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Series: The Push Paperback Ashley Audrain 9780735239890 $24.95 FICTION Jan 05, 2021

A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, told through the eyes of a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for—and everything she feared.Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, supportive mother she never had to her new baby Violet.But in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe doesn’t find the connection with her daughter she expected. She’s convinced that something is wrong with Violet—the little girl is distant, rejects affection, and be... + Read More
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Series: The Prophets Hardcover Robert Jones, Jr. 9780593085684 $36.00 FICTION Jan 05, 2021

Instant New York Times Bestseller A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.Isaiah was Samuel’s and Samuel was Isaiah’s. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vici... + Read More
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Series: The Liar's Dictionary Hardcover Eley Williams 9780735281493 $29.95 FICTION Jan 05, 2021

An exhilarating, clever, funny debut novel from a prize-winning talent, chronicling the misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman who decodes his trail of made-up words a century later. Will enthrall readers of CS Richardson, Helen Simonson’s Major Pettigrew and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement.Peter Winceworth is a lexicographer in Victorian-era London, toiling away... + Read More
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Series: Alex Delaware Serpentine An Alex Delaware Novel Hardcover Jonathan Kellerman 9780525618553 $38.99 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis search for answers to a brutal, decades-old crime in this electrifying psychological thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a master detective. He has a near-perfect solve rate and he’s written his own rulebook. Some of those successes—the toughest ones—have involved his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But Milo doesn’t call Alex in unless cases are “different.”This murder warrants an immediate call: M... + Read More
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Series: A Bright Ray of Darkness A novel Hardcover Ethan Hawke 9780385352383 $36.95 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

The blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes—an utterly transfixing book about art and love, fame and heartbreak from the acclaimed actor/writer/director. Hawke’s first novel in nearly twenty years is a bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the redemptive, healing power of art; a portrait of the ravages of disappointment and divorce; a poignant consideration of the rites of fatherhood and manhood; a novel soaked in rage and sex, longing and despair; and a passionate love letter... + Read More
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Series: The Burning Girls Paperback C. J. Tudor 9780385694216 $22.00 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

A woman trying to outrun her past uncovers a great evil in the fourth riveting and psychologically compelling novel from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man.Welcome to Keeper’s Croft. Five hundred years ago, protestant martyrs were burned at the stake. Forty years ago, two teenaged girls disappeared without a trace. And two months ago, the vicar of the local parish killed himself.Reverend Alex Brooks, a single mother with a fourteen-year-old daughter and a heavy conscience, arrives in the village hoping to make a fresh start and find some pea... + Read More
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Series: Khalil A Novel Hardcover Yasmina Khadra 9780385545914 $34.95 FICTION Feb 16, 2021

From the internationally bestselling author of The Attack and The Swallows of Kabul, a gripping first-person narrative about one young man’s involvement in France’s worst terrorist attack.Khalil, a twenty-three-year-old Belgian of Moroccan descent, plans to detonate a suicide vest in a crowd outside the Stade de France on November 13, 2015. Explosions are rocking Paris, at cafés and the Bataclan theater, and when other bombs drive the stadium crowd to flee in his direction, near the Metro, his time has come. He presses his button, and…nothing. ... + Read More
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Series: A Town Called Solace Hardcover Mary Lawson 9780735281271 $32.00 FICTION Feb 16, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNew York Times bestselling author Mary Lawson, acclaimed for digging into the “wilderness of the human heart”, is back after almost a decade with a fresh and timely novel that is different in subject but just as emotional and atmospheric as her beloved earlier work.A Town Called Solace—the brilliant and emotionally radiant new novel from Mary Lawson, her first in nearly a decade—opens on a family in crisis: rebellious teenager Rose been missing for weeks with no word, and Rose’s younger sister, the feisty and fierce Clara, ke... + Read More
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Series: Beginners The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning Hardcover Tom Vanderbilt 9781524732165 $35.95 SELF-HELP Jan 05, 2021

