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  The Great Crash, 1929

  by John Kenneth Galbraith

  Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said:"Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith's prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal of sardonic fun from the whopping errors of the nation's oracles and the wondrous antics of the financial community." Now, with the stock market riding historic highs, the... (more)
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  Independence

  The Struggle to Set America Free

  by John E. Ferling

  No event in American history was more pivotal-or more furiously contested-than Congress's decision to declare independence in July 1776. Even months after American blood had been shed at Lexington and Concord, many colonists remained loyal to Britain. John Adams, a leader of the revolutionary effort, said bringing the fractious colonies together was like getting "thirteen clocks to strike at once." Other books... (more)
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  Rules of Civility

  by Amor Towles

  A sophisticated and entertaining debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year- old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of cool nerve, Katey embarks on a journey from a... (more)
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  All Cry Chaos

  by Leonard Rosen

  All Cry Chaos, a debut thriller by the immensely gifted Leonard Rosen, is a masterful and gripping tale that literally reaches for the heavens. The action begins when mathematician James Fenster is assassinated on the eve of a long-scheduled speech at a World Trade Organization meeting. The hit is as elegant as it is bizarre. Fenster's Amsterdam hotel room is incinerated, yet the rest of the building remains... (more)
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  Carry Yourself Back to Me

  by Deborah Reed

  Famed alt-country artist Annie Walsh has more than enough reason to sing her version of the blues, including a broken heart, a stalled career, and a troubled family. Annie seeks refuge from an upended love affair with her producer, Owen Pettybone, by sequestering herself at home with her old dog Detour, surrounded by a lush Florida tangelo grove. There, she spends her days furiously sanding down the house’s every... (more)
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  The Art of Fielding

  by Chad Harbach

  At Westish College, the baseball star Henry Skrimshander flourishes until one of his throws goes disastrously off course. In the aftermath of the error, the fates of five people are upended. Henry finds himself mired in self-doubt, his life's purpose called into question. Guert Affenlight, the college's president, has fallen helplessly in love. Mike Schwartz, the student-coach, realizes he has guided Henry's... (more)
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  Pure Trilogy: Book 1

  Pure

  by Julianna Baggott

  We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . .Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost - how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns,... (more)
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  Kincaid and James: Book 14

  No Mark Upon Her

  by Deborah Crombie

  It is a dank October afternoon in the historic Henley-on-Thames when Olympic rowing hopeful, DCI Rebecca Meredith, decides to take her scull out on the river. When she doesn't return, a search and rescue team discovers her body floating in some weeds close to the shore. Accidental drowning is the initial verdict. Recently married, Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, who has a new job at Scotland Yard, are returning to... (more)
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  The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

  by Philip K. Dick

  "A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn’t a legend and he wasn’t mad. He lived among us, and was a genius."—Jonathan Lethem Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K.... (more)
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  The Saxon Stories: Book 6

  Death of Kings

  by Bernard Cornwell

  Bernard Cornwell, “the reigning king of historical fiction” ( USA Today ), is the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Agincourt ; the bestselling Saxon Tales, which include The Last Kingdom , The Pale Horseman , Lords of the North , Sword Song , and, most recently, The Burning Land ; and the Richard Sharpe novels, among many others. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod.
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  The Hangman's Daughter: Book 2

  The Dark Monk

  by Oliver Pötzsch

  1648: a small village in the Alps. In the thick of a blizzard, a town priest discovers he's been poisoned. As numbness creeps up his body, he summons the last of his strength, scratching a sign in the frost that will lead the town hangman, his daughter, the physician, and the priest’s feisty recently arrived sister on a scavenger hunt for the treasure of the Knights Templars. But the priest's murderer is already... (more)
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  Wool

  Wool

  by Hugh Howey

  This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume. The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the story was released over the next six months. My thanks go out to those reviewers who clamored for more. Without you, none of this would exist. Your demand created this as much as I did. This is the story of mankind clawing for... (more)
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  Tears in Rain

  by Rosa Montero

  Death is inevitable. Especially when you have an expiration date. As a replicant, or “techno-human,” Detective Bruna Husky knows two things: humans bioengineered her to perform dangerous, undesirable tasks; and she has just ten years on the United States of Earth before her body automatically self-destructs. But with “anti-techno” rage on the rise and a rash of premature deaths striking her fellow replicants,... (more)
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  On The Waterfront

  The Novel based on the Play

  by Budd Schulberg

  Building on his Academy Award-winning screenplay of the classic film, Budd Schulberg's On the Waterfront is the story of ex-prizefighter Terry Malloy's valiant stand against corruption on the New Jersey docks. It generates all the power, grittiness, and truth of that great production, but goes beyond it in set and setting. It is a novel of strength and fallibility, of hope and defeat, of love and betrayal. In... (more)
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  The Hangman's Daughter: Book 4

  The Poisoned Pilgrim

  by Oliver Pötzsch

  1666: Two monks at the monastery of Andechs experiment with cutting-edge technology, including a method of deflecting the lightning that has previously set the monastery ablaze. When one of the monks disappears and his lab is destroyed, foul play is suspected. Who better to investigate than the famed hangman Jakob Kuisl? But as the hangman and his family attempt to solve the mystery of the missing monk, they must... (more)
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  Pendragon's Banner Trilogy: Book 1

  The Kingmaking

  by Helen Hollick

  Who was THE MAN Who became THE LEGEND We know as KING ARTHUR? "You are the Pendragon, rightful Lord of Dumnonia and the Summer Land; Lord of less Britain. By all that is right, you ought be seated where Vortigern sits…You ought to be King." Here lies the truth of the Lord of the Summer Land. This is the tale of Arthur flesh and bone. Of the shaping of the man, both courageous and flawed, into the... (more)
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  The Coldest Winter

  America and the Korean War

  by David Halberstam

  David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book for the Vietnam War. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivalled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another dark corner in our history: the Korean War. The Coldest Winter is a successor to The Best and the Brightest, even though in historical terms it precedes it.Halberstam... (more)
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  The Avignon Quintet: Book 4

  Sebastian

  or, Ruling Passion

  by Lawrence Durrell

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  The Avignon Quintet: Book 3

  Constance

  or, Solitary Practices

  by Lawrence Durrell

  With the Second World War in full fury, Constance must explore the psyche of a mad world in order to save herself and those closest to her in the third volume of the Avignon Quintet   Durrell’s beautiful Avignon Quintet continues with this harrowing, tumultuous installment. Here the protagonist is Constance, a psychoanalyst and mystic struggling for clarity in a world on fire with war, hatred, and... (more)
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  The Avignon Quintet: Book 1

  Monsieur

  or, The Prince of Darkness

  by Lawrence Durrell

  A novel of ideas, action, mystery, of human aspiration and self-destruction, set in Avignon. The moments of happiness experienced by the diplomat Piers de Nogaret, his sister Sylvie, and Bruce, the earnest English doctor, are fleeting in the face of darker problems.