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Kosher Lust: Love Is Not the Answer

by Shmuley Boteach

Published: 2014-05-01

Hardcover: 243 pages

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Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Boy and girl enjoy the sparks in the early years, but eventually settle into a comfortable friendship, and all passion disappears from their marriage. That s just the way it goes, right? As many as one in three long-term marriages in America are sexless, a...

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Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice)

by Alexis M. Smith

Published: 2012-01-17

Paperback: 174 pages

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Glaciers unfolds internally, recalling the work of writers such as Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Virginia Woolf, and portrays how the fleeting moments of one day can reveal an entire life. Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast of...

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Half-Resurrection Blues: A Bone Street Rumba Novel

by Daniel José Older

Published: 2015-01-06

Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages

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FIRST IN A BRAND NEW URBAN FANTASY SERIES“Because I’m an inbetweener—and the only one anyone knows of at that—the dead turn to me when something is askew between them and the living. Usually, it’s something mundane like a suicide gone wrong or someone revived that shouldn’ta be...

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The Girl from Everywhere

by Heidi Heilig

Published: 2016-02-16

Hardcover: 464 pages

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Heidi Heilig's debut teen fantasy sweeps from modern-day New York City, to nineteenth-century Hawaii, to places of myth and legend. Sixteen-year-old Nix has sailed across the globe and through centuries aboard her time-traveling father's ship. But when he gambles with her very existence, i...

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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

by Joshua Hammer

Published: 2016-04-19

Hardcover: 288 pages

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To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven.In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Nig...

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* * * * Fun,
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Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice

by Curtis Sittenfeld

Published: 2016-04-19

Hardcover: 512 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, Eligible tackles gender, class, courtship, and family as Curtis Sittenfeld reaffirms herself as one of the most dazzling authors writing today.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE TIMES (UK) This ve...

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Saving Sophie: A Novel

by Ronald H. Balson

Published: 2015-09-15

Paperback: 448 pages

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From Ronald H. Balson, author of Once We Were Brothers, Saving Sophie is the powerful story of the lengths a father will go through to protect his daughter and an action-packed thriller that will take you on an unforgettable journey of murder and deception, testing the bonds of family and ...

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Concussion

by Jeanne Marie Laskas

Published: 2015-11-24

Paperback: 288 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting, unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who first identified CTE in professional football players, a discovery that challenges the existence of America’s favorite sport and puts Omalu in the crosshairs of football’s most powerful...

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Challenger Deep

by Neal Shusterman

Published: 2015-04-21

Hardcover: 320 pages

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National Book Award WinnerA captivating novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman.Caden Bosch is on a ship that's headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger...

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Operation Redwood

by S. Terrell French

Published: 2011-04-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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Clandestine e-mail exchanges, secret trips, fake press releases, and a tree-house standoff are among the clever stunts and pranks the kid heroes pull in this exciting ecological adventure. “Sibley Carter is a moron and a world-class jerk,” reads Julian Carter-Li in an angry e-mail m...