Non-Fiction

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And other thoughts on being a woman.

Nora Ephron

$12.95

With her disarming, intimate, and dry sense of humor, Ephron shares her ups and downs in this bestselling look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.

The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow

$21.95

Based on the extraordinary final lecture by Carnegie Mellon University professor Pausch, given after he discovered he had pancreatic cancer, this moving book goes beyond the now-famous lecture to inspire readers to live each day with purpose and joy.

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Armageddon in Retrospect: And Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace

Kurt Vonnegut

$24.95

The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death, a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and humanity's tendency toward violence.
"Armageddon in Retrospect" is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegutas trademark rueful humor, the pieces range from a visceral nonfiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden during World War IIaan essay that is as timely today as it was thenato a painfully funny short story about three Army privates and their fantasies of the perfect first meal upon returning home from war, to a darker, more poignant story about the impossibility of shielding our children from the temptations of violence. Also included are Vonnegutas last speech as well as an assortment of his artwork, and an introduction by the authoras son, Mark Vonnegut. "Armageddon in Retrospect" says as much about the times in which we live as it does about the genius of the writer.

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Young Adult

Before I Die

Jenny Downham

$15.99

Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the constraints of 'normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa's feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, and her new boyfriend, all are painfully crystallised in the precious weeks before Tessa's time finally runs out.

Once Upon a Time in the North (with removable gameboard)

Philip Pullman

$12.99

Featuring the illustrations of John Lawrence and a removable board game inside the back cover, this exquisite prequel to Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy offers a glimpse into the friendship of two of the trilogy's most beloved characters--Texan aeronaut Lee Scoresby and armored bear Iorek Byrnison.

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Carpe Diem

Autumn Cornwell

$16.95

Take a traveler as reluctant as Anne Tyler's accidental tourist and add the number of misadventures found in "The Out-of-Towners, " and you have the recipe for Cornwell's hilarious, adventure-packed first novel. Valedictorian hopeful Vassar Spore has her summer all planned out when her bohemian grandmother somehow blackmails her Type A parents into letting her take Vassar backpacking through Malaysia, Cambodia and Laos. So instead of enrolling in AP courses in summer school, Vassar finds herself hiking through jungles with Grandma Gerd and an Asian cowboy chaperone, and battling food poisoning, venom-carrying critters and primitive tribes (one of which holds Vassar hostage). The more humiliations and unwanted surprises Vassar endures, the more likable she becomes, shedding pride and primness along with her obsessive reliance on routine. Her rapid succession of crises, while jaw-dropping, appears more plausible than the family secret that is revealed bit by bit during the course of their travels. Although readers will probably figure out the mystery long before the protagonist does, the exotic settings and the wacky predicaments will exercise a strong enough grip to hold readers' imaginations.

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Fiction

The Maytrees

Annie Dillard

$13.95

In this powerfully moving novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dillard displays penetrating insight into the human condition with a remarkable story about the unknowable, unbreakable bonds of love and family.

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The Dead Fathers Club

Matt Haig

$14.00

A triumph of originality and humor, this clever novel by British author Matt Haig gives us "Hamlet" redux with an unforgettable voice all his own. When eleven-year-old Philip Noble is confronted by the ghost of his recently deceased father and asked to avenge his death, the boy finds himself in a thorny dilemma. Revenge, after all, is tricky business. . . .

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Out Stealing Horses

Per Petterson

$14.00

Panoramic and gripping, it tells the story of Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man who has moved from the city to a remote, riverside cabin, only to have all the turbulence, grief, and overwhelming beauty of his youth come back to him one night while he's out on a walk. From the moment Trond sees a strange figure coming out of the dark behind his home, the reader is immersed in a decades-deep story of searching and loss, and in the precise, irresistible prose of a newly crowned master of fiction.
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael Chabon

$15.95

he Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" pens an homage to the stylish menace of 1940s noir, in a novel that imagines if Alaska, not Israel, had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II.

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Billie Standish Was Here

Nancy Crocker

$16.99

As relentless rain raises the nearby river, Billie thinks she and her parents are the only people staying in their town and face the threat of flood. They are--except for their elderly neighbor Miss Lydia. Billie forms a friendship with Miss Lydia born out of circumstance, but when Billie faces tragedy, Miss Lydia takes matters into her own hands.

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Love is a Many Trousered Thing

Louise Rennison

$16.99

In this eighth entry of this bestselling series, Georgia thought life was hard when her only worry was whether Masimo would choose her over Wet Lindsay. But then Dave the Laugh starts acting strange--and everything is turned upside-down when Robbie the Sex God returns.

It Had to Be You: Gossip Girl Prequel

Cecily Von Ziegesar Handler

$17.99

Taking place over their sophomore year, "It Had to Be You" unveils the secrets behind the hot and sultry summer that Blair, Serena, and Nates love triangle begins--and theres a lot more to this story than anyone realizes, in this hotly anticipated prequel to the #1 "New York Times" bestselling series and hot new televeisioon series.

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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.