Unforgettable Books
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The Marriage Portrait: Reese's Book Club
WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court. "I could not stop reading this incredible true story." --Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club Pick) "O'Farrell pulls out little threads of historical detail to weave this story of a precocious girl sensitive to the contradictions of her station...You may know the history, and you may think you know what's coming, but don't be so sure." --The Washington Post Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father just as quick to accept on her behalf. Having barely left girlhood behind, Lucrezia must now enter an unfamiliar court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed. Perhaps most mystifying of all is her new husband himself, Alfonso. Is he the playful sophisticate he appeared to be before their wedding, the aesthete happiest in the company of artists and musicians, or the ruthless politician before whom even his formidable sisters seem to tremble? As Lucrezia sits in constricting finery for a painting intended to preserve her image for centuries to come, one thing becomes worryingly clear. In the court's eyes, she has one duty: to provide the heir who will shore up the future of the Ferranese dynasty. Until then, for all of her rank and nobility, the new duchess's future hangs entirely in the balance. Full of the beauty and emotion with which she illuminated the Shakespearean canvas of Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell turns her talents to Renaissance Italy in an extraordinary portrait of a resilient young woman's battle for her very survival.
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The Masked Superstar Takes on the World: The Bill Eadie Story: The Bill Eadie Story
In 1974, highschool teacher, coach and professional wrestler, Bill Eadie donned the hood of The Masked Superstar. From that moment, Bill traveled the world working with all the best talent in the territories. Join us as Bill shares with us stories from the days before the face paint.
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The Master Licensing Board Prep Pack
Credentialing & Exam Prep Suite The Master Licensing Board Prep Pack The Advanced 3-Volume Study Array for Passing Journeyman and Master Plumbing Exams on the First Attempt Curated Examination Set: 3 High-Yield Study Volumes | Target: Aspiring Journeymen, Master Candidates, & Trade Instructors Don't Let the State Board Exam Stand Between You and Your License Passing the municipal or state plumbing board exam requires much more than field experience and mechanical skill. Board examinations are deliberately designed to test your mental endurance, speed under pressure, and mastery of dense statutory legal code. Far too many exceptional mechanics fail their licensing tests on the first try—not because they cannot run pipe, but because they stumble over codebook navigation, advanced trade geometry, and isometric blueprint calculations. The Master Licensing Board Prep Pack is an uncompromised, professional study framework built specifically to eliminate exam anxiety and guarantee a passing score. This strategic bundle strips away non-essential theory and focuses exclusively on high-yield test criteria. By pairing comprehensive, rule-by-rule code cross-references with massive diagnostic practice pools and structural math breakdowns, this premium suite simulates the exact rigor of state testing environments. Whether you are aiming for your Journeyman card or scaling your business potential with a Master Plumbing License, this kit provides the ultimate competitive edge. What's Inside the Prep Pack: 1. Plumbing Licensing Study Guide (1st Edition) — Rex Miller & Mark R. Miller The baseline blueprint for state exam prep. This comprehensive study guide provides a deeply structured roadmap of licensing expectations. It covers vital regulations, installation rules, and administrative steps necessary to transition your field trade skills into official board credentials, serving as an outstanding initial textbook framework. 2. Plumber's Handbook Revised (6th Edition) — Howard Massey & David M. Gans The master technical reference manual. Massey and Gans detail the comprehensive physical mechanics, mathematical layouts, and sizing tables mandated across uniform national plumbing codes. Packed with detailed illustrations, system schematics, and clean interpretations of legal thresholds, it serves as your primary reference anchor to quickly master venting parameters, fixture calculations, and cleanout placements. 3. Audel Questions and Answers for Plumbers' Examinations (All New 4th Edition) — Rex Miller The ultimate test-simulation workbook. This legendary Audel engine trains your brain to tackle actual board exam questions under strict time constraints. It covers hundreds of real-world test examples, clear explanations for tricky code exceptions, and rapid-fire Q&A drills that help you master calculations, memorize material rules, and eliminate exam-day surprises. Examination Readiness & Educational Workforce Alignment: This targeted curriculum is heavily utilized across state trade networks to accelerate license advancement and optimize workforce training protocols: • Master Plumber Exam Prep Labs • Journeyman License Board Review • Vocational Apprenticeship Curricula • Union Hall Training Libraries • Open-Book Code Speed Exercises • Mechanical Trade Certification Courses • Multi-State Reciprocity Exam Prep • Contractor Workforce Advancement Ordering for a school, union hall, or service fleet? Contact us for volume tier discounts and institutional purchase order provisioning. National Logistics & Fleet Logistics • Swift, flat-rate shipping directly to vocational academies, union training halls, company headquarters, or individual residential doorsteps nationwide. • Bulk order manifests, seamless institutional tracking, and enterprise purchase order processing executed via our dedicated corporate support channels. Uncompromising Quality Guarantee All study manuals, test-prep matrices, and reference guides in this preparation package are fulfilled exclusively as pristine, unblemished retail hardbacks or paperbacks sourced directly from verified primary publishing distribution networks. Professional Trade Books & Licensing Examination Review Distribution Network. All Rights Reserved.
