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  1. American Heritage Dictionary 4TH Edition by American Heritage
  2. Harpercollins Student Notebook Spanish Dictionary (04 Edition) by Harper Collins Publishing Staff
  3. Touching Spirit Bear (01 Edition) by Ben Mikaelsen
  4. Twilight (Twilight Saga #1) by Stephenie Meyer
  5. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
  6. First Part Last (03 Edition) by Angela Johnson
  7. The New Best Recipe (Best Recipe) by Cooks Illustrated
  8. Touching Spirit Bear (05 Edition) by Ben Mikaelsen
  9. Graphic Guide To Frame Construction Rev Edition by Rob Thallon
  10. Practicing College Learning Strategies (4TH 07 Edition) by Carolyn H. Hopper
  11. The Shack by William P Young
  12. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  13. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
  14. Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper
  15. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
  16. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  17. Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim
  18. The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross
  19. Merriam Webster Dictionary New Edition by Merriam Webster
  20. The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries) by Sandra Cisneros

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The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries) The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Sandra Cisneros

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Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and... (read more)

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Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs
by Ansel Adams

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Ansel Adams recounts the circumstances surrounding the making of many of his most famous photographs and the methods he used in their realization. Each image is accompanied by a narrative that explores the technical and aesthetic problems presented by... (read more)

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Hole in My Life Hole in My Life
by Jack Gantos

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Becoming a writer the hard way In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht... (read more)

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Xenocide (Ender Wiggins Saga #3) Xenocide (Ender Wiggins Saga #3)
by Orson Scott Card

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The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright.On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent... (read more)

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Religion Eastern

Meditation: A Simple Eight-Point Program for Translating Spiritual Ideals Into Daily Life Meditation: A Simple Eight-Point Program for Translating Spiritual Ideals Into Daily Life
by Eknath Easwaran

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Meditation outlines a unique approach to tapping inner resources by training concentration on inspirational passages. Eknath Easwaran's practical Eight Point Program offers specific, systematic tools to sharpen concentration, deal effectively with stress,... (read more)

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Popular Fiction

The Wheel of Darkness The Wheel of Darkness
by Douglas Preston

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FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and... (read more)

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Die Trying Die Trying
by Lee Child

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When a woman is kidnapped, Jack Reacher's in the wrong place at the wrong time. He's kidnapped with her. Now he has to save them both.... (read more)

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Graphic Novels

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
by Chris Ware

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Brightly and beautifully designed, this "comic book" is encyclopedic, dense eye-candy illustrating an oppressively sad story of injury and loneliness. Ware's book is a semi-autobiographical account of his first contact with the father who... (read more)

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Westerns

Sixth Shotgun Sixth Shotgun
by Louis Lamour

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Two of L'Amour's most exciting works are paired together in this one volume. Includes the title story, about a stagecoach robbery and frontier justice, and an original version of the short story "The Rider of Ruby Hills," one of L'Amour's greatest tales... (read more)

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World History

Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time
by Doris Pilkington

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The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian desert on foot to return to their home. Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by... (read more)

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Sports and Fitness

Joe Weider's Ultimate Bodybuilding Joe Weider's Ultimate Bodybuilding
by Joe Weider

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"This massive and authoritative Master Blaster book is the greatest bodybuilding book ever written, primarily because it is firmly based on the training principles of the Weider System of Bodybuilding, which have been followed by literally every... (read more)

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Foreign Languages

French Pronouns and Prepositions (Practice Makes Perfect) French Pronouns and Prepositions (Practice Makes Perfect)
by Annie Heminway

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Learn the Ins and Outs of French Pronouns and Prepositions The only way to build your skills in a second language is to practice, practice, practice. Following the successful Practice Makes Perfect approach, this book gives you clear explanations and all... (read more)

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Humor

Yiddish with George and Laura Yiddish with George and Laura
by Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman

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Yiddish with Dick and Jane fans now have a new Yiddish-speaking WASP family story to thoroughly enjoy. George the macher, Bar the farbisseneh, and the whole mishpocha express themselves. Recommended by Emma, Powells.com... (read more)

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