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American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Bird, Kai.

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THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER * "A riveting account of one of history's most essential and paradoxical figures."--Christopher Nolan #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * The definitive biography of J. Robert...

Any day now

Carr, Robyn

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From the Bestselling Author of the hit Netflix series, Virgin River! For Sierra Jones, Sullivan's Crossing is meant to be a brief stopover. She's put her troubled past behind her but the path forward isn't yet clear. A visit with her big brother Cal and his new bride,...

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Apples never fall : a novel

Moriarty, Liane

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#1 New York Times Bestseller ● A Peacock Original TV Series-Now Streaming! ● "Gripping."―Oprah.com ● From Liane Moriarty, the bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples...

Argylle

Conway, Elly

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The globe-trotting spy thriller that inspired the star-studded film Argylle, now streaming on Apple TV+, featuring Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Cena, and directed by Matthew Vaughn of Kingsman trilogy fame ...

Bad luck and trouble : a Jack Reacher novel

Child, Lee.

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From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night…. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex–army investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher—soldier, cop, hero—is...

The best of us

Carr, Robyn

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From the Bestselling Author of the hit Netflix series, Virgin River! In Sullivan's Crossing, #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr has created a place where good people, powerful emotions, great humor and a healthy dose of common sense are the key ingredients to...

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Black cake :

Wilkerson, Charmaine,

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NOW A HULU STREAMING SERIES * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY * Two estranged siblings delve into their mother's hidden past--and how it all connects to her traditional Caribbean black cake--in this immersive family saga, "a...

The boys in the boat : nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Brown, Daniel James

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Now a Major Motion Picture Directed by George Clooney The #1 New York Times-bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany--from the author of Facing the Mountain. For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the...

Bridgerton : the duke & I

Quinn, Julia

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A #1 New York Times Bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Daphne Bridgerton, in the first of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland...

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Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era

Leamer, Laurence

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DON'T MISS FX's FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS--THE ORIGINAL SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING BOOK--NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON HULU! New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman...

Catching fireflies /

Woods, Sherryl.

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Nothing unites Serenity, South Carolina, like a crisis to overcome...and the promise of new love. The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix original series! When bullying threatens to destroy a teen's life, painful memories resurface for dedicated high school teacher Laura Reed and...

The Sweet Magnolias series book 9

The changeling : a novel

LaValle, Victor D.

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"[This] haunting tale weaves a mesmerizing web around fatherhood, racism, horrific anxieties and even To Kill a Mockingbird. And the backdrop for this rich phantasmagoria? The boroughs of New York."--The New York Times Winner of an American Book Award, a...

The color purple

Walker, Alice

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Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino. Celebrating its fortieth anniversary, The Color Purple writes a message of healing,...

The Country Guesthouse

Carr, Robyn

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NOW A TOP TRENDING SHOW ON NETFLIX! In Sullivan's Crossing, #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr has created a place where good people, powerful emotions, great humor and a healthy dose of common sense are the key ingredients to a happy life. Sullivan's Crossing...

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Daisy Jones & The Six : a novel

Reid, Taylor Jenkins

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD! A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup--from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu...

Dear Edward : a novel

Napolitano, Ann

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY * "Make sure you have tissues handy when you read [this] sure-footed tearjerker" (NPR) about a young boy who must learn to go on after surviving tragedy, from the author of the Oprah's...

Dune

Herbert, Frank.

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Frank Herbert's classic masterpiece--a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides--who would become known as Muad'Dib--and of a great family's ambition to...

Eileen

Moshfegh, Ottessa.

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"So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes...

Erasure

Everett, Percival L.

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Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as AMERICAN FICTION, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has...

The expatriates : a novel

Lee, Janice Y. K.

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"Raise a glass: The first great book-club novel of 2016 has arrived." --USA Today, 4/4 stars "A female, funny Henry James in Asia, Janice Y. K. Lee is vividly good on the subject of Americans abroad." --The New York Times Book Review "Sex...