“Beginners is ultimately about more than learning. It’s about the possibilities that reside in all of us.”—Daniel H. Pink, New York Times best-selling author of When, Drive, and To Sell is HumanThe best-selling author of Traffic and You May Also Like gives us an inspirational journey into the transformative joys that come with starting something new, no matter your ageWhy do so many of us stop learning new skills as adults? Are we afraid to fail? Have we forgotten the sheer pleasure of being a beginner? Or is it simply a fact that you can’t tea... + Read More
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Series: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need Hardcover Bill Gates 9780735280441 $34.00 SCIENCE Feb 16, 2021

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid an irreversible climate catastrophe.Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help and guidance of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet’s slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, h... + Read More
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Series: Like Streams to the Ocean Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are Hardcover Jedidiah Jenkins 9780593137239 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 02, 2021

A moving meditation on the hidden, sometimes difficult topics we must consider to live an authentic life, from the New York Times bestselling author of To Shake the Sleeping SelfWe aren’t born into a self. It is created without our consent, built on top of our circumstances, the off-handed comments we hear from others, and the moments that scared us most when we were young. But in the busyness of our daily life, we rarely get the chance to think clearly about the questions that matter most. Who am I? Where do I belong? How much of who I am and ... + Read More
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Series: When She Was Bad How and Why Women Get Away with Murder Paperback Patricia Pearson 9780735281097 $21.00 TRUE CRIME Jan 05, 2021

Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction Crime BookFrom award-winning author and journalist Patricia Pearson, When She Was Bad questions our understanding of violent women. Why do some women murder their children? Why do others team up with men in ghoulish killing sprees? What motivates the female serial killer?When She Was Bad explores the enigmatic heart of female darkness, drawing into focus such fascinating characters as Dorothea Puente, who murdered several elderly tenants in her boarding house in Sacramento; Mary Beth Tinning... + Read More
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Series: All Things Being Equal Why Math Is the Key to a Better World Paperback John Mighton 9780735272903 $22.00 EDUCATION Jan 05, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the award-winning founder of JUMP Math, All Things Being Equal is a proven guide to succeeding in math, and a passionate argument for why this success can and must be available to the majority instead of the privileged few. For two decades, John Mighton has developed strategies for fostering intellectual potential in all children through learning math. Math, Mighton says, provides us with mental tools of incredible power. When we learn math we learn to see patterns, to think logically and systematically, to draw analogie... + Read More
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Series: The Body A Guide for Occupants Paperback Bill Bryson 9780385685764 $25.00 SCIENCE Jan 26, 2021

National and International BestsellerNew York Times Bestseller A New York Times Editors’ Choice Longlisted for the PEN E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionA Maclean’s Best BookA USA Today Best BookAn Indigo Best BookBill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner’s manual for everybody.Bill Bryson once ag... + Read More
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Series: Blowout Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth Paperback Rachel Maddow 9780525575481 $27.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 02, 2021

In her #1 New York Times bestseller, Rachel Maddow unmasks Big Oil and Gas, making the case that the industry poses an existential threat to democracyIn 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at auction for over $1 million to a guy who was, officially, just the lowly forestry minister of the tiny nation of Equatorial Guinea. And in 2014, Ukrainian revolutionaries raided the palace of their ousted presid... + Read More
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Series: The Spirit of Music The Lesson Continues Paperback Victor L. Wooten 9780593081662 $22.00 MUSIC Feb 02, 2021

Grammy Award winner Victor Wooten’s inspiring parable of the importance of music and the threats that it faces in today’s world. A VINTAGE ORIGINALWe may not realize it as we listen to the soundtrack of our lives through tiny earbuds, but music and all that it encompasses is disappearing all around us. In this fable-like story three musicians from around the world are mysteriously summoned to Nashville, the Music City, to join together with Victor to do battle against the “Phasers,” whose blinking “music-cancelling” headphones silence and dest... + Read More
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Series: Camino Camino Winds A Novel Paperback John Grisham 9780593157787 $24.00 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

