Non-Fiction

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The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound

Ron Darling

$24.95

Darling--member of the 1986 World Series-winning Mets team and one of today's most articulate and insightful broadcasters--provides a deeper appreciation of what happens on the baseball diamond.

Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth About the American Voter

Rick Shenkman

$14.95

Bestselling historian Shenkman takes aim at the great national piety: the wisdom of the American people. He writes that American voters are misusing, abusing, and abdicating their political power.

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Howard Blum

$24.95
A masterpiece of narrative history that vividly brings to life the original crime of the century, "American Lightning" shows the lasting impact the 1910 bombing of the "Los Angeles Times" offices had on three remarkable individuals and, through them, the country itself.

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Young Adult

3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows

Ann Brashares

$18.99
The author of the bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series introduces the girls in a new sisterhood in this new series. Summer is a time to grow, and Polly, Joe, and Ama each sprout into young adulthood over the course of one summer.

My Life As A Rhombus

Varian Johnson

$9.95

Staying on track at school means a boy-free equation for Rhonda Lee, who spends most evenings doing homework and eating Chinese takeout with her dad. While Rhonda needs a scholarship for college, some kids at her private high school, like beautiful Sarah Gamble, seem to coast along on popularity and their parents' money.

When forced to tutor Sarah in trigonometry, Rhonda recognizes all too well the symptoms-queasiness, puking, exhaustion-that Sarah is trying to mask. On a sudden impulse, Rhonda shares her past with Sarah. Exchanging their secrets adds up to more truths than either girl would have dreamed.

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The Abhorsen Chronicles: Sabriel/Lirael/Abhorsen

Garth Nix

$14.99

All three novels in Nix's bestselling Abhorsen trilogy are now collected in a single volume than includes a bonus novella about the world of Abhorsen, previously published in "Across the Wall." Includes "Sabriel, Lirael," and "Abhorsen."

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Fiction

Snuff

Chuck Palahniuk

$14.95

From the master of literary mayhem and provocation and bestselling author of "Fight Club" comes this full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before.

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Songs for the Butcher's Daughter

Peter Manseau

$25.00

Reminiscent of Nicole Krauss's "The History of Love," Manseau's debut novel introduces readers to two people whose lives merge unexpectedly in the last years of the 20th century: Itsik Malpesh, a 90-something Russian poet and his 21-year-old American translator.

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Sing Them Home

Stephanie Kallos

$25.00

With her bestselling debut novel, "Broken for You," Kallos established herself as a writer of uncommon "wisdom and soulfulness" (Sue Monk Kidd). "Sing Them Home" is a magnificent tapestry of lives connected and undone by tragedy, lives poised--unbeknownst to the characters--for redemption.
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Young Adult

The White Darkness

Geraldine McCaughrean

$8.99

The first contemporary young adult novel by Carnegie Medalist McCaughrean is a spellbinding journey in which a dream trip is turned into a mad obsession, a web of lies, and a nightmarish struggle for survival.

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Life As It Comes

Anne-Laure Bondoux

$7.99

Sisters with nothing in common? That's Mado and Patty.
Studious and responsible, 15-year-old Mado is the family brain. Patty, on the other hand, is a carefree 20-year-old party girl who lives on her own and has plenty of boyfriends. The two are following divergent paths . . . until their parents die in a car accident and a family court judge reluctantly appoints Patty as her sister's guardian.
Now these two improbable siblings face the challenges of growing up together--but it's Mado who quickly assumes the big sister's role. And it's not a role she particularly wants--especially after Patty announces that she's several months pregnant. . . .
Anne-Laure Bondoux writes with insight, humor, and poignancy about the bonds between sisters--and the challenges of everyday life.

Wicked: Witch & Curse

Nancy Holder and Debby Viquie

$7.99

After her parents are killed, Holly Cathers is sent to live with her cousins, Amanda and Nicole. Soon the three girls embark into a dark legacy of witches, secrets, and alliances. The first two books in the popular Witches series arenow together in a single volume.

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Children's

Gallop!

Rufus Butler Seder

$12.95

There's never before been a book like "Gallop!" Employing a patented new technology called Scanimation, each page is a marvel that brings animals, along with one shining star, to life with art that literally moves. It's impossible not to flip the page, and flip it again, and again, and again.
A first book of motion for kids, it shows a horse in full gallop and a turtle swimming up the page. A dog runs, a cat springs, an eagle soars, and a butterfly flutters. Created by Rufus Butler Seder, an inventor, artist, and filmmaker fascinated by antique optical toys, Scanimation is a state-of-the-art six-phase animation process that combines the "persistence of vision" principle with a striped acetate overlay to give the illusion of movement. It harkens back to the old magical days of the kinetoscope, and the effect is astonishing, like a Muybridge photo series springing into action--or, in terms kids can relate to, like a video without a screen. Complementing the art is a delightful rhyming text full of simple questions and fun, nonsense replies: "Can you gallop like a horse? giddyup-a-loo! Can you strut like a rooster? cock-a-doodle-doo!"
Every child who opens the book will be amazed--and so will every parent.

George's Secret Key to the Universe

Lucy & Stephen Hawking

$17.99

In his first book for children, the worlds preeminent theoretical physicist and author of "A Brief History of Time" teams with his daughter for a tale of a boy who befriends a computer that helps him to travel to other planets and a black hole. Includes four 8-page full-color inserts of scientific photos.

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The Girl's Book: How to be the Best at Everything

Juliana Foster

$9.99

How to do almost anything in one handy little book!
Want to be known for your unique style? Inside you'll learn how to design your own clothes (p. 35), do the perfect manicure (p. 82), or make your own lip gloss (p. 11).
Feel like impressing your friends? Show them how you can make a crystal (p. 16), juggle one-handed (p. 33), or deal with a bully (p. 42).
Bored and need something to do? Not anymore when you find out how to keep a secret diary (p. 88), make a scrapbook (p. 9), or put together a dance routine (p. 24).
And tons of other neat-o things you need to know how to do!

Candyfloss

Jaqueline Wilson

$14.95

Floss's parents split up when she was younger and she now divides up her week, spending five days with her mum, her mum's new boyfriend and her new baby half-brother. The other two days Floss spends with her dad, helping him to run his greasy spoon cafe. But then their simple arrangement is thrown into disarray when Floss's mum decides to move to Australia for six months. Floss has to choose whether to go with her or stay with her dad. Another gripping and emotionally involving slice of family life from the award-winning, bestselling author, Jacqueline Wilson.