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Staff Pick
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Bartimaeus 3. Ptolemy's Gate
by Jonathan Stroud
Staff Pick
The Bartimaeus Trilogy brilliantly continues in Stroud's last addition to the series. This fast paced and wholly satisfying story brings Bartimaeus the djinni, Nathaniel the magician, and Kitty together again, fighting against demons, and evil wizards... (read more)

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by Jonathan Stroud
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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
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Breath: A Novel
by Tim Winton
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Small things can deliver the biggest wallop. At just over 200 pages, Tim Winton's Breath is a slim but breathtakingly potent novel about coming of age, the bonds that unite us, and the rifts that can tear us apart with lifelong consequences. Lovers of... (read more)

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