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Dear Readers,

With the holidays behind us, and a new year ahead, let me help you stick to at least one of your resolutions: to read more books. Read about the high school years of Clarence Thomas and Edward P. Jones, before they became the Supreme Court justice and Pulitzer Prize-winning author we know today in Fraternity. Thinking Small, tells the origin story of one of the most beloved cars of our time: the Volkswagen Beetle. And Blood, Bones & Butter, the best-selling autobiography of self proclaimed "reluctant chef" Gabrielle Hamilton, is now available in paperback!

Happy Reading,

Ashley S. Woodfolk

Ashley S. Woodfolk

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IN THIS ISSUE
DELICIOUSLY G-FREE THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON OPEN CITY DARKER AFTER MIDNIGHT ELIZABETH THE QUEEN THE MONEY CLASS BLOOD, BONES & BUTTER THINKING SMALL BREAKING THE RULES FRATERNITY
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New from acclaimed author Dan Chaon

Stay Awake

Before his critically acclaimed novels, Dan Chaon made a name for himself as a renowned writer of dazzling short stories. Now, in Stay Awake, Chaon returns to that form for the first time since his masterly Among the Missing, a finalist for the National Book Award.

In these haunting, suspenseful stories, lost, fragile, searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland. They have experienced intense love or loss, grief or loneliness, displacement or disconnection—and find themselves in unexpected, dire, and sometimes unfathomable situations.

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Getting rid of gluten doesn't have to mean giving up taste. Deliciously G-Free combines Elisabeth Hasselbeck's knowledge for healthy living and passion for tasty food to bring you 100 delectable, easy-to-make, and family-friendly gluten-free recipes. By adding a variety of other ingredients to the fridge and pantry, she's perfected scrumptious zero-gluten versions of old standards and new creations that would make anyone proud.

   

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The Orphan Master's Son
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The Orphan Master's Son

"Pure gold."—Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone

Part breathless thriller, part story of innocence lost, part story of romantic love, The Orphan Master's Son is also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love.

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77 Shadow Street
Now in Paperback: Teju Cole's Open City

Named one of the best books of the year by more than 20 publications including Time, The New Yorker, NPR, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Los Angeles Times

"On the surface, the story of a young, foreign psychiatry resident in post-9/11 New York City who searches for the soul of the city by losing himself in extended strolls around teeming Manhattan. But it's really a story about a lost nation struggling to regain a sense of direction after that shattering, disorienting day 10 years ago. A quiet, lyrical and profound piece of writing."—Seattle Times, 32 of the Year's Best Books

Video: Teju Cole on coming to America

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Darker After Midnight
Darker After Midnight

The climactic novel in Lara Adrian's New York Times bestselling Midnight Breed series, Darker After Midnight invites readers to enter a thrillingly sensual world where danger meets desire.

In the dark of night, a blood war escalates within the hidden world of the Breed. After existing in secret for many long centuries, maintaining a fragile peace with the humans who walk beside them unaware, a single act of retaliation has put the entire vampire nation at risk of discovery. It falls to the Order—a cadre of Breed warriors pledged to protect their own and humankind alike—to stop Dragos, the power-mad vampire at the center of the conflict, before his push for domination can explode into catastrophe.

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Elizabeth the Queen
Elizabeth the Queen

"Sally Bedell Smith, through great reporting and insightful writing, provides a revealing look inside the palace."
—Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs


In this magisterial new biography, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith brings to life one of the world's most fascinating and enigmatic women: Queen Elizabeth.

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The Money Class
Stand in your Truth. Create the Future YOU deserve!

In nine electrifying, empowering classes, #1 New York Times Bestselling author, Suze Orman, teaches us how to navigate these unprecedented financial times.

The Money Class will teach you:

How to find the courage to stand in your truth and why it is a place of power.

What daily actions will restore the word "hope" to your vocabulary.

Everything you need to know about taking care of your family, your home, your career, and planning for retirement—no matter where you are in your life or where the economy is heading.

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Blood, Bones & Butter
Now in paperback: Blood, Bones & Butter

One of the most acclaimed memoirs of 2011

"Magnificent. Simply the best memoir by a chef ever. Ever."—Anthony Bourdain

"Hamilton's writing about food is so vivid it could make you half-crazed with hunger, leaving you in front of the open fridge with a cold chicken leg in one hand and the book in the other."—The Boston Globe

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Thinking Small
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The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle

Sometimes achieving big things requires the ability to think small. This simple concept was the driving force that propelled the Volkswagen Beetle to become an avatar of American-style freedom, a household brand, and a global icon. The VW Bug inspired the ad men of Madison Avenue, beguiled Woodstock Nation, and has recently been re-imagined for the hipster generation. And while today it is surely one of the most recognizable cars in the world, few of us know the compelling details of this car's story. In Thinking Small, journalist and cultural historian Andrea Hiott retraces the improbable journey of this little car that changed the world.

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Breaking the Rules
Breaking the Rules

The latest pulse-pounding novel in Suzanne Brockmann's wildly successful Troubleshooters series.

"Powerful... Brockmann masterfully weaves... a narrative that reaffirms the importance of family."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Fraternity
Fraternity

"Diane Brady's book brilliantly shows how the attention and concern of one man changed not only the course of these individual lives but the course of history."—Wes Moore, author of The Other Wes Moore

On April 4, 1968, the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., shocked the nation. Later that month, the Reverend John Brooks, a professor of theology at the College of the Holy Cross who shared Dr. King's dream of an integrated society, drove up and down the East Coast searching for African American high school students to recruit to the school, young men he felt had the potential to succeed if given an opportunity. Among the twenty students he had a hand in recruiting that year were Clarence Thomas, the future Supreme Court justice; Edward P. Jones, who would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize for literature; and Theodore Wells, who would become one of the nation's most successful defense attorneys.

The inspiring true story of a group of young men whose lives were changed by a visionary mentor.

January is National Mentor Month. Celebrate by sending a Thank You to your mentor.

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