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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time

by Maria Konnikova

Published: 2016-01-12

Hardcover: 352 pages

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"It’s a startling and disconcerting read that should make you think twice every time a friend of a friend offers you the opportunity of a lifetime.”—Erik Larson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dead Wake and bestselling author of Devil in the White CityThink you can’t get c...

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Merchants in the Temple: Inside Pope Francis's Secret Battle Against Corruption in the Vatican

by Gianluigi Nuzzi

Published: 2015-11-10

Hardcover: 240 pages

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From a bestselling author with unprecedented access to Pope Francis, an investigative look at the recent financial scandals at the highest levels of the VaticanA veritable war is waging in the Church: on one side, there is Pope Francis’s strong message for one church of the poor and all;...

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The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate

by Robert D. Kaplan

Published: 2013-09-10

Paperback: 448 pages

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In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.   In The Revenge of Geography, ...

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Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections): The Battles That Define America from Jefferson's Heresies to Gay Marriage

by Stephen Prothero

Published: 2016-01-05

Hardcover: 336 pages

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In this timely, carefully reasoned social history of the United States, the New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One places today’s heated culture wars within the context of a centuries-long struggle of right versus left and religious versus secular to r...

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The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People

by Dan Buettner

Published: 2015-04-07

Hardcover: 320 pages

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In this groundbreaking book, Dan Buettner reveals how to transform your health using smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the communities he's identified as "Blue Zones"—those places with the world's longest-l...

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The Old Brown Suitcase

by Lillian Boraks-Nemetz

Published: 2008-04-15

Paperback: 170 pages

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Fiction. Young Adult. THE OLD BROWN SUITCASE, an award winning book that has sold extraordinarily well both around the globe, now appears in a new edition by Ronsdale Press. The novel narrates the absorbing story of a young girl who survived the Holocaust against all odds. Slava, a fourteen-year-old...

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Butterfly Effect (The Domino Series) (Volume 2)

by Jill Elaine Hughes

Published: 2016-02-19

Paperback: 360 pages

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BUTTERFLY EFFECT, by Jill Elaine Hughes Book Two of THE DOMINO SERIES. When we last left Nancy Delaney and Peter Rostovich, they were on the run from violent criminal overlords in the former Soviet Union. Our hero Peter Rostovich is an elusive, enigmatic international artist/playboy, originally from...

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Haunting Investigation (The Chesterton Holte Mysteries)

by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Published: 2015-12-31

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Spring 1924. The world has clawed its way back from the ravages of WWI and the Spanish Flu pandemic. The 20's are beginning to roar. Poppy Thornton lives with her Aunt Jo and her excitable cat Maestro in upper-crust Philadelphia. Poppy is determined to make a name for herself as a serious crime reporter,...

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Counted With the Stars (Out From Egypt)

by Connilyn Cossette

Published: 2016-04-05

Paperback: 352 pages

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A Story of Love, Desperation, and Hope During a Great Biblical EpochSold into slavery by her father and forsaken by the man she was supposed to marry, young Egyptian Kiya must serve a mistress who takes pleasure in her humiliation. When terrifying plagues strike Egypt, Kiya is in the middl...

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The Rivals of Versailles: A Novel (The Mistresses of Versailles Trilogy)

by Sally Christie

Published: 2016-04-05

Paperback: 448 pages

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Meet Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, a beautiful girl from the middle classes who would rise to become one of the 18th century’s most powerful and enigmatic women. As a child, a fortune teller had told young Jeanne her destiny: she would become the lover of a king. Eventually connections, luc...