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Beacon 23: The Novel

by Hugh Howey

Published: 2015-08-12

Paperback: 252 pages

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For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. It is a lonely job, and a thankless one for the most part. Until something goes wrong. Until a ship is in distress. In the 23rd century, this job has moved into outer space. A network of beacons allows ships to...

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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

by Steve Silberman

Published: 2015-08-25

Hardcover: 544 pages

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A New York Times bestsellerWinner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fictionA groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.   What is ...

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The Magicians and Mrs. Quent

by Galen Beckett

Published: 2009-11-24

Paperback: 498 pages

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Galen Beckett weaves a dazzling spell of adventure and suspense in an evocative world of high magick and genteel society–a world where one young woman discovers that her modest life is far more extraordinary than she ever imagined.Of the three Lockwell sisters–romantic Lily, prophetic ...

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Boy, Snow, Bird -- Unabridged CDs

by Helen Oyeyemi

Published: 2014

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In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty - the opposite of the life she' s left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature...

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The Island

by Nancy Lee

Published: 2015-06-15

Paperback: 288 pages

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Vices are outlawed in Cloquet in 1918 except on the Island. There, loggers can have the time of their lives with drink, women of the night, and poker games. When the city is threatened by fire, the virtuous citizens of Cloquet have to overcome their prejudice in order to survive. Everything is destroyed...

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Don't Look Back

by Jennifer Armentrout

Published: 2015-03-17

Paperback: 384 pages

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Samantha is a stranger in her own life. Until the night she disappeared with her best friend, Cassie, everyone said Sam had it all-popularity, wealth, and a dream boyfriend. Sam has resurfaced, but she has no recollection of who she was or what happened to her that night. As she tries to p...

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The Paris Key

by Juliet Blackwell

Published: 2015-09-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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An American in Paris navigates her family’s secret past and unlocks her own future, in this emotionally evocative novel by New York Times bestselling author Juliet Blackwell.As a girl, Genevieve Martin spent the happiest summer of her life in Paris, learning the delicate art of locksmith...

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The Illegal: A Novel

by Lawrence Hill

Published: 2016-01-25

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Internationally best-selling author Lawrence Hill returns with an extraordinary, resonant novel about a man on the run.Lawrence Hill spellbound readers with Someone Knows My Name (made into the television mini-series, The Book of Negroes), hailed as “transporting” (Entertainment Weekly...

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Submission: A Novel

by Michel Houellebecq

Published: 2015-10-20

Hardcover: 256 pages

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A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous living literary figureIt's 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century Decadent author. But Françoi...

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History's People: Personalities and the Past (Cbc Massey Lecture)

by Margaret MacMillan

Published: 2015-10-13

Hardcover: 304 pages

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In History’s People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of figures of the past, women and men, some famous and some little-known, who stand out for her. Some have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their tim...