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Meet Lori Gottlieb, an insightful and compassionate therapist whose clients present with all kinds of problems. There's the struggling new parents; the older woman who feels she has nothing to live for; the self-destructive young alcoholic; and the terminally ill 35-year-old newlywed. And there's John, a narcissistic television producer, who frankly just seems to be a bit of a jerk. Over the course of a year, they all make progress. But Gottlieb is...
3) The store
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Imagine a near future of unparalleled convenience. A powerful retailer, the Store, can deliver anything to your door via drone, even anticipating needs and desires you didn't know you had. Most people are fine with that, but not Jacob and Megan Brandeis. New York writers whose livelihood is on the brink of extinction, Jacob and Megan have made a drastic decision--they're going undercover to dig up the Store's secrets in a book that could change the...
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"Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel -- a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent...
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Strong Female Characters
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Strong Female Characters
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Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...
7) Verity
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"Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get started. What Lowen doesn't expect...
8) The reversal
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Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller never thought he would cross the aisle and work for the prosecution--until imprisoned child killer Jason Jessup is granted a retrial based on new DNA evidence. Convinced Jessup is guilty, Haller takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. But there's a serious political taint on the case, and Haller must face down a celebrity defense attorney who has already...
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Gideon Crew volume 2
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After a standoff between a top nuclear scientist from Los Alamos and an innocent family taken hostage turns violent, Gideon Crew must track down a rogue nuclear device.
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Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him...
11) Hyperion
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On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of Time Tombs, where huge brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion....
12) Lethally blond
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Hired by television celebrity and former flame Chris Wickersham to investigate the disappearance of a fellow star, gossip journalist Bailey Weggins quickly realizes that the actor's absence involves more than previously feared.
13) The yellow house
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"In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and Built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant-- the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah's father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number 12 children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarah's birth,...
14) The inner circle
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Culper Ring novels (Brad Meltzer) volume 1
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Benjamin January, a librarian at the National Archives, receives a surprise visit from Clementine Kaye, an old childhood flame who is searching for Benjy's father. Trying to impress his old crush, Benjy gives Clementine a tour of a secret vault where classified documents are reviewed. There, the duo discovers a hidden dictionary that once belonged to George Washington and is plunged into a deadly mystery involving the most important secret in U.S....
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"From celebrated New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the South. Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, he explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast. Everything is explored, from...
16) The dark secret
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Wings of fire. Original series volume 4
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The Wings of Fire saga continues with a visit to the mysterious land of the NightWings, where Starflight must face a terrible choicehis home, or his friends?The dragonets of destiny are on their way to see the NightWingsand Starflight doesnt need his psychic powers to know it isnt going to go well.Starflight knows its his duty as a NightWing to convince the other dragonets to choose Blister as queen. But he cant help feeling that theres something...
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WINNER OF THE LANNAN LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION and#x2022; From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes the fascinating story of a former British spy who's been unmasked as a Russian agent—and "one of spy fiction's greatest characters" (People). • "Contemporary fiction gets no better than this." —The New York Times Book Review One of the most dazzling and adventurous writers now working in English takes on the enigma...
19) Escaping peril
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Dangerous dragon Peril is on a mission to find and stop her former queen, Scarlet, who is threatening the Jade Mountain Academy, and she is not sure if the SeaWing, Turtle, who is accompanying her, will be a help or a hindrance.
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Reformed from his days of as a covert operative and assassin for the U.S. government, Paul Janson has a new mission and a new partner. Working independently with highly-skilled sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid, Janson only takes operations that contribute to the world's greater good. When his latest job rescuing a doctor abducted in international waters by African pirates goes haywire, Janson realizes he's caught in the middle of something much bigger....
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