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The
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Ron
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Darling--member
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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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American
Lightning: Terror, Mystery, Movie-Making, and the
Crime of the Century
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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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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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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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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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
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routine (p. 24).
And tons of other neat-o things you need to know
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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
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cafe. But then their simple arrangement is thrown
into disarray when Floss's mum decides to move
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