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Series: The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau BellTales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up ComedianCD-AudioW. Kamau Bell9781524733766$60.00HUMOR May 02, 2017
A memoir and manifesto from the comedian, hit podcast host, and star of United Shades of America.You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new critically acclaimed and hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you’ve read about him in the New York Times, which called him, “the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years,” Or maybe in the New Yorker, fawning over his brand of humor, writing, “Bell’s gimmick is intersectional progressivism: he treats racial, gay, and women’s issues as inseparable.”After all this love and prais... + Read More
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Series: The Light We LostCD-AudioJill Santopolo9781524775810$54.00FICTION May 09, 2017
Me Before You meets One Day in this passionate debut novel about an epic love story and the heartrending choice one woman must makeLucy will be faced with a choice. But before she can make her decision, she must start her story—their story—at the very beginning.We’ve known each other for almost half our lives. I’ve seen you smiling, confident, blissfully happy. I’ve seen you broken, wounded, lost. But I’ve never seen you like this.Lucy meets Gabe at Columbia University on the morning of September 11, 2001. Their relationship to one another—and ... + Read More
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Series: The Light We LostPaperbackJill Santopolo9781524778330$36.00FICTION May 09, 2017
The New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick “This love story between Lucy & Gabe spans decades and continents as two star-crossed lovers try to return to each other…Will they ever meet again? This book kept me up at night, turning the pages to find out, and the ending did not disappoint.”—Reese Witherspoon “One Day meets Me Before You meets your weekender bag.”—The Skimm “Extraordinary.”—Emily Giffin He was the first person to inspire her, to move her, to truly understand her. Was he meant to be the last? Lucy is faced w... + Read More
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Series: The End of Alzheimer'sThe First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive DeclineCD-AudioDale Bredesen9781524779191$54.00HEALTH & FITNESS Aug 22, 2017
A groundbreaking plan based on new research and clinical studies shown to prevent and reverse AD and cognitive decline by addressing metabolic imbalances with lifestyle modifications.Everyone knows someone who has survived cancer, but until now no one knows anyone who has survived Alzheimer’s Disease.In this paradigm shifting audiobook, Dale Bredesen, MD, offers real hope to anyone hoping to prevent and even reverse Alzheimer’s Disease and cognitive decline. Revealing that AD is not one condition, as it is currently treated, but three, The End ... + Read More
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Series: Prey Novel, AChosen PreyCD-AudioJohn Sandford9780525492177$19.99FICTION May 16, 2017
This abridged edition of CHOSEN PREY by John Sandford is now available for just $14.99!He seems like such a nice man. You’d never guess what was going on in his mind…Art history professor James Qatar has a hobby: he takes secret photographs of women to fuel more elaborate fantasies. When he’s alone. Behind locked doors. Then one day, he goes a step further and…well, one thing leads to another. Qatar has no choice. He has to kill her. And you know something? He likes it.When Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport takes the case, he assumes it’ll be straig... + Read More
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Series: Chuck Klosterman XA Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st CenturyCD-AudioChuck Klosterman9780735285453$54.00SOCIAL SCIENCE May 16, 2017
New York Times-bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman’s articles and essays covering the past decade, including keystone pieces about Breaking Bad, Lou Reed, Jimmy Page, KISS, Stephen Malkmus, Jonathan Franzen, Tim Tebow, Kobe Bryant, Taylor Swift, Tom Brady, and many more cultural figures and phenomena.Chuck Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books, magazines, newspapers, and on the web. Ten years and four books into his atypical career, Chuck released a collection of his previously published journalism, es... + Read More
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Series: Modern RomanceCD-AudioAziz Ansari9780525492108$25.99HUMOR May 16, 2017
This unabridged edition of MODERN ROMANCE by Aziz Ansari is now available for just $19.99!Romance. Two people coming together to form a couple. The marriage plot. At stake is nothing less than the future of our species: the gene pool. Is it any wonder that it has so dominated our collective imagination since the dawn of recorded history? Of course not. But now things are really confusing. Never have the choices been so abundant or so bewildering. It used to be that you actually had to meet someone, somehow, usually as a byproduct of the social ... + Read More
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Series: The VacationersA NovelCD-AudioEmma Straub9780525492115$25.99FICTION Jul 18, 2017
