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Book cover of The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries

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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries

4.6/ 5
$1.99$14.99−87%

Price dropped Oct 17

Eric Ries's The Lean Startup is a business book for founders and intrapreneurs that reframes building a company as a series of experiments rather than a bet on one grand plan. If you've ever burned months perfecting a product nobody asked for, it offers a disciplined alternative: test your assumptions before you stake the business on them.

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Book cover of Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It by Adam Savage

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Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

by Adam Savage

4.6/ 5
$1.99$14.99−87%

Price dropped Oct 4

Adam Savage, longtime Mythbusters host, puts the maker mindset on the page. Forty-plus years of hands-on building become a practical creativity guide, and the real move is how it translates shop-floor thinking into lessons anyone who makes things, with their hands or their head, can actually put to use.

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Book cover of The Queen City Detective Agency by Snowden Wright

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The Queen City Detective Agency

by Snowden Wright

4.0/ 5
$1.99$12.99−85%

Price dropped Oct 11

Snowden Wright's The Queen City Detective Agency drops a jaded ex-cop turned private investigator into 1985 Meridian, Mississippi, where a real-estate developer's murder and a Dixie Mafia affiliate's suspicious jailhouse death pull her into a web of old-guard corruption — a Southern noir that earns its atmosphere through moral specificity rather than regional sentiment.

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Book cover of The Giver (Giver Quartet, Book 1) by Lois Lowry

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The Giver (Giver Quartet, Book 1)

by Lois Lowry

4.7/ 5
$1.99$11.99−83%

Price dropped Oct 11

Lois Lowry's Newbery-winning novel drops a boy into a community that has traded color, pain, and choice for perfect order, then hands him the one job that lets him see what was given up. It's the rare dystopia built for readers just old enough to notice the wiring under the floorboards.

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Book cover of Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg PhD

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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

by BJ Fogg PhD

4.6/ 5
$2.99$14.99−80%

Price dropped Oct 13

BJ Fogg, the Stanford researcher behind a lot of modern behavior science, argues that lasting change comes not from willpower or grand resolutions but from habits so small they're almost laughable, anchored to things you already do and wired in with a jolt of celebration. It's warm, systematic, and genuinely usable.

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Book cover of The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn

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The Woman in the Window

by A. J. Finn

4.2/ 5
$2.99$14.99−80%

Price dropped Oct 9

A. J. Finn's The Woman in the Window locks the reader into a Harlem brownstone with Anna Fox, an agoraphobic child psychologist who drinks through her prescriptions, watches old noir on a loop, and swears she saw the neighbor across the park murdered. Nobody believes her. Neither, for a long stretch, do you.

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Book cover of Feeling Good: Overcome Depression and Anxiety with Proven Techniques by David D. Burns M.D.

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Feeling Good: Overcome Depression and Anxiety with Proven Techniques

by David D. Burns M.D.

4.5/ 5
$2.99$12.99−77%

Price dropped Oct 15

David Burns's Feeling Good is the classic that brought cognitive behavioral therapy to the kitchen table. Decades on, its core move — catch the distorted thought, write it down, talk back to it — still holds up as a practical, do-it-yourself toolkit for low mood.

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Book cover of The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

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The Exorcist

by William Peter Blatty

4.7/ 5
$2.99$12.99−77%

Price dropped Oct 15

William Peter Blatty's 1971 novel spends its first third on blood work, EEGs, and specialists, and that clinical patience is exactly why the horror lands. The Exorcist is a possession story built as a process of elimination, anchored by a Jesuit psychiatrist who has already lost his faith and has to certify a miracle anyway.

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Book cover of Bird Box by Josh Malerman

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Bird Box

by Josh Malerman

4.5/ 5
$2.99$11.99−75%

Price dropped Oct 12

Something outside makes anyone who sees it turn violent. Josh Malerman's debut follows Malorie down twenty miles of river in a rowboat, blindfolded, with two children trained from birth to listen for what she cannot look at. Horror stripped back to sound, and one of the tensest survival novels of the last decade.

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Book cover of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

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The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

4.2/ 5
$4.99$12.99−62%

Price dropped Oct 10

Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half follows identical twins who run from a small Black Louisiana town and wind up living on opposite sides of the color line, one passing as white, the other returning home with a dark-skinned daughter. It's a literary family saga about identity, inheritance, and the cost of reinvention, told across four decades.

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Book cover of Wool by Hugh Howey

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Wool

by Hugh Howey

4.6/ 5
$14.69$35.99−59%

Price dropped Oct 8

Hugh Howey's Wool is dystopian science fiction built on one chilling premise: humanity survives in a single buried silo, and the worst punishment is being sent outside to clean. It's a claustrophobic survival thriller with real ideas about control, hope, and the lies a society tells to keep itself together.

