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The Hooligans

P. T. Deutermann - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book

A gripping and authentic World War II naval adventure by a master storyteller, The Hooligans fictionalizes the little-known but remarkable exploits of "The Hooligan Navy" that fought in the Pacific theatre of World War II. Loosely-organized in fast-moving...

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The House at the Edge of Night: A Novel

Catherine Banner - Random House
Format: Print book

A sweeping saga about four generations of a family who live and love on an enchanting island off the coast of Italy - combining the romance of Beautiful Ruins with the magical tapestry of works by Isabel Allende. Castellamare is an island far enough away from the mainland to be forgotten,...
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The Ghostfaces

John Flanagan - Philomel Books
Format: Print book

From John Flanagan, author of the worldwide bestselling Ranger's Apprentice, comes a brand-new chapter in the adventures of young Skandians who form a different kind of family--a brotherband.When the Brotherband crew are caught in a massive storm at sea, they're blown far off course and wash...
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Tracker: A Foreigner Novel

C. J. Cherryh - DAW
Format: Hardcover

Tracker is the sixteenth installment of CJ Cherryh's acclaimed Foreigner series.It's been a year of upheaval, since Bren Cameron's return from space - a year when he and the aiji-dowager, one of his most powerful atevi allies, returned home from their two-year interstellar mission...
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Not Our Kind: A Novel

Kitty Zeldis - Harper
Format: eBook

With echoes of Rules of Civility and The Boston Girl, a compelling and thought-provoking novel set in postwar New York City, about two women - one Jewish, one a WASP - and the wholly unexpected consequences of their meeting.One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War II, a minor...
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Fair Warning

Michael Connelly - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The hero of The Poet and The Scarecrow is back in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Jack McEvoy, the journalist who never backs down, tracks a serial killer who has been operating completely under the radar--until now. Veteran...
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Adios, America

Ann Coulter - Regnery Pub
Format: Hardcover

Ann Coulter is back, more fearless than ever. In Adios, America she touches the third rail in American politics, attacking the immigration issue head-on and flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrants' crimes, churches that get paid by the government...
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The Bitter Season

Tami Hoag - Dutton
Format: Print book

Kovac and Liska take on multiple twisted cases as #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag explores a murder from the past, a murder from the present, and a life that was never meant to be. As the dreary, bitter weather of late fall descends on Minneapolis, Detective Nikki...
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Weight Watchers Cook it Fast: 250 Recipes in 15, 20, 30 Minutes

Weight Watchers - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

Really hungry? In a rush? Weight Watchers Cook It Fast has 250 delicious, healthful, quick and easy recipes that will help you put food on the table in thirty minutes or less. Weight Watchers Cook It Fast has you covered for every meal of the day--and desserts too! Youll find ideas for Breakfasts...
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel

Mark Sullivan - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland.Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man's incredible courage and resilience during one of history's...
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Luxe 2: A LaLa Land Addiction

Ashley Antoinette - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Print book

In Luxe Two: A LaLa Land Addiction by New York Times bestselling author Ashley Antoinette, there is only one thing more powerful than anything...the love of the high...Bleu is addicted...addicted to the luxe life and it has led her down a road of self-destruction. She knows...
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A Keeper

Graham Norton
Format: Hardcover


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Survivor Song: A Novel

Paul Tremblay - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

A riveting novel of suspense and terror from the Bram Stoker award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease...
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The Burning God (The Poppy War, 3)

R. F. Kuang - Harper Voyager
Format: Paperback

The exciting end to the Poppy War trilogy, R. F. Kuangs acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect. After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling...
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Blood Kiss: Black Dagger Legacy

J.R. Ward - Berkley
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The legacy of the Black Dagger Brotherhood continues in a spin-off series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author ... Paradise, blooded daughter of the king's First Advisor, is ready to break free from the restrictive life of an aristocratic female. Her strategy? Join the Black...
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Now That You're Here

Amy K. Nichols - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover

"When street smart graffiti artist, Danny, is jolted into a parallel world, only Eevee, an alluring science geek has the know-how to get him home, but as he falls for her, his motives grow foggy"--
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Radiant Angel

Nelson DeMille - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

"A soft breeze fluttered the white, blue, and red Russian flag in front of the U.N. mission. I remember when the Soviet hammer and sickle flew there. I kind of miss the Cold War. But I think it's back."RADIANT ANGELAfter a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known...
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The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

