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The Kite Runner Illustrated Edition מאת Khaled Hosseini A deluxe collector's edition of the phenomenally bestselling The Kite Runner, filled with striking and memorable photographs that bring Khaled Hosseini's compelling story to life. Since its publication in 2003, The Kite Runner has shipped over four million copies and spent more t...

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The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living מאת Dalai Lama An updated edition of a beloved classic, the original book on happiness, with new material from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Dr. Howard Cutler. Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, t...

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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us מאת Daniel H. Pink Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's wor...

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A Thousand Splendid Suns Illustrated Edition מאת Khaled Hosseini

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College Girl מאת Patricia Weitz College Girl is a vivid portrait of life on a college campus and a poignant look at what happens to a twenty-year-old college senior (and her self-esteem) when she loses her virginity and falls for the wrong guy. Just as Curtis Sittenfeld’s bestselling Prep drew us into the wo...

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Juliet, Naked: a novel מאת Nick Hornby From the beloved New York Times- bestselling author, a quintessential Nick Hornby tale of music, superfandom, and the truths and lies we tell ourselves about life and love. Annie loves Duncan-or thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn't. Duncan really l...

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Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life מאת Tyler Perry In 2005, Tyler Perry took Hollywood by storm. The movie he wrote, produced, and starred in, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, opened number one at the box office and went on to gross more than $50 million. In its first week on sale, the DVD sold 2.4 million copies. At the same time, Perry was starr...

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The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke מאת Suze Orman A financial guide aimed squarely at "Generation Debt'-and their anxious parents-from the country's most trusted and dynamic source on money matters The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke is financial expert Suze Orman's answer to a generation's cry for help. They're called "Generat...

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One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love מאת Rebecca Walker An illuminating, entertaining, and provocative immersion in today’s American family, with essays from ZZ Packer, Dan Savage, Min Jin Lee, asha bandele, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, and others, illustrating the changing realities of domestic life. Edited by bestselling author Rebecca Walker, this...

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The Book of Night Women מאת Marlon James The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power t...

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Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English, Third Edition מאת Patricia T. O'Conner It's been called "possibly the most popular book on grammar ever published." Now the witty bestseller that took the nation by storm is back in a revised, expanded edition with new dos and don'ts from top to bottom. In this new Woe Is I, Patricia T. O'Conner displays the same fresh, irreverent...

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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It מאת Maile Meloy Award-winning writer Maile Meloy's return to short stories explores complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers. Meloy's first return to short stories since her critically acclaimed debut, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It is an...

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The Invention of Air מאת Steven Johnson Bestselling author Steven Johnson recounts—in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashion—the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America’s Founding Fathers. The Invention of Air is a book of world-changing ideas wrapped ar...

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Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World מאת Mary Pipher In this thoughtful and inspiring memoir, the author of the New York Times bestsellers Reviving Ophelia, The Shelter of Each Other, and Another Country explores her personal search for understanding, tranquility, and respect through her work as a psychologist and seeker. ...

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The Little Stranger מאת Sarah Waters A chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain, by the bestselling and award-winning author of The Night Watch and Fingersmith. Sarah Waters's trilogy of Victorian novels Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, and Fingersmith earned her legions of...

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September Songs: The Good News About Marriage in the Later Years מאת Maggie Scarf An unexpected—and surprisingly positive— exploration of the benefits awaiting married baby boomers in their “bonus” years from the New York Times–bestselling author of Intimate Partners. In September Songs, journalist and author Maggie Scarf finds that marriage ...

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The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism מאת Geoff Nicholson A fascinating, definitive, and very personal rumination on the history, science, philosophy, art, and literature of walking, by a skilled cultural commentator. Geoff Nicholson, author of Bleeding London and Sex Collectors, turns his eye to the intellectual and cultural history o...

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The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal מאת Mark Kurlansky A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt. Award-winning New York Times-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America: Before t...

