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Call Me by Your Name: A Novel

Now a major motion picture from director Luca Guadagnino, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet. Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay

Celebrate André Aciman’s sensational novel with a dynamic new audiobook read by Armie Hammer

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year 

A Washington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year 

A New York magazine “Future Canon” Selection 

A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year 

One of The Seattle Times’ Michael Upchurch’s Favorite Books of the Year 

Call Me by Your Name first swept across the world in 2007. It is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the restless summer weeks, unrelenting but buried currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them and verge toward the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. André Aciman’s critically acclaimed debut novel is a frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion. 

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The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name

The Moonbeam Award Gold Medal Winner in the religion category, The Jesus Storybook Bible tells the Story beneath all the stories in the Bible. At the center of the Story is a baby, the child upon whom everything will depend. Every story whispers his name. From Noah to Moses to the great King David-every story points to him. He is like the missing piece in a puzzle-the piece that makes all the other pieces fit together. From the Old Testament through the New Testament, as the Story unfolds, children will pick up the clues and piece together the puzzle. A Bible like no other, The Jesus Storybook Bible invites children to join in the greatest of all adventures, to discover for themselves that Jesus is at the center of God’s great story of salvation-and at the center of their Story too.

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The Spy with No Name

For fans of John le Carré and Robert Ludlum, The Spy with No Name is the unbelievable true story of Erwin van Haarlem, a Cold War secret agent whose stolen identity broke the heart of an innocent woman – who thought she’d found her long-lost son.

In 1977, Johanna van Haarlem, 52, finally tracked down the son she had abandoned as a baby, during the Second World War. She was delighted that he had grown into a charming Dutch waiter in London. But Erwin van Haarlem was actually a dangerous Communist spy who had stolen her son’s identity to uncover British and American military secrets.

In this true-life spy thriller, award-winning journalist Jeff Maysh tracks down the former spy in Prague, who tells his remarkable story. Maysh skillfully reconstructs one of the most unusual cases in espionage history, as Erwin van Haarlem maintains his top secret mission for 11 years…while pretending to be a stranger’s son. Enter a world of betrayal, secret codes, invisible ink, and mysterious radio messages, where nobody is beyond suspicion.

Jeff Maysh investigates unusual true crimes and urban legends. His deeply immersive stories have appeared in publications including The Atlantic, Playboy, and Smithsonian.

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No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Stories

Jack ‘No Middle Name’ Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex-military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. This is the first time all Lee Child’s shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher has been collected into one volume. A brand-new novella, Too Much Time, is included, as are those previously published only in ebook form: Second Son, James Penney’s New Identity, Guy Walks into a Bar, Deep Down, High Heat, Not a Drill and Small Wars. Added to these is every other Reacher short story that Child has written: ‘Everyone Talks’, ‘Maybe They Have a Tradition’, ‘No Room at the Motel’ and ‘The Picture of the Lonely Diner’. Together, these 12 stories shed new light on Reacher’s past, illuminating how he grew up and developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of millions around the world.

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My Name is Markham: The Chronicles of St Mary’s

Best-selling author Jodi Taylor returns with a brand-new Chronicles of St Mary’s short story.

Like a smaller and much scruffier Greta Garbo – finally – Markham speaks!

It’s Christmas and time for the first (and almost certainly last) St Mary’s Annual Children’s Christmas Party – attendance compulsory, by order of Dr Bairstow. Discovered practising his illegal reindeer dance and poo-dropping routine, our hero, along with fellow disaster magnets Peterson and Maxwell, is dispatched to Anglo-Saxon England to discover the truth about Alfred and the cakes. In his own words, our hero reveals Major Guthrie’s six-point guide to a successful assignment and the Security Section’s true opinion of the History Department. And of historians in general. And of one historian in particular.

And, just to be clear, it is time travel, for God’s sake. Forget all that pretentious ‘investigating major historical events in contemporary time’ rubbish. This is history without the capital H. Because this is the way the Security Section rolls!

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Code Name: Camelot: Noah Wolf, Book 1

After witnessing the murder-suicide of his parents as a child, Noah Wolf suffers from a form of PTSD that has left him without emotion, without a conscience, and without the ability to function as a normal human being. With the help of childhood friends, he learns to watch others around him and mimic their behaviors, in order to conceal the fact that his mind operates more like a computer that he has spent years programming. That program is what allows Noah to pass himself off as normal, by establishing parameters of right and wrong that are completely inviolable to him.

As a young adult, Noah finds structure in the U.S. Army, and becomes an excellent and exemplary soldier, but when his self-imposed programming is put to the test by the murderous acts of the superior officer, Noah finds himself quickly made expendable, charged with crimes he did not commit and facing the possibility of execution. Without any reasonable hope for a reprieve, Noah’s logic-based mind accepts his fate.

