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American Housewife

by Helen Ellis

Published: 2016-10-18

Paperback: 208 pages

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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Catchy, smart and very, very funny.” —The Washington Post Meet the women of American Housewife. They wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it’s cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the ...

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Aly's House

by Leila Meacham

Published: 2016-10-04

Paperback: 224 pages

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A tender, classic love story about the power of first love and the promise of a second chance . . . Aly Kingston has only ever loved one man: Marshall Wayne. But she put all of those childish dreams behind her ages ago when the Waynes left town. Her father's victory at foreclosing on the W...

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The Friends We Keep (Mischief Bay)

by Susan Mallery

Published: 2016-02-23

Paperback: 416 pages

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In this insightful and compelling story from book club favorite Susan Mallery, three close friends test the boundaries of how much a woman can give before she has nothing left After five years as a stay-at-home mom, Gabby Schaefer can't wait to return to work. Oh, to use the bathroom in p...

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Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea

by Sungju Lee, Susan Elizabeth McClelland

Published: 2016-09-13

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Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, b...

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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

by Michael Lewis

Published: 2016-12-06

Hardcover: 368 pages

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How a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways...

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Jade Dragon Mountain: A Mystery (Li Du Novels)

by Elsa Hart

Published: 2016-07-05

Paperback: 368 pages

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On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires' rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell.Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now, he is an exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan b...

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Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle

by Andrea Hiott

Published: 2012-01-17

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Sometimes achieving big things requires the ability to think small. This simple concept was the driving force that propelled the Volkswagen Beetle to become an avatar of American-style freedom, a household brand, and a global icon. The VW Bug inspired the ad men of Madison Avenue, beguiled...

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The Brave Ones: A Memoir of Hope, Pride and Military Service

by Michael J. MacLeod

Published: 2015-11-10

Paperback: 383 pages

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How does the US Army mold a video-game generation with its thumbs on the joystick into a proud fighting force with its fingers on the trigger—and lives on the line—in America’s War on Terror? Michael J. MacLeod, already an accomplished professional photographer and journalist, decide...

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Aphrodite's Hat

by Salley Vickers

Published: 2011-06-01

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A wonderful collection of stories from the much-loved Salley Vickers. The stories in this long-awaited collection by Salley Vickers all deal with psychological aspects of love: love given and withheld, love craved and lost, love met and disappointed; the differing shades of loves between friends, between...

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The Last Hurrah

by Edwin O'Connor

Published: 1985-07

Paperback: 427 pages

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O'Connor's 1956 account of big-city politics, inspired by the career of longtime Boston Mayor James M. Curley, portrays its Irish-American political boss as a demagogue and a rogue who nonetheless deeply understands his constituents. The book was later made into a John Ford film staring Spencer Tracy....