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  The 2½ Pillars of Wisdom: Book 1

  Portuguese Irregular Verbs

  by Alexander McCall Smith

  Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he... (more)
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  The 2½ Pillars of Wisdom: Book 2

  The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs

  by Alexander McCall Smith, Iain McIntosh

  Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he... (more)
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  Timequake

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  According to science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on February 13th, 2001, where the Earth decides to back up a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will.
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  The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

  The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  by Douglas Adams

  At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five classic novels from Douglas Adams’s beloved Hitchiker series. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide . Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space. The... (more)
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  Magical Thinking : True Stories

  by Augusten Burroughs

  From the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry --a contagiously funny, heartwarming, shocking, twisted, and absolutely magical collection. True stories that give voice to the thoughts we all have but dare not mention. It begins with a Tang Instant Breakfast Drink television commercial when Augusten was seven. Then there is the contest of wills with the deranged cleaning lady. The execution of a... (more)
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  A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book 1

  The Bad Beginning

  by Lemony Snicket

  Dear Reader, I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster... (more)
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  Suicide Casanova

  by Arthur Nersesian

  "Sick, depraved, and heartbreaking-in other words, a great read, a great book. Suicide Casanova is erotic noir and Nersesian's hard-boiled prose comes at you like a jailhouse confession."-Jonathan Ames, author of The Extra Man Arthur Nersesian is the bestselling cult author of The Fuck-Up , Chinese Takeout , Manhattan Is a Loverboy and dogrun . The former managing editor of the Portable Lower East... (more)
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  Discworld: Book 13

  Small Gods

  by Terry Pratchett

  Lost in the chill deeps of space between the galaxies, it sails on forever, a flat, circular world carried on the back of a giant turtle-- DISCWORLD --a land where the unexpected can be expected. Where the strangest things happen to the nicest people. Like Brutha, a simple lad who only wants to tend his melon patch. Until one day he hears the voice of a god calling his name. A small god, to be sure. But bossy... (more)
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  Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 1

  The Lightning Thief

  by Rick Riordan

  There is no such twelve-year-old boy as Perseus 'Percy' Jackson. The Greek gods are nothing more than old myths. They certainly never have children with mortals in the 21st century, nor is there any such place as Half Blood Hill, a summer camp for demigods on eastern Long Island. Percy never met a satyr or a daughter of Athena. They most emphatically did not take a quest together across the United States to reach... (more)
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  Carry On, Jeeves

  by P. G. Wodehouse

  There seems to be little Bertie Wooster can do without the help of Jeeves these days. Formidable aunts, unbidden guests, and other headaches are small potatoes for the ever-resourceful Jeeves. Here is another heavenly dose of humor and intrigue from "the greatest comic writer ever" (Douglas Adams). "P. G. Wodehouse at his shining best." --John Mortimer
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  Where Horizons Go

  by Rhina P. Espaillat

  A collection of unforgettable poems, 'Where Horizons Go' is as compelling as it is technically stunning. The book bridges the sometimes vast distances between the personal and the impersonal, the transitory and the permanent, the imagined and the real, the internal and the external, the self and the other. The language here is always clear, always controlled without sacrificing sincerity or honesty. Read this book... (more)
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  Alcatraz: Book 1

  Alcatraz Versus The Evil Librarians

  by Brandon Sanderson

  A hero with an incredible talent...for breaking things. A life-or-death mission...to rescue a bag of sand. A fearsome threat from a powerful secret network...the evil Librarians. Alcatraz Smedry doesn't seem destined for anything but disaster. On his 13th birthday he receives a bag of sand, which is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians plotting to take over the world. The sand will give the Librarians... (more)
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  Erratum

  by Walter Sorrells

  When Jessica Sternhagen walks into a bookstore and finds a volume entitled Her Lif waiting for her, she thinks it’s a joke. Who left the book for her? And shouldn’t the title be Her Life ? This printer’s error turns out to be the first in a series of bizarre happenings. As Jessica reads, she realizes life is about to radically change. This stunning thriller by master storyteller Walter Sorrells raises as many... (more)
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  Carry on, Jeeves

  by P.G Wodehouse

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  Jasper Dash and the flame-pits of Delaware

  by M.T. Anderson

  It is a land of wonders! It is a land of mystery. It is a land that time forgot (or chose specifically not to remember). Cut off from the civilized world for untold years, this land is called: DELAWARE It is into the mist-shrouded heart of this forbidden, mountainous realm that our plucky and intrepid heroes, Jasper Dash: Boy Technonaut and his friends Lily Gefelty and Katie Mulligan, must journey to unravel a... (more)
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  Slaughterhouse-Five

  Or, the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  Launched in November, Dell's Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
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  Slapstick: Or Lonesome No More!

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today’s follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Vonnegut’s pen into hilarious farce (a final slapstick that may be the Almighty’s joke on us all.) “Vonnegut’s ongoing puppet show…that... (more)