“In American icon John Grisham’s new novel, Camino Winds, an odd assortment of mystery and crime authors, some of them felons themselves, discover one of their colleagues has been murdered during the fury of a massive hurricane—the perfect crime scene. Since officials are preoccupied with the aftermath of the storm, the authors set out to solve the mystery themselves, in the type of wild but smart caper that Grisham’s readers love.” Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads SingJust as Bruce Cable’s Bay Books is preparing for the return of best... + Read More
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Series: Red Line The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World Hardcover Joby Warrick 9780385544467 $39.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 23, 2021

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags, the thrilling unknown story of America’s mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic State In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. When secret intelligence revealed that the dictator might resort to using chemical weapons, President Obama warned that doing so would cross “a red line.” Assad did it anyway, bombing the Damascus suburb of Ghouta with sarin gas, killing hund... + Read More
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Series: A Very Stable Genius Donald J. Trump's Testing of America Paperback Philip Rucker 9781984877512 $24.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 23, 2021

The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in paperback and updated with new reporting“I alone can fix it.” So went Donald J. Trump’s march to the presidency on July 21, 2016, when he accepted the Republican presidential nomination, promising to restore what he described as a fallen nation. Yet over the subsequent years, it has been hard to see beyond the daily chaos of scandal, investigation, and constant bluster. It would be all too easy to mistake Trump’s first term for one of pure and uninhibited chaos, but there were patterns to his behavior an... + Read More
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Series: A Lynley Novel A Banquet of Consequences A Lynley Novel Paperback Elizabeth George 9780143136484 $12.99 FICTION Jan 12, 2021

The unspoken secrets and buried lies of one family rise to the surface in this stunning crime drama featuring Scotland Yard members Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George.As Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the London angle of an ever more darkly disturbing case, his partner, Barbara Havers, is looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire and deceit.The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those ... + Read More
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Series: Blue Smoke Paperback Nora Roberts 9780593333303 $12.99 FICTION Jan 26, 2021

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts delivers a tale of gut-level fear, human triumph, and the bonds that carry us through our darkest times—now available in trade paperback at a special value price.Reena Hale’s destiny was shaped in the destructive—yet fascinatingly beautiful—fire that leveled her family’s pizzeria when she was young. Now an arson investigator, she finds her strength and wits constantly tested, although sometimes the job seems like a snap compared to her love life. But she can’t always blame the men. After all, a ... + Read More
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Series: The Numbers Game A Novel Paperback Danielle Steel 9780399179587 $11.99 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

In Danielle Steel’s stunning novel, modern relationships come together, fall apart, and evolve over time, proving that age is just a number.Eileen Jackson happily cast her dreams aside to raise a family with her husband, Paul. Together they built an ordinary life in a Connecticut town, the perfect place for their kids to grow up. But when Eileen discovers that Paul’s late nights in Manhattan are hiding an affair with a younger woman, she questions all those years of sacrifice. On the brink of forty, is it too late for her to start over?Meanwhil... + Read More
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Series: Camino Camino Winds A Novel Paperback John Grisham 9780593157770 $12.99 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

“In American icon John Grisham’s new novel, Camino Winds, an odd assortment of mystery and crime authors, some of them felons themselves, discover one of their colleagues has been murdered during the fury of a massive hurricane—the perfect crime scene. Since officials are preoccupied with the aftermath of the storm, the authors set out to solve the mystery themselves, in the type of wild but smart caper that Grisham’s readers love.” Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads SingJust as Bruce Cable’s Bay Books is preparing for the return of best... + Read More
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Series: Ashes to Ashes A Novel Paperback Tami Hoag 9780593356364 $12.99 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