This unabridged edition of THE VACATIONERS by Emma Straub is now available for just $19.99!For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. But all does not go according to plan: over the course of t... + Read More
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Series: The Weird SistersCD-AudioEleanor Brown9780525492085$25.99FICTION Jul 18, 2017
This unabridged edition of THE WEIRD SISTERS by Eleanor Brown is now available for just $19.99!This is the “delightful” (People) New York Times bestseller that’s earned raves from Sarah Blake, Helen Simonson, and reviewers everywhere-the story of three sisters who love each other, but just don’t happen to like each other very much…Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting the eccentric Andreas family. Here, books are a passion (there is no problem a library card can’t solve) and TV is something other people watch. Their fat... + Read More
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Series: CarefulA User's Guide to Our Injury-Prone MindsCD-AudioSteve Casner9781524777135$47.00PSYCHOLOGY May 23, 2017
A NASA safety expert reveals the strategies we can adopt to be safer at home, at work, and in between.The world is a dangerous place. We’ve swathed ourselves in safety regulations, warning labels, seatbelts, and childproof packaging, but life is still a risky activity. In fact, over the past ten years, injuries and deaths caused by human error have actually increased. We’re all accident prone, but How to Be Careful shows readers how to take control of their own safety.NASA psychologist Steve Casner has spent two decades researching the psycholo... + Read More
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Series: Churchill and OrwellThe Fight for FreedomCD-AudioThomas E. Ricks9781524776640$54.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 23, 2017
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world.Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930’s—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they’d died then, history would... + Read More
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Series: NUMA Files, TheNighthawkCD-AudioClive Cussler9781524775551$60.00FICTION May 30, 2017
The world’s most dazzling new technological advance may turn out to be mankind’s last, unless the NUMA crew can beat the clock. The thrilling new NUMA Files novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure.When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. Russia and China covet the radical technology, but the U.S. worries about a darker problem. They know what others don’t—that the X-37 is carrying a danger... + Read More
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Series: Dark MirrorEdward Snowden and the American Surveillance StateCD-AudioBarton Gellman9780735285323$60.00POLITICAL SCIENCE Dec 21, 2035
From the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Angler, who unearthed the deepest secrets of Edward Snowden's NSA archive, the first master narrative of the surveillance state that emerged after 9/11 and why it matters, based on scores of hours of conversation with Snowden and groundbreaking reportage in Washington, London, Moscow and Silicon ValleyEdward Snowden chose three journalists to tell the stories in his Top Secret trove of NSA documents: Barton Gellman of The Washington Post, Glenn Greenwald of The G... + Read More
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Series: Do Not Become AlarmedA NovelCD-AudioMaile Meloy9781524777203$54.00FICTION Jun 06, 2017
From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation—and the children go missing.When Kaye and Nora decide to take their husbands and children on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship’s comforts and possibilities seem infinite. The children—two 11-year-olds, an 8-year-old and a 6-year old—love the non-stop buffet and the independence they have at the Kids’ Club while their parents relax. But when they all go ashore in beautiful Central America, a series of min... + Read More
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Series: Do Not Become AlarmedA NovelPaperbackMaile Meloy9781524778347$39.00FICTION Jun 06, 2017
The moving and suspenseful new novel that Ann Patchett calls “smart and thrilling and impossible to put down…the book that every reader longs for.”“This summer’s undoubtable smash hit… an addictive, heart-palpitating story.” —Marie ClaireThe sun is shining, the sea is blue, the children have disappeared. When Liv and Nora decide to take their husbands and children on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The adults are lulled by the ship’s comfort and ease. The four children—ages six to eleven—love the nonstop buffet and their newfound indepe... + Read More
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Series: Stone Barrington Novel, AIndecent ExposureCD-AudioStuart Woods9780525494263$47.00FICTION Jun 06, 2017
Stone Barrington is back and better than ever in the hot new thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods.Trouble always seems to find Stone Barrington, but with his debonair charm, unflappable composure, and cunning foresight, he always gets his man (and his lady….).Series Overview: A New York City cop turned rainmaker for a white-shoe Manhattan law firm, Stone Barrington handles the most sensitive cases of upper-crust intrigue and government intelligence.
