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Come Rain or Come Shine

by Jan Karon

Published: 2016-05-03

Paperback: 287 pages

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#1 New York Time bestselling author Jan Karon delivers the wedding that millions of Mitford fans have waited for. It’s a June day in the mountains, with more than a few creatures great and small, and you’re invited—because you’re family.   Over the course of ten Mitford novels, fa...

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The Summer Guest: A Novel

by Alison Anderson

Published: 2016-05-24

Hardcover: 400 pages

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What if Anton Chekhov, undisputed master of the short story, actually wrote a novel—and the manuscript  still existed? This tantalizing possibility drives The Summer Guest, a spellbinding narrative that draws together, across two centuries, the lives of three women through the discovery...

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The Storyteller's Secret: From TED Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch On and Others Don't

by Carmine Gallo

Published: 2016-02-23

Hardcover: 288 pages

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How did a Venice Beach T-shirt vendor become television's most successful producer? How did an entrepreneur who started in a garage create the most iconic product launches in business history? How did a timid pastor's son overcome a paralyzing fear of public speaking to captivate sold-out ...

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The Jazz Palace

by Mary Morris

Published: 2016-03-08

Paperback: 256 pages

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Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardBoomtown Chicago, 1920s—a world of gangsters, musicians, and clubs. Young Benny Lehrman, born into a Jewish hat-making family, is expected to take over his father’s business, but his true passion is piano—especially jazz. After dark, he sneaks ...

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Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir

by Tom Hart

Published: 2016-01-12

Hardcover: 272 pages

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ROSALIE LIGHTNING is Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart's #1 New York Times bestselling touching and beautiful graphic memoir about the untimely death of his young daughter, Rosalie. His heart-breaking and emotional illustrations strike readers to the core, and take them along his family...

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The Pain, My Mother, Sir Tiffy, Cyber Boy & Me

by Michael Gerard Bauer

Published: 2016-05-01

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It really all started with The Pain. He officially came into my life exactly nine weeks and one day before our Year Ten Graduation Dance. And despite my very best efforts to wipe the day from my mind, I can still remember it clearly. It was a Friday. The thirteenth day of the month. Notice...

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How I Met My Son

by Yolanda Bogert

Published: 2016-04-01

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'The sky didn’t fall, and our family didn’t fall apart. We just started using different pronouns. Oh, I had to change the name stored in my phone with his number. That was a bit of a pain.’ Yolanda Bogert, a mum from regional Queensland, made worldwide news when she placed a notice ...

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Damned Whores and God's Police

by Anne Summers

Published: 2016-05-01

Paperback: 600 pages

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Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when Damned Whores and God’s Police was first published in 1975. That was before the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984 and before large numbers of women became visible in employment, in p...

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Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen: A Novel (Six Tudor Queens)

by Alison Weir

Published: 2016-05-31

Hardcover: 624 pages

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Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir takes on what no fiction writer has done before: creating a dramatic six-book series in which each novel covers one of King Henry VIII’s wives. In this captivating opening volume, Weir brings to life the tumultuous tale of Katherine...

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Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood

by Terry Masear

Published: 2016-05-03

Paperback: 336 pages

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“I cannot believe what a gripping read this is.” —Robin Young, host of NPR’s Here and Now “A book that will change forever the way you look at these little birds.”—Los Angeles Times   Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna’s hummingbird with head and throat ...