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  Sh*t My Dad Says

  by Justin Halpern

  “If you’re wondering if there is a real man behind the quotes on Twitter, the answer is a definite and laugh-out-loud yes.” (Christian Lander, New York Times bestselling author of Stuff White People Like ) “Justin Halpern tosses lightening bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching—and does it all... (more)
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  House of Renwick: Book 4

  The Redemption of Lord Rawlings

  by Rachel Van Dyken

  Phillip Crawford, the eighth Earl of Rawlings and notorious rake of the ton, has come to the end of his rope. Out of money, out of favor, and out of luck, he wanders the streets of London in the rain, hoping to be hit by inspiration...or a runaway carriage. Something has to give. It is his father's final cruel trick to hold his inheritance just out of reach, requiring him to marry by his next birthday in order to... (more)
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  Gösta Ekman, Farbrorn som inte ville va' stor.

  by Klas Gustafson.

  Gösta Ekman is one of Sweden's most beloved actor as the creator of many memorable characters such as mahatman, Papphammar and Charles-Ingvar "Sickan" Jönsson. But he also created movie-history when Ingmar Bergman did "Smultronstället". He sat around the kitchen table and shared a bottle of red-wine with the revue king Karl Gerhard. He brainstormed in "Svenska Ords" cottage with Hasse and Tage. Considering Gösat... (more)
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  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

  by Mark Haddon

  Christopher Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the colours yellow and brown. This improbable story of Christopher’s quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and... (more)
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  Belly Laughs

  The Naked Truth About Pregnancy and Childbirth

  by Jenny McCarthy

  The acclaimed national bestseller-a no-holds-barred account of what you can really expect when you're expecting Oh, the joys of pregnancy! There's the gassiness, constipation, queasiness, and exhaustion, the forgetfulness, crankiness, and the constant worry. Of course, no woman is spared the discomforts and humiliations of pregnancy, but most are too polite to complain or too embarrassed to talk about them. Not... (more)
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  A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

  by Dave Eggers

  The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a... (more)
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  Artemis Fowl: Book 3

  The Eternity Code

  by Eoin Colfer

  Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II has constructed a supercomputer from stolen fairy technology. In the wrong hands, it could be fatal for humans and fairies alike. But no need to worry, Artemis has a brilliant plan. He's not going to use the computer; he's just going to show it to a ruthless American businessman with Mafia connections. His bodyguard, Butler, will be with him. What could... (more)
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  Detective John Cardinal: Book 1

  Forty Words for Sorrow

  by Giles Blunt

  This brooding tale of a search for a serial killer in rural Ontario takes its title from the often-quoted fact that Eskimos have 40 words for snow. "What people really need is forty words for sorrow," thinks Det. John Cardinal, whose glum outlook aptly mirrors the mood of Blunt's atmospheric thriller. The story begins when the frozen body of 13-year-old Chippewa Katie Pine is discovered on one of the Manitou... (more)
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  No Retreat, No Surrender: One American's Fight

  by Tom D. DeLay, Stephen Mansfield

  The candid memoir of one of the most effective, controversial figures in modern politics Very few people are on the fence about Tom DeLay, who was nicknamed "the Hammer" for his hard-charging, take-no-prisoners style of leadership. Liberals despise him, but for conservatives he’s a hero—one of the architects of the 1994 Republican revolution. For twelve years afterward, he was the driving force of the... (more)
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  Raag Darbari

  by Lal Sukla Sri

  Life her crawls along at a leisurely pace, unfolding at evening bhang-drinking sessions, the local bar, the village wrestling pit, at paan shops, in nearby lentil fields, at gambling sessiosn and country melas... M.A. pass Rangnath has just arrived here for some rest-and-relaxation. His host is his Uncle Vaidyaji, the local doctor, who pontificates on everything from ayerveda to politcs to the'essence' of life.... (more)
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  Of Flowers and a Village: An Entertainment for Flower Lovers

  by Wilfrid Blunt

  Wilfrid Blunt (1901–1987) is probably best known today as a biographer of Linnaeus and as the author of the classic study "The Art of Botanical Illustration." But Blunt also had his lighter side. "Of Flowers & a Village" is a novel written in the form of chatty letters from a doting godfather to his goddaughter, Flora, an enthusiastic (if inexperienced) gardener who is recovering from an illness that has left... (more)
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  Everything Men Know About Women

  by Dr. Alan Francis

  Fully reveals the shocking truth!" -Daily News * A landmark book completely revised and updated to reveal what men really know about the opposite sex, including " " and " " In a little more than 100 pages, Dr. Alan Francis distills years of research and thousands of interviews to reveal the most comprehensive understanding of men's knowledge and understanding of the opposite sex in Everything Men Know About Women... (more)
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  The Carlyles' Chelsea Home - Being Some Account Of No. 5 Cheyne Row

  by Reginald Blunt

  THE CARLYLES CHELSEA HOME. SHOW me the man you honour I know by that symptom better than by any other what kind ofman you yourself are. . . . Give every man the meed of honour he has merited, you have the ideal world of . . . poets a world such as the idle poets dream of, such as the active poets, the heroic and the true ofmen are incessantly toiling to achieve, and more and more realise. Achieved, realised, it... (more)
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  Poems 1959-2009

  by Frederick Seidel

  These are the collected poems of a master whose work includes many of the most compelling, savage, and tender poems in the language. Frederick Seidel is, in the words of the critic Adam Kirsch, “the best American poet writing today.”