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Here is Marcia Muller's stalwart heroine Sharon McCone facing unprecedented challenges in an explosive new novel.

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Busy lives, overbooked schedules, tightened wallets - this is what we're all dealing with now. While people struggle to simplify, streamline and budget, along comes Claire Robinson, the Food Network's newest star, to help. Claire's recipes get dinner on the table with minimal ingredients and fuss. Choosing the right ingredients along with a little culinary knowhow is Claire's specialty. Cooking doesn't have to be complicated to be impressive; simplifying the process with fewer ingredients saves time, frustration and ultimately, money. From breakfast treats like Brioche French Toast with Strawberries and Cream, to no-fuss meals like Grown-up Grilled Cheese and Iceberg Wedges with Buttermilk Dressing, to a romantic dinner of Grilled Scallops with Saffron Aioli and Green Goddess Rice, all of Claire's recipes have 5 or fewer ingredients. A quick trip to the supermarket and one bag of groceries later and a delicious, restaurant-quality meal can be on the table in no time.

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The smart-mouthed but sensitive runaway socialite Madeline Dare is shocked when she discovers the skeleton of a brutalized three-year-old boy in her own weed-ridden family cemetery outside Manhattan. Determined to see that justice is served to the perpetrators, Madeline finds herself examining her own troubled personal history, and the sometimes hidden, sometimes all-too-public class and racial warfare that penetrates every level of society in the savage streets of New York City during the early 1990s. She is aided in her efforts by a colorful assemblage of friends, relatives and new acquaintances, each one representing a separate strand of the patchwork mosaic city politicians like to brag about. The result is a gripping narrative that relates the causes and consequences of a vicious crime to the wider relationships that connect and divide us all. In INVISIBLE BOY Cornelia Read depicts, with sensitivity, eloquence and powerful emotion, the unstable fault lines of family, friendship, and society at large.

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An unborn baby with a fatal heart defect . . . a skier submerged for an hour in a frozen Norwegian lake . . . a comatose brain surgery patient whom doctors have declared a vegetable. Twenty years ago all of them would have been given up for dead, with no realistic hope for survival. But today, thanks to incredible new medical advances, each of these individuals is alive and well . . . Cheating Death. In this riveting book, Dr. Sanjay Gupta-neurosurgeon, chief medical correspondent for CNN, and bestselling author-chronicles the almost unbelievable science that has made these seemingly miraculous recoveries possible. A bold new breed of doctors has achieved amazing rescues by refusing to accept that any life is irretrievably lost. Extended cardiac arrest, brain death, not breathing for over an hour-all these conditions used to be considered inevitably fatal, but they no longer are. Today, revolutionary advances are blurring the traditional line between life and d

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Megan Lambert, a young widow and workaholic sales manager at a television station, desperately tries to avoid her late husband's boss - with whom she had shared a passionate kiss on her wedding day. But Josh Bennett wants her again and will stop at nothing to have her.

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Camille is shocked to learn that the owner of a mansion she has agreed to decorate is the same man with whom she shared a brief but torrid affair two years earlier.

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More than a diet book, this foolproof guide to sensible eating has already helped thousands achieve and maintain their desired weight. No flour, no sugar. That's it. Simple and inexpensive, Dr Gotts informative plan can help anyone maintain a healthy body and shed unwanted pounds. Complete with recipes and easy-to-follow meal plans for breakfast, appetizers, snacks, entres and dessert, it's an effective diet that delivers phenomenal, fast results. In this book, you will learn how to satisfy your sweet tooth without sugar, plan for success and stay on track, curb your carb cravings without flour and keep the weight off in the long term. The book also includes questions and challenges from his readers and Dr Gott's informative and helpful responses.

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The author recounts hitchhiking across the country with an odd cast of quadriplegics and deadbeats, working as a migrant worker in North Carolina, and other adventures.

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Twelve-year-old Maren is sure theater camp isn't for her. Theater camp is for loud, confident, artsy people: people like her older sister, Hadley-the last person Maren wants to think about-and her cinema-obsessed, nonbinary bunkmate, Theo. But when a prank goes wrong, Maren gets drawn into the hunt for a diamond ring that, legend has it, is linked to the camp's namesake, Charlotte "Charlie" Goodman, a promising director in Blacklist Era Hollywood.When Maren connects the clues to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, she and her new friends are off searching through lighting booths, orchestra pits and costume storages, discovering the trail and dodging camp counselors. But they're not the only ones searching for the ring, and with the growing threat of camp closing forever, they're almost out of time.

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Throughout history society has determined specific rules of engagement between adversaries in armed conflict. With advances in technology, from armor to in the Middle Ages to nerve gas in World War I to weapons of mass destruction in our own time, the rules have constantly evolved. Today, when killing the enemy can seem palpably risk-free and tantamount to playing a violent video game, what constitutes warfare? What is the effect of remote combat on individual soldiers? And what are the unforeseen repercussions that could affect us all?Lt Col Wayne Phelps, former commander of a Remotely Piloted Aircraft unit, and Lt Col Dave Grossman, author of the landmark work On Killing and a leading scholar of the effects of killing on the human psyche, address these questions and many others as they tell the story of the men and women of today's "chair force." Exploring the ethics of remote military engagement, the misconceptions about PTSD among RPA operators, and the specter of military weaponry controlled by robots, their book is an urgent and compelling reminder that it should always be difficult to kill another human being lest we risk losing what makes us human.

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With paintings that capture all the beauty of Appalachia in authentic detail, this tender story about a resourceful mountain girl's special coat will touchreaders with its affirming message of love and friendship.

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