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The Materiality of Individuality: Archaeological Studies of Individual Lives (2009): Archaeological Studies of Individual Lives
Generally individuals in history are known for a particular reason - they somehow influenced history. Very little is known about the ordinary person who lived in the past. But historical archaeologists - through their interpretation of the material culture and historic record - can study the past on an individual level. This brings archaeological interpretation from a micro to a macro level - as opposed to the traditional level of society to community to individual interpretation. The cases presented in this volume engage material culture that is owned or used by a single person and is thus associated with an individual at some point in its uselife. The volume takes bodkins, shoes, beads, cloth, religious items, grave goods, as well as subassemblages from well-defined contexts from New England, the Chesapeake, New Orleans, Hawaii, Spanish colonial America, and London in the pursuit of the individual and the textured interpretation this analytical scale provides. This volume promises to present innovative approaches to a host of archaeological materials, drawing widely on the range of archaeological research for the historical period today. Capitalizing on several topics and research threads with great currency, such as the examination of material culture and interest in various and intersecting lines of identity construction, as well as presenting an international and multiregional approach to these topics, this volume will be of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, material culture scholars, and social historians interested in a wide variety of time periods and subfields.
$109.99
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The Mazzel Ritual: Culture, Customs and Crime in the Diamond Trade (2009): Culture, Customs and Crime in the Diamond Trade
In this original book cultural anthropologist Dina Siegel follows the route of a diamond from the mines of Africa to the shops of Europe and the United States. The book is about the diamond business itself as well as about the people involved in it.
$109.99
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The Memory Museum: Stories: Stories
Stretching from the present to the future, from China to America and beyond, M Lin's piercing debut collection depicts characters finding beauty amidst the disorientation of migration, the contradictions of living between cultures, the perverse realities of race and class, and the delicate dance between survival and resistance. In "Scenes from Childhood," an elderly woman in a dystopian reality is visited by forgotten memories of her grandfather's village. In "Magic, or Something Less Assuring," a fraying couple goes on a divorce honeymoon in Morocco to surprising results. "You Won't Read This in the News" imagines four migrant workers and petty thieves who forge an unshakable connection across one desperate night. A filmmaker thwarted by censorship untangles her fraught relationship to motherhood and artmaking in "Tough Egg." And in a newly instated Memory Museum generations into the future, two sensory architects weave a moving tapestry of love and radical hope. Brimming with joy, insight, and emotional power, The Memory Museum unveils M Lin as an irresistible new talent with fearless political and stylistic imagination.
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The Mermaid Chair
A transcendent tale of a woman's self-discovery--the New York Times-bestselling second work of fiction by the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings Inside the church of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. When Jessie Sullivan is summoned home to the island to cope with her eccentric mother's seemingly inexplicable behavior, she is living a conventional life with her husband, Hugh, a life "molded to the smallest space possible." Jessie loves Hugh, but once on the island, she finds herself drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk about to take his final vows. Amid a rich community of unforgettable island women and the exotic beauty of marshlands, tidal creeks, and majestic egrets, Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, with a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right, and with the immutable force of home and marriage. Is the power of the mermaid chair only a myth? Or will it alter the course of Jessie's life? What happens will unlock the roots of her mother's tormented past, but most of all, it will allow Jessie to discover selfhood and a place of belonging as she explores the thin line between the spiritual and the erotic.