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The Cellist of Sarajevo מאת Steven Galloway A spare and haunting, wise and beautiful novel about the endurance of the human spirit and the subtle ways individuals reclaim their humanity in a city ravaged by war. In a city under siege, four people whose lives have been upended are ultimately reminded of what it is to be human. From his ...

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The Wish Maker מאת Ali Sethi A major new international voice debuts with a sweeping story of love, friendship, and family ties that brings to life the turbulent world of modern Pakistan. The unforgettable story of a fatherless boy growing up in a household of outspoken women, The Wish Maker is also a tale of sacri...

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Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability מאת David Owen A challenging, controversial, and highly readable look at our lives, our world, and our future. In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but N...

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Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance מאת Richard Restak A leading neuroscientist and New York Times-bestselling author of Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot distills the research on the brain and serves up practical, surprising, and illuminating recommendations for warding off neurological decline, cognitive function, and encouraging s...

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The Tao of Wu מאת The RZA A unique book of wisdom and experience that reaches from the most violent slums of New York City to the highest planes of spiritual thought by the RZA, hip-hop's most exalted wise man. The RZA, the Abbot of the Wu-Tang Clan and hip-hop culture's most dynamic genius, imparts the lessons he's l...

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The Long Fall מאת Walter Mosley A brand-new mystery series from one of the country’s best-known, best-loved writers: a new character, a new city, a new era. A new Walter Mosley. His name is etched on the door of his Manhattan office: LEONID McGILL , PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR. It’s a name that takes a little explaining, but h...

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Love and Obstacles מאת Aleksandar Hemon A new book of linked stories by the author of the National Book Award finalist The Lazarus Project. Aleksandar Hemon earned his reputation- and his MacArthur "genius grant"-for his short stories, and he returns to the form with a powerful collection of linked stories that stands with <...

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The Last Ember מאת Daniel Levin A search for a priceless artifact stolen from the Second Temple in Jerusalem becomes a race against time, terrorism, politics, and the past.Jonathan Marcus is a promising young archeologist studying at the American Academy in Rome when a terrible accident results in a fellow student’s death and Jo...

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Miles from Nowhere מאת Nami Mun A major new voice in fiction debuts with the electrifying and heartbreaking story of a teenage runaway on the streets of 1980s New York. Teenage Joon is a Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s. Her parents have crumbled under the weight of her father’s infidelity; he has left th...

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Blonde Roots מאת Bernardine Evaristo A provocative novel that upends the history of the transatlantic slave trade, reversing and reexamining notions of savagery and civilization, as it follows a young woman’s journey to freedom. Award-winning writer Bernardine Evaristo’s novel Blonde Roots asks: What if the history of...

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This Must Be the Place מאת Anna Winger A charming and undeniably powerful debut novel set in Berlin about the friendship between a fading actor and a young married American woman who are both learning to live with the past. Walter Baum has one of the most famous voices in Germany, if no longer a famous face. A former television st...

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The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship מאת David Whyte Drawing from his own experience and the lives of some of the world’s great writers and poets, David Whyte brings compelling insights to our three most important commitments— to another, to our work, and to ourselves—to frame a complete picture of a satisfying life. David Whyte knows the...

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The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11 מאת John Farmer From the senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, a mesmerizing real-time portrayal of that day, why we weren't told the truth, and why our nation is still at risk. As one of the primary authors of the 9/11 Commission Report, John Farmer is proud of his and his colleagues' work. Yet he came awa...

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Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner,and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles מאת Michael D'Antonio If ever there was a figure who changed the game of baseball, it was Walter O’Malley. Criticized in New York and beloved in Los Angeles, O’Malley is one of the most controversial owners in the history of American sports. He remade the major leagues and altered the course of history in both Brookl...

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Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life מאת Kathleen Norris Kathleen Norris’s masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture. Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn’t drag herself o...

