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While thoroughly documented and well detailed, Lawrence
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critical attention to the man (and several other key players),
the era, and the region. A necessary (and fascinating) title
for anyone interested in the modern Middle East. -Ed, Atlanta
Peter Baker, senior White House correspondent for The New
York Times, crafts a gripping and intimate narrative that re-
counts the drama and controversy of the Bush and Cheney
administration. Confronted by one crisis after another, they
struggled to protect the country and remake the world, while
their partnership was constantly evolving. From the early days
when Bush leaned on Cheney, making him the most infuen-
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had grown so far apart they were clashing in the West Wing;
theirs was the most captivating American political partner-
ship since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger.
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Days of Fire $17.95
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One Summer $16.95
Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson is back with his trademark wit and style. In One
Summer: America, 1927, he tackles one particular summer in
American history, and both informs and entertains his readers
in equal measure. -Anne, Atlanta
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Turn Around Bright Eyes is about fnding the courage to
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Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Birds compelling
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important spy in the Middle East. On April 18, 1983, a bomb
exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63
people. The attack was a turning point in US relations with
the Muslim world. It marked the beginning of Hezbollah as
a political force, but even more importantly, it eliminated
Americas most infuential and effective intelligence offcer
in the Middle East-CIA agent Robert Ames.
Now a Netfix original series. Heartbreaking, hilarious, and at
times enraging, Kermans story offers a rare look into the lives
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Turn Around Bright Eyes $15.99
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All the Light We Cannot See $27.00
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To Rise Again at a Decent Hour $26.00
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The Last Kind Words Saloon $24.95
Larry McMurtry
All the Light We Cannot See is a gorgeously written novel about
beauty, love, courage, and history. Two teenagers a blind girl
in Paris, an orphan boy in Germany are coming-of-age with the
coming of war. When Marie Laure and her father fee Paris, they
may be carrying one of Frances greatest treasures (and curses).
Werners fascination with radios, and his fear of the mines that
killed his father, make him a valuable soldier for the Reich. You
want to savor every sentence, every image, but the pages fy
anyway as the novel follows their paths to Saint-Malo, a walled
city on the coast of France under siege at the end of the war.
The smallest spark of humanity, a feeting connection across bor-
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they almost disappear, but they all matter. Its not a new subject,
but it reads like one: life. - Sara, Atlanta
A big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel about the mysteries
of modern life by National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris, one
of the most exciting voices of his generation. At once laugh-
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indelibly profound about the eternal questions of the meaning
of life, love and truth, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is a deeply
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Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer
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With The Last Kind Words Saloon he returns again to the
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Set in China, and ripped from todays headlines, comes a
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21st century. A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labor camp in
the dead of night, feeing across the winter desert of north-
west China. Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British;
now Peanut must disappear on Beijings surveillance-blanket-
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Beth Hoffmans bestselling debut, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt,
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That summer feeling: sun-flled days, warm nights, and
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When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview
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Child of Mine $15.99
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The Good House $15.00
Ann Leary @annleary
A funny, juicy debut novel about the devious scheming that
occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in
Asia brings his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend home to
meet the familywithout telling her that theyre loaded.
Flight instructor Jack Livingston has been raising his eight-
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the clock ticking, one last clue from a private investigator
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The Good House, by Ann Leary, is funny, poignant, and
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Want Not $14.95
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National Book Award-winning novelist Colum McCanns rare
and wondrous New York Times bestseller, bringing together
four generations of heartbreaking, unforgettable women with
some of the most signifcant men in Irish-American history.
A highly inventive and corrosively funny story of our times,
Want Not exposes three different worlds in various states of
disrepair-a young freegan couple living off the grid in New
York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by
the dissolution of his marriage and his fathers losing battle
with Alzheimers; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate,
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The diode goes between free ends of the two wires and meets the leads of the battery
to complete the circuit. Werner runs the beam of Volkheimers light over the entire
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and raises the twin leads of the earphone in front of his eyes and strips them against the
threads of a screw and touches the naked ends to the diode. Invisibly, electrons bumble
down the wires.
The hotel above them --- what is left of it---makes a series of unearthly groans. Timber
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could alight on it and trigger an avalanche that will bury them for good.
