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Make Me: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child · Delacorte Press
Pages: 402
Format: Print book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Stephen King calls Jack Reacher "the coolest continuing series character" - and now he's back in this masterly new thriller from Lee Child. "Why is this town called Mother's Rest?" That's all Reacher wants to know. But no one will...
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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Johann Hari · Bloomsbury
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerIt is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United States. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, thirty-thousand-mile journey into the war on drugs. What he found is that more and more people all over...
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How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

Michael Greger · Flatiron Books, 2015.
Pages: 562
Format: Print book

From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the groundbreaking scientific evidence behind the only diet that can prevent and reverse many of the causes of disease-related death.The vast majority of premature deaths can be prevented through...
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Chloe's Vegan Italian Kitchen: 150 Pizzas, Pastas, Pestos, Risottos, & Lots of Creamy Italian Classics

Chloe Coscarelli · Atria Books
Format: Paperback

Popular vegan chef and winner of the Food Network's Cupcake Wars Chloe Coscarelli digs into her Italian roots to create more than 150 recipes inspired by the most popular cuisine in the world.If you think a healthy vegan diet means giving up pasta in creamy sauce, cheesy pizza, and luscious...
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The Road to Character

David Brooks · Random House
Pages: 300
Format: Print book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST * "I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it." - David Brooks With the wisdom,...
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Tuck Everlasting

Natalie Babbitt · Square Fish
Pages: 148
Format: Paperback

Doomed to -- or blessed with -- eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever...
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The Marriage of Opposites

Alice Hoffman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 369
Format: Print book

"A luminous, Marquez-esque tale" (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro - the Father of Impressionism.Growing...
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Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland

Amanda Berry · Viking
Pages: 321
Format: Print book

The #1 New York Times BestsellerA bestselling book that is inspiring the nation: "We have written here about terrible things that we never wanted to think about again . . . Now we want the world to know: we survived, we are free, we love life."Two women kidnapped by infamous Cleveland...
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Private Paris

James Patterson · Little
Pages: 14
Format: Print book

Someone is targeting the most powerful people in Paris--only Jack Morgan can make it stop. When Jack Morgan stops by Private's Paris office, he envisions a quick hello during an otherwise relaxing trip. But Jack is quickly pressed into duty after getting a call from his client Sherman...
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The innovators : how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution

Walter Isaacson · Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Pages: 542
Format: Print book

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a "riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving" (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the Internet.What...
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Flight of the Sparrow: A Novel of Early America

Amy Belding Brown · NAL Trade
Format: Book

A historical novel based on the life of Mary Rowlandson"An authentic drama of Indian captivity ... A compelling, emotionally gripping tale." - Eliot Pattison, author of the Mystery of Colonial America seriesShe suspects that she has changed too much to ever fit easily into English...
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Goodbye Stranger

Rebecca Stead · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"Masterly. . . . Sensitively explores togetherness, aloneness, betrayal and love." - The New York Times Book Review2016 Honor Book in Fiction, Boston Globe Horn Book AwardA NYT Editors' Choice and NYT Notable Children's Books of 2015This brilliant novel by Newbery Medal winner...
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Boys in the Trees: A Memoir

Carly Simon · Flatiron Books
Pages: 376
Format: Print book

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A People Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year!"Intelligent and captivating. Don't miss it." - People Magazine"One of the best celebrity memoirs of the year." -The Hollywood ReporterRock Star. Composer and Lyricist. Feminist Icon....
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George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

Brian Kilmeade · Sentinel
Pages: 235
Format: Print book

"As a Long Islander endlessly fascinated by events that happened in a place I call home, I hope with this book to give the secret six the credit they didn't get in life. The Culper spies represent all the patriotic Americans who give so much for their country but, because of the nature...
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