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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

by Cary Elwes, Joe Layden

Published: 2014-10-14

Hardcover: 272 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with cos...

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Finding Jake: A Novel

by Bryan Reardon

Published: 2015-02-24

Hardcover: 272 pages

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A heart-wrenching yet ultimately uplifting story of psychological suspense in which a parent is forced to confront what he does—and does not—know about his teenage son, in the vein of Reconstructing Amelia, Defending Jacob, and We Need to Talk about Kevin.While his successful wife goes...

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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

by Michio Kaku

Published: 2014-02-25

Hardcover: 400 pages

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NOW A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Compelling….Kaku thinks with great breadth, and the vistas he presents us are worth the trip”—The New York Times Book ReviewThe New York Times best-selling author of PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE and HYPERSPACE tackles the most ...

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The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014

by Carlotta Gall

Published: 2014-04-08

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Carlotta Gall has reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for almost the entire duration of the American invasion and occupation, beginning shortly after 9/11. She knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people, and how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous gove...

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The Servants of Twilight

by Dean Koontz

Published: 2011-08-02

Paperback: 592 pages

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A crazed woman, her faithful followers, and their target: your child. One mother experiences a fear beyond her wildest nightmares in this terrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.

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The Orange Eats Creeps

by Grace Krilanovich

Published: 2010-09-07

Paperback: 208 pages

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* National Book Foundation's '5 Under 35' Selection.* NPR Best Books of 2010: A Hidden Gem.* The Believer Book Award Finalist."The exhilaration of such a novel is nearly beyond calculation. If a new literature is at hand then it might as well begin here."?Steve Erickson, from his Introduct...

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Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow: The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Marriage

by Ruth A. Hawkins

Published: 2012-06-01

Hardcover: 333 pages

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It was the glittering intellectual world of 1920s Paris expatriates in which Pauline Pfeiffer, a writer for Vogue, met Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley among a circle of friends that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Dorothy Parker. Pauline grew close t...

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The Search For Avyce Buckman

by Neil Chandler

Published: 2011-08-11

Paperback: 310 pages

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In 1936, a Fort Smith, Arkansas jury sent Avyce Buckman to prison for murdering her third husband. More than six decades later after a hint from a friend, book author and seasoned magazine writer Pitt Lewis begins a search for her motives, hoping a follow-up to his successful book might shelter him from...

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The Railway Children

by E. Nesbit

Published: 1995-09

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Set in Edwardian England, this book has been a popular story for 90 years. It tells the heartwarming adventures of a resourceful family - mother and her three children: sensible Roberta, the eldest, scientific Peter and dreamy Phyllis.

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Making Faces

by Amy Harmon

Published: 2013-10-20

Paperback: 320 pages

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Ambrose Young was beautiful. He was tall and muscular, with hair that touched his shoulders and eyes that burned right through you. The kind of beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. She'd been reading them since she was thirteen. But maybe because he was so beautiful...