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  Liar

  by Justine Larbalestier

  Micah will freely admit that she’s a compulsive liar, but that may be the one honest thing she’ll ever tell you. Over the years she’s duped her classmates, her teachers, and even her parents, and she’s always managed to stay one step ahead of her lies. That is, until her boyfriend dies under brutal circumstances and her dishonesty begins to catch up with her. But is it possible to tell the truth when lying comes... (more)
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  Master Your Metabolism

  The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body

  by Jillian Michaels

  Tired of dieting? Are you eating nonfat and carb-free foods that don't satisfy? Then stop! You've been wrecking your metabolism with yo-yo fad diets and chemical-filled non-foods. Jillian Michaels is here to repair the damage and retrain your hormones and endocrine system."Master Your Metabolism" is a simple three-phase plan that amps up your weight-loss hormones and kicks those fat-storing hormones... (more)
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  The Accidental Billionaires

  The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal

  by Ben Mezrich

  The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook. Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends — outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured their... (more)
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  Stolen

  by Vivian Vande Velde

  The old witch steals children, but did she steal Isabelle?
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  Angels of Destruction

  by Keith Donohue

  Angels of Destruction is the mesmerising story of Norah, a nine-year-old girl who seems to materialise out of thin air when she arrives one bitterly cold night on the doorstep of Margaret Quinn. A widow who lives alone, Margaret has never got over the loss of her own child, a runaway called Erica who fled with her high school sweetheart, Wiley to join a 60's style band of West Coast revolutionaries known as the... (more)
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  Good to Great Hair: Celebrity Hairstyling Techniques Made Simple

  by Robert Vetica

  All you need to create your own great hair style at home! Vetica preaches that professional techniques are not difficult; readers just need to know what to do and follow directions. In this ultimate hair styling book, he delivers to the reader all they need to know to create great hair at home or direct a professional stylist. He reveals insider secrets and techniques for recreating magazine and celebrity... (more)
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  Ratio

  The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking

  by Michael Ruhlman

  WHEN YOU KNOW A CULINARY RATIO, IT'S NOT LIKE KNOWING A SINGLE RECIPE, IT'S INSTANTLY KNOWING A THOUSAND. Why spend time sorting through the millions of cookie recipes available in books, magazines, and on the Internet? Isn't it easier just to remember 1-2-3? That's the ratio of ingredients that always make a basic, delicious cookie dough: 1 part sugar, 2 parts fat, and 3 parts flour. From there, add anything you... (more)
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  Grace (Eventually)

  Thoughts on Faith

  by Anne Lamott

  The sharp, funny, and heartfelt follow-up to her bestselling Plan B , Anne Lamott's newest collection is a personal exploration of the faith and grace all around us. In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith , Lamott examines the ways we're caught in life's most daunting predicaments: love, mothering, work, politics, and maybe toughest of all, evolving from who we are to who we were meant to be. This is a... (more)
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  Allure: Confessions of a Beauty Editor

  by Linda Wells

  After 15 years as Allure's editor-in-chief, Linda Wells has learned a thing or two about beauty--things that other people might not tell you. From how to keep lip gloss on longer than six minutes, to the best fix for frizzy hair, to how to use the latest anti-aging products, ALLURE: CONFESSIONS OF A BEAUTY EDITOR has all the answers. The book includes essential makeup techniques, sidebars, expert tips, emergency... (more)
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  Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time

  by Michael Perry

  Here the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town), and the back roads are haunted by the ghosts of children and farmers. Michael Perry loves this place. He grew up here, and now -- after a decade away -- he has returned. ... (more)
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  A Certain Slant of Light

  by Laura Whitcomb

  In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for the first time in 130 years, human eyes are looking at her. They belong to a boy, a boy who has not seemed remarkable until now. And Helen—terrified, but intrigued—is drawn to him. The fact that he is in a body and she is not presents this unlikely couple with their first challenge. But as the lovers struggle to find a way... (more)
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  Silence, Simplicity & Solitude: A Complete Guide to Spiritual Retreat

  by David A. Cooper

  From the best-selling author of God Is a Verb, the classic spiritual retreat guide that enables anyone to create their own self-guided spiritual retreat at home. The ancient mystics looked to spiritual retreat as a way of cleansing the body and healing the soul. In Silence, Simplicity & Solitude, David A. Cooper traces the path of the mystics and the practice of spiritual retreat in all the major... (more)
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  Tragedies

  by William Shakespeare

  (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies were written in a remarkably short period of time, between 1598 and 1606. Hamlet , Othello , Macbeth , and King Lear are each so singular an achievement that any rereading of them reinforces the awe and almost idolatrous worship that this most uncanny of the world’s great writers invariably inspires. In these four plays, Shakespeare engages... (more)
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  Interior Castle

  by Teresa of Avila, E. Allison Peers

  Teresa was an incredibly gifted teacher whose devotion to the sublimest task--the guidance of others toward spiritual perfection--has resulted in the widespread fame of her writings. Interior Castles deals with the extraordinary richness of the developed interior life.
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  Truck

  A Love Story

  by Michael Perry

  The author of Population: 485 returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and . . . gardening tips? Think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , complete with stock cars, sexy vegetables, and a laugh track. "All I wanted to do was fix my old pickup truck," says Michael Perry. "That, and plant my garden. Then I met this woman. . . ." Truck: A Love Story recounts a year in which Perry struggles... (more)
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  Shadow Baby

  by Alison McGhee

  Eleven-year-old Clara is struggling to find the truth about her missing father and grandfather and her dead twin sister, but her mother refuses to talk. When Clara begins interviewing Georg Kominsky--her elderly neighbor--she finds that he is equally reticent about his own concealed history. Precocious and imaginative, Clara invents versions of Mr. Kominsky’s past, just as she invents lives for the people missing... (more)
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  Off Main Street

  Barnstormers, Prophets & Gatemouth's Gator

  by Michael Perry

  Whether he's fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perry draws on his rural roots and footloose past to write from a perspective that merges the local with the global. Ranging across subjects as diverse as lot lizards, Klan wizards, and small-town funerals, Perry's writing in this wise and witty collection... (more)
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  American Pie

  My Search for the Perfect Pizza

  by Peter Reinhart

  In the course of his extraordinary career as a baker, culinary instructor, and author, Peter Reinhart has dedicated himself to exploring the passions and techniques behind the great breads of the world. His most recent pursuit has been pizza—a seemingly simple food that has been hotly debated since Italian immigrants brought it to America more than a century ago. Allegiances run from the general (Chicago-... (more)
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  Speak What We Feel: Not What We Ought to Say (Buechner, Frederick)

  by Frederick Buechner

  Four Unexpected Prophets Who Shine Light into the Darkness
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  The Breaking Point

  by Karen Ball

  Gabe and Renee Roman are on the edge -- relationally and spiritually. Both consider themselves followers of Christ. But after years of struggling in their marriage, their greatest test comes in the most unexpected of forms: a blizzard in the Oregon mountains. Their truck hurtles over the side of a mountain, and each encounters the realities of suffering, sacrifice, and service in Christ's name. It isn't until they... (more)