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The Lost Vintage: A Novel

by Ann Mah

Published: 2018-06-19

Paperback: 544 pages

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“If you enjoyed Sarah’s Key and Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale, then this wonderful book by Ann Mah is for you.”   -- Tatiana de RosnaySweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this page-turning novel about a woman who returns to her family’s ancestral vineyard in Burgundy and u...

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Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris

by Anne Nelson

Published: 2017-10-17

Hardcover: 336 pages

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“Immersive...Suzanne’s Children vividly dramatizes the stakes of acting morally in a time of brutality.”—The Wall Street JournalA story of courage in the face of evil. The tense drama of Suzanne Spaak who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportatio...

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The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us

by Richard O. Prum

Published: 2017-05-09

Hardcover: 448 pages

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, SMITHSONIAN, AND WALL STREET JOURNALA major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed "the taste for the beautiful"—create the extraordinary range of ornament in t...

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by Nayyirah Waheed

Published: 2013-09-24

Paperback: 258 pages

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North to Freedom

by Anne Holm

Published: 1990-03-15

Paperback: 239 pages

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Having escaped from the eastern European concentration camp where he has spent most of his life, a twelve-year-old boy struggles to cope with an entirely strange world as he flees northward to freedom in Denmark. “[North to Freedom] is, to my mind, the single finest novel ever written fo...

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The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

by Gay Hendricks PhD

Published: 2010-05-04

Paperback: 224 pages

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With over 100,000 copies sold, New York Times bestselling author Gay Hendricks demonstrates how to go beyond your internal limits, release outdated fears and learn a whole new set of powerful skills and habits to liberate your authentic greatness. Fans of Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, Mariann...

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Green: A Novel

by Sam Graham-Felsen

Published: 2018-01-02

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A coming-of-age novel about race, privilege, and the struggle to rise in America, written by a former Obama campaign staffer and propelled by an exuberant, unforgettable narrator.  “A riot of language that’s part hip-hop, part nerd boy, and part pure imagination.”—The Boston Glob...

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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

by Daniel H. Pink

Published: 2018-01-09

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Instant New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Business BestsellerInstant Washington Post Bestseller"Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --The Wall Street JournalDaniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human, unlocks the scien...

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The Widows of Malabar Hill (A Mystery of 1920s Bombay)

by Sujata Massey

Published: 2018-01-09

Hardcover: 400 pages

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1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay's only female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous. The author of the Agatha and Macavity Award–winning Rei Shimura novels brings us an atmosph...

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The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

by Max Boot

Published: 2018-01-09

Hardcover: 768 pages

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In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War. In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908– 1987), the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene’s The Quiet Am...