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Schooled
"...at the upper-crust Langdon school, where as the exotic-looking newcomer, she is mistakenly identified as a coveted minority hire. With low pay and even lower expectations from teachers and parents, Anna realizes there's no way she can survive-until she learns about lucrative after-school tutoring gigs..."
(Novel)
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History of Last Night's Dream
"International bestselling author Rodger Kamenetz believes it is not too late to reclaim the lost power of our nightly visions. Kamenetz's exploration of the world of dreams reopens all the questions scientists and psychologists claimed to have settled long ago. The culmination of decades of research..."
(Science)
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Portuguese Irregular Verbs
(3 Novellas) "Portuguese Irregular Verbs follows the Professor from a busman’s holiday researching old Irish obscenities to a flirtation with a desirable lady dentist. In The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, von Igelfeld practices veterinary medicine without a license, transports relics for a schismatically challenged Coptic prelate..."
(Foreign Language Novel)
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The Heretic's Daughter
"Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria..."
(Novel)
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Six Good Innings
"Summertime in Toms River means two things: tourists and champions. The tourists head for the beaches; the 12-year-old Little League champions can be found on the baseball diamonds, where they win titles at the local, regional, and international levels..."
(Sports)
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Enter the Past Tense:
My Secret Life
as a CIA Assassin
"Roland Haas couldn't have picked a better time to release his memoir of life as a CIA assassin. News headlines have been dominated by recently released CIA documents, detailing covert activities from the Vietnam era, exactly the time Haas became an active CIA assassin...(more)"
(Autobiography)
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My Uncle Napoleon
"The most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century. 'God forbid, I've fallen in love with Layli!' So begins the farce of our narrator's life, one spent in a large extended Iranian family lorded over by the blustering, paranoid patriarch, Dear Uncle Napoleon..."
(Foreign Language Novel)
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The Black Hole War:
"Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did-and in doing so put at risk everything we know about physics and the fundamental laws of the universe...THE BLACK HOLE WAR is the thrilling story of their united effort to reconcile Hawking's revolutionary theories of black holes with their own sense of reality-effort that would eventually result..."
(Science)
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The House at Sugar Beach:
In Search of a
Lost African Childhood
"For years the Cooper daughters -- Helene, her sister Marlene, and Eunice -- blissfully enjoyed the trappings of wealth and advantage. But Liberia was like an unwatched pot of water left boiling on the stove. And on April 12, 1980, a group of soldiers staged a coup d'état, assassinating President William Tolbert and executing his cabinet..."
(Autobiography)
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The Given Day
"The Great War is ending; the Bolsheviks are overthrowing the Tsar, the Kaiser is running roughshod over Europe, and the Spanish influenza is beginning its deadly rampage. On American shores, communist and socialist movements are swelling..."
(Novel)
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Storming Las Vegas
"But they had never witnessed anything like Jose Vigoa. Born in Cuba, a child of Fidel Castro’s revolution, Vigoa used his quick wits and quicker fists to trade a life of poverty and desperation for one of danger and adventure as a Soviet-trained special forces officer. Battle hardened in the killing fields..."
(Biography)
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The Summer of
Naked Swim Parties
"Fourteen-year-old Jamie will never forget the summer of 1976. It's the summer when she has her first boyfriend, cute surfer Flip Jenkins; it's the summer when her two best friends get serious about sex, cigarettes, and tanning; it's the summer when..."
(Novel)
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Debunking 9/11 Myths:
Why Conspiracy Theories
Can't Stand Up to the Facts
"These theories claim to be based on hard evidence. But an in-depth investigation by POPULAR MECHANICS--first published in the magazine's March 2005 issue, and now greatly expanded into book form--definitively proves that the evidence most often cited by conspiracy theorists is inaccurate, misinterpreted, or false..."
(Non-Fiction)
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Anathem
"Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community. Yet the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe, becoming out of necessity..."
(Science Fiction)
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It's Hard to Be Five:
Learning How to
Work My Control Panel
"Bestselling author Jamie Lee Curtis once again teams up with Laura Cornell for another sure-to-be winner, this time to celebrate the agony and the ecstasy of being five. Complemented by Cornell's knee-slapping illustrations, which capture a frustrated boy learning to make sense of his changing world..."
(Age Range: 5 to 8)
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The GM:
The Inside Story of a Dream Job
and the Nightmares that Go with It
"In the summer of 2006, the NFL’s most senior general manager, Ernie Accorsi, invited Tom Callahan inside the Giants organization to experience a season—Accorsi’s last—from the front office, the locker room, the sidelines, and the tunnel. Tom made no promises, except that he’d..."
