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  Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series

  House and Philosophy

  Everybody Lies

  by Henry Jacoby, William Irwin

  An unauthorized look at the philosophical issues raised by one of today's most popular television shows: House House is one of the top three television dramas on the air, pulling in more than 19 million viewers for each episode. This latest book in the popular Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series takes a deeper look at the characters and issues raised in this Emmy Award-winning medical drama,... (more)
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  House

  by Frank Peretti, Ted Dekker

  A mind-bending supernatural thriller from the creators of This Present Darkness and Showdown. Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker - two of the most acclaimed writers of supernatural thrillers - have joined forces for the first time to craft a story unlike any you've ever read. Enter House - where you'll find yourself thrown into a killer's deadly game in which the only way to win is to lose...and the only way... (more)
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  Blue Balliet's books: Book 2

  The Wright 3

  by Blue Balliett

  Spring semester at the Lab School in Hyde Park finds Petra and Calder drawn into another mystery when unexplainable accidents and ghostly happenings throw a spotlight on Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, and it's up to the two junior sleuths to piece together the clues. Stir in the return of Calder's friend Tommy (which creates a tense triangle), H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man, 3-D pentominoes, and the hunt for a... (more)
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  Are You in the House Alone?

  by Richard Peck

  A sixteen-year-old girl with a steady boyfriend suddenly begins receiving threatening phone calls while she is babysitting and anonymous notes in her high school locker.
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  The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes: Book 19

  All That Glitters Isn't Gold

  by Anne Mazer

  "All that glitters isn't gold" -- Rags to Riches Calendar Abby's never cared much about having the latest, greatest, coolest thing. But Brianna has the brand-new MePhone, and suddenly Abby is green with envy. It's all she can to do convince her parents she needs any phone at all- much less the top-of-the-line model. And then there's another problem: When Brianna loses her phone, Abby's the one who finds it.... (more)
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  Amulet: Book 1

  The Stonekeeper

  by Kazu Kibuishi

  After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather, but the strange house proves to be dangerous. Before long, a sinister creature lures the kids' mom through a door in the basement. Em and Navin, desperate not to lose her, follow her into an underground world inhabited by demons, robots, and talking animals. Eventually, they enlist the... (more)
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  The House That Hugh Laurie Built

  An Unauthorized Biography and Episode Guide

  by Paul Challen

  Golden Globe award–winning actor Hugh Laurie and his critically acclaimed television show House are at the heart of this compelling biography. From his childhood struggles to live up to his Olympian father’s accomplishments and his Cambridge education to his comedic career with Emma Thompson and personal struggle with depression, Laurie’s past and present are revealed in illuminating detail. Not just a... (more)
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  The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes - Super Specials: Book 2

  Knowledge is Power

  by Anne Mazer

  Abby can't believe it--sixth grade is about to begin! At first, she's excited. Being in sixth grade means moving up to middle school, having different teachers for each subject, and meeting new friends from other elementary schools. Then Abby receives "An Insider's Guide to Sixth Grade." It's all about the negative things Abby can expect -- boy-crazy friends, dating, moodiness, mean teachers, boy-girl parties, and... (more)
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  Goosebumps

  Goosebumps: House of Horrors Boxed Set

  by R. L. Stine

  A collection of four of the most chilling tales ever written about Houses of Horror: Welcome to Dead House The Ghost Next Door It Came From Beneath the Sink! Stay Out of the Basement
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  House

  by Tracy Kidder

  Tracy Kidder takes readers to the heart of the American Dream: the building of a family's first house with all its day-to-day frustrations, crises, tensions, challenges, and triumphs.
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  Harry Potter: Book 5

  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  by J. K. Rowling

  Book five in Joanne Kathleen Rowling's Harry Potter series follows the darkest year yet for the young wizard, who finds himself knocked time after time the events of last year. Over the summer, gossip (usually traced back to the magic world's newspaper, the Daily Prophet) has turned Harry's tragic and heroic encounter with Lord Voldemort at the Triwizard Tournament into an excuse to ridicule and discount the... (more)
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  Hansel and Gretel

  by Grimm Brothers

  Lisbeth Zerger, winner of the 1990 Hans Christian Andersen Medal, brings her distinctive talent to the timeless story of two innocent children who lose their way in the dark forest. When the siblings happen upon the gingerbread house of a wicked witch, they unwittingly stumble into one of the most enduring fairy tales of all time. As the witch tries to fatten poor Hansel, and Gretel cunningly outsmarts her, Ms.... (more)
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  At Home

  A Short History of Private Life

  by Bill Bryson

  It struck Bill Bryson one day that we devote a lot more time to the Wars of the Roses or the Normandy Landings than considering what most of history really consists of: centuries upon centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - eating, sleeping, having sex, endeavouring to be amused. So he started a journey around his house, an old rectory in Norfolk, wandering from room to room considering how... (more)
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  House, M.D.: The Official Guide to the Hit Medical Drama

  by Ian Jackman

  The authorized guide to the television phenomenon House, M.D. For the last six years House, M.D. has been one of the most popular and captivating shows on television. Following the stories of a misanthropic genius doctor named Gregory House and his team of specialists, each week the show confronts medical mysteries that have baffled the best minds in medicine. Centered around one of the most compelling... (more)
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  501 Cross Stitch Designs

  by Sam Hawkins

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  Throw Out Fifty Things

  Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life

  by Gail Blanke

  "Our lives are so filled with junk from the past-from dried up tubes of glue to old grudges-that it's a wonder we can get up in the morning," exclaims motivator, best-selling author, columnist, and life coach Gail Blanke. "If you want to grow, you gotta let go," is Blanke's mantra; and that means eliminating all the clutter-physical and emotional-that holds you back, weighs you down, or just makes you feel bad... (more)
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  The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes: Book 5

  Look Before You Leap!

  by Anne Mazer

  It¹s summer, and Abby Hayes has nothing to do. So it¹s the perfect time to get a pet! Abby is sure she can handle the responsibility. But things don¹t go as she planned, and by the time she adopts a kitten, Abby¹s summer has taken a turn for the better. She has a new friend at camp and a contest to win. Can she keep up with her kitten, too?
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  The Glass Room

  by Simon Mawer

  Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room. High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a wonder of steel and glass and onyx built specially for newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer, a Jew married to a gentile. But the radiant honesty of 1930 that the house, with its... (more)
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  Chasing Zebras: The Unofficial Guide to House, M.D.

  by Barbara Barnett

  "I look for zebras because other doctors have ruled out all the horses." — Dr. Gregory House Medical students are taught that when they hear hoofbeats, they should think horses, not zebras, but Dr. House's unique talent of diagnosing unusual illnesses has made House, M.D. one of the most popular and fascinating series on television. In Chasing Zebras: The Unofficial Guide to House , M.D., Barbara Barnett, widely... (more)
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  The Doll People: Book 1

  The Doll People

  by Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin

  Annabelle Doll is eight years old-she has been for more than a hundred years. Not a lot has happened to her, cooped up in the dollhouse, with the same doll family, day after day, year after year. . . until one day the Funcrafts move in.