The family gathering /

Carr, Robyn

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NOW A TOP TRENDING SHOW ON NETFLIX! For Sierra Jones, Sullivan's Crossing is meant to be a brief stopover. She's put her troubled past behind her but the path forward isn't yet clear. A visit with her big brother Cal and his new bride, Maggie, seems to be the best option...

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Feels like family

Woods, Sherryl

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The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix Original Series! From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sherryl Woods On the road to success, good friends are never far apart in the world of the Sweet Magnolias. Helen Decatur spent a lifetime setting goals--getting...

The Sweet Magnolias series book 3

Find a way

Nyad, Diana.

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Hillary Clinton said that Find a Way would stay with her through the general election: "When you're facing big challenges in your life, you can think about Diana Nyad getting attacked by the lethal sting of box jellyfishes. And nearly anything else seems doable in comparison."...

Fool me once

Coben, Harlan

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A #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorIn this impossible-to-put-down thriller, Maya, a former special ops pilot home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya's husband, Joe -- who had been brutally murdered...

Foundation

Asimov, Isaac

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The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THEAPPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION .Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read For twelve thousand...

A gentleman in Moscow

Towles, Amor

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The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers * A New York Times "Readers' Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century" Pick From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a...

Home in Carolina /

Woods, Sherryl.

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The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix original series! High school sweethearts Ty and Annie reunite in a star-crossed story of love, fate, and friendship. Annie Sullivan had always envisioned returning to her hometown and starting a life with her childhood best friend, Tyler...

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Honeysuckle summer

Woods, Sherryl.

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The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix Original Series! From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sherryl Woods Her devastating marriage behind her, Raylene Hammond is truly thankful for her best friends, the Sweet Magnolias. They've taken her in, shielding her from the world...

The Sweet Magnolias series book 7

It's in his kiss

Quinn, Julia

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A New York Times Bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Hyacinth Bridgerton, in the seventh of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. ...

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Killers of the flower moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI

Grann, David

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, "one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."--New York...

Lessons in chemistry

Garmus, Bonnie

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#1 GLOBAL BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD * Meet Elizabeth Zott: "a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention" (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a ...

The Lord God made them all /

Herriot, James

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All Creatures Great and Small series

Manhunt : the twelve-day chase for Lincoln's killer

Swanson, James L.

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The acclaimed and thrilling account of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the twelve-day chase for John Wilkes Booth, winner of the Edgar Award and adapted into an acclaimed Apple TV+ Series "A terrific narrative of the hunt for Lincoln's killers that will mesmerize the reader from start...

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Masters of the air : America's bomber boys who fought the air war against Nazi Germany

Miller, Donald L.

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Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes readers on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the...

Midnight promises

Woods, Sherryl.

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The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix Original Series! From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sherryl Woods When Elliott Cruz first courted struggling single mom Karen Ames, it was a romance worthy of any Sweet Magnolia fantasy. The sexy personal trainer made it his...

The Sweet Magnolias series book 8

An offer from a gentleman

Quinn, Julia

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The inspiration for season four of BRIDGERTON, a series created by Shondaland for Netflix, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn: the story of Benedict Bridgerton in the third of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family. ...

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On the way to the wedding

Quinn, Julia

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A New York Times Bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Gregory Bridgerton, in the final installment of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. ...

Bridgerton series book 8

One day

Nicholls, David

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NOW A NETFLIX SERIES * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * TWO PEOPLE. ONE DAY. TWENTY YEARS. * What starts as a fleeting connection between two strangers soon becomes a deep bond that spans decades. * "[An] instant classic. . . . One of the most ...emotionally riveting...

Poor things : episodes from the early life of Archibald McCandless M. D. Scottish public health officer

Gray, Alasdair

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NOW THE OSCAR-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMMA STONE, RAMY YOUSSEF, MARK RUFFALO, AND WILLEM DAFOE, DIRECTED BY YORGOS LANTHIMOS. "Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray's Poor Things echoes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in this novel of a young...

