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Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy

by Melanie Swan

Published: 2015-02-08

Paperback: 152 pages

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Bitcoin is starting to come into its own as a digital currency, but the blockchain technology behind it could prove to be much more significant. This book takes you beyond the currency ("Blockchain 1.0") and smart contracts ("Blockchain 2.0") to demonstrate how the blockchain is in positio...

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LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media

by P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking

Published: 2018-10-02

Hardcover: 416 pages

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Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the internet. Terrorists liv...

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The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century

by Robert D. Kaplan

Published: 2018-03-06

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades, anchored by a major new Pentagon-commissioned essay—from the renowned geopolitical analyst and bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy.“Elegant and humane . . . [a] p...

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Milkman: A Novel

by Anna Burns

Published: 2018-12-04

Paperback: 360 pages

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize“Everything about this novel rings true. . . . Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique.”?The GuardianIn an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes ...

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Bowling Avenue

by Ann Shayne

Published: 2012-06-05

Paperback: 268 pages

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Welcome to 603 Bowling Avenue, a lush, empty Colonial Revival house tucked away in a leafy Nashville neighborhood. Who’s that in the ratty attic bedroom, holed up like a squirrel, writing real estate ads as fast as she can? Delia Ballenger, former Nashvillian. She’s back in town to sel...

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Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.

by Jeremy Mercer

Published: 2006-09-19

Paperback: 272 pages

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Wandering through Paris's Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co. Mercer bought a book, and the staff invited him up for tea. Within weeks, he was living above the store, working for the proprietor, Geo...

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The Gardener of Baghdad

by Ahmad Ardalan

Published: 2014-07-30

Paperback: 226 pages

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Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery? Adnan leads a weary existence as a bookshop owner in modern-day, war-torn Baghdad, where bombings, corruption and assault are everyday occurrences and the struggle to sur...

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Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

by Mary Gabriel

Published: 2017-09-01

Hardcover: 944 pages

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Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times) Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Stree...

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Life After Darkness: Finding Healing and Happiness After the Cleveland Kidnappings

by Michelle Knight

Published: 2018-05-01

Hardcover: 248 pages

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From Michelle Knight-Cleveland kidnapping survivor and #1 NYT bestselling author of Finding Me-comes an inspirational book about healing and resilience, on the five-year anniversary of her escape.Michelle Knight-now known as Lily Rose Lee-captured the world's attention in May 2013, when sh...

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The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding

by Jennifer Robson

Published: 2018-12-31

Paperback: 400 pages

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One of the most anticipated reads from USA Today, InStyle, HelloGiggles, Hypable, Bookbub, and Bookriot!One of Real Simple's Best Historical Fiction novels of the year!"For fans of “The Crown,” looking for history served up as intimate drama, and those seeking another angle on royal l...