Children's

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The Maze Runner

James Dashner

$16.99

When Thomas wakes up, he's surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade--a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls. Just like Thomas, the Gladers don't know why or how they got there. The next day, a girl arrives with the surprising message that Thomas might be more important than he could ever guess.

This is the first of a new trilogy.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Jeff Kinney

$12.95

An exciting new series begins. Greg Heffley is thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. The hazards of growing up are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as Greg records them in his diary.

Skippy Jones and the Big Bones

Judy Schachner

$16.99

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Holy guacamole! Skippyjon Jones is crazy-loco for dinosaurs! The kitty boy enters (via his closet) the land of dinosaurs in search of the fabled "Skipposaurus." Instead he runs into his old "amigos," the Chimichango gang. When a T-Mex threatens the pack, its El Skippito, the great sword fighter, to the rescue. With yips and yowls, he drives the big baddie away, so all the dino-dudes can rattle their bones another day. This fourth entry in a series that "Kirkus Reviews" called ay caramba, mucho fun, will win even more fans for the Siamese cat with oversize ears and an imagination to match.

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A Carolyn Pick!

Scat

Carl Hiaasen

$16.99

When Mrs. Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, vanishes, the school's headmaster and the police seem to accept an unsigned note explaining that her absence is due to a family emergency. However, Nick and Marta don't buy it, in this latest novel for young readers by the author of "Hoot."

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Duck, Duck, Goose

Tad Hills

$15.99

In this sequel to "Duck & Goose", a domineering girl duckling threatens the friendship between the boyish title characters. As the drama begins, Goose stands in a marsh, waiting expectantly for Duck. He cannot wait to show Duck the blue butterfly that has alighted on his head. Duck, meanwhile, is planning his own show-and-tell. "Just wait until Goose meets Thistle," he thinks as he and a new friend visit "all his and Goose's favorite spots... the lily pond and the shady thicket." When Duck and Thistle race up to Goose, Thistle frightens the butterfly and boasts, "once, "three" butterflies landed on my head at the same time!... That's two more butterflies than you had!" Thistle challenges Goose to races and a handstand contest, winning with ease; Duck is impressed, Goose feels dejected, and Thistle pirouettes proudly. In sunny oil paintings of green grass and blue sky, Hills depicts the overeager newcomer proving herself and driving a wedge between the pals. His tale echoes Kevin Henkes's "Chester's Way", however this third wheel is not just assertive but obnoxious; Thistle is unlikable and, more generally, an off-putting portrait of a bratty, oblivious girl. Duck and Goose reconcile and get some peace by challenging Thistle to a napping contest ("I'm the fastest faller asleeper ever!" she proclaims), then the buddies play while she sleeps. However, silencing the bully is but a temporary fix. The book points out a common dilemma, leaving readers to strategize solutions. Ages 3-7.

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Fiction

What Was Lost

Catherine O'Flynn

$14.00

Long-listed for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and "The Guardian" First Book Award, "What Was Lost" is a tender and sharply observant debut novel about a missing young girl.

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Spooner

Pete Dexter

$26.99

This is the story of the lifelong tie between former naval officer Calmer Ottosson and his step son, Warren Spooner--a troubled adolescent-turned-violent-adult, whom Calmer will never understand.

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Matthew's Story

Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

$24.95

The new novel in the Jesus Chronicles, the bestselling series from the authors of the Left Behind novels, "Matthew's Story" shows how the Messiah changed the life of one man, and forever altered the course of history.

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The Kindly Ones

Jonathan Littell

$6.99

Massive in scope, horrific in subject matter, and shocking in its protagonist, Littell's prize-winning fictional memoir of a former Nazi officer who survives the war is intense and utterly original.

The Leisure Seeker

Michael Zadoorian

$13.99

John and Ella Robina have shared a wonderful life for more than 50 years. Now in their 80s, both have failing health. Yearning for one last adventure, they kidnap themselves from the doctors who seem to run their lives to steal away on a forbidden vacation of rediscovery.

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A Case of Exploding Mangoes

Mohammed Hanif

$15.00

A "Washington Post," "Rocky Mountain News," "Boston Globe" Best Book of the Year
Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betrayal, tyranny, family, and a conspiracy trying its damnedest to happen.
Ali Shigri, Pakistan Air Force pilot and Silent Drill Commander of the Fury Squadron, is on a mission to avenge his father's suspicious death, which the government calls a suicide.Ali's target is none other than General Zia ul-Haq, dictator of Pakistani. Enlisting a rag-tag group of conspirators, including his cologne-bathed roommate, a hash-smoking American lieutenant, and a mango-besotted crow, Ali sets his elaborate plan in motion. There's only one problem: the line of would-be Zia assassins is longer than he could have possibly known.

Breakfast with Buddha

Roland Merullo

$13.95

When Otto's sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto is not amused. In Merullo's masterful hands, Otto tells his story with all the wonder and wry humor of a man who unwittingly finds what he's missing in the most unexpected place.

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Non Fiction

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For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus

Frederick Brown

$28.95

The author of acclaimed biographies of Emile Zola and Flaubert now offers an ambitious, far-reaching portrait of fin-de-siecle France.