(Sports)
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The First Wave:
A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery
"Part Indiana Jones derring-do and part grown-up adventure novel with spies, black marketers, loyal and dastardly French, and the reliably evil Nazis. If you like World War II historical crime novels, you'll love this one."--Mystery Scene
(Novel)
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The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519
"The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power and fame—Lucrezia Borgia..."
(Biography)
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Orcs
" 'Look at me. Look at the Orc.' " There is fear and hatred in your eyes. To you I am a monster, a skulker in the shadows, a fiend to scare your children with. A creature to be hunted down and slaughtered like a beast in the fields..."
(Novel)
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The World is Curved:
Hidden Dangers
to the Global Economy
"Why did a relatively minor problem in the U.S. subprime mortgage market nearly collapse the entire global financial system? Financial expert and market strategist David Smick says that the Great Credit Crunch of 2007-08 exposed a thicket of hidden problems that now threaten every American.
In The World Is Curved, Smick describes how today's risky environment came to be—and why the mortgage mess is a symptom of future trouble..."
(Non-Fiction)
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The Juice:
The Real Story of
Baseball's Drug Problems
"Baseball is a game that sparks passion, writes Will Carroll, and any attempt to change the game, for almost any reason, meets a nearly universal blockade. The specter that has been presented to fans--that steroids have somehow changed the game--has never been scientifically tested..."
(Sports)
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Right of the Dial:
The Rise of Clear Channel
and the Fall of Commercial Radio
"In Right of the Dial, Alec Foege explores how the mammoth media conglomerate evolved from a local radio broadcasting operation, founded in 1972, into one of the biggest, most profitable, and most polarizing corporations in the country. During its heyday, critics accused Clear Channel, the fourth-largest media company in the United States and the nation's largest owner of radio stations, of..."
(con-Clear Channel)
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Clear Vision:
The Story of
Clear Channel Communications
"From its founding in 1972 by Red McCombs and Lowry Mays, Clear Channel has grown to become the largest radio- and outdoor-advertising company in the world: although their growth has been surrounded by a fair amount of controversy over..."
(pro-Clear Channel)
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Lady Bug Girl
"Lulu's older brother says she is too little to play with him. Her mama and papa are busy too, so Lulu has to make her own fun. This is a situation for Ladybug Girl! Ladybug Girl saves ants in distress, jumps through shark-infested puddles..."
(Age Range 4-8)
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Dial M for Mischief
(Sunshine Girls Series #1)
"Meet the Sunshine girls—three mischievous sisters out to clear their father's name…and maybe get a little romance on the side. Hollywood darling Jolie Sunshine is accustomed to trashy headlines. But the shocking gossip surrounding her father's sudden..."
(Novel)
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Kipps: the Story of a Simple Soul
by H.G. Wells
"Orphaned at an early age, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper that he is the grandson of a wealthy gentleman - and the inheritor of his fortune. Thrown dramatically into the upper classes, he struggles..."
(Novel)
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Bear Trap:
The Fall of Bear Stearns
and the Panic of 2008
"...Bear, Stearns & Co., a storied Wall Street firm with a maverick reputation, had endured many crises in its 85-year history. Nothing, however, could have..."
(Nonfiction)
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Traffic:
Why We Drive the Way We
Do (and What It Says about Us)
"...We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us an exceptionally rich understanding of that passion. Vanderbilt explains why traffic jams form, outlines the unintended consequences of our attempts..."
(Nonfiction)
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Train to Trieste
by Domnica Radulescu
"An incandescent love story—a thrilling debut novel—that moves from Romania to America, from the Carpathian Mountains to Chicago, from totalitarianism to freedom, and from passionate infatuation to profound understanding."
(Fiction)
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Gone Fishin' Portfolio
Get Wise, Get Wealthy
& Get On With Your Life
"The Gone Fishin' Portfolio reveals a specific investment system as powerful and effective as any used by the nation’s top institutions. It enables individual investors to outperform the vast majority of investment professionals while paying nothing in sales charges, brokerage fees, or commissions..."
(Non-fiction)
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War Footing:
Ten Steps America Must Take to Prevail in the War for the Free World
"...can take to ensure their way of life and safety, now and in the future, in the war against Muslim extremists. He gives suggestions for securing the country's borders, preparing for an electro-magnetic pulse attack that could..."