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Series: PopularThe Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed WorldCD-AudioMitch Prinstein9781524777791$47.00PSYCHOLOGY Jun 06, 2017
A leading social psychologist examines why popularity matters so profoundly in our lives—and how to become genuinely popular. The Popularity Paradox examines why popularity plays such a key role in our social development and, ultimately, our happiness. But it is not always the most conventionally popular people who are happier. There is, in fact, more than one type of popularity, and many of us may be still wishing for the wrong one. As children, we strive to be likable, which is a useful and adaptive social skill throughout our lives. In a... + Read More
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Series: Sea PowerThe History and Geopolitics of the World's OceansCD-AudioAdmiral James Stavridis USN9781524777289$54.00POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 06, 2017
From one of the greatest admirals of his generation, the former commander of NATO and the current head of the Fletcher School for Diplomacy, a tour d’horizon of the of the world’s most strategically important bodies of water told through a marvelous blend of geography, history, geopolitical analysis, and intimate in-the-water experience as Navy captain.Over 90% of the world’s trade is conveyed by ship; the oceans are truly the planet’s circulatory system, and the home of some of its most ominous geopolitical flashpoints. And we love sea stories... + Read More
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Series: Sea PowerThe History and Geopolitics of the World's OceansPaperbackAdmiral James Stavridis USN9781524778354$40.00POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 06, 2017
From one of the most admired admirals of his generation—and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO—comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world’s most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial element in our current geopolitical path. From the time of the Greeks and the Persians clashing in the Mediterranean, sea power has determined world power. To an extent that is often underappreciated, it still does. No one understands this better than Admiral J... + Read More
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Series: The PushA Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond LimitsCD-AudioTommy Caldwell9781524778125$60.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 16, 2017
An absorbing, uplifting memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free-climb the 3,000-foot Dawn Wall of Yosemite’s El CapitanOn January 14, 2015, Tommy Caldwell, along with his partner Kevin Jorgeson, reached the summit of Yosemite’s nearly vertical 3000-foot Dawn Wall, relying only on his hands, feet, and body to ascend the rock. Widely considered the hardest climb in history, Caldwell’s much-publicized feat was the culmination of an entire lifetime of pushing himself to his limits as an athlete, which he relates in... + Read More
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Series: The Shark ClubCD-AudioAnn Kidd Taylor9780525492191$54.00FICTION Jun 06, 2017
A debut novel about love, loss, and sharks by the New York Times bestselling co-author of the memoir Traveling with PomegranatesOn a summer day on the Gulf of Mexico in 1988, two extraordinary things happen to twelve-year-old Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel, the boy of her dreams. Then, she is attacked by a Black Tip shark.Eighteen years later, Maeve is a world-traveling marine biologist studying and swimming with the very animals that once threatened her life. Known among her peers as the “shark whisperer,” Maeve is fearless in ... + Read More
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Series: The Shark ClubPaperbackAnn Kidd Taylor9781524778316$37.00FICTION Jun 06, 2017
“A quintessential summer read.” —Marie Claire A warm and wonderfully vivid novel about taking second chances—in life and in the sea One summer day on the beach in Florida, two extraordinary things happen to Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel, the boy of her dreams. Then, she is bitten by a blacktip shark. Eighteen years later, Maeve has thrown herself into her work as a world-traveling marine biologist discovering more about the minds of misunderstood sharks. But when Maeve returns home to the legendarily charming and eccentri... + Read More
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Series: The Sunshine SistersCD-AudioJane Green9780735285613$60.00FICTION Jun 06, 2017
New York Times bestselling author Jane Green’s newest novel about a mother who calls her estranged, grown daughters home to assist her suicide.It was never easy, being one of Ronni Sunshine’s daughters. A glamorous, beautiful actress who left London for Hollywood in the sixties, she’s a narcissistic, disinterested mother alienated from her three grown daughters. But when she discovers she has ALS, she calls her daughters home to help her take her life.Nell, the oldest, has a full life raising her son and running a farm—until she finds herself i... + Read More
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Series: TouchCD-AudioCourtney Maum9781524775650$54.00FICTION May 30, 2017
