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59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot (Book)

Richard Wiseman

ISBN:9780307474865

A psychologist and best-selling author gives us a myth-busting response to the self-help movement, with tips and tricks to improve your life that come straight from the scientific community.
Richard Wiseman has been troubled by the realization that the self-help industry often promotes exercises that destroy motivation...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:336

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A Dark Matter (Book)

Peter Straub

ISBN:9781400096725

The incomparable master of horror and suspense returns with a powerful, brilliantly terrifying novel that redefines the genre in original and unexpected ways.
The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru in the 1960s...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:608

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Across the Endless River (Book)

Thad Carhart

ISBN:9780767931731

From the acclaimed bestselling author of" The Piano Shop on the Left Bank," a historical novel about Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:308

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After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam (Book)

Lesley Hazleton

ISBN:9780385523943

Narrative history at its most compelling, "After the Prophet" relates the dramatic tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between Shia and Sunni Islam.
Even as Muhammad lay dying...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:256

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Angel Time (Book)

Anne Rice

ISBN:9781400078950

Anne Rice returns to the mesmerizing storytelling that has captivated readers for more than three decades in a tale of unceasing suspense set in time past--a metaphysical thriller about angels and assassins.
The novel opens in the present. At its center: Toby O'Dare--a contract killer of underground fame on assignment to kill once again. A soulless soul...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:371

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Booth (Book)

David Robertson

ISBN:9780385487078

A gripping historical novel in the bestselling tradition of "The Alienist" and "Time and Again, Booth" brings vividly to life a figure who continues to haunt the American imagination--John Wilkes Booth. The story begins as an elderly John Surratt...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:336

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Braving the Elements (Book)

David Laskin

ISBN:9780385469562

Nowhere in the world is weather as volatile and powerful as it is in North America. Scorching heat in the Southwest, hurricanes on the Atlantic coast...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:272

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Cherries in Winter: My Family's Recipe for Hope in Hard Times (Book)

Suzan Cola3n

ISBN:9780307475930

What is the secret to finding hope in hard times?
When Suzan Colon was laid off from her dream job at a magazine during the economic downturn of 2008...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:256

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Christ the Lord: Road to Cana (Book)

Anne O'Brien Rice

ISBN:9780307741196

The second book in Anne Rice's hugely ambitious and masterful life of Christ.
It's a winter of no rain, endless dust, and talk of trouble in Judea. All who know and love Jesus find themselves waiting for some sign of the path he will eventually take. After his baptism...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:255

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Conquering Fear: Living Bravely in a Dangerous World (Book)

Harold S Kushner

ISBN:9780307385895

From the best-selling author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People, " an illuminating book about fear--and what we can do to overcome it.
An inescapable component of our lives...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:173

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Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir (Book)

Ngugi Wa'thiong'o

ISBN:9780307476210

Born in 1938 in rural Kenya, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o came of age in the shadow of World War II, amidst the terrible bloodshed in the war between the Mau Mau and the British. The son of a man whose four wives bore him more than a score of children...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:256

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Eating (Book)

Jason Epstein

ISBN:9781400078257

Jason Epstein, the legendary editor and publisher of Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, and E. L. Doctorow, among many other distinguished writers...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:192

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For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfuss (Book)

Frederick Brown

ISBN:9780307279217

Beginning with the origins of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, Frederick Brown describes how the humiliated postwar French split into two cultural factions: moderates and reactionaries. This querulous split resulted in many changes for the country...more details
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Free for All: Tales from the New York Shakespeare Festival (Book)

Kenneth Turan

ISBN:9780767931694

"Los Angeles Times" film critic Kenneth Turan takes you behind the scenes at the Public Theater and tells the amazing story of how Joe Papp made American theatrical and cultural history...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:640

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Ghosts and Lightning (Book)

Trevor Byrne

ISBN:9780307473950

An outstanding debut novel set in Dublin from a young Irish novelist that echoes the poignant, comical and gritty voices of Roddy Doyle, Patrick McCabe...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:319

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Heart and Soul (Book)

