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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything

by Chris Hadfield

Published: 2013-10-29

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exte...

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A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful

by Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Published: 2012-05-10

Hardcover: 352 pages

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       In medieval times, a pilgrimage gave the average Joe his only break from the daily grind. For Gideon Lewis-Kraus, it promises a different kind of escape. Determined to avoid the kind of constraint that kept his father, a gay rabbi, closeted until midlife, he has moved to anythin...

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A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel

by Ruth Ozeki

Published: 2013-12-31

Paperback: 432 pages

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A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki—shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award“A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.”In Tokyo, sixtee...

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Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York

by Richard Zacks

Published: 2012-09-04

Paperback: 464 pages

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In the 1890s, young cocksure Theodore Roosevelt, years before the White House, was appointed police commissioner of corrupt, pleasure-loving New York, then teeming with 40,000 prostitutes, illegal casinos and all-night dance halls. The Harvard-educated Roosevelt, with a reformer’s zeal, ...

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An Unexpected Grace

by Kristin von Kreisler

Published: 2013-12-31

Paperback: 272 pages

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Lila Elliot knows she's lucky. A shooting rampage at her office left several colleagues dead and others seriously wounded. Lila's injuries will heal in time. Yet though she gratefully retreats to her best friend's house to recuperate, Lila can't quite move past her fear and anger. Being drafted into...

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The Year We Were Famous

by Carole Estby Dagg

Published: 2011-04-04

Hardcover: 256 pages

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With their family home facing foreclosure, seventeen-year-old Clara Estby and her mother, Helga, need to raise a lot of money fast—no easy feat for two women in 1896. Helga wants to tackle the problem with her usual loud and flashy style, while Clara favors a less showy approach. Togethe...

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The Dog Stars

by Peter Heller

Published: 2013-01-01

Hardcover: 381 pages

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Surviving a pandemic disease that has killed everyone he knows, a pilot establishes a shelter in an abandoned airport hangar before hearing a random radio transmission that compels him to risk his life to seek out other survivors. A first novel by the autTitle: The Dog StarsAuthor: Heller,...

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Stolen Innocence

by Elissa Wall, Lisa Pulitzer

Published: 2009-10-13

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“Both creepy…and quite moving.”—New York Times Book Review“Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely.”—PeopleStolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful...

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And Sons: A Novel

by David Gilbert

Published: 2013-07-23

Hardcover: 448 pages

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post • The New Yorker • Kansas City Star • BookPage • Flavorwire • BookishWho is A. N. Dyer? & Sons is a literary masterwork for readers of The Art of Fielding, The Emperor’s Children, and Wonder Boys—the panoramic, dee...

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Peanuts: A Charlie Brown Christmas Deluxe Ed

by Charles M. Schulz

Published: 2008-09-23

Hardcover: 48 pages

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Start this holiday season off with a bang by celebrating with the PEANUTS gang in the timeless classic A Charlie Brown Christmas. Read along with Charlie Brown in his heartwarming quest to uncover the true meaning of Christmas with Snoopy, Linus, and friends! This cloth bound deluxe collec...