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House rules
by Jodi Picoult

Unable to express himself socially but possessing a savant-like knack for investigating crimes, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome is wrongly accused of killing his tutor when the police mistake his autistic tics for guilty behavior.

“Emotionally powerful from beginning to end, House Rules looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way -- and fails those who don't."

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Requiem in Vienna
by J. Sydney Jones.

After a singer is murdered at the Court Opera in Vienna, Lawyer Karl Werthen thinks the intended victim being targeted is conductor and composer Gustav Mahler and sets out to stop the attacks with the help of his new wife, Berthe, and the criminologist Hans Gross.

"A mystery full of famous names and historical events and starring the city of Vienna."

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Wench
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

In her debut, Perkins-Valdez eloquently plunges into a dark period of American history, chronicling the lives of four slave women—Lizzie, Reenie, Sweet and Mawu—who are their masters' mistresses.

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In the company of angels
by Thomas E. Kennedy.

After he is tortured for months in a Chilean prison, Bernardo Greene is visited by two angels who promise that he will survive to experience beauty and love once again, a promise that has better chances of coming true after Bernardo comes to Copenhagen for treatment, only to meet Michela Ibsen, a survivor of domestic abuse.

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Model home
by Eric Puchner

After tragedy strikes, Warren Ziller and his disintegrating family are forced to move to one of the houses in his abandoned real estate development in the desert.

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Never look away
by Linwood Barclay

The stressful life of reporter David Harwood turns terrifying when a day at a local amusement park is marked by the disappearances of his wife and son, a situation that reveals a tangled web of lies and deception.

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The weed that strings the hangman's bag
by Alan Bradley

Flavia de Luce (Sweetness at the bottom of the pie) returns and applies her skills in the chemistry lab to solving the murder of a master puppeteer, a case that is further complicated by her tormenting sisters.

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The room and the chair
by Lorraine Adams

Imagines the lives of individuals who are impacted by present-day wars, from a ridiculed newspaper editor and an overburdened nuclear engineer to a woman fighter pilot and a religiously impassioned novice reporter.

“A war on terror page-turner from a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and novelist.”

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The prodigal wife
by Marcia Willett

In this gentle, charming novel of indiscretion, grudges, love and mortality, two middle-aged couples reunite late in life following long separation and marriages to others.

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The last illusion
by Rhys Bowen

Harry Houdini's wife hires Irish immigrant private investigator Molly Murphy to investigate the on-stage death of a magician's assistant, in the hopes of clearing Houdini's name and finding the person truly responsible for the death.

“Set in New York City in 1903, Bowen's winning ninth Molly Murphy mystery.”

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Frame up
by John F. Dobbyn

A fast-paced legal thriller about two best friends, Michale Knitht and John McKedrick, who take different paths after graduating from Harvard Law. When John is murdered in a car bombing, Michael reluctantly agrees to represent the alleged bomber, and is drawn into a high-stakes art fraud.

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Black Hills
by Dan Simmons

A retelling of Custer's last stand at the Little Big Horn in 1876 with a supernatural slant.

“A story of profound and inescapable loss and a visionary account of love, hope, and unexpected discovery.”

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Director's cut
by Arthur Japin

A reimagining of filmmaker Federico Fellini's last affair finds a comatose Italian director taking account of his romance with a high-strung actress whose insecure self-delusions culminate in her alienation and prostitution.

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The highly effective detective plays the fool
by Richard Yancey

In this third installment of Richard Yancey’s hilarious Teddy Ruzak P.I. series, Teddy’s latest client suspects her husband is cheating on her and she hires Teddy to nail the cheater. Then the client disappears. Is this a divorce case—or a murder?

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Major Pettigrew's last stand
by Helen Simonson

Forced to confront the realities of life in the 21st century when he falls in love with widowed Pakistani descendant Mrs. Ali, a retired Major Pettigrew finds the relationship challenged by local prejudices that view Mrs. Ali, a Cambridge native, as a perpetual foreigner.

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The skinnygirl dish: easy recipes for your naturally thin life
Bethenny Frankel with Eve Adamson

Join Bethenny on the Skinnygirl journey and learn how to cook
fearlessly and make the food you love that fits your lifestyle.

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The year that changed the world: the untold story behind the fall of the Berlin Wall
Michael Meyer

On the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Michael Meyer provides a riveting eyewitness account of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe that brilliantly rewrites our conventional understanding of how the cold war came to an end.

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You've come a long way, maybe: Sarah, Michelle, Hillary, and the shaping of the new American woman
Leslie Sanchez

A fascinating exploration the roles of women in politics, in the media and in the electorate.

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The poisoner's handbook : murder and the birth of forensic medicine in jazz age New York
Deborah Blum

Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Deborah Blum follows New York City's first forensic scientists to discover a fascinating Jazz Age story of chemistry and detection, poison and murder.

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The empathic civilization : the race to global consciousness in a world in crisis
Jeremy Rifkin

Bestselling social critic Jeremy Rifkin shows that the disconnection between our vision for the world and our ability to realize that vision lies in the current state of human consciousness.

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The golden age of Jewish achievement
Steven L. Pease

The compendium of a culture, a people, and their stunning performance.

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Valley of death : the tragedy at Dien Bien Phu that led America into the Vietnam war
Ted Morgan

Pulitzer-winning journalist Morgan synergizes a comprehensive spectrum of overlooked sources in this magisterial analysis of the 1954 French defeat at Dien Bien Phu and its consequences.

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Mark Twain: man in white: the grand adventure of his final years
Michael Shelden

This superb biography, told in a nonacademic tone, is saturated with sadness, but every reader will be grateful that, finally, Mark Twain appears before us, warts and all.

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American Leonardo
John Brewer

A compelling book about a controversial painting, the Hahn La Belle Ferronière and the 'science' of art attribution

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Just kids
Patti Smith

Smith describes the start of a romance and lifelong friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe serving as a salute to the New York City during the late sixties and seventies.

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The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
Don Lattin

A revealing account of four iconic personalities who helped define an era, sowed seeds of consciousness, and left indelible marks in the lives of spiritual explorers to this day.

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The Smart Cookies' guide to couples and money: earn more, argue less, achieve the life you want together
the Smart Cookies with Jennifer Barrett

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Gravity shift : how Asia's new economic powerhouses will shape the twenty-first century
Wendy Dobson

The rapid growth, diversity and strategic importance of the emerging Chinese and Indian economies have fired the world’s imagination with both hopes and fears for the future. Gravity Shift offers bold predictions of the changes we can expect in key economic and political institutions in China and India, changes that will inform and shape tomorrow’s business decisions.

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The science of liberty
Timothy Ferris

Award-winning science author Timothy Ferris makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy.

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The Tudors: the complete story of England's most notorious dynasty
G.J. Meyer

History buffs will savor Meyer's cheeky, nuanced, and authoritative perspective on an entire dynasty, and his study brims with enriching background discussions, ranging from class structure and the medieval Catholic Church to the Tudor connection to Spanish royalty.

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