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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

by Malcolm Gladwell

Published: 2013-10-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative---and dazzling---book yet.Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a sto...

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One Summer: America, 1927

by Bill Bryson

Published: 2013-10-01

Hardcover: 528 pages

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A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy BookA GoodReads Reader's ChoiceIn One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life.The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twent...

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The Valley of Amazement

by Amy Tan

Published: 2013-11-05

Hardcover: 608 pages

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Amy Tan’s The Valley of Amazement is a sweeping, evocative epic of two women’s intertwined fates and their search for identity, that moves from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village.Spanning more than forty years and two con...

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Dissident Gardens: A Novel

by Jonathan Lethem

Published: 2013-09-10

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers—an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicalsAt the center of Jonathan Lethem’s superb new novel stand two extraordinary women: Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unr...

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Salinger

by David Shields, Shane Salerno

Published: 2013-09-03

Hardcover: 720 pages

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Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people—and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company—Salinger is a global cultural event: the definitive biography of...

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More Than Fiends

by Maureen Child

Published: 2007-06-05

Paperback: 279 pages

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Cassidy Burke is finding it hard to believe that she's next in a long line of demon dusters-Burke women paired with centuries-old cleaning solution to shine windows and spot demons. Sure, her "Clean Sweep" maid service is taking off, but wiping out supernatural bad guys? Come on. But Cassi...

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The Girl You Left Behind

by Jojo Moyes

Published: 2013-08-20

Hardcover: 384 pages

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From the New York Times?bestselling author of Me Before You, a spellbinding love story of two women separated by a century but united in their determination to fight for what they love most Jojo Moyes’s bestseller, Me Before You, catapulted her to wide critical acclaim and has stru...

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Songs of Willow Frost: A Novel

by Jamie Ford

Published: 2013-09-10

Hardcover: 352 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Jamie Ford, author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second novel. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Songs of Willow Frost is a powerful tale of two souls—a boy with dreams for his future and ...

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The Light of Amsterdam: A Novel

by David Park

Published: 2012-11-13

Hardcover: 384 pages

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It is December; Christmas is approaching and the magic of one of Europe's most beautiful cities beckons. A father looks for himself in the past, struggling to deal with a recent divorce, his teenage son in tow. A single, selfless mother accompanies her only daughter and friends for a weeke...

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On the Run: A Mafia Childhood

by Gregg Hill, Gina Hill

Published: 2004-09-14

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Henry Hill's business partner, Jimmy Burke has whacked every person who could possibly implicate him in the infamous Lufthansa robbery at JFK airport. On his way to prison, lifelong ganster Henry is given two options: sleep with the fishes, or enter the FBI's Witness Protection Program. Unfortunately...