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Literature
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Flight: A Novel
Flight: A Novel
by Sherman Alexie
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Darkly funny, sharply observant, Flight lays bare the experience of a teenaged outsider circa 2007. Alternately heartbreaking and wondrous, Sherman Alexie's first novel in ten years tells the story of an orphan careening through foster homes until... (read more)

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Photography
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The Ansel Adams Guide: Basic Techniques of Photography - Book Two
The Ansel Adams Guide: Basic Techniques of Photography - Book Two
by John P Schaefer
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The continuation volume to the highly successful "Basic Techniques of Photography, Book 1", this profusely illustrated manual offers a contemporary guide to Ansel Adams' brilliant approach to creative photography. 320 illustrations, 160 in color. 30... (read more)

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Children's
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The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
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Privileged young narrator Amir comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy in Afghanistan, then must endure revolution, invasion and a country's long struggle to triumph over violent forces.... (read more)

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Science Fiction and Fantasy
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The Time Traveler's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
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"Inspired by her grandparents' love story in which the grandmother outlived her husband by nearly three decades, Niffenegger has invented Henry and Clare, and their unique and complicated love story involving the ability to live in the past and future in... (read more)

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Religion Eastern
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Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life
Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life
by Judith Lasater
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If you think that you have to escape to a cave in the Himalayas to find the enlightenment that yoga promises, think again. In Living Your Yoga, Judith Lasater stretches the meaning of yoga beyond its familiar poses and breathing techniques to include the... (read more)

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Popular Fiction
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High Crimes
High Crimes
by Joseph Finder
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Star attorney Claire Heller Chapman has known only love and respect from her successful husband. But now police are saying Tom Chapman is not who he says he is. Thirteen years ago, they claim, he had a different face and a different name -- and was... (read more)

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Mystery
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Grave Secrets
Grave Secrets
by Kathy Reichs
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Kathy Reichs would appear to be one of the busiest authors out there — she's a forensic anthropologist, a teacher, and she writes books, too! And, Reichs's career mirrors the life of her main character, Dr. Temperance Brennan. In Grave Secrets... (read more)

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Graphic Novels
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The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle
The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle
by Jim Butcher and Ardian Syaf
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When the supernatural world spins out of control, when the police can't handle what goes bump in the night, when monsters come screaming out of nightmares and into the mean streets, there's just one man to call: Harry Dresden, the only professional... (read more)

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Westerns
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Comstock Lode
Comstock Lode
by Louis Lamour
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It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures—they were lured by the glittering promise... (read more)

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World History
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The Road from Coorain
The Road from Coorain
by Jill Ker Conway
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One women's journey from a childhood in Australia's outback to adulthood as a successful American career woman. The Road From Coorain is about Everywoman, for it is about childhood loneliness, anguished parent-child relationships, dawning sensibility... (read more)

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Sports and Fitness
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The Skier's Edge
The Skier's Edge
by Ron Lemaster
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The Skier's Edge is one of those rare books that translates the technical expertise of elite skiers into easy-to-understand, practical terms for serious skiers. It not only explains the mechanics of great skiing; it also shows how it looks-step by step... (read more)

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Foreign Languages
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Rick Steves' Spanish Phrase Book & Dictionary (Rick Steves' Phrase Books)
Rick Steves' Spanish Phrase Book & Dictionary (Rick Steves' Phrase Books)
by Rick Steves
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Informative, concise, and practical, Rick Steves' Phrase Book and Dictionary is an essential item for any traveller.... (read more)

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Humor
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Yukon Ho! (Calvin and Hobbes)
Yukon Ho! (Calvin and Hobbes)
by Bill Watterson
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The spirit of childhood leaps to life again with boundless energy and magic in Yukon Ho!, a collection of adventures featuring rambunctious six-year-old Calvin and his co-conspirator tiger-chum, Hobbes. Picking up where The Essential Calvin and Hobbes... (read more)

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