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Literature

Loving Frank Loving Frank
by Nancy Horan
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I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright... (read more)

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Photography

The New Earth from Above: 365 Days The New Earth from Above: 365 Days
by Yan Arthus Bertrand
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The powerful aerial photographs in this collection reveal the incidental beauty of the Earth and its inhabitants, while the authoritative text explores current issues of sustainable development affecting the world such as global warming and poverty.... (read more)

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Children's

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
by Kate DiCamillo
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The beloved, best-selling Newbery Medal winner — now in paperback! Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the... (read more)

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Science Fiction and Fantasy

Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth #01) Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth #01)
by Terry Goodkind
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Millions of readers the world over have been held spellbound by this valiant tale vividly told.Now, enter Terry Goodkind's world, the world of the Sword of Truth.In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell... (read more)

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Religion Eastern

Kama Sutra for 21st-Century Lovers Kama Sutra for 21st-Century Lovers
by Anne Hooper
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In this classic volume of sexual learning, Hooper creates a new classic that encourages an emphasis on pressure points, manners, artistic freedom, and most of all finding and pursuing a loving sexual relationship.... (read more)

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Popular Fiction

The Collectors The Collectors
by David Baldacci
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The four mysterious gentlemen who call themselves the Camel Club are back in action for another thrilling adventure in Baldaccis instant "New York Times" bestseller. When the Speaker of the House is assassinated, the Camel Club finds a chilling... (read more)

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Mystery

City of Tiny Lights City of Tiny Lights
by Patrick Neate
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From award-winning novelist Patrick Neate, a literary mystery that introduces a new kind of British detective, Ugandan-Indian Tommy Akhtar, and a side of London that the mystery world has never seen. A contemporary murder mystery set in the heart of... (read more)

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Graphic Novels

The Sandman #03: Dream Country The Sandman #03: Dream Country
by Neil Gaiman
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The pinnacle of pop comix storytelling. These beautifully written stories, astonishing in their scope and emotional depth, revolutionized the comics industry. Together the initial ten volumes of Gaiman's epic comprise one of the greatest narratives in... (read more)

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Westerns

Lonesome Dove Lonesome Dove
by Larry Mcmurtry
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Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major novel at last of the American West as it really was. A love story, an adventure, an American epic, Lonesome Dove embraces all the West... (read more)

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World History

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
by Sandy Tolan
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In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found... (read more)

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Sports and Fitness

Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know about the Game Is Wrong Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know about the Game Is Wrong
by Jonah Keri
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For baseball fans young, old, and in between, this is the ultimate guide to the new statistical thinking that's revolutionizing the game. Charts & tables.... (read more)

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Foreign Languages

Vox Everyday Spanish & English Dictionary 2ND Edition Vox Everyday Spanish & English Dictionary 2ND Edition
by Vox
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More than ever before, the Spanish language is changing; now the Vox Everyday Spanish and English Dictionary is changing right along with it! The convenient, handy-sized second edition is still more readable and easier to use than comparable dictionaries,... (read more)

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Humor

A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body: Tales from a Life of Cringe A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body: Tales from a Life of Cringe
by Lauren Weedman
Powells.com Staff Pick
The funniest book I've read in years, Lauren Weedman's A Woman Trapped in a Woman's Body made my face hurt with laughter. I compulsively read it out loud to whomever happened to be around, and recommended it to everyone I met. A Woman Trapped in a Woman... (read more)

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