Philip Zaleski - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Best Book of June 2015 (The Christian Science Monitor) C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met every...
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Happily This Christmas: A Novel

Susan Mallery - HQN
Format: Hardcover

There's no place like Happily Inc for the holidays ... Wynn Beauchene has a thriving business, a great kid and a mildly embarrassing crush on the guy next door - local cop Garrick McCabe. She's a strong, independent woman who can't help dreaming what-if about a man she barely...
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Such a Fun Age

Kiley Reid - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE'S BOOK CLUB x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK "The most provocative page-turner of the year." --Entertainment Weekly "A great way to kick off 2020." --Washington Post"I urge you to read Such a Fun Age." --NPRA striking...
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Six Scary Stories

Stephen King - Cemetery Dance Pubns
Format: Print book

Number 1 bestselling writer Stephen King introduces and presents six gripping and chilling stories in this captivating anthology:Stephen King discovered these stories when he judged a competition run by Hodder & Stoughton and the Guardian to celebrate publication of his own collection...
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Two from the Heart

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling author of Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas and Sundays at Tiffany's, two heartwarming tales about the power of a good story to open our eyes to life's possibilities.Anne McWilliams has lost everything. After her marriage falls apart and a hurricane destroys her home...
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The Next Person You Meet in Heaven: The Sequel to The Five People You Meet in Heaven

MITCH ALBOM - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In this enchanting sequel to the number one bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Eddie's heavenly reunion with Annie - the little girl he saved on earth - in an unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses intersect.Fifteen years ago, in Mitch...
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The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinnertime: Comfort Classics, Freezer Food, 16-Minute Meals, and Other Delicious Ways to Solve Supper!

Ree Drummond - William Morrow Cookbooks
Format: Hardcover

The #1 bestselling author and Food Network personality at last answers that age-old question - "What's for Dinner?" - bringing together more than 125 simple, scrumptious, step-by-step recipes for delicious dinners the whole family will love.For families juggling school, work,...
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Olive, Again: A Novel

Elizabeth Strout - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions."Strout managed to make me love this strange woman I'd never met, who I knew...
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Tom Clancy Under Fire

Grant Blackwood - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Book

On a routine intelligence gathering mission in Tehran, Jack Ryan, Jr., has lunch with his oldest friend, Seth Gregory, an engineer overseeing a transcontinental railway project. As they part, Seth slips Jack a key, along with a perplexing message. The next day Jack is summoned to an apartment...
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Muzzled

David Rosenfelt - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

The ever-charming David Rosenfelt is back with Muzzled, where reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter and his beloved golden retriever, Tara, are back on the case as a favor to a friend.Reluctant New Jersey lawyer Andy Carpenter doesn't call many people friend. So when one comes to him for help,...
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All the Stars in the Heavens: A Novel

Adriana Trigiani - Harper
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPeople's Book of the WeekAnnual Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominee for FictionAdriana Trigiani, the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster epic The Shoemaker's Wife, returns with her biggest and boldest novel yet, a hypnotic tale based on a true...
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Becoming a Supple Leopard 2nd Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance

Kelly Starrett - Victory Belt Publishing
Format: Hardcover - Revised Ed.

Updated and expanded with more than 80 pages of new content!Improve your athletic performance, extend your athletic career, treat stiffness and achy joints, and prevent and rehabilitate injuries - all without having to seek out a coach, doctor, chiropractor, physical therapist, or masseur....
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Raising Rufus

David Fulk - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Readers who loved E.T., Free Willy, and Jurassic Park will dive right into this adventure story about what happens when an extra-average eleven-year-old boy gets an extra-large pet: a giant T. rex! In the unremarkable town of Menominee Springs, Wisconsin, lives a twelve-year-old explorer...
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Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

Bill Nye - St Martins Pr
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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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

Nujood Ali - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback

"Im a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no." Nujood Alis childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three...
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Diabetic Living Quick & Easy Meals

Diabetic Living Editors - Better Homes & Gardens; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Delicious meals in minutes the whole family will enjoy Eat right for diabetes and get dinner on the table fast with this photo-filled collection of easy, everyday meals from Diabetic Living—the only lifestyle magazine for individuals living with diabetes. These fast-fix recipes—low...
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The Waking Fire (The Draconis Memoria)