Werner presses the bud of the earphone into his right ear. It does not work.
From All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Norwegian by Night $14.95
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Sara Gran @misssaragran
A former Marine sniper and a newly orphaned boy race
across the Norwegian wilderness, feeing demons both real
and imagined.
Claire Dewitt is my favorite new sleuth. She does all kinds of
inadvisable things in outlandish situations in exotic locations
exactly what you want in escapist fare. But she also
feels more grounded in reality than the heroines of many
mysteries. Ranging from the East Village in the 80s to the
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The diode goes between free ends of the two wires and meets the leads of the battery
to complete the circuit. Werner runs the beam of Volkheimers light over the entire
operation. Ground, antenna, battery. Finally he braces the fashlight between his teeth
and raises the twin leads of the earphone in front of his eyes and strips them against the
threads of a screw and touches the naked ends to the diode. Invisibly, electrons bumble
down the wires.
The hotel above them --- what is left of it---makes a series of unearthly groans. Timber
splinters, as though the rubble teeters on some fnal fulcrum. As though a single dragonfy
could alight on it and trigger an avalanche that will bury them for good.
Werner presses the bud of the earphone into his right ear. It does not work.
From All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
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The Bone Season $17.00
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Stella Bain $16.00
Anita Shreve
Jeff Shaara returned to the Civil War in 2012 with A Blaze of
Glory, his riveting account of the Battle of Shiloh. In this New
York Times bestselling gripping sequel featuring Grant,
Pemberton, and more, he moves to the Siege of Vicksburg.
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A dash of dystopian and a dash of steampunk make this
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The art of love is never a science: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet
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A breakout bestseller in France, Syndrome E is a taut thriller
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Nate Piven is a rising star in Brooklyns literary scene. After
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Though hes only thirteen, Theodore Boone has spent more
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When I learned that The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows
of Ava Lavender had been selected as one of Hudson
Booksellers 2014 Best Books for Summer, I couldnt help
but wonder if the theme of fight had something to do with
it. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender is,
after all, a book about a girl who was born with wings, yet
cannot fy. So it seems only ftting that Ava Lavender would
eventually fnd her way to the airporta place where
people come to fy.
I have this belief that everyonewhether theyre willing
to admit it or not is a little bit infatuated with the possibility
of fying. As a child, I was both terrifed and enthralled by
the idea of it. I remember watching the animated version of Peter Pan with
suspended disbelief as the children soared around the edge of the nursery
ceiling. I imagined myself beside them, my outstretched hands skimming the
tops of the trees as I soared through the window and into the stars. At the time,
the feeling of fight, the wind curling around my limbs, the jittery excitement of
watching as the ground below me moved farther and farther away from my
feet, seemed not quite as impossible as it once had.
How many of us have climbed to the top of the jungle gym, swayed precari-
ously from a tree branch, taken a mighty leap from the swing set; how many
of us believed, even if it was only for a mere second, that we were capable of
fight? It seemed so effortless, a simple question of merely going up instead of
down. And perhaps, in a way, somewhere between that glorious second after
we jumped and before we landed, we did fy. Even if it was just for a second.
But then we grew up and lost that delightful ability to suspend disbelief. Instead,
we were gifted with things like logic and reason which state, in dull, monotone
voices, that people can only fy with the help of a machine.
And yet.
And yet.
Our infatuation with fight remains. It is an unstoppable force, an excited squeal
that rips through the monotony, reminding us of that one miraculous moment
where we defed all good sense and sound judgment and we few.
Its clich to admit, but perhaps our interest in fying also explains our interest in
reading. As the saying goes, reading takes you places. And fight, like reading,
allows us to see things from a new perspective, in ways that perhaps we never
were able to before. And perhaps this is whyregardless of our agethat
feeling of wanting to fy never leaves
us. It is more than the mere act itself,
soaring through the air with the great-
est of ease. It is the freedom to visit the
fantastic, a wish to encounter some-
thing new and unlikely. It is a craving,
one we cannot explain, for certain
experiences, certain sights and sounds
and tastes. It is the desire to do the
impossible.
It is the desire to fy.
by Leslye Walton
The Impossibility of Flight
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