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Week of November 16, 2015

Releases for the week of November 16th include THE SLOW REGARD OF SILENT THINGS by Patrick Rothfuss, which brings us into the world of one of The Kingkiller Chronicle’s most enigmatic characters, a broken girl trying to live in a broken world; Helene Tursten's THE BEIGE MAN, in which a dead pedestrian and the discovery of a young girl's corpse in a cellar leads to an investigation by Detective Inspector Irene Huss, who is drawn into the chilling world of sex trafficking; and BILLY JOEL, acclaimed music journalist Fred Schruers' unprecedented look at the life, career and legacy of the pint-sized kid from Long Island who became a rock icon.

November 2015

November's roundup of History titles includes THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE TRIPOLI PIRATES by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger, the little-known story of how a newly indepen­dent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America’s third president decided to stand up to intimidation; TO HELL AND BACK, acclaimed scholar Ian Kershaw’s long-anticipated analysis of the pivotal years of World War I and World War II; HUBRIS, in which Sir Alistair Horne revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation and geopolitical goals of aggressors and defenders to reveal the one trait that links them all: hubris; and THE WASHINGTONS by Flora Fraser, a full-scale portrait of the marriage of the father and mother of our country --- and of the struggle for independence that he led.