The dazzling new novel by the author of the exceptionally acclaimed I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You is a timely and satirical but also moving story about a leading trend forecaster who suddenly finds herself in the position of wanting to overturn her own predictions.Sloane Jacobsen is the most powerful trend forecaster in the world. Fashion, lifestyle, tech, and other global companies pay to hear her opinions on the future of everything from clothes to gadgets, food and families. Sloane’s recent forecasts on the family are definitive a... + Read More
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Series: Believe MeA Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz ChickensCD-AudioEddie Izzard9781611764697$66.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 13, 2017
Critically acclaimed and award-winning British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard details his childhood, his first act on the streets of London, his ascent to worldwide success on stage and screen, and his performances which have won over audiences around the world, in a wide-ranging and candid memoir.Over the course of his thirty-year career, Eddie Izzard has proven himself to be somewhat of a creative chameleon, able to invent myriad performances and acting roles, and to inhabit the stage and film and television screen with an unbelievable fervo... + Read More
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Series: Believe MeA Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz ChickensPaperbackEddie Izzard9781524778392$40.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 13, 2017
New York Times Bestseller“Izzard is one of the funniest people alive, a talented actor, a sharp cross-dresser, an experienced marathon runner, and a great writer. You will have to read this if only to find out what a jazz chicken is.”—The Philadelphia InquirerWith his brand of keenly intelligent humor that ranges from world history to historical politics, sexual politics, mad ancient kings, and chickens with guns, Eddie Izzard has built an extraordinary fan base that transcends age, gender, and race. Writing with the same candor and insight evi... + Read More
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Series: The SwitchA NovelCD-AudioJoseph Finder9781524723637$54.00FICTION Jun 13, 2017
The new exhilarating thriller from New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder. Michael Tanner is on his way home from a business trip when he accidentally picks up the wrong MacBook in the TSA security line at LAX. It belongs to someone named “S. Robbins,” but he doesn’t realize it until he arrives home in Boston. Discovering that the owner is a US senator, his curiosity gets the better of him, and he’s stunned to find top secret files on a new clandestine surveillance program.Senator Susan Robbins calls her young chief of staff Will Cost... + Read More
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Series: The SwitchA NovelPaperbackJoseph Finder9781524778361$40.00FICTION Jun 13, 2017
A simple mix up throws one innocent man into the crosshairs of sinister government secrets and ruthless political ambitions in New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder’s timely, electrifying new thriller.Michael Tanner is on his way home from a business trip when he accidentally picks up the wrong MacBook in an airport security line. He doesn’t notice the mix-up until he arrives home in Boston, but by then it’s too late. Tanner’s curiosity gets the better of him when he discovers that the owner is a US senator and that the laptop contain... + Read More
Riveting, haunting, and set against a stunning landscape, The Marsh King’s Daughter is a transcendent novel of psychological suspense, the story of a woman who must risk everything she has and use every skill she possesses to hunt down the dangerous man who shaped her past and now threatens to steal her future: her father.At last, Helena Pelletier has the life she deserves. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters, a business that fills her days. Then she catches an emergency news announcement and realizes she was a fool to think she could eve... + Read More
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “Brilliant….About as good as a thriller can be.”—The New York Times Book Review “[A] nail-biter perfect for Room fans.”—Cosmopolitan “Sensationally good psychological suspense.”—Lee Child Praised by Karin Slaughter and Megan Abbott, The Marsh King’s Daughter is the mesmerizing tale of a woman who must risk everything to hunt down the dangerous man who shaped her past and threatens to steal her future: her father. Helena Pelletier has a loving husband, two beautiful daughters, and a business that fills her day... + Read More
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Series: UNSUBA NovelCD-AudioMeg Gardiner9781524722791$60.00FICTION Jun 27, 2017
A dark, riveting thriller inspired by the Zodiac Killer, about a young detective determined to aprehend the killer who nearly destroyed her family and terrorized an entire city twenty years ago.Caitlin Hendrix has been a detective with the Narcotics Task Force for six months when the unsub—the unknown subject—at the heart of every nightmare she’s ever had reemerges: The Prophet. The killer who terrorized the Bay Area in the 1990s and nearly destroyed her father, the lead investigator of the case and the only person to actually catch a glimpse o... + Read More
In this riveting psychological thriller and ferocious sequel to Maestra, femme fatale Judith Rashleigh once again leads readers into the mesmerizing and dangerous underworld of Europe’s glamorous eliteNow that she’s opened her own art gallery in Venice, Judith Rashleigh can finally stop running. She’s got the paycheck, lifestyle, and wardrobe she always dreamed of, not to mention the interest of a Russian billionaire. But when a chance encounter in Ibiza leads to a corpse that is, for once, not her own doing, she finds her life is back on the l... + Read More
