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  The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy

  by Nick Bantock

  With more than two million copies in print, Nick Bantock's trilogy of romantic intrigue is now available as a set, beautifully packaged in an illustrated slipcase created by the author. A lovely gift for those new to the saga of the mysterious lovers, this distinctive collection also makes an enduring keepsake for devoted fans.
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  The Dreadful Revenge of Ernest Gallen

  by James Lincoln Collier

  In the quiet town of Magnolia, someone is a’ haunting, making people do awfully weird things. Eugene knows because he’s being haunted, too. His friend Sonny’s dad walked right off of a building and fell to his death, and then another friend’s dad crashed his car into a tree. The same “specter” that was haunting them is inside Eugene, talking to him, telling him to do crazy things! Along with the help of their... (more)
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  Parallels

  by Jet Rockway

  Parallels is the story of Shane, who, equipped with the last of his savings and an oversized Oldsmobile, drifts from East Coast to West Coast. Soon he finds himself in the company of a teenage stowaway, and what started as an unspectacular road trip turns into a surreal odyssee. Along the way, the odd couple not only runs into radical pro-lifers, a midget school bus inhabitant and a football celebrity, but in the... (more)
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  The Little Prince

  by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike. Richard Howard's new translation of the beloved classic-published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's birth-beautifully reflects Saint-Exupery's unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators of our time, has excelled in bringing the English text as... (more)
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  Only Revolutions

  by Mark Z. Danielewski

  Sam: They were with us before Romeo & Juliet. And long after too. Because they’re forever around. Or so both claim, carolling gleefully: We’re allways sixteen. Sam & Hailey, powered by an ever-rotating fleet of cars, from Model T to Lincoln Continental, career from the Civil War to the Cold War, barrelling down through the Appalachians, up the Mississippi River, across the Badlands, finally cutting a... (more)
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  The Black Swan

  The Impact of the Highly Improbable

  by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of... (more)