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A young doctor in a war-torn Balkan country recalls tales from her beloved grandfather.
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A tale of Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, set in 1920s Paris.
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Hunger Games winners face the consequences of their victory.
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A woman washes up on a rat-infested shore starting a family's link with California's Channel Islands.
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The final book of the "Millennium Trilogy" has Lisbeth Salander in peril.
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The life of a 5-year-old boy imprisoned in a 12-by-12 room.
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Abandoned at her family's Everglades theme park, a 13-year-old girl journeys to the underworld to find her sister.
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The novelist wonders: What happens to all those rock 'n' roll rebels when they grow older?
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Greg confronts puberty without his best friend.
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James Patterson and Neil McMahon
A top government superhero operative fights to save humans from extinction.
(Little, Brown: $27.99)
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A cheating wife and a beautiful client add complications to P.I. Leonid McGill's life.
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The breakdown of a Midwestern family.
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The continuing saga of Kvothe the Bloodless.
(Penguin: $29.95)
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No good deed goes unpunished in this fourth Jackson Brodie book.
(Reagan Arthur: $24.99)
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Tom Clancy with Grant Blackwood
Jack Ryan Jr. and his colleagues are on the trail of the world's most dangerous terrorist.
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A Dublin neighborhood unites to care for a motherless girl.
(Knopf: $26.95)
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The disappearance of the Forerunner society.
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Greg navigates middle school while trying to keep his brother from revealing a secret.
(Amulet: $13.95)
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Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul
Juan Cabrillo and his team engage in daring rescues and thwarting plots against the U.S.
(Putnam: $27.95)
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Vampires, daemons and witches plot to steal a magical book from an American professor.
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Hardcover Nonfiction (Back to top)

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The story of Louis Zamperini, a World War II bombardier, POW and Olympian.
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A look at brain science told through social behaviors of a fictional couple.
(Random House: $27)
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3
Why Chinese mothers raise superior children to their Western counterparts.
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Wackiness before, during and after the Van Halen years.
(It Books: $26.99)
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5
The art and science of memory and how to improve it.
(Penguin: $26.95)
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Navigating new financial realities.
(Spiegel & Grau: $26)
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Keith Richards with James Fox
The seemingly eternal musician shares his life as a Rolling Stone.
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The owner/chef of New York's Prune restaurant writes of cooking and its comforts.
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The man behind the wartime Office of Strategic Services, precursor to the CIA.
(Free Press: $30)
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Ted Danson and Michael D'Orso
The actor's journey from local protester to oceanic environmental activist.
(Rodale: $32.50)
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Critical choices that shaped the former president's time in the White House.
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Using emotions to create positive outcomes.
(Atria: $23.95)
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Tips and insight for women as to what motivates men.
(Amistad: $24.99)
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A revised, expanded interactive journal based on the books and hit movies.
(Amulet: $10.95)
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Jon Stewart, et. al
Our species via "The Daily Show."
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The former Alaska governor's testament to American values and people she has met on her recent travels.
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Life lessons learned from the "Family Ties" star.
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A journalist's love affair with the country of Bhutan.
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The infamous queen of Egypt as a political power player.
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Paperback Fiction (Back to top)

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Paperback Nonfiction (Back to top)

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Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent
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Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
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