Romancing Mister Bridgerton

Quinn, Julia

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A New York Times Bestseller The inspiration for season three of BRIDGERTON, a series created by Shondaland for Netflix, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn: the story of Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington in the fourth of her beloved Regency-set...

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Shogun :

Clavell, James

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SOON TO BE AN FX LIMITED SERIES * A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life. All brought together in an extraordinary saga aflame with passion, conflict, ambition, and the struggle for power. ...

A slice of heaven

Woods, Sherryl

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The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix Original Series! From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sherryl Woods Return to the world of the Sweet Magnolias, where friends are closer than family, and fun and scandal are always part of the mix. Ever since she...

The Sweet Magnolias series book 2

Stealing home

Woods, Sherryl.

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The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix Original Series! From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sherryl Woods For the Sweet Magnolias, friendship lasts a lifetime... Maddie Townsend might live in a town called Serenity and have the best friends a woman could...

The Sweet Magnolias series book 1

Swan Point /

Woods, Sherryl.

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Welcome back to Serenity for a story of newfound love, second chances, and reunions with friends both old and new. The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix original series! Determined to build a new life for her family after her divorce, Adelia Hernandez has bought a home in the historic...

The Sweet Magnolias series book 11

Sweet tea at sunrise

Woods, Sherryl.

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The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix Original Series! From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sherryl Woods Any problem can be solved with sweet tea, sunshine and good friends. After her disastrous marriage ended in...

The Sweet Magnolias series book 6

The three-body problem

Liu, Cixin.

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The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Over 1 million copies sold in North America "A mind-bending epic."--The New York Times * "War of the Worlds for...

Tiny Beautiful Things :

Strayed, Cheryl

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NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * An anniversary edition of the bestselling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns written by the author of #1 bestseller Wild--featuring a new preface and six additional columns. ...

To Sir Phillip, with love

Quinn, Julia

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She wrote him a letter . . . and he stole her heart. Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except . . . she wasn't. The beautiful...

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Victim F : from crime victims to suspects to survivors

Huskins, Denise

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The shocking true story of a bizarre kidnapping and the victims' re-victimization by the justice system. DON'T MISS THE DOCUMENTARY AMERICAN NIGHTMARE−NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX In March 2015, Denise Huskins and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn awoke from a...

"American Nightmare" documentary series on Netflix

The viscount who loved me

Quinn, Julia

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# 1 New York Times Bestseller The inspiration for season two of BRIDGERTON, a series created by Shondaland for Netflix, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn: the story of Anthony Bridgerton in the second of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming,...

Bridgerton series book 2

We were the lucky ones

Hunter, Georgia

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The New York Times bestseller with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide | Now a Hulu limited series starring Joey King and Logan Lerman Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive--and to reunite...

Welcome to Serenity

Woods, Sherryl.

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The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix Original Series! From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sherryl Woods When Jeanette Brioche helped launch The Corner Spa in Serenity, South Carolina, she found a whole lot more than professional satisfaction. She discovered the deep...

The Sweet Magnolias series book 4

What we find

Carr, Robyn

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A #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorA RITA Award-winning AuthorIn her hardcover debut, bestselling author Robyn Carr explores the healing powers of rural Colorado in a brand-new series opener -- a story of fresh starts, budding relationships and one woman's journey to finding the happiness she's...

Sullivan's Crossing series book 1

When he was wicked

Quinn, Julia

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In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one's life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London's most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton. After a lifetime of...

Bridgerton series book 6

Where azaleas bloom

Woods, Sherryl.

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The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix Original Series! From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sherryl Woods Single mom Lynn Morrow is determined to put food on the table for her son and daughter. Her soon-to-be-ex-husband has failed to meet his obligations time and again-...

The Sweet Magnolias series book 10

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