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Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid

Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid

by Denis Leary

A hilarious blast of scathing irreverence from the award-winning actor and comedian . “A pissed off Leary is the best Leary,” says one critic of the writer and comic. In Why We Suck , Dr. Denis Leary uses his common sense, and his biting and hilarious take on the world, to attack the politically correct, the hypocritical, the obese, the thin--basically everyone who takes themselves too seriously. He does so with... (more)

Slaughterhouse-Five

Or, the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death

by Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simulta

Timequake

by Kurt Vonnegut

According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will - not to mention the torture of reliving every... (more)

Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History

Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould

Gould's seventh collection of essays covers a wide range of subjects in natural history, literature, and popular culture--from the wisdom of Charles Darwin to that of the Old Testament Psalms, from the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park to the dinosaurs of the latest scientific theories, from the thwarted human ity of the Frankenstein monster to the inhuman fallacies of eugenics and other pseudoscience. Illustrations.... (more)

The Books of Bayern: Book 3

River Secrets

by Shannon Hale

Razo has no idea why he was chosen to be a soldier. He can barely swing a sword, and his brothers are forever wrestling him to the ground. Razo is sure it's out of pity that his captain asks him to join an elite mission--escorting the ambassador into Tira, Bayern's great enemy. But when the Bayern arrive in the strange southern country, Razo discovers the first dead body. He befriends both the high and low born,... (more)

Catch a Tiger by the Toe

by Ellen Levine

Jamie is like most girls in the 1950s—she loves Hollywood movie stars and practicing her yoyo moves. But unlike those other girls, she has something to hide, a secret that is hurting her family. Jamie’s father is a member of the Communist Party, and in 1953, that’s the worst thing you can be. Senator Joseph McCarthy and his committee are throwing Americans in jail if they refuse to reveal the names of... (more)

Beauty Shop for Rent: . . . fully equipped, inquire within

Beauty Shop for Rent: . . . fully equipped, inquire within

by Laura Bowers

Abbey Garner has a plan: to earn a million dollars by the time she's thirty-five. Financial independence will allow her to break the cycle of unhappiness endured by the women in her family. Determined to fulfill her dream, Abbey works at Granny Po's struggling beauty shop, where the feisty Gray Widows go to primp, polish, perm . . . and, of course, gossip. There, among the hair dryers and perm rods--and with the... (more)

Twilight Saga: Book 3

Eclipse

by Stephenie Meyer

Edward’s soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again. This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine–like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is... (more)

Ulysses S. Grant (Presidents and Their Times)

Ulysses S. Grant (Presidents and Their Times)

by Billy Aronson

Debatable Deaths (Unsolved History)

by Gary Blackwood

Twilight Saga: Book 4

Breaking Dawn

by Stephenie Meyer

When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her... (more)

Adam Canfield, Watch Your Back! (Adam Canfield of the Slash)

Adam Canfield, Watch Your Back! (Adam Canfield of the Slash)

by Michael Winerip

The star reporter is caught up in a big scoop — but this time it’s about him — in a savvy, engaging story that takes on school bullies and other tyrants. For overprogrammed middle-grader Adam Canfield, waking up to a snow day is a dream come true — a chance to sleep late, put off planning the next issue of THE SLASH, and make some quick cash with his shovel. But the dream turns into a nightmare when some... (more)

Palace of Mirrors

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

"Somewhere in the world I have a tiara in a little box. It is not safe for me to wear it...It is not safe for me even to tell anyone who I really am. But I know -- I have always known." Cecilia knows that she is not just another peasant girl; she is actually the true princess, in hiding until the evil forces that killed her parents are vanquished. A commoner named Desmia is on the throne as a decoy. As she gets... (more)

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Smiles to Go

by Jerry Spinelli

Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid

by Denis Leary

Slaughterhouse-Five

Or, the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death

by Kurt Vonnegut

Timequake

by Kurt Vonnegut

Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould

River Secrets

by Shannon Hale

Catch a Tiger by the Toe

by Ellen Levine

Beauty Shop for Rent: . . . fully equipped, inquire within

by Laura Bowers

Eclipse

by Stephenie Meyer

Ulysses S. Grant (Presidents and Their Times)

by Billy Aronson

Debatable Deaths (Unsolved History)

by Gary Blackwood

Breaking Dawn

by Stephenie Meyer

Adam Canfield, Watch Your Back! (Adam Canfield of the Slash)

by Michael Winerip

Palace of Mirrors

by Margaret Peterson Haddix