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The sun does shine : how I found life and freedom on death row
by Anthony Ray Hinton
A revelatory memoir by a man who spent 30 years on death row for a crime he did not commit describes how he became a victim of a dangerously flawed legal system, recounting the years he shared with dozens of fellow inmates who were eventually executed before his exoneration and his post-release decision to commit his life to prison reform.
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Let Your Mind Run : A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory
by Deena Kastor
The record-holding Olympic medalist runner presents a vividly inspirational memoir on the beneficial role of positive psychology and brain science of athletic achievements, describing how she only became an elite runner after she set aside the views about her raw talent to conquer the mental aspects of her goals.
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The girl who never read Noam Chomsky : a novel
by Jana Casale
A college student's procrastination over reading a Noam Chomsky novel becomes a metaphor throughout subsequent decades of milestones that reflect the disparity between the carefully planned life she wants and the person she is really meant to be. A first novel.
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Blood moon : an American epic of war and splendor in the Cherokee Nation
by John Sedgwick
A revisionist history of the lesser-known story of the 19th-century rivalry between Cherokee chiefs The Ridge and John Ross contends that, in spite of lengthy negotiations with the first 16 American Presidents, they and their followers became divided on key tenets of peace talks and devastated the Cherokee Nation with division, war and forced migrations.
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God save Texas : A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
by Lawrence Wright
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower explores the history, culture and politics of Texas while challenging popular stereotypes, offering insight into how the state boasts some of the highest rates of diversity, technology exports and growth as well as the lowest tax models and government regulations
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A Lady's Guide to Selling Out
by Sally Franson
An ambitious young woman navigates the slippery world of advertising and the just-as-perilous question of who she wants to be in the face of a hard-to-please boss, a top-secret marketing campaign and the real characters of her literary idols. A first novel.
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The knowledge
by Martha Grimes
Investigating a double homicide involving a brazen heist at a rarefied art gallery and casino, Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Richard Jury teams up with a motley assortment of Baker Street Irregulars to solve a case with ties to astrophysics, the Tanzanian gem mines and a long-planned act of revenge. By the award-winning author of Vertigo 42
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The Minimalist Kitchen : 100 Wholesome Recipes, Essential Tools, and Efficient Techniques
by Melissa Coleman
It’s true what they say—less is more. But this is also true—achieving simplicity is difficult. How do you know what to keep and what to get rid of? This comprehensive guide will hold your hand through the process and make dinnertime (and the kitchen) feel doable again. For best results, read this cookbook like a novel, from the beginning.
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The Elizas : a novel
by Sara Shepard
Unable to get anyone to believe that she was pushed before she was rescued from the bottom of a hotel pool, a rising author struggling with suicidal depression and memory loss begins to question her sanity as elements from her debut novel begin to mix up with events in her real life. By the best-selling author of Pretty Little Liars
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All the beautiful lies : a novel
by Peter Swanson
Devastated when his father commits suicide days before his college graduation, Harry returns to his home in Maine, where he is baffled by the increasingly sensual attentions of a mysterious woman and his own alluring stepmother, who he comes to realize are hiding dangerous secrets. By the award-winning author of The Girl With a Clock for A Heart. 100,000 first printing
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Concrete Creations : 45 Easy-to-Make Gifts and Accessories
by Marion Dawidowski
Each project is equipped with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and tips, and all can be made with very little know-how-- making it a perfect craft for beginner concrete artisans, as well as the more experienced mason.
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Bad Men and Wicked Women
by Eric Jerome Dickey
When his pregnant and bitter daughter blackmails him for $50,000, Los Angeles enforcer Ken Swift embarks on a clash of wills that is complicated by a contract that spirals out of control, revealing the vengeful nature of a dangerous adversary. By the best-selling author of Finding Gideon
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How to be safe : a novel
by Tom McAllister
Recently suspended for a so-called outburst, high school English teacher Anna Crawford is stewing over the injustice at home when she is shocked to see herself named on television as a suspect in a shooting at the school where she works. Though she is quickly exonerated, and the actual teenage murderer identified, her life is nevertheless held up for relentless scrutiny and judgment as this quiet town descends into media mania. A piercing feminist howl written in trenchant prose, How to Be Safe is a compulsively readable, darkly funny exposé of the hypocrisy that ensues when illusions of peace are shattered.
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