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Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex
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Silent Thunder
by Iris Johansen Publisher Comments Number-one bestselling author Iris Johansen teams up with Edgar Award winner Roy Johansen and the result is an explosive, tour-de-force thriller. . . . It was the assignment of a lifetime. . . . Brilliant marine architect Hannah Bryson has been...
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One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation
by George Will Publisher Comments In his provocative and compelling new book, America’s most widely read and most influential commentator casts his gimlet eye on our singular nation. Moving far beyond the strict confines of politics, George F. Will offers a fascinating look at the...
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A Buffalo in the House: The Extraordinary Story of Charlie and His Family
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Kushiel's Justice (Kushiel's Legacy #02)
by Jacqueline Carey Publisher Comments Imriel de la Courcel's blood parents are history's most reviled traitors, while his adoptive parents, Phèdre and Joscelin, are Terre d'Ange's greatest champions. Stolen, tortured, and enslaved as a young boy, Imriel is now a Prince of the Blood, third...
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Executive Privilege Signed
by Phillip Margolin Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin is back, this time with a powerful tale of murder that snakes its way through Washington, D.C.'s halls of power, leading straight to the White House and the most powerful office on earth. When...
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Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Veronique Mottier Publisher Comments Is our sexuality determined primarily by our genes? Or is it shaped by the social norms and expectations we happen to be born into. This Very Short Introduction provides an accessible, thoughtful and thought-provoking introduction to major debates around...
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The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova Powells.com Staff Pick With The Historian Elizabeth Kostova has written a love letter to Dracula, Eastern Europe, and the study of history. Writing an epistolary novel (just like the original Dracula) might have seemed risky in the age of email, but it works. We are drawn into...
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End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies about the End of the World
by Sylvia Browne Publisher Comments The Apocalypse. The Rapture. The End of Days. Humans have long been concerned with the ultimate clash of civilizations, but never more so than now. The world has become a scary placereligious wars, global terrorism, and genocide are all over the news...
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Olive Kitteridge Signed
by Elizabeth Strout Publisher Comments In a voice more powerful and compassionate than ever before, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a novel, through the presence of one larger-than-life...
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War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq
by Richard Engel Publisher Comments In the most dramatic and intimate account of battle reporting since Michael Herrs classic Dispatches, NBC Newss award-winning Middle East Bureau Chief, Richard Engel, offers an unvarnished and often emotional account of five years in Iraq. Engel is the...
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American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day
by Robert Coram Publisher Comments During the course of his military career, through World War II, Korean, and then Vietnam, Bud Day received every available combat medal, escaped death on no fewer than seven occasions, and spent sixty-seven months as a POW in the infamous Hanoi Hilton...
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The Case of the Ill-Gotten Goat: The Casebook of Dr. McKenzie (Berkley Prime Crime Mysteries)
by Claudia Bishop Publisher Comments Animalsand justicehave found their hero in Dr. McKenzie. When a randy milk inspector is found dead in 400 gallons of goat milk, veterinarian Austin McKenzie and his wife Madeline will have to cull a killer from a herd of suspects. And along the way, the...
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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
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Origin
by Diana Abu-Jaber Publisher Comments Finally, a novel of literary suspense that gets almost everything right--forensically and psychologically.--Sarah Weinman, Baltimore Sun In this mystery of cold beauty and dark isolation, written with crystalline precision (Miami Herald), a series of...
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The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Terry Eagleton Publisher Comments The phrase "the meaning of life" for many seems a quaint notion fit for satirical mauling by Monty Python or Douglas Adams. But in this spirited Very Short Introduction, famed critic Terry Eagleton takes a serious if often amusing look at the question...
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The Lemur
by Benjamin Black Publisher Comments A new thriller from the Booker Prize–winning and Edgar-nominated author of Christine Falls and The Silver Swan John Glass's life in New York should be plenty comfortable. He's given up his career as a journalist to write an authorized biography of...
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Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel
by Lauren Weisberger Publisher Comments The bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing returns with the story of three best friends who vow to change their entire lives...and change them fast. Emmy is newly single, and not by choice. She was this close to the...
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Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet
by Alisa Smith Publisher Comments The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment. When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a...
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Somewhere in Heaven: The Remarkable Love Story of Dana and Christopher Reeve
by Christopher Andersen Synopsis By turns heartbreaking, uplifting, and compelling, "Somewhere in Heaven" is more than just a portrait of a marriage between Dana and Christopher Reeve. It is the profoundly human story of two souls whose brief lives made a difference....
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