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Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet―and Why We're Following

Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet―and Why We're Following

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Hanover Square Press

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Murder, Manslaughter, and Mayhem on the SouthCoast, Volume Three: 2000-2016

Murder, Manslaughter, and Mayhem on the SouthCoast, Volume Three: 2000-2016

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Happiness Will Follow

Happiness Will Follow

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Archaia

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Excavation: A Memoir

Excavation: A Memoir

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Future Tense Books

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Inside Out: A Memoir

Inside Out: A Memoir

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Harper

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The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw

Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw

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More Than Words

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Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers and Guests

Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers and Guests

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Back Bay Books

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You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television

You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television

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More Than Words

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Teammate: My Journey in Baseball and a World Series for the Ages

Teammate: My Journey in Baseball and a World Series for the Ages

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Hachette Books

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The Kinfolk Entrepreneur: Ideas for Meaningful Work

The Kinfolk Entrepreneur: Ideas for Meaningful Work

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Artisan

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The Liars' Club: A Memoir

The Liars' Club: A Memoir

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More Than Words

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King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

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Vintage

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On Animals

On Animals

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More Than Words

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Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score

Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score

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Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors

Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors

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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson

My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson

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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson

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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson

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The New Kings of Nonfiction

The New Kings of Nonfiction

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Riverhead Books

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Private Parts

Private Parts

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More Than Words

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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

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Simon & Schuster

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Two for the Summit: My Daughter, the Mountain, and Me

Two for the Summit: My Daughter, the Mountain, and Me

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Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting

Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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Conversations with Myself

Conversations with Myself

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More Than Words

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The Boy from the Tower of the Moon

The Boy from the Tower of the Moon

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My War

My War

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The Moth

The Moth

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Hachette Books

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Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady

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Penguin Books

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The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness

The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness

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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

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Scribner

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Dear Mr. Longfellow: Letters to and from the Children's Poet

Dear Mr. Longfellow: Letters to and from the Children's Poet

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Prometheus

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Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life

Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life

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St. Martins Press-3PL

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Jim Henson: The Biography

Jim Henson: The Biography

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More Than Words

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The Andy Warhol Diaries

The Andy Warhol Diaries

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More Than Words

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Things I Learned From Knitting: ...whether I wanted to or not

Things I Learned From Knitting: ...whether I wanted to or not

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Storey Publishing, LLC

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France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child

France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child

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Thames & Hudson

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Restoring Hope

Restoring Hope

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Beacon Press

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