Maeve Binchy

ISBN:9780307742834

With the warmth, humor, and compassion we have come to expect, Maeve Binchy tells a story of doctors and staff, patients, family, and friends at a heart clinic in a community caught between the old Ireland and the new...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:431

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Heresy (Book)

S J Parris

ISBN:9780767932523

When fugitive Italian monk Giordano Bruno--philosopher, magician, and heretical scientist--arrives in London, he's only one step ahead of the Inquisition. An undercover mission for Queen Elizabeth I and her spymaster provides added protection. Officially...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:435

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In Free Fall (Book)

Juli Zeh

ISBN:9780307389855

Oskar and Sebastian, both brilliant physicists, have been close friends ever since they first met at university. But now their relationship is strained by distance...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:315

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In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise (Book)

George Prochnik

ISBN:9780767931212

A brilliant, far-reaching exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and the growing war between them.
Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:352

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La's Orchestra Saves the World (Book)

Alexander McCall Smith

ISBN:9780307473042

A heart-warming stand alone novel about the life-affirming powers of music and company during a time of war, from the best-selling and beloved author of "The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency."
When Lavender...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:294

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Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens (Book)

Mark Lamster

ISBN:9780307387356

The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.
Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master with the penchant for fleshy...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:336

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Not My Daughter (Book)

Barbara Delinsky

ISBN:9780307473233

A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers' love to the ultimate test in this explosive new novel from Barbara Delinsky...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:448

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Once a Spy (Book)

Keith Thomson

ISBN:9780307473141

When Charlie Clark takes a break from his latest losing streak at the track to bring home his Alzheimer's-addled father, Drummond, they're attacked by two mysterious shooters. At first...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:447

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One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and Whhat I've Learned about Everyone's Struggle to Be Singular (Book)

Abigail Pogrebin

ISBN:9780307279620

The author of "Stars of David" and a twin herself, journalist Abigail Pogrebin offers a poignant and personal look at what it's really like to live with your mirror image and tells the story of many twins who struggle to balance intimacy and individuality.
Writer. Mother. Wife. New Yorker. Abigail Pogrebin is many things...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

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Parallel Play (Book)

Tim Page

ISBN:9780767929691

An affecting memoir of life as a boy who didn't know he had Asperger's syndrome until he became a man.
In 1997, Tim Page won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his work as the chief classical music critic of "The Washington Post...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:208

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Paul and Me: 53 Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal Paul Newman (Book)

A E Hotchner

ISBN:9780307474810

Bestselling author A. E. Hotchner's intimate account of his 53-year friendship with his pal Paul Newman.
A. E. Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955 when the virtually unknown actor assumed the lead role in Hotchner's first television play...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:234

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Reading Jesus: A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels (Book)

Mary Gordon

ISBN:9780307277626

In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as the driver listens to a religious broadcast, and she reflects that...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:240

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Sixty Feet, Six Inches: A Hall of Fame Hitter & a Hall of Fame Pitcher Talk about How the Game Is Played (Book)

Bob Gibson

ISBN:9780767931106

Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to understand America's pastime from their unique insider perspective.
Legendary. Insightful. Uncompromising. Candid. Uncensored.
Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortunately never faced each other on the field. But now...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

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The Annotated Sense and Sensibility (Book)

Jane Austen

ISBN:9780307390769

From the editor of the popular "Annotated Pride and Prejudice" comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility "that makes this tale of two sisters in love an even more enjoyable read. Here is the complete text of the novel with more than 2...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:742

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The Bread of Angels: A Journey to Love and Faith (Book)

Stephanie Saldana

ISBN:9780307280466

“Above all, a love story . . . a page-turner that keeps you up nights.”
—Geraldine Brooks
In 2004, twenty-seven-year old Stephanie Saldaña arrives in Damascus with a broken heart and a haunted family history that she has crossed the world to escape. She has come on a fellowship to study the role of Jesus in Islam...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:305

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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (Book)

Peter Ackroyd

ISBN:9780307473776

When two nineteenth-century Oxford students--Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley--form an unlikely friendship...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:368

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The Double Comfort Safari Club: The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel (Book)