Anthony Ryan - Ace
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling Ravens Shadow Trilogy was a perfect read for "fans of broadscale epic fantasy along the lines of Robert Jordans Wheel of Time series and George R. R. Martins Song of Ice and Fire novels."* Now, Anthony Ryan begins a new saga, The Draconis Memoria...Throughout...
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Eight Hundred Grapes: A Novel

Laura Dave - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Named "Best Book of the Summer" by Glamour * Marie Claire * US Weekly * Good Housekeeping * Cosmopolitan * Elle Magazine * Wine Enthusiast * Health Magazine * Metro New York * InStyle* Pop Sugar * CBS Local * BookTrib * AV Club * and as the #1 Library Reads Pick * There are secrets...
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Thomas Kinkade's Cape Light: One Bright Christmas

Katherine Spencer - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

This Christmas the peaceful town of Cape Light shines extra bright.When Lauren Willoughby returns to Cape Light for the holidays, she's hardly feeling festive. Although her family views her as a sharp, successful New York attorney, she's come home to heal from a bad breakup and a career...
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The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook

Edmund Bourne PhD - New Harbinger Pub
Format: Paperback

Now in its sixth edition and recommended by therapists worldwide, The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook has been the unparalleled, essential resource for people struggling with anxiety and phobias for almost thirty years. Living with anxiety, panic disorders, or phobias can make you feel like...
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Apartment Therapy Complete and Happy Home

Maxwell Ryan - Potter Style
Format: Hardcover

"The first-ever complete home book from Apartment Therapy, featuring every aspect of design and decorating from floor plans to paint, specific rooms to style approaches, with the goal of setting up and living well in a place you love"--
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Super Shred: The Big Results Diet: 4 Weeks, 20 Pounds, Lose It Faster!

Ian K. Smith - St. Martin's Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The diet that works faster and forever!SUPER SHRED Using the same principles--meal spacing, snacking, meal replacement and diet confusion--that made his SHRED a major 1 bestseller--Dr. Ian Smith has developed what dieters told him they needed a quick-acting plan that is safe and easy to follow...
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Good Riddance

ELINOR LIPMAN - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman, in which one woman's trash becomes another woman's treasure, with deliriously entertaining results. Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held...
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The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho - HarperOne
Format: Paperback

Note: Item has rough Cut edges(Edges are cut improperly intentionally by the manufacturer) A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale...
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Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance

Christopher McDougall - Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Format: Print book

The best-selling author of Born to Run now travels to the Mediterranean, where he discovers that the secrets of ancient Greek heroes are still alive and well on the island of Crete, and ready to be unleashed in the muscles and minds of casual athletes and aspiring heroes everywhere....
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt - Harper Perennial; 1 Original edition
Format: Paperback

More Than 4 Million Copies Sold WorldwidePublished in 35 LanguagesWhich is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool?What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?How much do parents really matter?These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt...
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The Last Romantics: A Novel

TARA CONKLIN - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

"Tara Conklin is a generous writer who deftly brings us into the world of this fictional family, an engrossing and vivid place where I was happy to stay. The Last Romantics is a richly observed novel, both ambitious and welcoming." -- Meg WolitzerThe New York Times bestselling...
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If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

Gregg Olsen - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

A #1 Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller.#1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsens shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mothers house of horrors.After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki,...
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Check In at the Pine Away Motel: A Novel

Katarina Bivald - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

The Pine Creek Motel has seen better days. Henny would call it charming, but she's always seen the best in things. Like now, when she's just met an untimely end crossing the road. She's not going to let a tiny thing like death stop her from living fullynot when her friends and family need...
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The Sorcerer's Daughter: The Defenders of Shannara

Terry Brooks - Del Rey
Format: Print book

The inspiration for the epic MTV series, the world of Shannara is brimming with untold stories and unexplored territory. Now bestselling author Terry Brooks breaks new ground with a standalone adventure that's sure to thrill veteran readers and recent converts alike.The mysterious, magic-wielding...
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A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Lucia Berlin - Picador
Format: Hardcover

One of The New York Times Book Reviews Ten Best Books of 2015One of Jezebels Favorite Books of 2016A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. . With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy...
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Invision

Sherrilyn Kenyon - Griffin
Format: Print book

Think you have a lot of pressure on your shoulders? Nick Gautier was born to bring about the end of the world . . . it's not easy being the heir of a demon overlord. But Nick is determined to thwart his destiny and get into a good college. To be more than his genetics and prophecy foretell....
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Treason