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The Messenger
On the trail of a deadly al-Qaeda operative, Gabriel Allon returns in a spellbinding story of deception, power, and revenge by the #1 New York Times bestselling "world-class practitioner of spy fiction" (Washington Post). Gabriel Allon--art restorer and spy--is about to face the greatest challenge of his life. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, and photographs are found on his computer--photographs that lead Israeli intelligence to suspect that al-Qaeda is planning one of its most audacious attacks ever, aimed straight at the heart of the Vatican. Allon and his colleagues soon find themselves in a deadly duel of wits against one of the most dangerous men in the world--a hunt that will take them across Europe to the Caribbean and back. But for them, there may not be enough of anything: enough time, enough facts, enough luck. All Allon can do is set his trap--and hope that he is not the one caught in it.
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The Method: A Thriller: A Thriller
From the author of The Night Agent--the #1 global Netflix sensation--comes an edge-of-your-seat thriller about a young actress who must go undercover in a deadly world of espionage to save her best friend...and herself.A silent war.An unlikely spy.She's done playing by their rules.Actress Anna Vaughn is fearless--on screen, at least. She tends to play doomed brunettes with a badass streak, and has put in countless hours training for parts and learning how to fight, shoot, and drive like a pro.She likes to believe she is as tough as her characters, but off-camera she leads a far quieter life: trying to keep her acting career alive so she can take care of her younger sister.When her best friend Natalie, her rock, disappears after a night out with a mysterious new man, the signs point to foul play and a circle of spies operating in Manhattan. Anna must use all the tricks she's learned for her roles to hunt for her missing friend. She quickly learns the dangers are all too real.She crosses paths with Kevin Matthews, an FBI agent on the same trail, tracking a string of killings and disappearances and a powerful clique of oligarchs. With Matthews as her handler, she has only days to prepare for the greatest performance of her life--going undercover. She will follow in her friend's footsteps through the gilded mansions, yachts, and secret clubs of New York to infiltrate the conspiracy and bring Natalie home.As the killers close in, her only chance for survival is to become as lethal as the characters she once played.No camera. No script. Just instinct.
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The Midnight Club (Original)
A twisty, nostalgic, emotionally thrilling novel about a group of estranged college friends who experiment with a secret substance that allows them to re-live their memories--and the fallout when they uncover startling truths about a dark event from their past"A strange, riveting, brilliant fable. Like a fever-dream of Donna Tartt's The Secret History." --LEV GROSSMAN"How could you leave the past undisturbed when it was hiding parts of you from yourself?"It's been twenty-five years since The Midnight Club last convened. A tight-knit group of college friends bonded by late nights at the campus literary magazine, they're also bonded by something darker: the death of their brilliant friend Jennet junior year. But now, decades later, a mysterious invitation has pulled them back to the pine-shrouded Vermont town where it all began.As the estranged friends gather for a weeklong campus reunion, they soon learn that their host has an ulterior motive: she wants them to uncover the truth about the night Jennet died, and she's provided them with an extraordinary method--a secret substance that helps them not only remember but relive the past.But each one of the friends has something to hide. And the more they question each other, the deeper they dive into their own memories, the more they understand that nothing they thought they knew about their college years, and that fateful night, is true.The Midnight Club explores that innate desire to revisit our first loves, our biggest mistakes, and the gulf between who we are and who we hoped we'd be.
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The Midnight Feast
A special limited paperback edition with sprayed edges of the instant New York Times bestseller--a deliciously twisty locked room mystery set at a luxe coastal retreat from the author of The Paris Apartment and The Guest List.Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin...It's the opening night of The Manor, the newest and hottest luxury resort, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles. The "Manor Mule" cocktail (grapefruit, ginger, vodka, and a dash of CBD oil) is being poured with a heavy hand. Everyone is wearing linen.But under the burning midsummer sun, darkness stirs. Old friends and enemies circulate among the guests. Just outside the Manor's immaculately kept grounds, an ancient forest bristles with secrets. And it's not too long before the local police are called. Turns out the past has crashed the party, with deadly results.THE GIRLBOSS - THE HUSBAND - THE KITCHEN HELP - THE MYSTERY GUESTEveryone's got a secret. Everyone's got an agenda. But not everyone will survive...The Midnight Feast.
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The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick
The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction A Good Morning America Book Club Pick Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year "A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."--The Washington Post The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book. Don't miss Matt Haig's latest instant New York Times besteller, The Life Impossible, available now Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
$18.00
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