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  • A Fine and Pleasant Misery

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    “A hilarious compilation” (Los Angeles Times), A Fine and Pleasant Misery gathers twenty-seven witty, cautionary tales of the outdoor life from beloved humorist Patrick F. McManus in a collection edit

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    • Author: Samson, Jack
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 209
    • Publish Date: April 15 1981
    • ISBN10: 0805000321
    • Language: English
  • Escape from Freedom

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    If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of

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    • Author: Fromm, Erich
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: September 15 1994
    • ISBN10: 0805031499
    • Language: English
  • Your Turn: How to Be an Adult

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    New York Times bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims is back with a groundbreakingly frank guide to being a grown-up, Your Turn.

    What does it mean to be an adult? In the twentieth century, psycholog

    • Author: Lythcott-Haims, Julie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: April 05, 2022
    • ISBN10: 125083841X
    • Language: English
  • The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

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    Winner of the George Washington Prize
    Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History
    Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award
    Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum

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    • Series: Revolution Trilogy #1
    • Author: Atkinson, Rick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 800
    • Publish Date: April 07 2020
    • ISBN10: 1250231329
    • Language: English
  • An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

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    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the

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    • Series: Liberation Trilogy #1
    • Author: Atkinson, Rick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 736
    • Publish Date: May 15 2007
    • ISBN10: 0805087249
    • Language: English
  • Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood

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    “A canvas of vividly impressionistic splashes of growing up young, gifted, Black, and female.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
    In this memoir of perceptions and ideas, renowned feminist intellectual bell h

    • Author: Hooks, Bell
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: October 15, 1997
    • ISBN10: 0805055126
    • Language: English
  • The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged

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    A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readers

    No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From “The

    • Author: Frost, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 640
    • Publish Date: April 01, 2002
    • ISBN10: 0805069860
    • Language: English
  • The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

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    The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald Tribune)

    A chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod b

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    • Author: Beston, Henry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 218
    • Publish Date: July 01 2003
    • ISBN10: 080507368X
    • Language: English
  • The Old Man and the Boy

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    This classic captures the endearing relationship between a man and his grandson as they fish and hunt the lakes and woods of North Carolina. All the while the Old Man acts as teacher and guide, passin

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    • Author: Ruark, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: August 15 1993
    • ISBN10: 080502669X
    • Language: English
  • Trust Exercise

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    WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER

    “Electrifying” (People)
    “Masterly” (The Guardian) “Dramatic and memorable” (The New Yorker) “Magic” (TIME) Ingenious” (Th

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    • Author: Choi, Susan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: May 05 2020
    • ISBN10: 1250231264
    • Language: English
  • Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

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    The New York Times Bestseller
    A New York Times Notable Book of 2022
    Named one of Vanity Fair‘s “Best Books of 2022

    “Not since Robert Caro’s Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of hi

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    • Author: Kirchick, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 864
    • Publish Date: May 16 2023
    • ISBN10: 1250871468
    • Language: English
  • Ridgeline

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    The thrilling, long-awaited return of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant

    Winner of the 2022 Spur Award for Best Western Historical Novel
    Winner of the 2021 David. J. Langum, Sr. P

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    • Author: Punke, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: June 21 2022
    • ISBN10: 1250310482
    • Language: English
  • A Very Nice Girl

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    Selected for Malala’s Book Club

    “Imogen Crimp’s enjoyable debut novel… is an all-too-real reminder of what it is to be a woman in your 20s…” – The New York Times


    “Tender, devastating, witty. And dee

    • Author: Crimp, Imogen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: February 07, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1250871077
    • Language: English
  • The Evidence of Things Not Seen

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    Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murd

    • Author: Baldwin, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: January 17, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1250844894
    • Language: English
  • In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage

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    “In climbing the Seven Summits, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado did nothing less than take back her own life–one brave step at a time. She will inspire untold numbers of souls with this story, for her victory

    • Author: Vasquez-Lavado, Silvia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: February 07, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1250871085
    • Language: English
  • Broken (in the Best Possible Way)

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    An Instant New York Times Bestseller
    New bonus chapter

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Lets Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable book filled with h

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    • Author: Lawson, Jenny
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 03 2022
    • ISBN10: 1250812488
    • Language: English
  • This Is How It Always Is

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    New York Times Bestseller
    The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick

    “Every once in a while, I read a book that opens my eyes in a way I never expected.”
    –Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Clu

    • Author: Frankel, Laurie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: January 23, 2018
    • ISBN10: 1250088569
    • Language: English
  • Petty: The Biography

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    The New York Times Bestseller

    *One of Rolling Stone‘s 10 Best Music Books of 2015*

    An exhilarating and intimate account of the life of music legend Tom Petty, by an accomplished writer and musician wh

    • Author: Zanes, Warren
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: October 25, 2016
    • ISBN10: 1250105196
    • Language: English
  • The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America

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    “Well reported and heartfelt, Ruhlman communicates the passion that draws the acolyte to this precise and frantic profession.”–The New York Times Book Review

    Just over a decade ago, journalist Michae

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    • Author: Ruhlman, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: March 31 2009
    • ISBN10: 080508939X
    • Language: English
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