Stuart Woods - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Stone Barrington takes on a scheming rebel in this latest action-packed thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods.Upon returning to New York City after a whirlwind British excursion, Stone Barrington is notified of a delicate situation within the country's administration....
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The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides - Picador
Format: Paperback

The National Bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Middlesex and The Marriage PlotWith a New IntroductionFirst published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters -- beautiful,...
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The Crown

Kiera Cass - HarperTeen
Format: Paperback

The specacular happily ever after of the #1 New York Times bestselling Selection seriesKiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series has captured the hearts of readers from its very first page. Now the end of the journey is here. Prepare to be swept off your feet by The Crown...
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Two Truths and a Lie: A Novel

Meg Mitchell Moore - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Islanders comes a warm, witty and suspenseful novel filled with small-town secrets, summer romance, big time lies and spiked seltzer, in the vein of Liane Moriarty.Truth: Sherri Griffin and her daughter, Katie, have recently moved to the idyllic beach town of Newburyport,...
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DIY Wood Pallet Projects: 35 Rustic Modern Upcycling Ideas to Personalize Your Space

Karah Bunde - Adams Media; 1 edition

Turn simple shipping pallets into stunning crafts for your home!With DIY Wood Pallet Projects, you can finally personalize your space without having to spend a fortune on getting that perfect rustic chic look. Featuring 35 creative upcycling ideas, you'll transform old wood pallets...
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I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story

Anthony Daniels - DK
Format: Hardcover

Discover the incredible untold story of one of Star Wars' most iconic characters, C-3PO, told by the man who knows him best."Did you hear that? They've shut down the main reactor! We'll be destroyed for sure. This is madness."These words were the very first to be spoken...
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The Revisioners: A Novel

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

"Few capture the literary world's attention with their debut like [Sexton] did; her first novel, A Kind of Freedom, was nominated for the National Book Award. . . Her anticipated follow-up offers a bracing window into Southern life and tensions, alternating between two women's...
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The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

Beth Morrey - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and A Man Called Ove, a life-affirming, deeply moving "coming-of-old" story, a celebration of how ordinary days are made extraordinary through friendship, family, and the power of forgiving yourself--at any age.Boy meets girl....
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Untitled Oregon #15

Clive Cussler - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon are back with a new adventure in this thrilling suspense novel in Clive Cussler's #1 New York Times bestselling series.Juan Cabrillo and his team of expert operatives return in this latest entry in Clive Cussler's Oregon Files series. Aboard...
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The Cartel 6: The Demise

Jaquavis Coleman - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Print book

The Cartel series is back...and more deadly than ever.Las Vegas. A city built on obscene wealth and corrupt deals, cunning entrepreneurs, and the ruthless mob. The Cartel's plan to open a casino will rake in cash, but comes with great sacrifice. The stakes have never been this...
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A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design

Frank Wilczek - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Does the universe embody beautiful ideas?Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question." With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek's...
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Born of Legend

Sherrilyn Kenyon - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

"It's official Take a Psycho to Work Day. Why else would I be here?"Hunted. Hated. Betrayed. Outcast Dagger Ixur is on the run for his life. As one of the most recognizable members of his royal house, he has a bounty on his head that guarantees him no quarter from any friend...
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Truth or Dare

Fern Michaels - Zebra
Format: eBook

The Sisterhood: a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies, the Men of the Sisterhood, have formed a top-secret organization of their own, with the same goal of helping the helpless and righting the wrongs of the world . . . When...
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The Contact Paradox: Challenging our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Keith Cooper - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover

Inside the difficult questions about humanity's search for extraterrestrial intelligence. What will happen if humanity makes contact with another civilization on a different planet? In The Contact Paradox, space journalist Keith Cooper tackles some of the myths and assumptions that...
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Microshelters: 59 Creative Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures

Derek Diedricksen - Storey Books
Format: Print book

If you dream of living in a tiny house, or creating a getaway in the backwoods or your backyard, you'll love this gorgeous collection of creative and inspiring ideas for tiny houses, cabins, forts, studios, and other microshelters. Created by a wide array of builders and designers around...
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Abaddon's Gate

James S.A. Corey - Orbit; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

The explosive third novel in James S. A. Corey's "New York Times "bestselling Expanse series. Now a major television series on Syfy For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through...
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Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf

R. A. Salvatore - Wizards of the Coast
Format: Hardcover

Bloody war rages across the Forgotten Realms world in the third book of the Companions Codex, the latest series in R.A. Salvatores New York Times best-selling saga of dark elf Drizzt DoUrden.In the evolving world of the Forgotten Realms setting, the Sundering has given way to months of cloud-cloaked...
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Silent Night: A Novel

Danielle Steel - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A shocking accident. A little girl struggling to survive. And the childless aunt who transforms her own world to help her . . . Danielle Steel's deeply moving novel is a story of resilience and hope.Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. The daughter...
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The Hard Way Home (The Star and the Shamrock Book 3)

Jean Grainger
Format: Hardcover

Dublin 1950Liesl Bannon has never felt like she was truly at home anywhere, not since her mother placed her and her brother Erich on the last Kindertransport out of Berlin in 1939. Shed been so much more fortunate than most Jews, saved from the horrors of the Nazi regime. Being adopted...
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William Shakespeare's The Phantom of Menace: Star Wars Part the First

Ian Doescher; George Lucas - Quirk Books
Format: Hardcover

Join us, good gentles, for a merry reimagining of Star Wars: Episode 1 as only Shakespeare could have written it. The entire saga starts here, with a thrilling tale featuring a disguised queen, a young hero, and two fearless knights facing a hidden, vengeful enemy. 'Tis a true Shakespearean...
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Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder

Randi Kreger - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback

Do you feel manipulated, controlled, or lied to? Are you the focus of intense, violent, and irrational rages? Do you feel as though you are constantly trying to avoid confrontation? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should remember this: It's not your fault. And you're...
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Silver Bay: A Novel

Jojo Moyes - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You, After You, and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a surprising and moving romance set in an old-fashioned seaside town on the verge of unwelcome change. Liza McCullen will never fully escape...
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The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu - Tor Books
Format: Book

The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project...

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Quantum Shadows

L. E. Modesitt Jr. - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author of The Mongrel Mage, L. E. Modesitt, Jr's Quantum Shadows blends science fiction, myth, and legend in an adventure that pits old gods and new against one another in a far future world.On a world called Heaven, the ten major religions of mankind each have its own land...
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Sleeping Giants

Sylvain Neuvel - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

A page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery - and a fight to control a gargantuan power.A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South...
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The Fishermen: A Novel

Chigozie Obioma - Little
Format: Print book

In a Nigerian town in the mid 1990's, four brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family.Told from the point of view of nine year old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, THE FISHERMEN is the Cain and Abel-esque story of an unforgettable...
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Salvation Lost

Peter F. Hamilton - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

All the best in humanity rises to meet a powerful alien threat in the sequel to Salvation - part of an all-new trilogy from "the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction" (Ken Follett) . The comparative utopia of twenty-third-century Earth is about...
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Daylight

David Baldacci - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Book

In David Baldacci's bestselling series, FBI Agent Atlee Pine's search for her sister Mercy clashes with John Puller's high-stakes investigation, leading them both deep into the perilous world of organized crime -- a world neither of them will escape from unscathed.
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Stranger Things: Into the Fire

Jody Houser - Dark Horse Books
Format: Paperback

Beyond Hawkins Lab, Starcourt Mall, Dungeons and Dragons, Monsters, and Mindflayers, the powerful children that have escaped from Hawkins Lab are out in the world, trying to live normal lives, but it comes at a steep cost.Nine was left behind in Hawkins Lab, comatose and alone. Now she lives...
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If I Never Met You: A Novel

Mhairi McFarlane - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Internationally bestselling author Mhairi McFarlane returns with another heartful romantic comedy perfect for fans of Josie Silver, Sophie Kinsella, or Sally Thorne.If faking love is this easy... how do you know when it's real? When her partner of over a decade suddenly ends things, Laurie...
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Code of conduct : a thriller

Brad Thor - Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2015.
Format: Print book

"Thor tops himself again and again." - BookReporter.com "Feels like the TV show 24 on the page." - The Associated Press #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor presents his greatest thriller ever - an action-packed literary tour de force!Hidden deep within one of the world's...
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The Christmas Boutique: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

Jennifer Chiaverini - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Twenty years after the publication of The Quilter's Apprentice, the novel that launched the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series, New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with another delightful chapter featuring Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstom Compson and friends, a captivating,...
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The Chopped Cookbook: Use What You've Got to Cook Something Great

