A Week in December

A novel set in 2007 London follows seven diverse characters, exploring the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life and culminating in a climax where each character is forced to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit. By the author of Devil May Care.
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My Wife's Affair

Moving to London with his wife and three children, failed writer Peter witnesses the blossoming of his wife's acting career and her increasing obsession with her portrayal of a famous 18th-century actress, a situation that culminates in a tragic infidelity.
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Adirondack Trails With Tales: History Hikes Through the Adirondack Park and the Lake George, Lake Champlain & Mohawk Valley Regions

Hike, paddle, bike, or cross-country ski along beautiful trails through sites made famous by Adirondack guides, artists, writers, entrepreneurs, colonial settlers, and combatants in the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars. Visit abandoned iron mines and the ruins of tanneries, famous Adirondack great camps and old resorts, lost villages, Native American battlegrounds, and the homestead of John Brown, catalyst for the Civil War. Visit the scene of America's first naval battle and marvel at geological wonders like Indian Pass, Canajoharie Gorge, Chimney Mountain, and the tufa caves of Van Hornesville. Detailed directions, maps, photographs, and vintage postcards.Hikes include: Valcour Island, Coon Mountain, Crown Point: Fort St. Frederic & His Majesty's Fort of Crown Point, Fort Ticonderoga, Ironville & Penfield Homestead, Rock Pond, Rogers Rock, Shelving Rock Mountain & Shelving Rock Falls, Prospect Mountain, Fort George and Bloody Pond, Cooper's Cave & Betar Byway, John Brown's Farm, Mt. Jo & Mt. Van Hoevenberg, Adirondac & Indian Pass, East Branch of the Ausable River & Adirondack Mountain Reserve, Santanoni, The Sagamore, Paul Smiths, Hooper Garnet Mine, Chimney Mountain, Kunjamuk Cave, Griffin, Griffin Falls, & Auger Falls, Moss Island, Tufa Caves & Waterfalls of Van Hornesville, Canajoharie Gorge, Wolf Hollow.
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Lists for Life: The Essential Guide to Getting Organized and Tackling Tough To-Dos

Contains over 100 checklists, resources, and suggestions to help you stay organized through life's transitions and stressful situations.
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James May's Toy Stories

Relates the stories behind a number of classic toys as well as the adventures of the author and his child and adult helpers in the summer of 2009 as they built and recreated a number of toys, in a book that also offers 12 projects linked to these toys for parents and children to create themselves.
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Unseen Academicals

The wizards of Unseen University in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever.
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Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong

By Terry Teachout

"Draws on previously unavailable sources including hundreds of private recordings made throughout the second half of the jazz master's life to assess his artistic achievements and personal arenas, sharing authoritative coverage of such topics as Armstrong's decision to break up his band and his quarrel with Eisenhower."
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