(Nonfiction)
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History
by Elsa Morante
"The central character in this powerful and unforgiving novel is Ida Mancuso, a schoolteacher whose husband has died and whose feckless teenage son treats the war as his playground. A German soldier on his way to North Africa rapes her, falls in love with her..."
Foreign Language Novel
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The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
"Set in the 1860s, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. The dramatic sweep and richness of observation..."
Foreign Language Novel
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Jazz
"...But as I began reading, I soon recognized that Blumenthal had produced the single best compact introduction to jazz currently available. And he did it in fewer than 200 pages of engaging, clearly written prose, accompanied by handsome illustrations and a short but useful glossary. Blumenthal's "Jazz" is the ideal starting point for anyone drawn to the music for the first time."
John Edward Hasse
(Nonfiction)
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Rapture for the Geeks:
When AI Outsmarts IQ
"If computers become twice as fast and twice as capable every two years, how long is it before they’re as intelligent as humans? More intelligent? And then in two more years, twice as intelligent? How long before you won’t be able to tell if you are texting a person or an especially ingenious chatterbot program..."
(Science)
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2666
"Last year's The Savage Detectives by the late Chilean-Mexican novelist Bolaño (1953-2003) garnered extraordinary sales and critical plaudits for a complex novel in translation, and quickly became the object of a literary cult. This brilliant behemoth is grander in scope..."
(Foreign Language Novel)
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Blindness
"A city is hit by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' The blindness spreads, sparing no one. Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards. Inside, the criminal element among the blind hold the rest captive: food rations are stolen, women are raped..."
(Foreign Language Novel)
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The Alchemist
"The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and..."
(Foreign Language Novel)
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The Jewel of Medina
"Born A'isha bint Abi Bakr in seventh century Arabia, she would become the favorite wife of the Prophet Muhammad, and one of the most revered women in the Muslim faith. Married at the age of nine, The Jewel of Medina illuminates the difficult path..."
(Fiction)
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Katie Loves the Kittens
"Katie is so excited when Sara Ann brings home three little kittens that she can’t stop herself from howling “AROOOOO!” and trying to run after them. She loves them so much! But Katie’s enthusiasm frightens the kitties,
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(Age Range 3-8)
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Human Love
"Human Love, the new novel from Andreï Makine, takes as its protagonist Elias, an Angolan who has witnessed and participated in much of that war's long grotesquerie. His story is recounted by the Russian writer he meets in a military prison. If the love..."
(Novel)
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Conquistador
"In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures.
I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.—Hernán Cortés..."
(History)
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The New Annotated Dracula
"Adopting the conceit that Stoker's narrative is based on fact, Klinger elucidates the plot and historical context for both Stoker devotees and those more familiar with Count Dracula from countless popular culture versions. Because he had privileged access to the typescript Stoker delivered..."
(Novel)
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The Trillion Dollar Meltdown
(published: March 2008)
"Charles Morris, author of The Trillion Dollar Meltdown, isn't one for sugarcoating. His analysis is dour and grim, but certainly not dull. And when read against a backdrop of an ever-weaker economy, increasingly anxious economists and a stream of gloomy predictions, it can be downright scary..."
(Nonfiction)
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"In 1915 Minnesota, novelist Monte Becket has lost his sense of purpose. His only success long behind him, Monte lives simply with his wife and son. But when he befriends outlaw Glendon Hale, a new world of opportunity and experience presents itself. Glendon has spent years in obscurity, but the guilt he harbors for abandoning his wife, Blue, over two decades ago, has lured him from hiding..."
(Novel)
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"Martin Manning hasn’t left his apartment or had contact with another human being in thirty years. He’s happy eating his sandwiches, wearing his bathrobe, and watching TV. Martin is going to go on like this forever, alone, the proverbial immovable object. Along comes Case worker Alice Pitney, knocking on doors without apology..."
(Novel
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"Here are the stories of innocent men and women-and the system that put them away under the guise of justice. Actual Innocence sheds light on "a system that tolerates lying prosecutors, slumbering defense attorneys and sloppy investigators" (Salt Lake Tribune)-revealing the shocking flaws that can derail the legal process and the ways that DNA testing has often shattered..."
(Non-Fiction)
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"One climbed to the very top of the social ladder, the other chose to live among tramps. One was a celebrity at twenty-three, the other virtually unknown until his dying days. One was right-wing and religious, the other a socialist and an atheist. Yet, as this ingenious and important new book reveals, at the heart of their lives and writing, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell were essentially the same man."
