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  The Wish House

  by Celia Rees

  From the best-selling author of WITCH CHILD and SORCERESS comes another engrossing, atmospheric novel — following a teenage boy as he uncovers the secrets of the mysterious and provocative Wish House. It's the start of summer vacation, and fifteen-year-old Richard has discovered that a family has taken up residence in the usually deserted Wish House. Richard is intrigued by both the house and the bohemian family... (more)
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  Mutts Sunday Evenings: A Mutts Treasury (Mutts)

  by Patrick McDonnell

  Readers of all ages have a variety of reasons why they love the daily comic strip Mutts. But for some readers, Sunday is the most special day of the week because it is the day that cartoonist Patrick McDonnell unleashes his full-color Sunday strips. Those Sunday-loving readers are in for a real treat with the release of Sunday Evenings. This new Mutts treasury is the fourth in the "Sunday" series and stars Earl... (more)
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  Hooked

  Pirates, Poaching, And the Perfect Fish

  by G. Bruce Knecht

  This modern pirate yarn has all the makings of a great true adventure tale and is also an exploration of the ways our culinary tastes have all manner of unintended consequences for the world around us. HOOKED is a story about the poaching of the Patagonian toothfish (known to gourmands as Chilean Sea Bass) and is built around the pursuit of the illegal fishing vessel Viarsa by an Australian patrol boat, ... (more)
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  The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint

  by Thomas Chong

  Beloved stoner comedian TOMMY CHONG is now older, wiser, and officially an EX-CON. On the morning of February 24, 2003, agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration launched a sting called Operation Pipe Dreams and forced themselves through the door of Tommy's California home, with automatic weapons drawn. As a result of the raid on his home; the simultaneous ransacking of his son's company, Chong Glass;... (more)
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  Stagger Lee

  by Derek McCulloch

  On Christmas Eve 1895, shots rang out in a St. Louis barroom. A hundred years and a thousand songs later, this ordinary little murder had become a legend. This is the true story of what happened after Stagger Lee shot Billy.
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  Geek Mafia

  by Rick Dakan

  Fired from a job he hated at a company he loved, videogame designer Paul Reynolds is drowning his sorrows in late-morning margaritas when he meets an alluring, pink-haired conwoman named Chloe. With her gang of techno-pirate friends, Chloe helps Paul not only take revenge on his former employers, but also extort a small fortune from them in the process. What more could a recently unemployed, over-worked videogame... (more)
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  Anarquia

  by Brad Linaweaver, J. Kent Hastings

  ANARQUÍA was nominated for a Libertarian Futurist Society PROMETHEUS AWARD in the category BEST NOVEL of 2004. ANARQUÍA An Alternate History of the Spanish Civil War by Brad Linaweaver and J. Kent Hastings Everyone knew the world was about to change, they just didn't know how much! From 1936 to 1939, in the war torn world of the Spanish Civil War, proponents of every major intellectual, economic, political, and... (more)
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  Hungry? Boston: The Lowdown on Where the Real People Eat!

  From the local restaurants off the Freedom Trail to the top student haunts, from traditional Irish pubs to eclectic ethnic cafés, cheap and delicious eating in Boston only begins with your first bowl of clam chowder. You don't have to be an undergrad in this educational center to know where to find the best deals for your wallet and taste buds. Let Hungry? lead you to the best neighborhood secrets for $10 or... (more)
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  An Inconvenient Truth

  by Albert Gore

  An Inconvenient Truth —Gore’s groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance —is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia presentations on global warming that Gore created and delivers to groups around the world. With this book, Gore, who is one of our environmental heroes—and a leading... (more)
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  The Long Tail

  Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

  by Chris Anderson

  What happens when the bottlenecks that stand between supply and demand in our culture go away and everything becomes available to everyone? "The Long Tail" is a powerful new force in our economy: the rise of the niche. As the cost of reaching consumers drops dramatically, our markets are shifting from a one-size-fits-all model of mass appeal to one of unlimited variety for unique tastes. From supermarket... (more)
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  Ex Machina: Book 1

  The First Hundred Days

  by Brian K. Vaughan

  The first volume of the Eisner Award-winning series featuring Eisner Award-winners author Brian K. Vaughan and artist Tony Harris. Set in our modern-day world, EX MACHINA tells the story of civil engineer Mitchell Hundred, who becomes America's first living, breathing super-hero after a strange accident gives him amazing powers. Eventually Mitchell tires of risking his life merely to maintain the status quo,... (more)
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  Dunces of Doomsday

  10 Blunders That Gave Rise to Radical Islam, Terrorist Regimes, And the Threat of an American Hiroshima

  by Paul L. Williams

  The war on terror has become a household subject since the attacks on September 11, 2001. In reality, the jihad against America did not happen overnight. It has been coming for quite some time. The Dunces of Doomsday documents sixteen blunders that resulted in an invigorated radical Islam, terrorism worldwide, and the coming "American Hiroshima." The blunders documented include: • "The Peanut Farmer and the... (more)
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  Will Eisner: A Spirited Life

  by Bob Andelman

  Internationally recognized for his genre-busting 1940s art and storytelling style on The Spirit , Will Eisner's greatest legacy may be the graphic novels he championed and created. A Spirited Life explores Eisner's amazing life, detailing a career that spanned seventy years and saw him educate several generations of Army soldiers in the innovative PS magazine and create the first widely known graphic novel, ... (more)
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  Founding Fathers, Secret Societies

  Freemasons, Illuminati, Rosicrucians, and the Decoding of the Great Seal

  by Robert Hieronimus, Laura Cortner

  An exploration of the influence of secret societies on the formative documents and symbols of the United States • Reveals the Founding Fathers’ spiritual vision for America as encoded in the Great Seal • Traces the influence of the Iroquois League of Nations upon the Constitution • Exposes the deep connections the Founding Fathers had with the Freemasons and other secret societies All children growing up in... (more)