Food Network - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

Never again let the question, "What's for dinner?" stump you. The Chopped Cookbook features secrets for combining pantry staples to make exciting meals. If you've ever looked into your fridge, hoping for inspiration to strike, let The Chopped Cookbook help you shake...
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Lost and Found: A Novel

Danielle Steel - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * What might have been? That tantalizing question propels a woman on a cross-country adventure to reunite with the men she loved and let go, in Danielle Steel's exhilarating new novel. It all starts with a fall from a ladder, in a firehouse in New York...
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You Had Me at Hola: A Novel

Alexis Daria - Avon
Format: Paperback

"Soapy, smart and so sexy... with vibrant characters and electric chemistry comparable to the telenovelas that inspired it, you'll be thrilled You Had Me At Hola doesn't come with commercials!"--Sarah MacLean, New York Times bestselling authorRITA Award Winning author...
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Stranger Things: SIX (Graphic Novel)

Jody Houser - Dark Horse Books
Format: Paperback

A prequel comic from Netflix award-winning series, delving into the mysterious workings of Project MKUltra and the weird science that opened the door to the Upside Down.. Francine, a teenage girl with precognition, has struggled through a lifetime of exploitation: first by her parents,...
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Hello Summer

Mary Kay Andrews - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Conley Hawkins left her family's small town newspaper, The Silver Bay Beacon, in the rear view mirror years ago. Now, after ten years of blood, sweat, and tears, Conley is exactly where she wants to be and is about to take a fancy new position at a New York City newspaper. That is, until...
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing

Ursula K Le Guin - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover

In a series of conversations with Between The Covers's David Naimon, Ursula K. Le Guin discusses her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry -- both her process and her philosophy -- with all the wisdom, profundity, and rigour we expect from one of our great American writers.When the New York...
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West

David Fisher - Henry Holt & Company
Format: Hardcover

The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historic series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we knowHow did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone...
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A Dog's Way Home

W BRUCE CAMERON - Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!From W. Bruce Cameron, the author of the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel A Dog's PurposeLucas Ray is shocked when an adorable puppy jumps out of an abandoned building and into his arms. Though the apartment...
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Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

Dr. Joe Dispenza - Hay House Inc.
Format: Paperback

You are not doomed by your genes and hardwired to be a certain way for the rest of your life. A new science is emerging that empowers all human beings to create the reality they choose. In Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, renowned author, speaker, researcher, and chiropractor Dr. Joe Dispenza...
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Success Through Stillness: Meditation Made Simple

Russell Simmons - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover

Master entrepreneur, original hip-hop mogul, and New York Times bestselling author Russell Simmons shares the most fundamental key to success - meditation - and guides readers to use stillness as a powerful tool to access their potential. In the New York Times bestseller Super Rich, Russell...
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The Last Star: The Final Book of The 5th Wave

Richard Yancey - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book

The highly-anticipated finale to the "New York Times "bestselling 5th Wave series The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They re down here, they re up there, they re nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath...
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The Margot Affair: A Novel

Sanae Lemoine - Hogarth
Format: Hardcover

The secret daughter of a French politician and a famous actress drops the startling revelation that will shatter her family in this beguiling debut novel of intrigue and betrayal. "There were so many of us, children of these double families who dreamed of the other side." Margot...
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Smart but Scattered Teens: The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential

Richard Guare Phd - The Guilford Press; 1 Csm edition
Format: Paperback

"I told you, I'll do it later." "I forgot to turn in the stupid application." "Could you drive me to school? I missed the bus again." "I can't walk the dog--I have too much homework!" If you're the parent of a "smart...
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The Way Back to You

Sharon Sala - Sourcebooks Casablanca
Format: Mass Market Paperback

"Sharon Sala's Blessings, Georgia series is filled with unforgettable charm and delight!" -- ROBYN CARR, #1 New York Times bestselling author What do you do when your whole life is turned upside down?Sully Raines sets out to find his birth mother, and ends up in Blessings, Georgia....
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If It Bleeds

Stephen King - Scribner
Format: Paperback

From #1 New York Times bestselling author, legendary storyteller, and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas - Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds - each pulling readers into...
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Murder, She Wrote: A Time for Murder

Jessica Fletcher - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

In the fiftieth entry in this USA Today bestselling series, two timelines converge as Jessica Fletcher returns to high school to investigate the murder of an old colleague, while we meet Jessica as a young teacher solving her very first murder - that of the high school principal.Young...
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The Case of the Spellbound Child (Elemental Masters Book 14)