Now a newly premium Pure Gold selection, the haunting, riveting Ashes to Ashes is #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag at her very best.He performs his profane ceremony in a wooded Minneapolis park, anointing his victims, then setting the bodies ablaze.He has already claimed three lives, and he won’t stop there. Only this time there is a witness. But she isn’t talking.Enter Kate Conlan, former FBI agent turned victim/witness advocate. Not even she can tell if the reluctant witness is a potential victim or something more troubling stil... + Read More
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Series: The NUMA Files Journey of the Pharaohs Paperback Clive Cussler 9780593083109 $12.99 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew risk everything to stop a cutthroat arms dealer from stealing a priceless ancient treasure in the thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure.In 1074 B.C., vast treasures disappear from the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs. In 1927, a daredevil American aviator vanishes on an attempted transcontinental flight. And in the present day, a fishing trawler—along with its mysterious cargo—sinks off the coast of Scotland. How are these three mysterious events connected? And, more importa... + Read More
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Series: Distrust Two Thrilling Novels of Page-Turning Suspense Paperback Lisa Jackson 9781420152432 $12.99 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

Two riveting books in one from Queen of Suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, perfect for fans of the chilling novels of Lisa Gardner, Allison Brennan, and Lisa Regan. Renegade Son Single mother Danielle Summers is convinced her ranch is slowly being sabotaged. Newcomer Chase McEnroe insists she should trust him. But Dani’s suspicion that Chase is in league with her enemy is complicated by a secret from his past. Can she put aside her concerns about his potential deception to find out who is behind these awful acts? Midni... + Read More
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Series: The Keto Reset Diet Reboot Your Metabolism in 21 Days and Burn Fat Forever Paperback Mark Sisson 9781524762254 $24.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Feb 02, 2021

The groundbreaking, bestselling ketogenic diet plan that resets your metabolism in 21 days so you can burn fat more efficiently, resulting in weight loss and improved health.Mounting scientific research is confirming that eating a ketogenic diet could represent one of the greatest nutritional breakthroughs of our time—and that it might be the healthiest and most effective weight loss strategy ever. Going “keto” by eating high fat, low-to-moderate protein and low-carb foods enables you to break free from the disastrous effects of carbohydrate de... + Read More
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Series: I Adulted at Work! Essential Stickers for Hardworking and Home-Working Grown-Ups Paperback Robb Pearlman 9780789339751 $19.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Feb 09, 2021

A sequel to the extremely popular I Adulted: Stickers for Grown-Ups, I Adulted at Work! is a whimsically illustrated book containing 250 removable stickers that congratulate supposed grown-ups on a job well done…or at least a job done.Despite official reports, most adults feel completely and totally ill-prepared to deal. With anything. They still, as purportedly self-sufficient grown-ups, look toward older generations and think, “How did they do that?” So the easiest and best way to find comfort is to look not ahead at uncertainty (or, heaven f... + Read More
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Series: Where's Bowie?: David Bowie in Berlin 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle Game Kev Gahan 9781922417084 $19.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Feb 23, 2021

Find David Bowie in this interactive jigsaw puzzle, set in 70s Berlin - a city divided and in crisis, and one that Bowie called his home.Where’s Bowie? is both a fun 500-piece detail-focused jigsaw puzzle, and a ’Find Bowie’ activity too. Hidden in multiple places on the puzzle, Bowie - in his various chameleonic guises - is patiently waiting to be spotted by a well-trained eye as the puzzle reveals itself. Music aficionados and Bowie nerds alike will explain that the “Berlin Trilogy” of the albums Low, Heroes, and Lodger, are some of the best... + Read More
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Series: Where’s Prince? Prince in 1999 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle General merchandise Kev Gahan 9781922417220 $19.95 MUSIC Feb 23, 2021

Turn off the screen and crack open this intricately illustrated jigsaw puzzle all about the iconic Prince.Where’s Prince? is both a fun 500-piece detail-focused jigsaw puzzle, and a ’Find Prince’ activity too. Illustrated with incredible detail by British artist Kev Gahan, this puzzle is an interactive homage to one of music’s greatest. Discover Prince Rogers Nelson partying in 1999 with TLC, Carlos Santana, Rob Thomas, Cher, Britney Spears, and Ricky Martin as the puzzle reveals itself.