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  Bang!

  by Sharon G. Flake

  Bang! Guns really sound like that, you know. Bang! And people bleed from everywhere, and blood is redder than you think. And little kids look funny in caskets. That's 'cause they ain't meant to be in one, I guess. Mann is only thirteen, yet he has already had to deal with more than most go through in a lifetime. His family is still reeling from the tragic shooting death of his little brother, Jason, each person... (more)
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  I Love You Like Crazy Cakes

  by Rose A. Lewis

  "Based on the author's own experience, this heartfelt story follows a woman on her journey to adopt a baby girl from China. From paperwork to plane flight, the narrative chronicles the baby's trip from a crib in a big room shared with many other babies to her own crib in her own room in her new room. Jane Dyer's delicate watercolors perfectly complement this charming text, a celebration of the love and joy a... (more)
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  Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life

  by Elliot Tiber, Tom Monte

  Taking Woodstock is the funny, touching, and true story of Elliot Tiber, the man who was instrumental in arranging the site for the original Woodstock Concert. Elliot, whose parents owned an upstate New York motel, was working in Greenwich Village in the summer of 1969. He socialized with the likes of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and yet somehow managed to keep his... (more)
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  The Tales of Beedle the Bard

  by J. K. Rowling

  The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a Wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers’ attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to Hermione Granger’s new translation from the ancient runes, we present this stunning edition with an introduction and some illustrations by J. K. Rowling, and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. Never before have Muggles been privy to these richly... (more)
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  Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach (8th Edition)

  by James M. Henslin

  This best selling comprehensive text shares the excitement of sociology with the acclaimed "down-to-earth" approach that highlights the sociology of everyday life.   The 8th Edition of this highly regarded text retains all the features that have made previous editions so successful. The author has a unique ability to engage students without sacrificing content or talking down to them. With wit, personal... (more)
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  The Chronicles of Narnia: Book 2

  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

  by C. S. Lewis

  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was an easy book to read and it was a very creative story. This story is for more of a younger age group and is basically a fairy tale filled with many creatures, friends to help the main characters, and a happy ending.
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  Follow Your Dreams: (Except for That One Where You Go to Work Naked and Dance the Polka)

  by Cheryl Caldwell

  Cheryl Caldwell pairs lively humorous illustrations and satirical humor with to-the-point observations on life to ensure readers maintain a laughing perspective: "I may not know karate, but I know crazy." "What if the hokey pokey really is what it's all about?" "It has been lovely but I have to scream now." Follow Your Dreams is sure to have everyone smiling, laughing, and appreciating this quest called life.... (more)
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  Everything Series

  Everything Astrology Book: Follow the Stars to Find Love, Success, And Happiness! (Everything Series)

  by Trish MacGregor, Jenni Kosarin

  Do you know how the time of your birth affects your destiny? Have you chosen a career in tune with your ruling planet? Should you date that cute Virgo at the gym-or hold out for the Libra next door? The ancient art of astrology can tell you all this-and more! The Everything Astrology Book, 2nd Edition , is your key to unlocking the secrets of your past, present, and future. Completely revised and updated, this... (more)
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  Ten Thousand Lives (Green Integer)

  by Ko Un

  Ko Un grew up in a formerly Japanese-controlled territory that was very much the center of the Korean War. Ten Thousand Lives is his major, ongoing work, which began during his imprisonment, when he determined to describe every person he had ever met. The selection in this volume-from the first 10 volumes-represents one of the major classics of twentieth-century Korean literature, published for the first time in... (more)
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  American Red Cross Babysitter's Training Handbook

  by American Red Cross

  Presents a guide to becoming a safe, responsible, and successful babysitter, focusing on what to do when children suffer different kinds of accidents and illnesses.
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  Computer Science: An Overview (9th Edition)

  by J. Glenn Brookshear

  For over a decade, students and instructors alike have praised the broad coverage and clear exposition in the leading text Computer Science: An Overview. Glenn Brookshear draws on years of success in the classroom in this practical, language-independent approach to the introduction of core computing science topics. This Ninth Edition provides a balanced, realistic picture of the dynamic nature of computer science... (more)
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  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Book 1

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  by Douglas Adams

  The first of six books in this "trilogy" which is adapted from Adams' radio series with the same name.
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  Looking for Alaska

  by John Green

  Miles "Pudge" Halter is abandoning his safe, boring life. Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe and boring. Their nucleus is razor-sharp, sexy, and self-destructive Alaska, who has perfected the arts of pranking and evading school rules. Pudge... (more)
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  His Desert Rose

  by Liz Fielding

  THE SHEIK's CAPTIVE! Prince Hassan al Rashid has all the trappings of an international playboy. But beneath his designer suit lies the heart of a true desert prince. Determined to save his country from ruin, Hassan decides to attract the world's attention by kidnapping Rose Fenton! Darling of the media, Rose has never met anyone as powerful and ruthless as Hassan. He's her ultimate fantasy man... (more)
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  Gemma Doyle Trilogy: Book 1

  A Great and Terrible Beauty

  by Libba Bray

  It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India, to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her.... (more)
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  The Bedford Handbook: With 2003 MLA Update

  by Diana Hacker

  Built on Diana Hacker’s vision and developed with the help of expert composition teachers, the seventh edition of The Bedford Handbook is the indispensable classroom and reference tool it always was — only better. Now with the strongest coverage of research writing in a full-sized handbook, the seventh edition helps students meet one of the core challenges of academic writing: maintaining their own voice while... (more)
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  A Damsel in Distress

  by P. G. Wodehouse

  A Damsel in Distress is an early novel about Belpher Castle, the idyllic home of the aristocratic Marshmoreton family and a precursor to the Blandings series.
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  House of Light

  by Mary Oliver

  Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. "Oliver's poems are thoroughly convincing—as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring." -The New York Times Book... (more)
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  Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace

  by Maxine Kingston

  This poignant collection, compiled from Kingston's healing workshops, contains the distilled wisdom of survivors of five wars, including combatants, war widows, spouses, children, conscientious objectors, and veterans of domestic abuse. Vetrans of War, Vetrans of Peace includes accounts from people that grew up in military families, served as medics in the thick of war, or came home to homelessness. All struggle... (more)
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  Lutheran Book Of Prayer

  This beautifully bound volume contains personal prayers for almost every life circumstance, including: Prayers for morning and evening; Our life of worship; Throughout the church year; For the church; For the nation and the world; For family and neighbors; For the sick, convalescing, and the dying; Personal prayers; and more.