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Endlich gibt es sie wieder, die legendären Moleskine-Notizbücher. Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde und Bruce Chatwin bannten Ihre Gedanken zwischen zwei schwarze Umschläge aus Maulwurfshaut" (englisch: moleskin). Auch Vincent van Gogh und... (read more)

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"I'm glad to see Breakdowns get a new spin around the block, now that comics are thriving while the rest of America turns to shit," Spiegelman writes in the fascinating afterword to this new edition. Thirty years after its initial small-run publication... (read more)

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The notorious early Silverstein classic you WON'T want your children to read. I is for Ink Ink is black and wet. Ink is fun. What can you do with ink? What rhymes with ink? "D - R - __ - __ - __ ."... (read more)

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The Host, Stephenie Meyer's first book for an adult audience, is a fascinating story of love and betrayal set against the backdrop of an alien invasion. In this thought-provoking and captivating novel, in which alien parasites take over human bodies, the... (read more)

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For more than 40 years, National Geographic atlases have set the standard against which all other atlases are measured. The National Geographic Family Reference Atlas of the World is no exception. At the heart of this spectacular volume are more than 450... (read more)

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A new holiday classic from the author of the bestselling Naked and Barrel Fever! Holidays On Ice collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice scraper. This... (read more)

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"Brian Greene presents the bizarre world of quantum mechanics and string theory using language accessible to all while taking the reader on an exciting journey through a truly unusual universe." Blane, Powells... (read more)

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Endlich gibt es sie wieder, die legendären Moleskine-Notizbücher. Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde und Bruce Chatwin bannten Ihre Gedanken zwischen zwei schwarze Umschläge aus Maulwurfshaut" (englisch: moleskin). Auch Vincent van Gogh und... (read more)

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Cranes are ubiquitous in the earliest legends of the world's peoples, where they often figure as sentinels of heaven and omens of longevity and good fortune. For their great beauty and imposing size — they are the largest of all flying birds on... (read more)

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Could a bookseller's favorite book really be a children's Christmas picture book? I am often asked to name my favorite book — an impossible question to answer, really — and I find myself mentioning The Polar Express time and again (not without... (read more)