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The Human Body
Paolo Giordano
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From the bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers, a searing novel of war and the journey from youth into manhood In Paolo Giordano’s highly awaited new novel, a platoon of young men and one woman soldier leaves Italy for one of the most dangerous places on earth.... |
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Hold the Dark: A Novel
William Giraldi · Liveright |
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A terrifying literary thriller set on the Alaskan tundra, about the mystery of evil and mankind's losing battle with nature. At the start of another pitiless winter, the wolves have come for the children of Keelut. Three children have been taken from this isolated Alaskan village,... |
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Don't Look Back: A Novel
Gregg Hurwitz · St. Martin's Press; 1ST edition |
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"Smart and relentless… Hurwitz starts the pressure early and never, never lets up." —The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) on You’re NextIn Don't Look Back, Eve Hardaway, newly single mother of one, is on a trip she’s long dreamed of—a rafting and hiking... |
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The Undertaking
Audrey Magee · Grove Press |
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From a remarkable new talent in Irish fiction comes a terrifyingly intimate story of a war marriage caught up in the calamity of World War II, a much anticipated debut which has garnered prepublication praise from Colm Toibin, Hugo Hamilton, A.D. Miller, and Chris Cleave.In a desperate... |
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Us: A Novel
David Nicholls · Harper |
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Longlisted for the Man Booker PrizeDavid Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced his enormously popular New York Times bestseller, One Day, to a compellingly human, deftly funny new novel about what holds marriages and families together—and what happens, and what we learn... |
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Full Measure: A Novel
T. Jefferson Parker · St. Martin's Press |
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"A tense and compelling drama of the wars without and the wars within—and of the flame of violence that burns through the American psyche." —T.C. Boyle, New York Times bestselling author of The Women"Stunning . . . [Parker is] a brave and daring writer."... |
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The Girl Next Door: A Novel
Ruth Rendell · Scribner |
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In this psychologically explosive story from “one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation” (People), the discovery of bones in a tin box sends shockwaves across a group of long-time friends.In the waning months of the second World War, a group of children discover... |
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Your Face in Mine: A Novel
Jess Row · Riverhead Hardcover |
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An award-winning writer delivers a poignant and provocative novel of identity, race and the search for belonging in the age of globalization. One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved back to his hometown of Baltimore, an African American man he doesn’t... |
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Truth Be Told
Hank Phillippi Ryan · Forge Books; First Edition edition |
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Now a LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST of 2014! Truth Be Told, part of the bestselling Jane Ryland and Jake Brogan series by Agatha, Anthony, Mary Higgins Clark, and Macavity Award-winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan, begins with tragedy: a middle-class family evicted from... |
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Dodging Extinction: Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth
Anthony D. Barnosky · University of California Press |
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Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding it. Writing from the front lines of extinction research, Barnosky tells the overarching... |
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Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game
Mark Edmundson · Penguin Press HC, The |
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Acclaimed essayist Mark Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its men Football teaches young men self-discipline and teamwork. But football celebrates violence. Football is a showcase... |
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Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
Michael Farquhar · Random House Trade Paperbacks |
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“Michael Farquhar doesn’t write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin’s smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it.”—Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington... |
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The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
Azar Nafisi · Viking Adult; First Edition edition |
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A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change people’s lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how,... |
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Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership
John C. Maxwell · Center Street |
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In GOOD LEADERS ASK GREAT QUESTIONS, John C. Maxwell delves into the process of becoming a successful leader by examining how questions can be used to advantage. What are the questions leaders should ask themselves? What questions should they ask members of their team? He then responds... |
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Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief
James M. McPherson · Penguin Press HC, The |
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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South... |
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Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars
Neil Young · Blue Rider Press |
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Neil Young’s first memoir, Waging Heavy Peace, was an international bestseller and critical sensation. The Wall Street Journal wrote that it was “terrific: modest, honest, funny and frequently moving,” while The New York Times found it “as charismatically off the wall... |
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