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Kids and Young Adults
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Holes
Holes
by Louis Sachar
Publisher Comments
Check out the Holes tour with Louis Sachar! Monday, October 20th, 7:00 p.m. Anderson’s Bookshop, Naperville, IL Tuesday, October 21st, 7:00 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Skokie, IL Wednesday, October 22nd, 7:00 p.m., Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop... (read more)

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Favorites
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Anansi Boys
Anansi Boys
by Neil Gaiman
Publisher Comments
Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider's on his doorstep — about to make Fat Charlie's... (read more)

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Comix
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The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
by Art Spiegelman
Staff Pick
Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's... (read more)

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Nonfiction
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
Staff Pick
Gladwell's appeal can be traced directly to his studied obsession with familiar objects and events, and his remarkable talent for synthesizing complicated ideas into compelling stories. In The Tipping Point, the author set out to describe how ideas... (read more)

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Recent and Recommended
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Lush Life: A Novel
Lush Life: A Novel
by Richard Price
Publisher Comments
"So, what do you do?" Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter... But now he's thirty-five years old and he's still living on the Lower East Side, still in the restaurant business, still serving... (read more)

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Crime
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Tishomingo Blues
Tishomingo Blues
by Elmore Leonard
Publisher Comments
Dennis Lenahan the high diver would tell people that if you put a fifty-cent piece on the floor and looked down at it, that's what the tank looked like from the top of that eighty-foot steel ladder. Dennis is a daredevil and the girls love him. Things... (read more)

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Film
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Screenwriters' Masterclass: Screenwriters Talk about Their Greatest Movies
Screenwriters' Masterclass: Screenwriters Talk about Their Greatest Movies
by Kevin Conroy Scott
Publisher Comments
An extraordinary collection of interviews with 21 of the leading screenwriters of our day for aspiring screenwriters, film students, and enthusiasts alike. Journalist and film industry insider Kevin Conroy Scott presents an invaluable screenwriting... (read more)

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Kids and Young Adults
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The Graveyard Book
The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
Staff Pick
Neil Gaiman has once again created a world filled with both dark humor and adventure. Nobody Owens, orphaned as an infant, is raised by the ghosts, ghouls, and werewolves of a graveyard. Exciting and oddly touching!... (read more)

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Sale Books
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The Sea of Trolls
The Sea of Trolls
by Nancy Farmer
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Jack was eleven when the berserkers loomed out of the fog and nabbed him. "It seems that things are stirring across the water," the Bard had warned. "Ships are being built, swords are being forged." "Is that bad?" Jack had asked, for his Saxon... (read more)

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Used Books
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Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995
Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995
by Joe Sacco
Publisher Comments
In 1996, Joe Sacco won the American Book Award for his groundbreaking work Palestine, a first-person journalistic account of the situation in the occupied territories, told in comics form. Naseer H. Aruri, Professor of Political Science at the University... (read more)

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Bestsellers

Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Holes
  1. Holes
    by Louis Sachar
  2. The Graveyard Book
    by Neil Gaiman
  3. Anansi Boys
    by Neil Gaiman
  4. The Sandman #03: Dream Country
    by Neil Gaiman
  5. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
    by Malcolm Gladwell
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