Mercedes Lackey - DAW
Format: Hardcover

The fourteenth novel in the magical alternate history Elemental Masters series continues the reimagined adventures of Sherlock Holmes in a richly-detailed alternate 20th-century England.While Sherlock is still officially dead, John and Mary Watson and Nan Killian and Sarah Lyon-White are taking...
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How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

Stephen Witt - Viking
Format: Hardcover

* Finalist for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Named one of Time magazine's Best Books of 2015 So Far * A New York Times Editors' Choice * "[How Music Got Free] has the clear writing and brisk reportorial acumen of a Michael Lewis book."...
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The Dilemma

B. A. Paris - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Its Livias 40th birthday, and her husband Adam is throwing her the party of a lifetime to make up for the wedding they never had. Everyone she loves will be there, except her daughter Marnie, whos studying abroad. But Livia is secretly glad Marnie wont be there. Livia has recently uncovered...
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Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen: A Novel

ALISON WEIR - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

"A sumptuous historical novel anchored by its excellent depiction of Jane Seymour, Henry the VIII's third queen . . . This is a must for all fans of Tudor fiction and history." - Publishers Weekly Ever since she was a child, Jane has longed for a cloistered...
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The Juice Lady's Anti-Inflammation Diet: 28 Days to Restore Your Body and Feel Great

Cherie Calbom MS CN - Siloam
Format: Paperback

Lose weight, increase your energy,and look and feel younger in justTWENTY-EIGHT DAYS!If you are experiencing joint pain, fatigue, or difficulty losing weight,you might have chronic inflammation that comes from a poor diet.Research shows that inflammation is at the root of nearly every diseaseand...
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The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science: 50 Experiments for Daring Young Scientists

Sean Connolly - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

It’s never been more important to engage a child's scientific curiosity, and Sean Connolly knows just how to do it—with lively, hands-on, seemingly "dangerous" experiments that pop, ooze, crash, and teach! Now, the author of The Book of Totally Irresponsible...
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Nine Perfect Strangers

Liane Moriarty - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little LiesCould ten days at a health resort really change you forever? In Liane Moriarty's latest page-turner, nine perfect strangers are about to find out...Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here...
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The Girl in Cabin 13

A.J. Rivers - Independently published
Format: Paperback

Knock ... Knock ... When Emma finds a dead body on her porch with her name written on the dead man's hand she uncovers a sinister clue to the mystery that has haunted her since childhood. FBI agent Emma Griffin is sent undercover to the small sleepy town of Feathered Nest to uncover...
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No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

Daniel J. Siegel - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child - Tina Payne Bryson and Daniel J. Siegel, the author of Brainstorm - now explore the ultimate child-raising challenge: discipline. Highlighting the fascinating link between a child's neurological development...
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Only Beloved: A Survivors' Club Novel

Mary Balogh - Signet Book
Format: Print book

From the legendary New York Times bestselling author of Only a Kiss and Only a Promise comes the final book in the rapturous Survivor's Club series - as the future of one man lies within the heart of a lost but never-forgotten love...For the first time since the death...
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El amor en los tiempos del cólera

Gabriel García Márquez - Vintage
Format: Paperback

De jvenes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un mdico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino est anonadado, pero es un romntico. Su carrera en los negocios florece, y aunque sostiene 622 pequeos romances, su corazn...
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The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

Jay Rubin

A major new collection of Japanese short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki MurakamiThis fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the art of the Japanese short story, from its origins in the nineteenth centu
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A Spark of Light: A Novel

Jodi Picoult - Ballantine Books
Format: eBook

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center - a women's reproductive health services clinic...
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A Better World

Marcus Sakey - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Book

The highly-anticipated sequel to the Edgar nominated Brilliance The brilliants changed everything. Since 1980, one percent of the world has been born with gifts we'd only dreamed of. The ability to sense a person's most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually...
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Sea of Greed

CLIVE CUSSLER - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

The world's oil supply is vanishing, the stock market is plummeting, and the key to saving the future seems to be a baffling historical mystery. Can the NUMA crew crack it in time? Sea of Greed is the suspenseful new NUMA Files novels from the #1 New York Times-bestselling...
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Confess: A Novel

Colleen Hoover - Atria Books
Format: Print book

Winner of the 2015 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a new novel about risking everything for love - and finding your heart somewhere between the truth and lies.At age twenty-one, Auburn Reed has already lost everything...
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Promise Me Forever

