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Becoming Bonnie : The Crash of the Century: When Bonnie Met Clyde
by Jenni L. Walsh
The summer of 1927 might be the height of the Roaring Twenties, but Bonnelyn Parker is more likely to belt out a church hymn than sling drinks at an illicit juice joint. She’s a sharp girl with plans to overcome her family's poverty, provide for herself, and maybe someday marry her boyfriend, Roy Thornton. But when Roy springs a proposal on her, and financial woes jeopardize her ambitions, Bonnelyn finds salvation in an unlikely place: Dallas's newest speakeasy, Doc's.
Living the life of a moll at night, Bonnie remains a wholesome girl by day, engaged to Roy, attending school, and working toward a steady future. When Roy discovers her secret life, he embraces it—perhaps too much, especially when it comes to booze and gambling— and Bonnie tries to make the pieces fit. Maybe she can have it all: the American Dream, the husband, and the intoxicating allure of jazz music. But her life—like her country—is headed for a crash: Bonnie Parker is about to meet Clyde Barrow.
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Crimes Against a Book Club : A Novel
by Kathy Cooperman
Best friends Annie and Sarah need cash—fast. Sarah, a beautiful, successful lawyer, wants nothing more than to have a baby. But balancing IVF treatments with a grueling eighty-hour workweek is no walk in the park. Meanwhile, Annie, a Harvard-grad chemist recently transplanted to Southern California, is cutting coupons to afford her young autistic son’s expensive therapy.
Desperate, the two friends come up with a brilliant plan: they’ll combine Sarah’s looks and Annie’s brains to sell a “luxury” antiaging face cream to the wealthy, fading beauties in Annie’s La Jolla book club. The scheme seems innocent enough, until Annie decides to add a special—and oh-so-illegal—ingredient that could bring their whole operation crashing to the ground. Hilarious, intelligent, and warm, Crimes Against a Book Club is a delightful look at the lengths women will go to fend for their families and for one another.
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Mr. Rochester : A Novel
by Sarah Shoemaker
For one hundred seventy years, Edward Fairfax Rochester has stood as one of literature's most romantic, most complex, and most mysterious heroes. Sometimes haughty, sometimes tender-professing his love for Jane Eyre in one breath and denying it in the next-Mr. Rochester has for generations mesmerized, beguiled, and, yes, baffled fans of Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece. But his own story has never been told.
A great, sweeping, classic coming-of-age story, a stirring tale of adventure, romance, and deceit, faithful in every particular to Brontë's original yet full of unexpected twists and riveting behind-the-scenes drama, Mr. Rochester will completely, deliciously, and forever change how we read and remember Jane Eyre.
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The Red Line : A Novel
by Walt Gragg
“Delta-Two, I’ve got tanks through the wire! They’re everywhere!” When a resurgent Russian Federation launches a deadly armored thrust into the heart of Germany, World War III explodes: as Russian tanks thunder down the autobahns, specially trained Spetsnaz (Russian special forces) strike vulnerable command points. Holding the line against the Russians are woefully undermanned American forces. What the Americans lack in numbers, they make up for in superior weapons and training - but before the sun rises they are on the run across a smoking battlefield crowded with corpses. Any hope for victory rests with one unlikely hero. Army Staff Sergeant George O'Neill, a communications specialist, may be able to reestablish links that have been severed by hostile forces, but that will take time. While he works, it’s up to hundreds of individual American soldiers to hold back the enemy. But there’s one thing that’s certain: the thin line between victory and defeat is also the red line between life and death.
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A Rising Man : A Novel
by Abir Mukherjee
Calcutta, 1919. Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is newly arrived in Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his experiences during the Great War, Wyndham has been recruited to head up a new post in the police force. Overwhelmed by the heady vibrancy of the tropical city, and still haunted by the war, Wyndham is caught up in a murder investigation that threatens to destabilize a city already teetering on the brink of political insurgency. The body of a senior official has been found in a filthy sewer, and a note left in his mouth warns the British to quit India, or else. Under tremendous pressure to solve the case before it erupts into increased violence on the streets, Wyndham and his two new colleagues—arrogant Inspector Digby and Sargeant Banerjee, one of the few Indians to be recruited into the new CID—embark on an investigation that will take them from the opulent mansions of wealthy British traders to the seedy opium dens of the city. Masterfully evincing the sights, sounds, and smells of colonial Calcutta, A Rising Man is the start of an enticing new historical crime series.
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White Fur : A Novel
by Jardine Libaire
When Elise Perez meets Jamey Hyde on a desolate winter afternoon, fate intervenes. Elise grew up in a housing project without a father and didn’t graduate from high school; Jamey is a junior at Yale, heir to a private investment bank fortune and beholden to family expectations. The attraction between the two is instant, and what starts out as sexual obsession turns into something greater, stranger, and impossible to ignore. The unlikely couple moves to Manhattan in hopes of forging an adult life together, but Jamey’s family intervenes in desperation, and the consequences of staying together are suddenly severe. And when a night out with old friends takes a shocking turn, Jamey and Elise find themselves fighting not just for their love, but also for their lives. Following Elise and Jamie on their wild race through Newport mansions and downtown NYC nightspots, SoHo bars and WASP-establishment yacht clubs, through bedrooms and hospital rooms as they explore, love, play, and suffer, Jardine Libaire combines the electricity of Less Than Zero with the timeless intensity of Romeo and Juliet in this searing, gorgeously written novel that perfectly captures the ferocity of young love.
