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  Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist: Book 3

  The Invisible Fran

  by Jim Benton

  There's nothing better than being a mad scientist -- at least according to Franny. So she's making in her mission to help her classmates discover their own inner mad scientists. All Franny needs for her latest experiment is a few volunteers, a half-completed two-headed robot, and an invisibility potion. Only this experiment just might prove to be Franny's most difficult. What do you do when your classmates don't... (more)
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  Knights of the Lunch Table: Book 1

  The Dodgeball Chronicles

  by Frank Cammuso

  New student Artie King is a nice, comics-loving kid who just wants to ease into life at Camelot Middle School without attracting too much attention. But by second period, Artie already has enemies. He tripped Camelot's mean principal by mistake. An older kid isn't happy about the lunch he stole from Artie. (Well, Artie tried to warn him that sandwich was made by his pesky sister . . . out of boogers and soap!)... (more)
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  American Nerd

  The Story of My People

  by Benjamin Nugent

  Most people know a nerd when they see one but can't define just what a nerd is. American Nerd: The Story of My People gives us the history of the concept of nerdiness and of the subcultures we consider nerdy. What makes Dr. Frankenstein the archetypal nerd? Where did the modern jock come from? When and how did being a self-described nerd become trendy? As the nerd emerged, vaguely formed, in the nineteenth... (more)
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  The Mobile Library Mysteries: Book 1

  The Case of the Missing Books

  by Ian Sansom

  Israel Armstrong is a passionate soul, lured to Ireland by the promise of an exciting new career. Alas, the job that awaits him is not quite what he had in mind. Still, Israel is not one to dwell on disappointment, as he prepares to drive a mobile library around a small, damp Irish town. After all, the scenery is lovely, the people are charming—but where are the books? The rolling library's 15,000 volumes have... (more)
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  Roald Dahl Biography: Book 1

  Boy

  Tales of Childhood

  by Roald Dahl

  In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's, Roald Dahl's boyhood was as full of excitement and the unexpected as are his world-famous, best-selling books. Packed with anecdotes— some funny, some painful, all interesting— this is a book that's sure to please.
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  The Wishbones

  by Tom Perrotta

  Everything is going pretty well for Dave Raymond. He's 31, but he still feels young. He's playing guitar with the Wishbones, a New Jersey wedding band, and while it isn't exactly the Big Time, it is music. He has a roof over his head...well, it's his parents' roof, but they don't hassle him much. Life isn't perfect. But it isn't bad. Not bad at all. But then he has to blow it all by proposing to his girlfriend.
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  The Last Time They Met

  by Anita Shreve

  The Last Time They Met opens with two old lovers, both poets, running into each other at a writer's conference. Well, Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes aren't old, actually--just middle-aged, with a lifetime's worth of history between them. In the first section, Anita Shreve only suggests what that history contains: there was adultery, we gather, and a car accident, plus some illicit encounters under a pitiless Kenyan... (more)
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  The Butt

  by Will Self

  One of contemporary fiction’s most “wickedly brilliant…endlessly talented” ( Publishers Weekly) satirists delivers a dystopian novel skewering global politics and Big Brother-style government post-9/11. When Tom Brodzinksi tries to give up smoking, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events that threaten to upset the tenuous balance of peace in a not-too-distant land. When he flips the butt of his final... (more)
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  There's a Hair in My Dirt!: A Worm's Story

  by Gary Larson

  Once upon a time in a place far away, lived a man named Gary Larson who used to draw cartoons. It was a cartoon that appeared for many years in daily newspapers and was loved by millions. (And was confusing to millions more.) But one day he stopped. Gary went into hiding. He made a couple short films. He played his guitar. He threw sticks for his dogs. They threw some back. Yet Gary was restless. He couldn't... (more)
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  The Body Broken: A Memoir

  by Lynne A. Greenberg

  In the tradition of William Styron’s tour de force Darkness Visible , The Body Broken is a gorgeously told and intensely moving account of one woman’s extraordinary odyssey into a life of chronic pain–and of the unyielding resilience of the human spirit. At age nineteen, Lynne Greenberg narrowly survived a devastating car crash. When her broken neck healed–or so everyone thought–her recovery was hailed as a... (more)
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  The Twilight Zone

  The After Hours

  by Mark Kneece

  One of most ground-breaking shows in the history of television, The Twilight Zone has become a permanent fixture in pop culture. This new graphic novel series re-imagines the show’s most enduring episodes, in all their original uncut glory, originally written by Rod Serling himself, and now adapted for a new generation—a generation that has ridden Disney’s Twilight Zone Tower of TerrorTM ride, studied old... (more)
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  Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Book 4

  Dog Days

  by Jeff Kinney

  In this book Gregory has the worst Summer ever. He has to pay off a bill, actually go outside (you know how he hates that), dog watch,and spend quality time with his family. Although some parts weren't the best he had some good days!Worth the money and worth the time to read.
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  third series

  Poems From The Heart Mind Body And Soul: poetry, non-fiction, spiritual, romance, love, poetic, life related, valentines day, christmas, self help, all ages, positive (Volume 3)

  by Aleja Bennett

  This book of beautiful poetic poems actually takes the reader on familiar avenues of life. Adventures to where only the heart and soul does eat, think, breath and live.
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  Only The Strong Can Survive

  Passions Desires Of Aleja The Poet (Volume 5)

  by Aleja Bennett

  This book of poems are all about what the title itself describes. Feelings of a heart felt poet can be very deep and run like the rivers of Jordan. these smooth relaxing poems are quite lovely.
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  Seasons With And Without Love (Volume 5)

  by Aleja Bennett

  This book can be given as a gift for any occasion or holiday especially valentines day. The poems are just beautiful, soothing and lovely as the Author expresses herself in poetic verse. It's about her life and ours as well.
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  All I Can Do Is Stand (Volume 5)

  by Aleja Bennett

  The book title speaks for itself. This will be a number one seller real soon
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  Thoughts Deeply Rooted Within Me

  by Aleja Bennett

  This poetic verse is just one of the six titles that the Author has written. Her words can take you on an all so familiar journey that you will embark upon.The creativity of the mind can be a waste if not used when the green light is on. This book of poems go into her struggles-our struggles and how she is still standing through it all. Love-romance-life-relationships-abuse-childhood to... (more)
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  Chinese Cinderella

  The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

  by Adeline Yen Mah

  A riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s. A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In Chinese Cinderella , Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph and courage in the face of despair. Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving... (more)
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  Dave Pelzer's Memoirs: Book 1

  A Child Called "It"

  One Child's Courage to Survive

  by Dave J. Pelzer

  This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. As a child Dave Pelzer was abused in ways one cannot begin to imagine; his alcoholic mother brutally beat, starved, and isolated him. She played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer... (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)