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Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

by Peter Vronsky

Published: 2018-08-14

Paperback: 432 pages

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From the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to their horrifying crimes.Before the term was coined in 1981, there were no "serial killers." There...

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Caesar's Last Breath: And Other True Tales of History, Science, and the Sextillions of Molecules in the Air Around Us

by Sam Kean

Published: 2018-06-12

Paperback: 384 pages

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The Guardian's Best Science Book of 2017 One of Science News's Favorite Science Books of 2017 The fascinating science and history of the air we breatheIt's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell.In Caesar's Last Breath, New Yor...

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Shogun: The Epic Novel of Japan (Asian Saga, book 1)

by James Clavell

Published: 2019-06-04

Hardcover: 1312 pages

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The multimillion-copy bestselling historical novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world. After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen -- Nippon. Thrust into the closed...

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No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work

by Liz Fosslien, Mollie West Duffy

Published: 2019-02-05

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Wall Street Journal Bestseller!Next Big Idea Club selection?chosen by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant as one of the "two most groundbreaking new nonfiction reads of the season!""A must-read that topples the idea that emotions don't belong in the workplace."--Susan C...

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A Single Thread: A Novel

by Tracy Chevalier

Published: 2019-09-17

Hardcover: 336 pages

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An immersive, moving story of a woman coming into her own at the dawn of the Second World War, from internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation ...

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Men to Match My Mountains, Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900

by Irving Stone

Published: 1956

Hardcover: 0 pages

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Historical true story.Tells the story of the opening of the far West. - About John Sutter, and the the California Gold Rush; Brigham Young and the Mormons ; and the silver kings and the miners who developed Nevada's Comstock Lode and settled the Rockies. Maps inside covers of California, Nevada, Utah...

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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

by Haben Girma

Published: 2019-08-06

Hardcover: 288 pages

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"This autobiography by a millennial Helen Keller teems with grace and grit." -- O Magazine"A profoundly important memoir." -- The Times** As featured in The Wall Street Journal, People, and on The TODAY Show ** A New York Times "New & Noteworthy" Pick ** An O Magazine "Book of the Month" P...

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The Empty Nesters

by Carolyn Brown

Published: 2019-08-20

Paperback: 315 pages

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The worst of times calls for the best of friends in this sassy novel about starting over, from New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown.Dear friends and army wives Diana, Carmen, and Joanie have been through war, rumors of war, marital problems, motherhood, fears, joy, and heartache...

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The World Doesn't Require You: Stories

by Rion Amilcar Scott

Published: 2019-08-20

Hardcover: 384 pages

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One of Esquire's Most Anticipated Books of 2019 As seen in the Summer Reading Previews of Esquire • NYLON • BuzzFeed • BookRiot • Southern LivingThe World Doesn’t Require You announces the arrival of a generational talent, as Rion Amilcar Scott shatters rigid genre lines to explo...

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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown

by Julia Scheeres

Published: 2012-11-13

Paperback: 336 pages

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“A gripping account of how decent people can be taken in by a charismatic and crazed tyrant” (The New York Times Book Review).In 1954, a past or named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic belie...