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"Race for the Record: The Great Home Run Chase of 1998"
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"Plum Island"
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"The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton"
by Jane Smiley
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The always inventive Jane Smiley ventures into the world of
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"Diatoms to Dinosaurs: The Size and Scale of Living Things"
by Christopher McGowan
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Scientist Christopher McGowan explores the size-related
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"Jim Fowler's Wildest Places on Earth"
by Jim Fowler
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Naturalist Jim Fowler travels to the earth's most exotic and
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"Secrets of the Ocean Realm"
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"Secrets of the Ocean Realm," a companion to the PBS
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"Hornet's Nest"
by Patricia Cornwell
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Queen of forensics fiction Patricia Cornwell temporarily
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"The Laws of Our Fathers"
by Scott Turow
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Attorney-turned-novelist Scott Turow delivers another moving
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"Just Desserts"
by Jerry Oppenheimer
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"My Old Man and the Sea"
by David Hays and Daniel Hays
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In this touching travel memoir, Daniel, a newly graduated
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"Moonwar"
by Ben Bova
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"Moonwar," the sequel to Ben Bova's 1996 book "Moonrise,"
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of a lunar-based community. Although Moonbase is thriving,
its technology has been declared illegal on Earth, and its
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"The Science Fiction Century"
edited by David G. Hartwell
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"The Science Fiction Century" is an impressive anthology of
classic and contemporary sci-fi stories from the 1890s
onward. The 45 featured authors include H.G. Wells,
C.S. Lewis, and Robert Silverberg.
"The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide"
by Douglas Adams
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All five bestselling Hitchhiker novels and the story "Young
Zaphod Plays It Safe" are collected here in "The Ultimate
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"Man's Best Friend"
by William Wegman
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William Wegman is widely respected for his photographs of
the majestic Weimaraner dog. One of his first models (and
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"Witches: A Book of Magic and Wisdom"
by Lori Eisenkraft-Palazzola
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Witches have never had an easy time--burned in the Middle
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them as strong, spiritual women. Anecdotes, detailed prose,
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"Beetlemania"
by Kate McLeod
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The release of the new Beetle in 1998 triggered a new
wave of enthusiasm for this most endearing of cars, and
"Beetlemania" will delight Bug nuts everywhere. The book
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"Inside the Third Reich"
by Albert Speer
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"Inside the Third Reich" gives chilling insight into life
within Hitler's inner circles. Albert Speer, Germany's
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"The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing"
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"I Ain't Got Time to Bleed"
by Jesse Ventura
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FOR YOUR REFERENCE
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