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  Dispatches from the Edge

  A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

  by Anderson Cooper

  Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an unstinting, up-close view of the most harrowing crises of our time, and the profound impact they have had on his life. After growing up on Manhattan's Upper East... (more)
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  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

  by Michael Chabon

  Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award, New York Library Book Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Los Angeles Times Book Award. Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City.His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to... (more)
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  One World

  The Ethics of Globalization

  by Peter Singer

  One of the world's most influential philosophers here considers the ethical issues surrounding globalization, showing how a global ethic rather than a nationalistic approach can provide illuminating answers to important problems. In a new preface, Peter Singer discusses how the recent Iraq war and its aftermath have changed the prospects for the ethical approach he advocates. Q: What was your original idea for... (more)
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  Red Earth and Pouring Rain

  by Vikram Chandra

  A critically acclaimed novel by the author of Love and Longing in Bombay offers a surreal, panoramic tour through modern Indian and American history, guided by an Indian college student and a typewriting monkey. Reprint. NYT.
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  Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy

  by Christopher Phillips

  Christopher Phillips is a man on a mission: to revive the love of questions that Socrates inspired long ago in ancient Athens. "Like a Johnny Appleseed with a master's degree, Phillips has gallivanted back and forth across America, to cafés and coffee shops, senior centers, assisted-living complexes, prisons, libraries, day-care centers, elementary and high schools, and churches, forming lasting communities of... (more)
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  Love and Longing in Bombay

  Stories

  by Vikram Chandra

  Welcome to the Fisherman's Rest, a little bar off the Sasoon Dock in Bombay where Mr. Subramaniam spins his tales for a select audience. This is the setting for Vikram Chandra's collection of seven short stories, Love and Longing in Bombay, and Subramaniam is Chandra's Scheherezade. In these stories, Chandra has covered the gamut of genres: there is a ghost story, a love story, a murder mystery, and a crime story,... (more)
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  How Are We to Live?

  Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest

  by Peter Singer

  B'Imagine that you could choose a book that everyone in the world would read. My choice would be this book.' Roger Crisp, Ethics Many people have an uneasy feeling that they may be missing out on something basic that would give their lives a significance it currently lacks. But how should we live? What is there to stop us behaving selfishly? In a highly readable account which makes reference to a wide variety of... (more)
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  The Book of Hindu Imagery: The Gods and Their Symbols

  by Eva Jansen

  Hinduism is more than a religion; it is a way of life. Its rich and multicoloured history has made the structure of its mythical and philosophical principles into a highly differentiated maze, of which total knowledge is a practical impossibility. This volume cannot offer a complete survey of the meaning of Hinduism. It is an extensive compilation of important deities and their divine manifestations, so that... (more)
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  Charity Girl

  by Michael Lowenthal

  Charity Girl examines a dark period in our history, when fear and patriotic fervor led to devastating consequences. During World War I, the U.S. government waged a moral and medical campaign, incarcerating and quarantining fifteen thousand young women who were found to have venereal disease. Frieda Mintz is a seventeen-year-old Jewish bundle wrapper at Jordan Marsh in Boston; she struck out on her own in the wake... (more)
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  Suite Française

  by Irène Némirovsky

  Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart.... (more)
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  Infidel

  by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West. One of today's most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi... (more)
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  The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Book 1

  Eighth Grade Bites

  by Heather Brewer

  Middle school. Lovely. Especially when bullies harass you, your dream-girl prefers your best friend, and people are after you... Trying to stick a sharp hunk of wood through your chest. Doesn't make sense? Well, lets list the possibilities of why this would happen... 1. Your mom was a human. 2. Your dad was a vampire... Let's stop there. With no idea of the extent of his powers, Vlad struggles daily with his... (more)
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  Hero

  by Perry Moore

  Thom Creed is used to being on his own.  Even as a highschool basketball star, he has to keep his distance because of his father.  Hal Creed had once been one of the greatest and most beloved superheroes of The League--until the Wilson Towers incident.  After that Thom's mother disappeared and his proud father became an outcast.   The last thing in the world Thom would ever want is to disappoint his father. ... (more)
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  Odd and the Frost Giants

  by Neil Gaiman

  In this inventive, short, yet perfectly formed novel inspired by traditional Norse mythology, Neil Gaiman takes readers on a wild and magical trip to the land of giants and gods and back. In a village in ancient Norway lives a boy named Odd, and he's had some very bad luck: His father perished in a Viking expedition; a tree fell on and shattered his leg; the endless freezing winter is making villagers... (more)
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  Vamped: Book 1

  Vamped

  by Lucienne Diver

  Because I'm terrible with synopses, I'll let my protagonist (heroine might be pushing it just a bit), tell you all about it in her own words:Hey, all, it's me… Gina Covello, fashionista of the damned. Yeah, I know, I managed to get almost all the way through high school without cracking a book and now here I am immortalized in one. Well, actually, the immortalization process might have started a bit... (more)
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  Terribly Twisted Tales

  by Martin H. Greenberg

  eighteen stories that offer a new twist on old fairy tales From Hansel and Gretel and Goldilocks, to Snow White, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, and more, here are eighteen stories that take familiar fairy tales and twist them around to give them an entirely new slant. Any fan of far-out fantasy is sure to be delighted.
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  Pato Lliro: recuerdos de cabro chico

  by Christiano

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  Lady in the Water

  by M. Night Shyamalan

  Originally written by M. Night Shyamalan as a bedtime story for his own children, the story of the Lady in the Water is an imaginative reading experience that inspires readers to observe the world around them and consider their purpose on earth. Like all of Shyamalan's work, this story offers a dark mystery with surprising twists, a touch of magic, and a powerful message at the end. This book stands completely... (more)
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  Black Jewels: Book 7

  The Shadow Queen

  by Anne Bishop

  From the national bestselling author— the new novel set in the “darkly fascinating world”( SF Site ) of the Black Jewels. Dena Nehele is a land decimated by its past. Once it was ruled by corrupt Queens who were wiped out when the land was cleansed of tainted Blood. Now, only one hundred Warlord Princes stand—without a leader and without hope. Theran Grayhaven is the last of his line, desperate to find the... (more)
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  Albright Sisters: Book 3

  Nothing Denied

  by Jess Michaels

  Shrewish Beatrice Albright is beginning to realize that her difficult nature has consequences. As her seventh unsuccessful Season begins, her younger sister is taken under the wing of her elder sisters and the invitations have dried up. Terrified she’ll be forced into old maidenhood and the company of her mother, she vows to find a groom by Season’s end. Even if he is suspected of murder. The Marquis of... (more)