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Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-up Years

by Cathy Guisewite

Published: 2019-04-02

Hardcover: 336 pages

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From the creator of the iconic "Cathy" comic strip comes her first collection of funny, wise, poignant, and incredibly honest essays about being a woman in what she lovingly calls "the panini generation."As the creator of "Cathy," Cathy Guisewite found her way into the hearts of readers mo...

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Hot Mahogany (A Stone Barrington Novel)

by Stuart Woods

Published: 2009-05-05

Paperback: 400 pages

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Stone Barrington is hired to protect a former intelligence agent with amnesia—and secrets worth killing for—in this heart-stopping thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.Barton Cabot’s intelligence career is even more top secret than that of his brother, CIA boss Lance ...

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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

by Katherine Boo

Published: 2014-04-08

Paperback: 288 pages

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In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumb...

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Santa Took Them

by William Malmborg

Published: 2015-12-01

Hardcover: 306 pages

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Christmas Eve 2005.  Eight year old Michelle Harper is the only survivor in a horrific massacre that has left her four siblings decapitated, and her mother slowly dying as her innards ooze out onto the second floor landing, the words SANTA TOOK THEM written in blood on the bedroom wall. �...

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The Janes: An Alice Vega Novel

by Louisa Luna

Published: 2020-01-21

Hardcover: 368 pages

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"Lead character Alice Vega is sensational--I want to see lots more of her."--Lee ChildThe electric follow-up to Louisa Luna's acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down, featuring private investigators Alice Vega and Max Caplan.On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discov...

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Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal

by Renia Spiegel

Published: 2019-09-24

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into EnglishRenia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939...

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The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel (FSG Classics)

by Carlos Fuentes

Published: 2009-02-03

Paperback: 320 pages

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As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling inventiveness, layering memory upon...

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Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save the Mosul Zoo

by Louise Callaghan

Published: 2020-01-14

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith the zookeeper, Simba the lion cub, Lula the bear, and countless others, faithfully depicted by acclaimed, award-winning journalist Louise Callaghan in her trade publishing debut.Combining a t...

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Relentless: Changing Lives by Disrupting the Educational Norm

by Hamish Brewer

Published: 2019-06-01

Paperback: 244 pages

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Be Relentless!Hamish Brewer (aka the Tattooed Skateboarding Principal) grew up in a home disrupted by poverty, addiction, and family dysfunction. He understands the feelings of fear, lostness, and desperation that overwhelm too many children today—because that was his life. That experien...

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The Vine Witch

by Luanne G. Smith

Published: 2019-10-01

Paperback: 268 pages

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A young witch emerges from a curse to find her world upended in this gripping fantasy of betrayal, vengeance, and self-discovery set in turn-of-the-century France.For centuries, the vineyards at Château Renard have depended on the talent of their vine witches, whose spells help create the...