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Literature
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Chocolat (Tie-In)
Chocolat (Tie-In)
by Joanne Harris
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An enchanting novel about a small French village turned upside down by the arrival of a bewitching chocolatier, Vianne, and her daughter. Insistent upon opening a chocolate shop just before Lent, Vianne turns the local priest into her archenemy. As Lent... (read more)

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Photography
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Olaf Otto Becker: Broken Line
Olaf Otto Becker: Broken Line
by Olaf Otto Becker
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Olaf Otto Becker, born in 1959, worked for almost four years and covered thousands of miles by boat creating these photographs of the coastline of Greenland. The resulting images, made in the clear light of the midsummer night over long exposures, are... (read more)

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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Aladdin Fantasy)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Aladdin Fantasy)
by Robert C Obrien
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Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be... (read more)

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Stardust: Being a Romance Within The Realms of Faerie
Stardust: Being a Romance Within The Realms of Faerie
by Neil Gaiman
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In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, there is a town that has stood on a jut of granite for six hundred years. And immediately to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the village is named. Here in the town of Wall, Tristran Thorn... (read more)

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Religion Eastern
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The Recluse of Loyang: Shao Yung and the Moral Evolution of Early Sung Thought
The Recluse of Loyang: Shao Yung and the Moral Evolution of Early Sung Thought
by Don J Wyatt
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Few thinkers have stood as squarely at both the center and the periphery of an intellectual movement as has Shao Yung (1011-1077). Ethical model and eccentric, socialite and eremite, Shao Yung is perhaps not only the greatest enigma of early Neo... (read more)

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Wish You Well
Wish You Well
by David Baldacci
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David Baldacci has always delivered great stories, authentic characters, and thought-provoking ideas since he burst on the literary scene with Absolute Power. Now this versatile writer movingly evokes the charms of rural America as he makes us believe in... (read more)

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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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Graphic Novels
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Palestine
Palestine
by Joe Sacco
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A single volume collection of the landmark novel by Joe Sacco.... (read more)

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Westerns
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Plainsmen #05: Devil's Backbone: The Modoc War, 1872-3
Plainsmen #05: Devil's Backbone: The Modoc War, 1872-3
by Terry Johnston
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The Modoc Indians and American officials had been flirting with war in the Oregon Territory for some time. When Modoc chief Keintpoos murdered a Civil War hero during negotiations, the U.S. Army launched a deadly offensive against the rebel tribe... (read more)

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World History
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
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In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an... (read more)

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Sports and Fitness
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Inner Game of Tennis Revised Edition
Inner Game of Tennis Revised Edition
by W Timothy Gallwey
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The Inner Game of Tennis is a revolutionary program for overcoming the self-doubt, nervousness, and lapses of concentration that can keep a player from winning. Now available in a revised paperback edition, this classic bestseller can change the way the... (read more)

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Foreign Languages
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Pocket Korean Dictionary (Periplus Pocket Dictionary)
Pocket Korean Dictionary (Periplus Pocket Dictionary)
by Seong Chul Shin
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- Ideal dictionaries for beginning students and travelers- Handy slim size to fit the pocket or purse with attractive, colorful covers- The Periplus Pocket Dictionary Series is simply the best grab-and-go travel companion on the market... (read more)

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Humor
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Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
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The first collection of the increasingly popular comic strip that features a rambunctious 6-year-old boy and his stuffed tiger who comes charmingly to life.... (read more)

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