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Woodrow Wilson: A Biography

John Milton Cooper, Jr.

$35.00

In the first major biography of America's 28th president in nearly two decades, one of America's foremost presidential scholars gives readers a vigorous, lasting record of Wilson's life and achievements.

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Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

Garry Wills

$27.95

From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills comes this groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy, and why we have been in a state of war alert ever since.

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Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

Richard Florida

$16.00

From the bestselling author of "The Rise of the Creative Class" comes a brilliant book on the surprising importance of place. "Who's Your City?" offers the first available city rankings by life-stage, rating the best places for singles, families, and empty-nesters to reside.

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The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War

James Carl Nelson

$25.99

A compelling tale of battle rooted in one man's search for his grandfather's legacy, this work follows the members of Company D, 28th Infantry Regiment, United States First Division, from enlistment to combat to the effort to recover their remains, focusing on three major battles during World War I.

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Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949

Richard Reeves

$28.00

The author of the bestsellers "President Nixon" and "President Kennedy" details the harrowing journey of two men who risked their lives to defy the Soviet blockade intended to drive Western powers out of Berlin.

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Why Unions Matter

Michael D. Yates

$17.95

In this new edition of Why Unions Matter, Michael D. Yates shows why unions still matter. Unions mean better pay, benefits, and working conditions for their members; they force employers to treat employees with dignity and respect; and at their best, they provide a way for workers to make society both more democratic and egalitarian. Yates uses simple language, clear data, and engaging examples to show why workers need unions, how unions are formed, how they operate, how collective bargaining works, the role of unions in politics, and what unions have done to bring workers together across the divides of race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation. The new edition not onlyupdates the first, but also examines the record of the New Voice slate that took control of the AFL-CIO in 1995, the continuing decline in union membership and density, the Change to Win split in 2005, the growing importance of immigrant workers, the rise of worker centers, the impacts of and labor responses to globalization, and the need for labor to have an independent political voice. This is simply the best introduction to unions on the market.

Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy

Leslie H. Gelb

$15.99

Inspired by Machiavelli's classic "The Prince," Leslie H. Gelb offers illuminating guidelines on how American power actually works and should be wielded in today's tumultuous world. Writing with the perspective of four decades of extraordinary access and influence in government, think tanks, and journalism, Gelb provides an incisive look at the major U.S. foreign-policy triumphs and tragedies of the past half century, and offers practical rules on how to effectively exercise power today. "Power Rules" is an impassioned challenge to both liberals and conservatives and a plea to reclaim the true meaning of power and the essential role of common sense in solving global problems.

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Cooking/Food/Wine

Eat This!: 1,001 Things to Eat Before You Diet

Ian Jackman

$14.95

From coast to coast, here is a fun and fulfilling survey of the best foods around. Jackman wants readers to escape the guilt and anxiety propagated by a diet-obsessed society and instead indulge their taste buds with foods they absolutely must eat.

The Deluxe Food Lover's Companion

Sharon Tyler Herbst, et al.

$29.99

Based on the popular and authoritative "The New Food Lover's Companion," this enlarged and enhanced reference volume provides more than 6,700 entries--glossaries and descriptions, sidebar features, and tips--along with hundreds of illustrations and pithy quotes from chefs and gourmets about food and dining.

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Flying Apron's Gluten-Free & Vegan Baking Book

Jennifer Katzinger

$21.95

Flying Apron Bakery has become famous for serving up tasty and delicious baked goods to those with celiac disease and for others on a gluten-free diet. Bakery owner Katzinger shares her favorite dishes and secrets to gluten-free baking.

Chicago Cooks: 25 Years of Food History with Menus, Recipes, and Tips from Les Dames d'Escoffier Chicago

Carol Mighton Haddix

$30.00

Female leaders in Chicagos food and dining world tell how the citys food scene grew and evolved, touching on landmark restaurants like Charlie Trotters and Frontera Grill, the rise of ethnic cuisines, and the proliferation of shops, markets, and classes serving the ever more sophisticated home cook. The book also includes a bounty of 75 recipes.

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Ballad

Maggie Stiefvater

$9.95

In this mesmerizing sequel to "Lament," music prodigy James Morgan and his best friend, Deirdre, join a private conservatory for musicians. James' musical talent attracts Nuala, a soul-snatching faerie muse who fosters and feeds on the creative energies of exceptional humans until they die.

Everlost

Neal Shusterman

$8.99

Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident, but their souls don't go where they're supposed to, either. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith

$14.95

A true American classic first published in 1943, this is the tale of a little girl living in the slums of Brooklyn, who dreamily watches out her window as a tree struggles to reach the sky.

Crossing Stones

Helen Frost

$16.99

Written in beautifully structured verse, "Crossing Stones" captures nine months in the lives of two resilient families struggling to stay together and cross carefully, stone by stone, into a changing world.

Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side

Beth Fantaskey

$8.99

Marrying a vampire definitely doesn't fit into Jessica Packwood's senior year "get-a-life" plan. But then a bizarre (and incredibly hot) new exchange student named Lucius Vladescu shows up, claiming that Jessica is a Romanian vampire princess by birth--and he's her long-lost fianc.