Alexander McCall Smith

ISBN:9780307277480

Readers will agree that this touching and dramatic new installment in Alexander McCall Smith's beloved and best-selling series is the finest yet. In this story...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:211

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The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays (Book)

Chinua Achebe

ISBN:9780307473677

From the celebrated author of "Things Fall Apart" and winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays--his first new book in more than twenty years.
Chinua Achebe's characteristically measured and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. In a preface...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:172

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The First Fall Classic: The Red Sox, the Giants, and the Cast of Players, Pugs, and Politicos Who Reinvented the World Series in 1912 (Book)

Mike Vaccaro

ISBN:9780767929684

Acclaimed author Mike Vaccaro presents a riveting, must-read account of what remains, nearly a century later, the greatest World Series ever played.
In October of 1912...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:290

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The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told about Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong (Book)

David Shenk

ISBN:9780307387301

With irresistibly persuasive vigor, David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic "giftedness," and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in the reach of every individual.
DNA does not make us who we are. "Forget everything you think you know about genes...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:380

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The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika (Book)

Robert B Strassler

ISBN:9781400034765

From the editor of the widely praised "The Landmark Thucydides "and" The Landmark Herodotus," here is a new edition of Xenophon's "Hellenika...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:579

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The Lost Symbol (Book)

Dan Brown

ISBN:9781400079148

In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code," " Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling--a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:656

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The Man from Saigon (Book)

Marti Leimbach

ISBN:9780307472168

It's 1967, and Susan Gifford is one of the first women correspondents in Saigon, dedicated to her job and passionately in love with an American TV reporter...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:342

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The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage (Book)

Anthony Brandt

ISBN:9780307276568

After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:464

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The November Criminals (Book)

Sam Munson

ISBN:9780307474827

A darkly funny, pot-infused novel of teenage maladjustment in the tradition of "Beautiful Children "from a compelling new voice in American fiction.

For a high school senior...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:272

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The Pint Man (Book)

Steve Rushin

ISBN:9780767931830

A funny and endearing novel about the comforts of a never-ending adolescence and the glories of Guinness.

For Rodney Poole, a friendly and unassuming lover of clever wordplay and television sports of all stripes...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:259

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The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations (Book)

Lee Smith

ISBN:9780767921800

In this provocative and timely book, Middle East expert Lee Smith overturns long-held
Western myths and assumptions about the Arab world...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:239

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The Swimming Pool (Book)

Holly Lecraw

ISBN:9780307474445

Marcella Atkinson was a married woman when she fell in love with Cecil McClatchey, himself a married father of two. On the same night their romance abruptly ended...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:307

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Things We Didn't See Coming: Stories (Book)

Steven Amsterdam

ISBN:9780307473608

Richly imagined and darkly comic, "Things We Didn't See Coming "follows a single man over three decades as he tries to survive in an increasingly savage apocalyptic world that is at once utterly fantastic and disturbingly familiar. Here...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:199

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Union Atlantic (Book)

Adam Haslett

ISBN:9780307388292

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist "You Are Not A Stranger Here," a stunning, masterful portrait of our modern gilded age.
At the heart of "Union Atlantic" lies a test of wills between a retired history teacher...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:354

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Waiting for Columbus (Book)

Thomas Trofimuk

ISBN:9780307456199

A man arrives at an insane asylum in contemporary Spain claiming to be the legendary navigator Christopher Columbus. Who he really is, and the events that led him to break with reality...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:336

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We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Showbiz Saga (Book)

Paul Shaffer

ISBN:9780767928861

From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:352

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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (Book)

Jon Krakauer

ISBN:9780307386045

The bestselling author of "Into the Wild," "Into Thin Air," and "Under the Banner of Heaven" delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man's haunting journey.
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"Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:480

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Ayn Rand and the World She Made (Book)

Anne Conover Heller

ISBN:9781400078936

A New York Times Notable Book A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year Ayn Rand's books have attracted three generations of readers...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:567

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The Annotated Persuasion (Book)

David M Shapard

ISBN:9780307390783

From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen's Persuasion that makes the beloved novel an even more satisfying and fulfilling read. Here is the complete text of Persuasion with hundreds of annotations on facing pages...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:508

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