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Shortlisted for the 2019 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year. ';A landmark book....A massively reported deep dive into the unparalleled corporate industrial giant Koch Industries....This impressively researched and well-render...

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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018. Our understanding of the `tree of life', with powerful implications for human genetics, human health and our own human nature, has recently completely...

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The award-winning, national bestselling author of Whistling Past the Graveyard sends an unlikely trio on an exhilarating adventure high above the American Midwest of the 1920s in a spirited, entertaining surprise (Publishers Weekly) of a novel in ...

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In a hilarious comedy of errors that Booklist has dubbed a good choice for fans of John Green, high school matchmaker Shane Chambliss is content finding love for his classmatesuntil love finally finds him.What if the secrets of dating and love wer...

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You think you know everything about your life. Long-married couple Junior and Henrietta live a quiet, solitary life on their farm, where they work at the local feed mill and raise chickens. Their lives are simple, straightforward, uncomplicated.Un...

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John Lescroart's latest spectacular New York Times bestseller explores the unexpected and shattering consequences of a one-night stand on a seemingly happily married couplea ';dark, disturbing, satisfying read' (San Francisco Chronicle) that asks ...

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Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive ';sharply upward the size of his readership' (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized charac...

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"e;A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind."e; The New Yorker "e;His most spectacularly inventive novel."e; The New York TimesOne of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adoles...

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James R. Hannibal presents a thrilling adventure through history, complete with mysteries, secret items, codes, and a touch of magic in this stunning middle grade debut.Thirteen-year-old Jack Buckles is great at finding things. Not just a missing ...

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Number one bestselling science writer Jonah Lehrer explores the ';only happiness that lasts'lovein a book that ';is interesting on nearly every page' (David Brooks, The New York Times Book Review).Weaving together scientific studies from clinical ...

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From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero KBucky Wunderlick, rock star and budding messiah, has hit a spiritual wall. In mid-tour he bolts from his band to hole up in a dingy East Village apartment and separate hi...

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Library Journal's Must-Have Spring Books, Editors' Picks 2017 ';A thrilling coast-to-coast journey.' The Seattle Times ';A richly imagined philosophical exploration.' Bellingham Herald ';Exciting action, intriguing characters, epic scale.' Booklis...

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Now a 6-part mini-series called Why the Rest of Us Die airing on VICE TV! The shocking truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soileven if the rest of us dieis ';a frightening eye-opener' (Kirkus Reviews) t...

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A young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore itand his new neighborhoodto its original glory in this ';deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meaning and community out of the fallenA standout' (Kirk...

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Jack and Gwen are back in this dynamic follow-up to The Lost Property Office.It's been a year since Jack Buckles discovered the Keep beneath Baker Street, an underground tower no Section Thirteen was ever supposed to see; a year since his dad fell...

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* Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award * National Book Award Finalist * Time magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year * New York Times Notable Book * Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017 This ';epic history' (The Boston Globe) ...

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In the tradition of modern classics The Dinner and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely tuned balance of a grand European restaurant (that has seen better days) is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest.In a centuries-old ...

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In ';master of the legal thriller' (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart's electrifying new novel, attorney Dismas Hardy is called to defend the least likely suspect of his career: his longtime, trusted assistant who...

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';A bravura performanceAn entertaining book' (Kirkus Reviews) about the dramatic 2016 World Chess Championship between Norway's Magnus Carlsen and Russia's Sergey Karjakin, which mirrored the world's geopolitical unrest and rekindled a global fasc...

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From the award-winning author of American Canopy, a dazzling account of the world's longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic story of commerce, technology, politics, and the divergent f...

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One of AudioFile's Best Audiobooks of 2019!A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner One of NPR's Best Books of 2019 Jour...

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From Johannes Lichtman comes a wisely comic debut novel about a teacher whose efforts to stay sober land him in Sweden, but the refugee crisis forces a very different kind of reckoning.You don't have to be perfect to do good... Jonas Anderson want...

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A captivating novel of Renaissance Italy detailing the mysterious life of Bartolomeo Scappi, the legendary chef to several popes and author of one of the bestselling cookbooks of all time, and the nephew who sets out to discover his late uncle's s...

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David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its messagea crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our pl...

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The Advocate's Best Gay Novel of 2019 A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice O, The Oprah Magazine's Best LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2019 The Wall Street Journal's Ten Books You'll Want to Read this Spring Out's Bes...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 * WINNER OF THE J ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD * FINANCIAL TIMES' BEST BOOKS OF 2019 * NPR FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 * FINALIST FOR THE FINACIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF 2...

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From the Academy Award-winning cowriter of Birdman, a wonderfully eccentric, suspenseful debut in the tradition of Misery and Kiss of the Spiderwoman about a screenwriter kidnapped by a world-famous director who orders him to compose a masterpiece...

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Joe Posnanski enters the colorful world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted fans to explore the illusionist's impact on global cultureand why his legacy endures to this day. Nearly a century after Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926, h...

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The unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. ';The liveliness of Mohnhaupt's storytelling and the wonderful eccentricity of his subject matter make this book well wor...

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BEST BOOKS OF MARCH - APPLE BOOKS TOP TEN PICKS FOR MARCH BOOKS - CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR BEST TRUE CRIME PICKS IN MARCH - CRIMEREADS MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 - LITHUB Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald P...

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