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Trajectory: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Richard Russo

Published: 2018-04-03

Paperback: 256 pages

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The characters in these four expansive stories are a departure from the blue-collar denizens that populate so many of Richard Russo’s novels; and all are bound together by parallel moments of reckoning with their pasts. In “Horseman,” a young professor confronts an undergraduate plag...

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The Book of Moon

by George Crowder

Published: 2016-11-04

Paperback: 264 pages

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The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish

by Emily Voigt

Published: 2017-05-09

Paperback: 336 pages

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WINNER OF THE 2017 NASW SCIENCE IN SOCIETY JOURNALISM AWARD A FINALIST FOR THE 2017 PEN/E. O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR “[A] curiously edifying book.” —The New York Ti...

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Jane Eyre (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

by Charlotte Brontë

Published: 2016-06-27

Paperback: 560 pages

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"The Brontës' gifted biographer provides us with another superlative Norton Critical Edition of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel. For the classroom and for the general reader, there's no better way to experience the context in which Jane Eyre was written, illuminating modern commentary, ...

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Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History

by Tori Telfer

Published: 2017-10-10

Paperback: 352 pages

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Inspired by author Tori Telfer's Jezebel column “Lady Killers,” this thrilling and entertaining compendium investigates female serial killers and their crimes through the ages.When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper...

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling

Published: 2018-04-03

Hardcover: 352 pages

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“One of the most important books I’ve ever read?an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates“Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much m...

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P. T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman

by Philip B. Kunhardt Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt

Published: 1995-09-26

Hardcover: 358 pages

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If Abraham Lincoln was the great moral force of his age, Phineas Taylor Barnum was its great provider of joy. As one of the earliest practitioners of "the show business," Barnum dedicated his long career to alleviating the “severe and drudging practicalness” he considered the chief def...

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The Hunger

by Alma Katsu

Published: 2018-03-06

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A Bram Stoker Award Nominee--Superior Achievement in a Novel 2018A Suspense Magazine Best Book of the YearAn NPR Best Horror NovelOne of The Observer's Best Books of 2018 "Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark." --Stephen KingA tense and gripping r...

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The Girl on the Train (Movie Tie-In)

by Paula Hawkins

Published: 2016-08-23

Paperback: 416 pages

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The #1 New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year, now a major motion picture starring Emily Blunt. The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives, from the author of Into the Water. “Nothing is more addicting than The...

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Forty Acres: A Novel

by Phyllis R. Dixon

Published: 2004-06-15

Paperback: 390 pages

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Folks sure do act funny, when it comes to money. No one gave the Washington family forty acres or a mule. C.W. Washington has risen from a sharecropper's son to one of the largest black landowners in the county. But a stroke has forced him to retire from farming. Now he must decide what happens to his...