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The Industries of the Future

by Alec Ross

Published: 2016-02-02

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what’s next for the world: the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years, and how we can navigate them.While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled to forty-one ...

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Conviction: The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars

by Juan Martinez

Published: 2016-02-16

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Juan Martinez, the fiery prosecutor who convicted notorious murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time about the shocking investigation and sensational trial that captivated the nation.Through two trials, America watched with baited breat...

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Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man

by William Shatner, David Fisher

Published: 2016-02-16

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner first crossed paths as actors on the set of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Little did they know that their next roles, in a new science fiction television series, would shape their lives in ways no one could have anticipated. In seventy-nine television episodes a...

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And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East

by Richard Engel

Published: 2016-02-09

Hardcover: 256 pages

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“Quick-paced...a thrilling adventure story laced with historical context.” —Associated PressBased on two decades of reporting, NBC’s chief foreign correspondent’s riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up-close—sometimes dangero...

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The Name of God Is Mercy

by Pope Francis

Published: 2016-01-12

Hardcover: 176 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In his first book published as Pope, and in conjunction with the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis here invites all humanity to an intimate and personal dialogue on the subject closest to his heart—mercy—which has long been the cornerstone of h...

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A Little Life: A Novel

by Hanya Yanagihara

Published: 2016-01-26

Paperback: 832 pages

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ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThe New York Times • The Washington Post • The Wall Street Journal • NPR • Vanity Fair • Vogue • Minneapolis Star Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian • O, The Oprah Magazine • Slate • Newsday • Buzzfeed • The Economist...

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Lawyer for the Dog: A Novel (A Sally Baynard Novel)

by Lee Robinson

Published: 2015-07-07

Hardcover: 240 pages

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One of the sharpest attorneys in Charleston, S.C., Sally Baynard isn't your typical southern belle. She's certainly not what her mother hoped she'd grow up to be, especially since she divorced her husband, Family Court Judge Joe Baynard, and his historic family with their historic wealth ...

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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

by Helen Oyeyemi

Published: 2016-03-08

Hardcover: 336 pages

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An NPR Best Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN Open Book Prize A Washington Post Notable Fiction Pick A Slate Best Book of the Year One of Esquire Magazine’s Best Books of 2016 One of Oprah.com’s 10 Favorite Books of 2016"Transcendent." —The New York Times Book Review"Flawless. . .�...

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The Book Borrower: A Novel

by Alice Mattison

Published: 2012-08-07

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On the day they first meet in a city playground, Deborah Laidlaw lends Toby Ruben a book called Trolley Girl, the memoir of a forgotten trolley strike in the 1920s, written by the sister of a fiery Jewish revolutionary who played an important, ultimately tragic role in the events. Young mo...

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A Fine Balance (Vintage International)

by Rohinton Mistry

Published: 1997

Paperback: 603 pages

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With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Em...