
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The Guilty

David Baldacci · Grand Central Publishing, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 420
Format: Large Print Hardcover

Will Robie is the government's most professional, disciplined, and lethal assassin. He infiltrates the most hostile countries in the world, defeats our enemies' advanced security measures, and eliminates threats before they ever reach our shores. But now, his skills have left him....
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

Jim Collins · HarperBusiness; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The Challenge:Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great...
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The Stranger

Harlan Coben · Dutton
Pages: 386
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Harlan Coben delivers his most shocking thriller yet, proving that a well-placed lie can help build a wonderful life - and a secret has the same explosive power to destroy it.

The Stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps...
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1984

George Orwell · Signet Classic
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback

Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...

"The Party told you to reject the evidence...
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This Was a Man

Jeffrey Archer · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 403
Format: Print book

This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies?
In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game?

Harry Clifton sets out to write...

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Words of Radiance

Brandon Sanderson · Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
Pages: 1087
Format: Hardcover

Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive sequence began in 2010 with the New York Times bestseller The Way of Kings. Now, the eagerly anticipated Words of Radiance continues the epic story and answers many of your questions.Six years ago, the Assassin in White, a hireling of the inscrutable...
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Christopher Clark · Harper Perennial
Pages: 697
Format: Paperback

One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I.Drawing on new scholarship,...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan · Penguin
Pages: 450
Format: Paperback

One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year

Winner of the James Beard Award

Author of #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules


What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael...
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Marrying Winterborne

Lisa Kleypas · Avon Books
Pages: 416
Format: Mass Market Paperback

A ruthless tycoon

Savage ambition has brought common-born Rhys Winterborne vast wealth and success. In business and beyond, Rhys gets exactly what he wants. And from the moment he meets the shy, aristocratic Lady Helen Ravenel, he is determined to possess her. If he must take her virtue...

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Gluten-Free Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Baking Revolution Continues with 90 New, Delicious and Easy Recipes Made with Gluten-Free Flours

Jeff Hertzberg · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 291
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling authors of the groundbreaking Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day bring you a new cookbook with 90 delicious, entirely gluten-free bread recipes made from easy-to-find ingredients.With more than half a million copies of their books in print, Jeff Hertzberg, MD and Zoë François...
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