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Book cover of Seek the Traitor's Son by Veronica Roth

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Seek the Traitor's Son

by Veronica Roth

4.4/ 5
$6.99$14.99−53%

Price dropped Oct 12

Veronica Roth opens a dystopian romantasy series with a prophecy that names two enemy soldiers, both women: one is promised victory, one a love story. It never says which fate belongs to whom, or which belongs to the man standing at the center of both. The uncertainty is the engine.

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Book cover of The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

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The Last House on Needless Street

by Catriona Ward

4.0/ 5
$9.76$19.99−51%

Price dropped Oct 8

Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is psychological horror that runs on misdirection rather than gore: a boarded-up house at the edge of the Washington woods, a man with holes in his memory, a girl kept indoors, and a cat who reads scripture. Deliberately disorienting, it rewards readers willing to sit in confusion.

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Book cover of The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur by Lev Grossman

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The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur

by Lev Grossman

4.5/ 5
$6.99$12.99−46%

Price dropped Oct 2

Lev Grossman picks up the Arthur legend at its lowest moment — the king dead, Camelot in ashes — and hands the salvage operation to the misfits. The Bright Sword is a melancholy, talky, often funny epic about second-string knights trying to rebuild a world that's already lost its meaning.

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Book cover of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

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The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

4.5/ 5
$13.91$24.69−44%

Price dropped Sep 27

Markus Zusak's The Book Thief hands the story of a German girl in the Hitler years to the one narrator who sees all of it: Death. The result is a coming-of-age novel about a child who steals books in a country burning them, and about the people who keep her human while the world comes apart.

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Book cover of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert by John Gottman PhD

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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert

by John Gottman PhD

4.6/ 5
$7.99$12.99−38%

Price dropped Sep 4

John Gottman's The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work distills decades of watching real couples in his lab into practical, testable habits. It's the rare relationship book whose advice rests on actual data about what makes marriages last.

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Book cover of Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

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Annihilation

by Jeff VanderMeer

4.1/ 5
$9.67$15.03−36%

Price dropped Oct 9

Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation drops four unnamed women into Area X, a stretch of coast where nature has swallowed civilization and the laws of biology have gone quietly wrong. The Nebula-winning opener of the Southern Reach trilogy is eerie, hypnotic literary science fiction that prizes dread and atmosphere over tidy answers.

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Book cover of Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Fully Revised and Updated for 2018 by Vicki Robin

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Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Fully Revised and Updated for 2018

by Vicki Robin

4.4/ 5
$9.99$14.99−33%

Price dropped Oct 8

Your Money or Your Life isn't really a budgeting book; it's a philosophy of money disguised as one. Vicki Robin's nine-step program asks you to measure spending in hours of your life rather than dollars, and that one reframing has quietly launched a movement.

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Book cover of Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter

by Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.6/ 5
$12.09$18.18−33%

Price dropped Oct 8

A pocket-sized hardback that treats one hypothetical alien encounter as two problems at once: a physics question and a mirror held up to us. Tyson plays it as part science explainer, part deadpan etiquette guide, and it carries far more weight than the cute premise lets on.

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Book cover of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond

4.5/ 5
$9.99$14.99−33%

Price dropped Aug 25

A Harvard sociologist embeds for years with eight families and two landlords in Milwaukee, and turns eviction from a dry statistic into a human catastrophe you cannot look away from. Reported nonfiction that reads with the propulsion of a novel and the moral weight of a verdict.

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Book cover of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

4.6/ 5
$22.90$33.58−32%

Price dropped Oct 11

Michelle Alexander argues, with a litigator's discipline, that America's war on drugs and its machinery of mass incarceration did not dismantle the country's racial caste system but quietly rebuilt it under a new and colorblind-sounding name. A landmark argument that reshaped a generation's debate.

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Book cover of Best Laid Plans by Gwen Florio

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Best Laid Plans

by Gwen Florio

4.3/ 5
$12.60$17.95−30%

Price dropped Oct 13

Gwen Florio's BEST LAID PLANS opens a cozy mystery series with a heroine who's just torched her old life at fifty. Nora Best has swapped a faithless marriage for an Airstream and a cross-country escape, but a night at a Wyoming campground goes wrong, a man vanishes, and Nora finds herself the prime suspect in his apparent murder.

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Book cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

by David Grann

4.6/ 5
$10.48$14.94−30%

Price dropped Oct 13

David Grann's The Wager takes a single 18th-century shipwreck and turns it into a study of how survival corrodes order and how empires manufacture their own truth. It braids a sea voyage, an island ordeal, and a court martial into one argument about whose version of events gets to become history.

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Book cover of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

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Sapiens

by Yuval Noah Harari

4.5/ 5
$19.66$28.00−30%

Price dropped Oct 7

Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens is big history with a thesis: that Homo sapiens came to rule the planet not through strength but through our talent for believing in shared stories. It's a sweeping, argument-driven survey that runs from the first toolmakers to the brink of bioengineering, and it wants you to argue with it.

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