In this riveting sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller, Maestra, femme fatale Judith Rashleigh once again leads readers into the mesmerizing and dangerous underworld of Europe’s glamorous elite. Since opening her own art gallery in Venice, Judith Rashleigh—now Elisabeth Teerlinc—can finally stop running. She’s got the paycheck, lifestyle, and wardrobe she always dreamed of, not to mention the interest of a Russian billionaire. But when a chance encounter in Ibiza leads to a corpse that is, for once, not her own doing, she finds her ... + Read More
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Series: One MissionHow Leaders Build a Team of TeamsCD-AudioChris Fussell9781524780111$54.00BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jun 13, 2017
In a follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Team of Teams, Chris Fussell provides the road map for leaders who want to transition to his and General Stan McChrystal’s groundbreaking organizational model.Leaders from every industry welcomed Team of Teams eagerly, but one question has come up again and again. “The Team of Teams structure sounds great in theory, but how do I get from here to there without blowing up my company?”In this book, Chris Fussell walks leaders through the steps of transitioning from traditional hierarchy to the Team ... + Read More
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Series: The FallenPaperbackAce Atkins9781524778323$39.00FICTION Jul 18, 2017
From New York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins comes a rollicking crime novel of brazen thieves, good ole boy politicians, truck stop women—and one decent man crazy enough to fight them all… The bank robbers wreaking havoc across the South are carrying out their heists with such skill and precision that they remind Tibbehah County Sheriff Quinn Colson of the raids he once led as an Army Ranger. In fact, their techniques are so like the ones in the Ranger Handbook that he can’t help wondering if the outlaws are former Rangers themselves.And ... + Read More
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Series: Alexandra Cooper Novel, AnDeadfallCD-AudioLinda Fairstein9781524775858$54.00FICTION Jul 25, 2017
Hunting a killer within New York’s urban jungle becomes the biggest case of Alexandra Cooper’s career in New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein’s latest unputdownable thriller.A wild heart beats within New York City. Amidst concrete and skyscrapers, the Wildlife Conservation Society works to preserve and protect the animal kingdom both within and beyond the borders of the five boroughs. But dangerous creatures don’t always have claws and fangs, as Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper and NYPD Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace kno... + Read More
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Series: Alexandra Cooper Novel, AnDeadfallPaperbackLinda Fairstein9781524778385$40.00FICTION Jul 25, 2017
Hunting a killer within New York’s urban jungle becomes the biggest case of Alexandra Cooper’s career in New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein’s latest riveting thriller. A wild heart beats within New York City. Amid concrete and skyscrapers, the Wildlife Conservation Society works to preserve and protect the animal kingdom both within and beyond the borders of the five boroughs. But dangerous creatures don’t always have claws and fangs, as Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper and NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace know all ... + Read More
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Series: The Wildling SistersCD-AudioEve Chase9780735207707$54.00FICTION Jul 25, 2017
An evocative new novel in the vein of Kate Morton and Daphne Du Maurier, in which the thrill of first love clashes with the bonds of sisterhood, and all will be tested by the dark secret at the heart of Applecote ManorSisters. Survivors.When fifteen-year-old Margot and her three sisters arrive at Applecote Manor in June 1959, they expect a quiet English country summer. Instead, they find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of their daughter, Audrey, five years before. As the sisters become divided by new tensions when two ... + Read More
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Series: The Readymade ThiefCD-AudioAugustus Rose9781524777753$60.00FICTION Aug 01, 2017
Part literary detective novel, part coming-of-age story, and part art conspiracy thriller, The Readymade Thief is an arresting debut that introduces an unforgettable young heroine plunged into the twisted world of a secret society occupying the derelict buildings of Philadelphia, and heralds the arrival of an astoundingly imaginative and propulsive new literary voice.Lee Cuddy is 17 years old and on the run, alone on the streets of Philadelphia.After taking the fall for a rich friend, Lee reluctantly accepts refuge in the Crystal Castle—a coope... + Read More
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Series: Barely LegalCD-AudioStuart Woods9780525492344$47.00FICTION Aug 08, 2017
