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Classic Krakauer: Essays on Wilderness and Risk

by Jon Krakauer

Published: 2019-10-29

Paperback: 192 pages

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Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. His pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle; from a ...

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Stephen Colbert: Beyond Truthiness

by Bruce Watson

Published: 2018-07-21

Paperback: 142 pages

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Stephen Colbert is far more than a comedian and improv genius. As head of his fanciful Colbert Nation, the quick-witted host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report has delighted fans with his wit, audacity, and innovative uses of language and the media. In this biography, award-winning journalist Bruce...

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The Anatomy of Dreams: A Novel

by Chloe Benjamin

Published: 2018-09-04

Paperback: 320 pages

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Discover the award-winning debut novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists, a “majestic collision of sci-fi thriller and love story” (Bustle) about a young woman struggling with questions of love, trust, and ethics as the line between dreams and reality dangero...

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Tentacle

by Rita Indiana

Published: 2019-01-15

Paperback: 160 pages

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Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a voodoo prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean – and humanity – from disaster. But first she must become the man she always was – w...

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The Color Inside a Melon

by John Domini

Published: 2019-06-11

Paperback: 360 pages

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"The narrative has its requisite share of mobsters, cops and bloodshed, but for Domini these are mainly pegs upon which to explore Risto’s sense of displacement and belonging. ... Domini’s novel is determined to push the noir?and us?out of well-worn ruts." ?The Washington PostA disastr...

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Así es como la pierdes: Relatos (Spanish Edition)

by Junot Díaz

Published: 2013-06-04

Paperback: 208 pages

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Así es como la pierdes es un libro sobre mujeres que quitan el sentido y sobre el amor y el ardor. Y sobre la traición porque a veces traicionamos lo que más queremos, y también es un libro sobre el suplicio que pasamos después –los ruegos, las lágrimas, la sensación de estar atr...

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Más allá del invierno (Spanish Edition)

by Isabel Allende

Published: 2018-09-04

Paperback: 352 pages

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Isabel Allende parte de la célebre cita de Albert Camus -"en medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible"- para urdir una trama que presenta la geografía humana de unos personajes propios de la América de hoy que se hallan "en el más profundo invierno de ...

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People in the Room

by Norah Lange

Published: 2018-08-21

Paperback: 200 pages

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A young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house across the street from her family’s home. Intrigued, she begins to watch them. She imagines them as accomplices to an unknown crime, as troubled spinsters contemplating suicide, or as players in an affair with dark and mysterio...

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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

by Kim Zetter

Published: 2015-09-01

Paperback: 448 pages

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Top cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb.   In January 2010, ...

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Beartown: A Novel

by Fredrik Backman

Published: 2017-04-25

Hardcover: 432 pages

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: LibraryReads • BookBrowse • Goodreads “You’ll love this engrossing novel.” —PeopleThe bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to mak...