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Get a Life, Chloe Brown: A Novel (The Brown Sisters)

by Talia Hibbert

Published: 2019-11-05

Paperback: 384 pages

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“Absolutely charming... a flawless balance of humor, heat, sweetness, and depth, and I loved every page.” – Helen Hoang, USA Today bestselling author of The Bride TestTalia Hibbert, one of contemporary romance’s brightest new stars, delivers a witty, hilarious romantic comedy about...

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How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed

by Slavenka Drakulic

Published: 2016-06-07

Paperback: 224 pages

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This essay collection from renowned journalist and novelist Slavenka Drakulic, which quickly became a modern (and feminist) classic, draws back the Iron Curtain for a glimpse at the lives of Eastern European women under Communist regimes. Provocative, often witty, and always intensely pers...

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An Elegant Frame (The Celia Series) (Volume 1)

by Claudie Banks

Published: 2017-04-08

Paperback: 310 pages

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An Elegant Frame is the first in the series following Celia Moss, a seasoned musician/composer and avid hiker in her adventures in the UK, single once again, vibrant and cautious. Her subsequent rise to popularity in the local music scene eventually brings scandal into her life. An unexpected romance...

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The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek: A Novel

by Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal

Published: 2019-10-29

Hardcover: 336 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Stranger Things meets the South. Chilling, hilarious, and suspenseful—I loved it!”—Felicia Day From the authors of Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality and creators of Good Mythical Morning . . . It’s 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina—a slee...

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The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

by Amy Webb

Published: 2019-03-05

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head.We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we--the everyday peo...

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User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

by Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant

Published: 2019-11-19

Hardcover: 416 pages

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In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women’s rights to the Great Depression to World War...

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NVK: A Novel

by Temple Drake

Published: 2019-11-26

Paperback: 352 pages

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HER SECRET MUST BE KEPT FOR ALL ETERNITY.Set in the otherworldly megalopolis that is today’s Shanghai, Temple Drake’s suspenseful first novel blends the gothic, the erotic, and the supernatural as it charts an intense and dangerous affair.   One night in 2012, executive Zhang Guo Xing...

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Strong Mothers, Strong Sons: Lessons Mothers Need to Raise Extraordinary Men

by Meg Meeker

Published: 2015-04-07

Paperback: 368 pages

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A timely and empowering book featuring “solid, practical advice for women on how to properly nurture their sons” (Kirkus Reviews).   From the moment a mother holds her newborn son, his eyes tell her that she is his world. But often, as he grows up, the boy who needs her simultaneously...

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Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine (Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa)

by Daniel Monterescu

Published: 2015-08-24

Paperback: 384 pages

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Binational cities play a pivotal role in situations of long-term conflict, and few places have been more marked by the tension between intimate proximity and visceral hostility than Jaffa, one of the "mixed towns" of Israel/Palestine. In this nuanced ethnographic and historical study, Dani...

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Making Payments: An American Indian, the Vietnam War, Laos, and the Hmong

by John Oventile

Published: 2017-09-11

Paperback: 355 pages

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During the Vietnam War, in one of the thousands of unrecorded small unit engagements, the “fog of war” temporarily obscured reality and a uniquely prepared man was thrust back into the history of his ancestors. But this wasn’t science fiction; this was a journey of harsh reality, pain, hunger,...