In the newest nonstop adventure from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods, the protege will become the hero: now is the time of Herbie Fisher.Under the tutelage of Stone Barrington, Herbie Fisher has transformed from a bumbling sad sack into a capable man about town and the youngest partner at the white shoe law firm Woodman & Weld. Now all of his training will be put to the test as he finds himself embroiled in his most daring adventure to date.Story Locale: New York City
A fable-like debut for readers of Mark Haddon’s THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME and Rebecca Makkai’s THE BORROWER, in which a boy with an uncanny ability to find lost objects must embark on his most important search yet in order to save his mother’s enchanted dessert shop, the only place he’s ever called homeThere’s only one place in the world that lonely twelve-year-old Walter Lavender, Jr. feels at home: The Lavenders, his mother’s unusual West Village dessert shop where meringues scud through displays like clouds, marzipan ... + Read More
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Series: CharlatansCD-AudioRobin Cook9781524775599$60.00FICTION Aug 22, 2017
The explosive new thriller from New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook.Newly minted Chief Resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as ’hybrid operating rooms of the future’—an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine procedure results in the death of an otherwi... + Read More
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Series: Shooting GhostsA U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from WarCD-AudioThomas J. Brennan USMC (Ret)9781524777630$60.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 22, 2017
A unique joint memoir by a conflict photographer and a U.S. Marine, whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and soulsWar tears people apart, but it can also bring them together. Through the unpredictability of war and its aftermath, a decorated Marine sergeant and a world-trotting war photographer became friends, their bond forged as they patrolled together through the dusty alleyways of Helmand province and camped side by side in the desert. It deepened after Brennan was injured during a Taliban ambush, and both ret... + Read More
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Series: The Power of OnlynessMake Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the WorldCD-AudioNilofer Merchant9781524777715$47.00BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Aug 29, 2017
A leading business strategist explains how to identify your passion, use social media to find others who share a common purpose, and act together to bring about changeMost of us long to make a dent in the universe, to leave a world that’s different and better than the one we’re born into. Until now the only way to pursue this goal systematically was by joining an institution - a big company, the military, the church - and rise in the ranks. But today we’re living at the leading edge of an entirely new era when ordinary people can, by using soci... + Read More
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Series: The Room of White FireCD-AudioT. Jefferson Parker9781524775698$54.00FICTION Aug 22, 2017
From three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestseller T. Jefferson Parker, a stirring new thriller about a private investigator tasked with hunting down a returned soldier broken and made dangerous by his experiences at war.A young soldier shattered by war, on the run from a mental institute.A P.I. carrying his own vicious wounds hired to track that soldier down. A race against the clock to bring the soldier home before he reveals the secret that haunts him. Roland Ford—once a cop, then a Marine, now a private investigator—is good at... + Read More
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Series: The Room of White FirePaperbackT. Jefferson Parker9781524778408$39.00FICTION Aug 22, 2017
“Mesmerizing and haunting.”—Lisa Gardner “T. Jefferson Parker is the poet of American crime fiction, and The Room of White Fire absolutely proves why.”—C.J. Box “A fast-paced, beautifully written thriller."—The Washington Post In this stirring thriller from New York Times bestseller and award winner T. Jefferson Parker, P.I. Roland Ford must hunt down a soldier who is damaged by war, dangerous, and on the run. Roland Ford—once a cop, then a marine, now a private investigator—is good at finding people. But when he’s asked to locate an Ai... + Read More
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Series: My CubsA Love StoryCD-AudioScott Simon9780525497103$27.00SPORTS & RECREATION Apr 11, 2017
NPR’s Scott Simon’s personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball’s most tortured—and now triumphant—franchise.No metaphor is necessary; the Chicago Cubs have been the living example of disappointment and failure for more than a century—until now. The Cubs’ 2016 World Series win marked the end of a 108-year drought in the team’s history, and Game 7 will forever be remembered as one of the m... + Read More
For fans of Room, an electrifying novel about the primal and unyielding bond between a mother and her son, and the lengths she’ll go to protect him.The zoo is nearly empty as Joan and her four-year-old son soak up the last few moments of playtime. They are happy, and the day has been close to perfect. But what Joan sees as she hustles her son towards the exit gate minutes before closing time sends her sprinting back into the zoo, her child in her arms.Suddenly, mother and son are as trapped as the animals. Joan’s intimate knowledge of this plac... + Read More
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