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Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective

Crown Archetype
416 pages
$28


“Basketball legend Pat Summitt recalls her life in vivid detail, describing its triumphs, both on and off the court…. With her trademark honesty and grace, Summitt reveals her fears, her early anger and astonishment, her diminishing abilities, her decision to retire, and how her faith sustains her.”

USA Today

Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective

How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick's Robotic Resurrection

Henry Holt and Co.
288 pages
$17.95


How to Build an Android is an attempt to bring the science fiction legend back to life as a robot.”

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How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick's Robotic Resurrection

Snail Shell Cave

The National Speleological Society
240 pages
$40


“Snail Shell Cave is part of a vast, underground drainage system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, that begins near Eagleville then flows northeast for 13 miles to emerge as a huge spring on the bank of the West Fork of the Stones River. …This book is lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps. It begins with the early exploration in the 1950’s by Tom Barr and other local cavers, follows exploration and mapping throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s, and continues up through the current daring and exciting exploration by cave divers.”

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Snail Shell Cave

The Vulture

Cannongate UK
244 pages
$10.50


“A tense and intriguing murder mystery . . . a fascinating portrait of late ’60s New York.”

Mojo

The Vulture

The Way We Sleep

Curbside Splendor
240 pages
$19.99


“At once a hybrid text and a compendium of tales related more or less loosely to the theme of sleep, this generously sized volume edited by C. James Bye and Jessica Bye offers flash-length tidbits and short stories by well-known and less well-known writers, interviews with movie and TV directors, and a healthy dose of comics.”

Los Angeles Review

The Way We Sleep

Hunting Daylight

Berkley
560 pages
$6.50


“This book is fantastic. A perfect blend of Dan Brown’s religious intrigue, Michael Crichton’s scientific thriller, and Anne Rice’s vampire novels.”

Portland Book Review

Hunting Daylight

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