Sometimes, though, things are not all as they seem to be, and Noah is offered one chance to save himself. It was his disability, his lack of emotion, that made him the soldier he had become. Now, an ultra-secret organization known as E&E wants Noah’s talents, offering him a chance to survive as the most deadly assassin the world has ever known.

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My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel

A new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is cause for celebration. Her bestselling novels, including Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys, have illuminated our most tender relationships. Now, in My Name Is Lucy Barton, this extraordinary writer shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all—the one between mother and daughter.
 
Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn’t spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy’s childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy’s life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two daughters. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable.
 
Praise for Elizabeth Strout
 
“Strout has a magnificent gift for humanizing characters.”—San Francisco Chronicle
 
“What truly makes Strout exceptional . . . is the perfect balance she achieves between the tides of story and depths of feeling.”—Chicago Tribune
 
“[Strout] constructs her stories with rich irony and moments of genuine surprise and intense emotion.”—USA Today
 
“Strout animates the ordinary with an astonishing force.”—The New Yorker
 
“[Strout’s] themes are how incompletely we know one another, how ‘desperately hard every person in the world [is] working to get what they need,’ and the redemptive power in little things—a shared memory, a shock of tulips.”—PeopleAn Amazon Best Book of January 2016: Do not be misled by the slimness of this volume, the quietness of its prose, the seeming simplicity of its story line: Elizabeth Strout’s My Name is Lucy Barton is as powerful and disturbing as the best of Strout’s work, including the Pulitzer Prizewinning Olive Kitteridge. In fact, it bears much resemblance to that novel– and to Strout’s debut Amy and Isabelle–in that it deals with small-town women, who are always more complicated than they seem and often less likable than many contemporary heroines. Here, Strout tells the story of a thirtysomething wife and mother who is in the hospital for longer than she expected, recovering from an operation. She’s not dying, but her situation is serious enough that her mother– whom she has not seen in many years– arrives at her bedside. The two begin to talk. Their style is undramatic, gentle– just the simple unspooling of memories between women not generally given to sharing them; still, the accumulation of detail and the repetitive themes of longing and lifelong missed connections add up to revelations that, in another writer’s heavy hands, might be melodramatic. In Strout’s they are anything but. Rarely has a book been louder in its silences, or more plainly and completely devastating. –Sara Nelson

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Breaking Bad – Say My Name – Badass Quotes

“Well, it’s just basic chemistry, yo.”

With a precise mix of epic stills from all five seasons of Breaking Bad and a slew of the most memorable lines from the series, you’ll be flying high with Breaking Bad – Say My Name – Badass Quotes. Celebrate one of television’s most popular shows with 64 pages of color photographs and quotes from the show. Ordered by season and episode, the spreads are punctuated with character profiles of Walter White, Jesse Pinkman, Saul Goodman, Gustavo Fring and more. Using some of the most famous and popular scenes, you’ll dive right into Heisenberg’s world, and relish some of your favorite parts of the series.

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My Name Is New York – Deluxe Audio Book

3-CD narrated audio book guide to 19 locations in NYC where Woody Guthrie lived and wrote. Written and narrated by Woody’s daughter, Nora Guthrie – you’ll actually be able to hear these stories told by those who knew him best, in many different ways and through various encounters and circumstances; music partners Pete Seeger, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Sonny Terry, and Bess Lomax Hawes, Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, and many others share their memories with you first-hand.

TRACK LISTING:

DISC 1 ~ February 16, 1940 – November, 1942

1 – 59th Street at 5th Avenue

2 – Hanover House, 101 West 43rd Street

3 – 57 East 4th Street

4 – 31 East 21st Street

5 – 5 West 101 Street

6 – 70 East 12th Street

7 – 130 West 10th Street

8 – 430 6th Avenue

9 – 148 West 14th Street

10 – 647 Hudson Street

DISC 2 ~ December, 1942 – October 3, 1967

1 – 74 Charles Street

2 – 3815 Atlantic Avenue

3 – 3520 Mermaid Avenue

4 – 49 Murdock Court

5 – 517 East 5th Street

6 – Brooklyn State Hospital

7 – 159-13 85th Street

8 – Creedmore State Hospital

9 – Final Resting Place

DISC 3 ~ The Songs

1 – New York Town

2 – The New York Trains

3 – Union Maid

4 – My New York City

5 – Tom Joad

6 – Man’s A Fool

7 – Vigilante Man

8 – Union Air in Union Square

9 – Round and Round Hitler’s Grave

10 – Jesus Christ

11 – Beatitudes

12 – This Land Is Your Land

13 – Go Coney Island, Roll On The Sand

14 – Howdi Do

15 – My Name Is New York

16 – Go Down to the Water

*Total time ~ 167:34