Debbie Macomber - Ballantine
Format: Book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDebbie Macomberrsquos beautiful story of hope, healing, and the magic of the human heart is available for the first time as an eBook. Physical therapist Joy Neilsen doesnrsquot take no for an answer when it comes to her patients. Shersquos tough yet compassionate,...
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Above the Bay of Angels: A Novel

Rhys Bowen - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A single twist of fate puts a servant girl to work in Queen Victoria's royal kitchen, setting off a suspenseful, historical mystery by the New York Times bestselling author of The Tuscan Child and The Victory Garden.Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled...
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Four Reincarnations: Poems

Max Ritvo - Milkweed Editions
Format: Print book

Reverent and profane, entertaining and bruising, Four Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters.When Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen, he became the chief war correspondent for his body. The poems of Four Reincarnations...
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Dissent: The History of an American Idea

Ralph Young - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover

Dissent The History of an American Ideaexamines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. It focuses on those who, from colonial days to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time from the Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan...
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The Stranger

Harlan Coben - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

#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 in a bar or a parking...
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Victoria: A Novel

Daisy Goodwin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Victoria is an absolutely captivating novel of youth, love, and the often painful transition from immaturity to adulthood. Daisy Goodwin breathes new life into Victoria's story, and does so with sensitivity, verve, and wit." - AMANDA FOREMANDrawing...
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Vicious Circle

C. J. Box - Random House Large Print
Format: Paperback

The past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett and his family with devastating effect in the thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.The plane circled in the dark. Joe Pickett could just make out down below a figure in the snow and timber, and then...
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Democracy in the Dark: The Seduction of Government Secrecy

Frederick A O Schwarz - The New Press, 2015.
Format: Print book

From Dick Cheney's man-sized safe to the National Security Agency's massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government's modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important new book, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., who was chief...
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The Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Solution: The Essential Guide to Overcoming Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia, Made Easy!

Jacob Teitelbaum M.D. - Avery
Format: Paperback

The nations leading expert on chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia offers a practical and concise guide to restoring health and energy.Millions of Americans have turned to Dr. Jacob Teitelbaums landmark From Fatigued to Fantastic, the all-time best-selling book on combating disabling fatigue...
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Silence: A Novel

Shusaku Endo - Picador USA
Format: Paperback

Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Review of BooksSeventeenth-century...
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Zuleikha

Guzel Yakhina
Format: Hardcover


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Big Summer: A Novel

Jennifer Weiner - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasnt spoken one word to Drue in all this timeshe doesnt even hate-follow her ex-best...
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Palace of Treason: A Novel

Jason Matthews - Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling, Edgar Award-winning author of the "terrifically good" (The New York Times) Red Sparrow, a compulsively readable new novel about star-crossed Russian agent Dominika Egorova and CIA's Nate Nash in a desperate race to the finish.Captain Dominika Egorova...
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All My Friends Are Dead

Avery Monsen - Chronicle Books; 5/22/10 edition
Format: Hardcover

If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette...
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The View from the Cheap Seats: A Collection of Introductions, Essays, and Assorted Writings

Neil Gaiman - William Morrow
Format: Print book

An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics - from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories - observed in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman's probing, amusing, and distinctive style.An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous...
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The Heart's Invisible Furies: A Novel

JOHN BOYNE - Hogarth
Format: Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war IrelandCyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents...
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The Mother's Promise

Sally Hepworth - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Sally Hepworth novels are "sure to appeal to fans of Jojo Moyes, Jodi Picoult, and Lisa Genova; book clubs will be lining up." -- Library Journal (starred review) All their lives, Alice Stanhope and her daughter, Zoe, have been a family of two, living quietly in Northern...
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Learn to Paint in Acrylics with 50 Small Paintings: Pick up the skills * Put on the paint * Hang up your art

Mark Daniel Nelson - Quarry Books, 2015.
Format: Print book

Get all you need to know about acrylic painting in one book, perfect for first-time painters or anyone interested in building their skills!This unique book is a complete course in acrylic painting, built up from key techniques. As the reader progresses through the sections of the book,...
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The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity

Kory Kogon - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The time management experts at FranklinCovey share their five critical techniques for avoiding distractions and paying focused attention to our most important goals and tasks in our daily lives.Every day brings us a crushing wave of demands: a barrage of texts, emails, interruptions, meetings,...
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