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The Wordy Shipmates מאת Sarah Vowell The Wordy Shipmates is New York Times–bestselling author Sarah Vowell’s exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America to become the people of John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill”—a shining example, a “city that cannot be hid.” To this day, America views itself ...

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The Thing Itself מאת Richard Todd A deeply personal literary memoir that explores what it means to live an authentic life in an increasingly detached and self-conscious world.Incited by the feeling that the essence of the modern world is buried beneath the distractions of hype and melodrama, cultural critic Richard Todd began...

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Memoir: A History מאת Ben Yagoda From a critically acclaimed cultural and literary critic, a definitive history and analysis of the memoir. From Saint Augustine's Confessions to Augusten Burroughs's Running with Scissors, from Julius Caesar to Ulysses Grant, from Mark Twain to David Sedaris, the art of memoir h...

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The Island of Eternal Love מאת Daina Chaviano An enchanting multigenerational epic of three families—from Africa, Spain, and China—and their bond to one another and the island they call home.Cecilia is alone in a city that haunts her. Life in Miami evokes memories of Cuba: a scent in the breeze like the sea at the Malecón; the beat ...

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An American Gospel: On Family, History, and the Kingdom of God מאת Erik Reece From the award-winning author of Lost Mountain, a stirring, inspiring work of memoir, spiritual journey, and historical inquiry—a dazzling chronicle of a personal and national identity reclaimed. Erik Reece’s grandfather was a Bible-thumping, fire-and-brimstone Baptist preacher. He...

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A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age מאת Daniel H. Pink Lawyers. Accountants. Radiologists. Software engineers. That's what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind. The era of "left brain" dominance, and the Information Age t...

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House of Cards: Love, Faith, and Other Social Expressions מאת David Ellis Dickerson An original and hilarious memoir by an ex-greeting card writer, virgin fundamentalist, and This American Life contributor that chronicles how, in the belly of the "social expression" industry, he learned to love, thrive, and finally feel comfortable in his own skin. David Dickerson's d...

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False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World מאת Alan Beattie An important book for turbulent times-an accessible and engaging economic history of the world, by a leading economic writer. Alan Beattie has long been intrigued by the fates of different countries, economies, and societies-why some fail and some succeed. Here, he weaves together elements o...

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It Feels So Good When I Stop מאת Joe Pernice The hilarious and irreverent debut novel about a modern Everyman struggling to learn how to love, choose, and commit on his own terms, from the highly acclaimed singer and songwriter. From the first moment he met Jocelyn, he knew he would marry her or destroy his life trying. He didn't count ...

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The World in Half מאת Cristina Henriquez From the prizewinning author of Come Together, Fall Apart comes a mesmerizingly beautiful first novel about family, home, loss, and forgiveness that more than fulfills the promise of her earlier work. Miraflores has never known her father, and until now, she’s never thought that he w...

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Sometimes Mine מאת Martha Moody From the author of the national bestseller Best Friends an emotionally affecting story of midlife romance and learning to value the people in your life. Genie Toledo is a spitfire who too young married the wrong guy, had a daughter, quickly divorced, and now, in her forties, has filled...

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Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution מאת Joel Richard Paul The gripping true story of how three men used espionage, betrayal, and sexual deception to help win the American Revolution. Unlikely Allies is the story of three remarkable historical figures. Silas Deane was a Connecticut merchant and delegate to the Continental Congress as the American col...

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Fall מאת Colin McAdam A masterpiece of adolescent perspective, emotion, impulse, and relationships: the riveting story of two male roommates at a co-ed boarding school and what happens when the girlfriend of one of them goes missing during their final year. From an internationally acclaimed, prizewinning author, w...

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Alive in Necropolis מאת Doug Dorst A fresh, imaginative debut novel about a young police officer in northern California struggling to keep the peace—and maintain a grip on reality—in a town where the dead outnumber the living.Colma, California, is the only incorporated city in America where the dead outnumber the living. T...