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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
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The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she... (read more)

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Perfect Portrait Guide: How to Photograph People
Perfect Portrait Guide: How to Photograph People
by Michael Busselle
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People are by far the most popular photographic subject. From taking informal shots to using backgrounds, colours and studio lighting, this book contains advice on how to get the best from models, whether posed or candid portraits. Lenses, film, light... (read more)

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Children's
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Magic Tree House Series #30: Haunted Castle on Hallow's Eve
Magic Tree House Series #30: Haunted Castle on Hallow's Eve
by Mary Pope Osborne
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The intrepid Jack and Annie are summoned once again to the fantasy realm of Camelot. There, Merlin the Magician tells them that the Stone of Destiny has been stolen. The answer to its disappearance lies within a haunted castle. With a young magician... (read more)

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Remnant Population
Remnant Population
by Elizabeth Moon
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For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia’s home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her one surviving child, lovingly tended her garden... (read more)

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Religion Eastern
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Sudden Awakening: Into Direct Realization
Sudden Awakening: Into Direct Realization
by Eli Jaxon Bear
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Awakening is a living transmission of silence and freedom, writes Eli Jaxon-Bear, granting final liberation to everyone. A teacher in the self-realization movements of Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Poonjaji, and Gangaji, Jaxon-Bear presents a unique map of... (read more)

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The Whole Truth
The Whole Truth
by David Baldacci
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Dick, I need a war. Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. Dick Pender is the man Creel retains to perception manage his company to even more riches by manipulating international... (read more)

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Separation of Power
Separation of Power
by Vince Flynn
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CIA superagent Mitch Rapp is back in action in Vince Flynn's high-velocity New York Times bestseller. Newly appointed CIA director Dr. Irene Kennedy is the target of an inside plot to destroy her and prematurely end the American President's term. To make... (read more)

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The Secret Art of DR. Seuss
The Secret Art of DR. Seuss
by Dr. Seuss
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These fabulous, whimsical paintings, created for his own pleasure and never shown to the public, show Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) in a whole new light. Depicting outlandish creatures in otherworldly settings, the paintings use a dazzling rainbow of hues... (read more)

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Westerns
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Sacketts #12: The Skyliners: The Sacketts
Sacketts #12: The Skyliners: The Sacketts
by Louis Lamour
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The Sackett boys weren't out to make a reputation -- it just happened that way. They had crossed Black Fetchen and lived to tell about it. Now Fetchen was coming for them with the most expensive hired guns in the country. But the Sacketts were no... (read more)

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World History
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
by Carlo Ginzburg
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"A wonderful book... Ginzburg is a historian with an insatiable curiosity, who pursues even the faintest of clues with all the zest of a born detective until every fragment of evidence can be fitted into place." -- New York Review of... (read more)

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Sports and Fitness
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Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Cofounder
Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Cofounder
by Kenny Moore
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Moore, a marathon runner and one of Bill Bowermans Oregon men, tells the story of his mentor and hero, drawing on years of taped interviews and the full cooperation of the Bowerman family and Nike, the company that Bowerman helped to found.... (read more)

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Spanish Verbs Tenses (Practice Makes Perfect)
Spanish Verbs Tenses (Practice Makes Perfect)
by Dorothy De Richmond
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Important features include theoretical and practical information. Ample practice exercises in a work book format. Charts of the forms of the regular verbs in all tenses, as well as the forms of important irregular verbs.... (read more)

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Humor
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht and Dozens of Experts
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Danger! It lurks at every corner. Volcanoes. Sharks. Quicksand. Terrorists. The pilot of the plane blacks out and it's up to you to land the jet. What do you do? The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook is here to help: jam-packed with how-to, hands-on,... (read more)

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