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Apollo 8 : The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
by Jeffrey Kluger
In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind’s first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and President Kennedy’s promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade seemed sure to be broken. But when Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders were summoned to a secret meeting and told of the dangerous mission, they instantly signed on.
Written with all the color and verve of the best narrative non-fiction, Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronaut’s homes, from the test labs to the launch pad. Here is the tale of a mission that was both a calculated risk and a wild crapshoot, a stirring account of how three American heroes forever changed our view of the home planet.
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Crooked : Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery
by Cathryn Jakobson Ramin
In an effort to manage her chronic back pain, investigative reporter Cathryn Jakobson Ramin spent years and a small fortune on a panoply of treatments. But her discomfort only intensified, leaving her feeling frustrated and perplexed. As she searched for better solutions, she exposed a much bigger problem. Costing roughly $100 billion a year, spine medicine—often ineffective and sometimes harmful —exemplified the worst aspects of the U.S. health care system.
Crooked is a brilliant and comprehensive book that is not only important but essential to millions of back pain sufferers, and all types of health care professionals. Ramin shatters assumptions about surgery, chiropractic methods, physical therapy, spinal injections and painkillers, and addresses evidence-based rehabilitation options—showing, in detail, how to avoid therapeutic dead ends, while saving money, time, and considerable anguish. With Crooked, she reveals what it takes to outwit the back pain industry and get on the road to recovery.
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Everyday Vegetarian : A Delicious Guide for Creating More Than 150 Meatless Dishes
by The Editors of Cooking Light Magazine
Find your place at the vegetarian table with this collection of crave-worthy meals and discover an immensely satisfying way to eat with Everyday Vegetarian. Not just for vegetarians, it's for anyone who wants to add more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains to their meals and omit meat - without sacrificing flavor - even if it's just once or twice a week.
Beyond the health benefits, you'll find plenty of bold flavors and rich textures in these appealing dishes that include fresh salads (Fried Egg and Crunchy Breadcrumb Breakfast Salad), sandwiches (Avocado, Sprout, and Cashew Spread Sandwich), soups (Smoky Farro and Chickpea Soup), and hearty one-dish meals, risottos, and bowls (Quick White Bean, Asparagus, and Mushroom Cassoulet; Risotto Primavera).
Everyday Vegetarian is the ultimate resource for anyone - meat eaters included - who wants to make satisfying vegetable-centric dishes using easy-to-find ingredients.
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On Edge : A Journey Through Anxiety
by Andrea Petersen
Andrea Petersen was first diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at the age of twenty, but she later realized that she had been experiencing panic attacks since childhood. Although having a name for her terrifying physical symptoms (a racing heart, difficulty breathing, and more) and fears was an enormous relief, identifying it was only the beginning of a journey to understand it—one that takes her from New England mountaintops to the back of a motorbike in Vietnam as she refuses to let anxiety rule her life. Harnessing her personal experience and expertise as a health reporter to investigate the neuroscientific, spiritual, and genetic aspects of anxiety, Petersen explores groundbreaking research and promising new treatments. Sharing her family history—from her grandmother, who, plagued by paranoia, once tried to burn down her own house, to her young daughter, in whom Petersen sees shades of herself, On Edge combines a personal journey with deep reportage for a sympathetic, bracingly honest and compassionate account of living with anxiety.
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Potted : Make Your Own Stylish Garden Containers
by Annette Goliti Gutierrez
Outdoor style often comes at a high price, but it doesn’t have to. This lushly designed guide empowers you to create your own show-stopping containers made from everyday materials such as concrete, plastic, metal, terracotta, rope, driftwood, and fabric. The 23 step-by-step projects are affordable, made from accessible materials, and most importantly, gorgeous. They include new spins on old favorites, like the cinderblock garden made popular by design blogs or hanging planters made from enamelware bowls, along with never-before-seen ideas like a chimney flue planter and wall planters made from paint cans. Packed with color photographs and simple instruction, Potted is for anyone who wants to turn an outdoor space into a stylish oasis.
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Shake Shack : Recipes and Stories
by Randy Garutti
Shake Shack’s first-ever cookbook! With each chapter focusing on a main menu item, this cookbook for fans of the burger restaurant chain includes photos, infographics and 70 recipes for how to make your own ShackBurgers, crinkle fries, Chick’n Shack and limited edition burgers. Packed with stories, fun facts and pro tips for the home cook and ShackFan, follow Shake Shack’s journey around the world; make your own ShackBurgers, crinkle-cut fries, and hand-spun frozen custard shakes at home; and get a glimpse into the culture, community, and inner workings of this global phenomenon.
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