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The Brass Verdict
Connelly, Michael
Grand Central Pub

Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a p...

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The Last Lecture
Pausch, Randy/ Zaslow, Jeffrey
Hyperion Books

Professor Randy Pausch's moving and inspirational book based on his extraordinary last lecture, a global phenomenon now seen by over 25 million people all over the world. On September 18, 2007, computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in fron...

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The Lucky One
Sparks, Nicholas
Grand Central Pub

In his 14th book, bestselling author Nicholas Sparks tells the unforgettable story of a man whose brushes with death lead him to the love of his life. After U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman buried in the dirt durin...

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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Wroblewski, David
Harpercollins

Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose remarkable gift for companionship ...

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Dewey / The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Myron, Vicki/ Witter, Bret/ Witter, Bret (CON)
Grand Central Pub

How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can't even begin to an...

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A Lion Among Men
Maguire, Gregory/ Smith, Douglas (ILT)
Harpercollins

Return to a darker Oz with Gregory Maguire: a fuller, more complex Cowardly Lion gets to tell his tale.

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The Snowball / Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Schroeder, Alice
Random House Inc

Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore d...

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A Most Wanted Man
Le Carre, John
Simon & Schuster

A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night.

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Hot, Flat, and Crowded / Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
Friedman, Thomas L.
Farrar Straus & Giroux

A fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.

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The Pirate King
Salvatore, R. A.
Wizards of the Coast

Deudermont is determined to save Luskan from the Arcane Brotherhood -- and itself. But he may not be able to do both.

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Heat Lightning
Sandford, John
Berkley Pub Group

John Sandford’s introduction of Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers was an immediate critical and popular success: “laser-sharp characters and a plot that’s fast and surprising” (Cleveland Plain Dealer); “an ...

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One Fifth Avenue
Bushnell, Candace
Hyperion Books

The tough and tender women of New York City from Candace Bushnell, the author of Sex and the City.

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Letter to My Daughter
Angelou, Maya
Random House Inc

Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelous path to living well and living a life with meaning. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that taught Angelou l...

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The Wordy Shipmates
Vowell, Sarah
Penguin Group USA

Who were these people who are considered the philosophical, spiritual, and moral ancestors of our nation?

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The Secret
Byrne, Rhonda
Pocket Books

YOU HOLD IN YOUR HANDS A GREAT SECRET.

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Ted, White and Blue / The Nugent Manifesto
Nugent, Ted
Perseus Distribution Services

The ultimate high-octane political manifesto for the ages.

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Giada's Kitchen / New Italian Favorites
De Laurentiis, Giada/ Rupp, Tina (PHT)
Random House Inc

She's taught us every facet of Italian cooking--from traditional and regional to seasonal and contemporary. She even made us fall in love with pasta again by opening us up to lighter, healthier versions that don't weigh us down. Now the Food Network st...

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The Other Queen
Gregory, Philippa
Simon & Schuster

Philippa Gregory presents a unique view of the often neglected captive years of Mary Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth’s promise of sanctuary when she fled Scotland and then found herself imprisoned as the “guest” of the Earl of Shrewsb...

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Who / The A Method for Hiring
Smart, Geoff/ Street, Randy
Random House Inc

A simple, practical, and effective solution to successful hiring.

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The Host
Meyer, Stephenie
Little Brown & Co

The author of the Twilight series of # 1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded b...

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The War Within / A Secret White House History 2006-2008
Woodward, Bob
Simon & Schuster

As violence in Iraq reaches unnerving levels in 2006, a second front in the war rages at the highest levels of the Bush administration. In his fourth book on President George W. Bush, Bob Woodward takes readers deep inside the tensions, secret debates,...

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A Cedar Cove Christmas
Macomber, Debbie
Harlequin Books

Mother-to-be Mary Jo Wyse arrives in Cedar Cove on Christmas Eve, searching for her baby's father. David Rhodes had said he'd be in town. But he isn't. Which leaves Mary Jo stranded, pregnant and alone. And there's no room at the local inn... So Gra...

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The Given Day
Lehane, Dennis
Harpercollins

Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. Filled wit...

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A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity
O'Reilly, Bill
Random House Inc

In 1957, in the heart of the Eisenhower years, in the third grade classroom of Sister Mary Lurana in Saint Brigid's parochial school in Westbury, Long Island, was a mouthy, obstreperous kid by the name of William O'Reilly. Quite a handful he was, and s...