(Biography)
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"Why would a casino try and stop you from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if a statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted? Today, number crunching affects your life in ways you might never imagine..."
(Science)
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(Age Range:7-10 years)
"Ethan wakes up one morning with a talking cat on his head. The cat refuses to budge until Ethan wins a game of probability. Without looking, Ethan must pick out a dime from his coin collection or two matching socks from his dresser, or do something else improbable..."
(Science)
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"George Webber has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. When he returns to that town he is shaken by the force of the outrage and hatred that greets him. Family and friends feel naked and exposed by the truths they have seen in his book, and their fury drives him..."
(Novel)
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"Crazy '08 recounts the 1908 season—the year when Peerless Leader Frank Chance's men went toe to toe to toe with John McGraw and Christy Mathewson's New York Giants and Honus Wagner's Pittsburgh Pirates in the greatest pennant race the National League has ever seen..."
(Sports)
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"The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world..."
(Science Fiction)
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"Often called the greatest nineteenth-century British novelist, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) created in Middlemarch a vast panorama of life in a provincial Midlands town. At the story’s center stands the intellectual and idealistic Dorothea Brooke—a character who in many ways resembles Eliot herself. But the very qualities that set Dorothea apart from the materialistic, mean-spirited society around..."
(Novel)
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"...we are all susceptible to the lure of the dark side. Drawing on examples from history as well as his own trailblazing research, Zimbardo details how situational forces and group dynamics can work in concert to make monsters out of decent men and women..."
(Non-Fiction)
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"...Jeffrey Meldrum gives us the first book on Sasquatch to be written by a scientist with impeccable academic credentials. He gives an objective look at the facts in a field mined with hoaxes and sensationalism..."
(Non-Fiction)
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"One of the most dangerous, intriguing Mafia chieftains ever, Anthony 'Gaspipe' Casso served as an apprentice thief and killer before rising to boss of the infamous Lucchese crime family, according to Carlo, a childhood neighbor of the South Brooklyn native..."
(Biography)
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"Acceptance is a satire of America's over achievers, a novel set over one year in the college application process, when students and parents surrender their evenings, their weekends, and their sanity to the race for admission. Maya, Taylor, and 'AP' Harry are high school students..."
(Novel)
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Feux Rouges
(Red Lights)
"It is Friday evening before Labor Day weekend. Americans are hitting the highways in droves; the radio crackles with warnings of traffic jams and crashed cars. Steve Hogan and his wife, Nancy, have a long drive ahead—from New York City to Maine, where their children are in camp. But Steve wants a drink..."
(Foreign Language Novel)
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"Burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues, the women--two sisters and one friend--make their way to the sisters' tiny cottage, inherited from an aunt. They're all trying to escape from something..."
(Novel)
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"...one team boosted the NFL to national prominence as none other: the New York Giants. In Giants Among Men,...transports us to the NFL’s golden age to introduce the close-knit and diverse group that won the heart of a city, helped spread the gospel of pro football across the nation, and recast the NFL as a media colossus...."
(Sports)
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"A critical look at the Olympics in the post-bribery, post 9/11 era, particularly at consequences for host cities and so-called "Olympic education" for school children."
(Sports)
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"Everyone everywhere now carries a dizzying array of chemical contaminants, the by-products of modern industry and innovation that contribute to a host of developmental deficits and health problems in ways just now being understood. These toxic substances, unknown to our grandparents, accumulate..."
(Science)
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"Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access..."
(Biography)
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"As founder and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq has used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to capture some of France’s most notorious and elusive criminals. Now he is hot on the trail of a tantalizing mystery—the fate of the young dauphin Louis-Charles, son of Marie-Antoinette..."
(Novel)
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City of Embers
"The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are beginning to flicker. When Lina finds part of an ancient message, she’s sure it holds a secret..."
(Young Adult Novel)
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"...he picks up hitch-hiking Henry Dampier, an innocent nineteen-year-old Bible salesman. Clearwater immediately recognizes Henry as just the associate he needs--one who will believe Clearwater is working as an F.B.I. spy; one who will drive the cars Clearwater steals as ..."
(Novel)
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(The Washington Post - Allen Barra) "The Blind Side, perhaps the best book written about a college football player since Willie Morris's The Courting of Marcus Dupree (1983), grabs hold of you in several ways. On one hand, you'll be appalled..."
(Sports)
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