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  Homer & Langley

  by E. L. Doctorow

  From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World’s Fair, and The March , the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer & Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work. Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers–the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps... (more)
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  Calvin and Hobbes: Book 5

  The Revenge of the Baby-Sat

  by Bill Watterson

  Part of the Calvin and Hobbes collection.
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  My Family and Other Animals

  by Gerald Durrell

  When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell’s family’s experiences, from the many eccentric hangers-on to the... (more)
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  Calvin and Hobbes: Book 4

  Weirdos from Another Planet!

  by Bill Watterson

  A collection of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. The author won the 1986 Reuben Award as Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year and has also illustrated Something Under the Bed is Drooling , Calvin and Hobbes' Yukon Ho! and Scientific Progress Goes Boink .
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  Calvin and Hobbes: Book 1

  Calvin and Hobbes

  by Bill Watterson

  A collection of comic strips following the adventures of Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes, who comes to life when no one else is around .
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  Calvin and Hobbes: Book 3

  Yukon Ho!

  by Bill Watterson

  The spirit of childhood leaps to life again with boundless energy and magic in Yukon Ho!, the newest collection of adventures featuring rambunctious six-year-old Calvin and his co-conspirator tiger-chum, Hobbes. Picking up where The Essential Calvin and Hobbes left off, Yukon Ho! is sure to begin an immediate reign at the top of bestseller lists everywhere!
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  The Bagthorpe Saga: Book 1

  Ordinary Jack

  by Helen Cresswell

  Eleven-year-old Jack, the only "ordinary" member of the talented and eccentric Bagthorpe family, concocts a scheme to distinguish himself as a modern-day prophet.
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  Calvin and Hobbes: Book 8

  The Days Are Just Packed

  by Bill Watterson

  Zounds! Spaceman Spiff, Stupendous Man, the ferocious tiger Hobbes, and the rest of Calvin's riotous imagination are all included in The Days Are Just Packed. Calvin, the irrepressible pint-sized tyrant, is always bursting with energy. And the new volume's oversized 12-by-9 inch format provides Calvin's outrageous fantasies room to explode. Nowhere does the spiky-haired miscreant stretch out more than in the... (more)
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  The Bagthorpe Saga: Book 5

  Bagthorpes Abroad

  by Helen Cresswell

  Chronicles the further adventures of the eccentric Bagthorpe family as they go on vacation to a reputedly haunted house in Wales.
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  The Bagthorpe Saga: Book 4

  Bagthorpes v. the World: Being the Fourth Part of the Bagthorpe Saga (Bagthorpes)

  by Helen Cresswell

  The members of the eccentric Bagthorpe family contend with Mr. Bagthorpe's attempts to be self-sufficient and with Great-aunt Lucy's visit.
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  Calvin and Hobbes

  The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book

  A Collection of Sunday Calvin and Hobbes Cartoons

  by Bill Watterson

  The magical friendship shared by Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes has endeared them to millions of fans in their comic strip appearing in more than 800 newspapers and in millions of books. Now their friendship endures in a full-color collection of Sunday cartoons and original art done for the book, all fit for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Whether visiting other planets as Spaceman Spiff, transmogrifying into a... (more)
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  The Tilting House

  by Tom Llewellyn

  “Whaddya say you boys and me take five and poke around a bit?”             “Poke around where?” I asked.             “Around our new house. I’ll bet if we look in every nook and cranny, we’ll uncover a secret or two.”             “A secret?” asked Aaron. “What kind of secret?”             “I don’t know.” Dad grinned as he struggled to get up from the tilting couch. “A house built with tilting floors has got to... (more)
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  Whale Season: A Novel

  by N. M. Kelby

  One Christmas Eve, Whale Harbor is visited by a man who thinks he’s Jesus and claims to be looking for a game of poker. But, as usual, things are not quite what they seem. Having some version of the Lord in town for his birthday creates a strange effect on the locals: unlikely couples are breaking up and making up and making out; a luxury mobile home that belonged to an elderly couple from New Jersey (until they... (more)
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  The Bagthorpe Saga: Book 6

  Bagthorpes Haunted: Being the 6th Part of the Bagthorpe Saga (Cresswell, Helen. Bagthorpe Saga (New York, N.Y.), 6th Pt.)

  by Helen Cresswell

  While on vacation, the eccentric and talented Bagthorpe family tries to contact the ghosts of their reputedly haunted house, pursues Cousin Daisy's elusive goat, and general stirs up the quiet Welsh countryside.
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  The Bagthorpe Saga: Book 7

  Bagthorpes Liberated

  by Helen Cresswell

  Upon returning from a vacation, the members of the eccentric Bagthorpe family find chaos as a tramp takes over their house, their maid disappears, and the demonic Cousin Daisy arrives with her pet goat.
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  Observatory Mansions

  by Edward Carey

  Once the Orme family’s magnificent ancestral estate, Observatory Mansions is now a crumbling apartment complex, home to an eccentric group of misfits. One of them is Francis Orme, who earns his livelihood as a living statue. When not practicing “inner and outer stillness,” Francis steals the cherished possessions of others to add to his private museum. The other tenants are equally as odd: his mother and father,... (more)
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  Fool on the Hill

  by Matt Ruff

  As adventurous as the quests of J.R.R. Tolkien and as contemporary as the zany entertainment of Tom Robbins, "Fool on the Hill" is certain to bring laughs and be remembered for a long time to come. The hero is S.T. George, a young writer-in-residence at Cornell, who is looking for love and dragons to slay. Soon George is caught up in an epic struggle of life and death, good and evil, magic and love .
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  The Medici Giraffe

  by Marina Belozerskaya

  DESCRIPTION: A fascinating exploration, spanning two thousand years, of the central role exotic animals have played in war, diplomacy, and the pomp of princes and potentates. Did you know that when Julius Caesar first brought the giraffe to Europe, the stunned Romans called it "camelopardalis," seeing it as a cross between a camel and a leopard? That in Renaissance Florence, the Medici, eager to present... (more)
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  Sewer, Gas & Electric

  The Public Works Trilogy

  by Matt Ruff

  Sewer, Gas & Electric is the exuberant follow-up to Matt Ruff's cult classic and critically acclaimed debut Fool on the Hill. High above Manhattan android and human steelworkers are constructing a new Tower of Babel for billionaire Harry Gant, as a monument to humanity's power to dream. In the festering sewers below a darker game is afoot: a Wall Street takeover artist has been murdered, and Gant's crusading... (more)
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  Ender's Game: Book 1

  Ender's Game

  by Orson Scott Card

  Set several hundred years in the future, humans have been at war with the Buggers for over a century. The insectoid enemy is poised to overcome humanity.Desperate for an edge against the Buggers, Earth has tried to breed its next triumphant battle leader, such as Napoleon or Alexander the Great. Despite the population controls, the Wiggins, a family in the United States, are allowed a 3rd child since... (more)