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Lost In A Good Book: A Thursday Next Novel
by Jasper Fforde
Hardcover: Apr 2003
Paperback: 1 Feb 2004
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| The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with the second installment in what is sure to become a classic series of literary fantasy. |
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Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs
by Cheryl Peck
Paperback: 1 Jan 2004
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| Peck unfolds these biographical stories with a healthy sense of humor and intelligent wit exploring the themes of family, growing up, love and loss. |
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All Is Vanity
by Christina Schwarz
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: 1 Nov 2003
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| At once darkly comic and moving, this witty exploration of female friendship, envy, and misguided ambition deliciously satirizes the desire to shine in the world. |
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The Sleeping Father
by Matthew Sharpe
Paperback: 1 Oct 2003
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| 'At once tragic and madcap, Sharpe's second novel offers an acidly funny portrait of a 'diminished nuclear unit' coping with its patriarch's pharmacologically induced stroke.' |
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Night Watch
by Terry Pratchett
Hardcover: Nov 2002
Paperback: 1 Oct 2003
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| Flung back in time by a mysterious accident, Sam Vimes has to start all over again. He must whip the cowardly, despised Night Watch into a crack fighting force -- fast. Because he knows what's going to happen. It's part of history. And you can't change history... |
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Blue Shoe
by Anne Lamott
Hardcover: Sep 2002
Paperback: 1 Oct 2003
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| An honest, irreverent and compelling story laced with self-deprecating humor, grace, and wit. As always, Anne Lamott creates characters with whom we can identify, as she explores the depths of human emotion. |
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The Sands of Time: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure
by Michael Hoeye
Hardcover: Sep 2002
Paperback: 1 Oct 2003
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| Our favorite mouse and watchmaker, Hermux Tantamoq, is up to his ears in trouble again. A mysterious old chipmunk appears in his shop with what he claims to be a map to the royal library of a prehistoric kingdom of cats. Before long Hermux is hot on a trail of treachery and deceit. |
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A House Called Awful End: Eddie Dickens Trilogy, #1
by Philip Ardagh
Hardcover: Sep 2002
Paperback: 1 Sep 2003
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| This hilarious historical spoof, the first in the Eddie Dickens trilogy, has been called "a scrumptious cross between Dickens and Monty Python. Ages 9+. |
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