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The Rabbit Factory
by Marshall Karp
Hardcover: Apr 2006
Paperback: 20 Mar 2007
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| Bringing a fresh duo of cops to the thriller set, The Rabbit
Factory is both suspenseful and satiric; a taut mystery wrapped
in sharp, comedic prose. |
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The Last Witchfinder: A Novel
by James Morrow
Hardcover: Mar 2006
Paperback: 13 Mar 2007
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| Jennet Stearne's father hangs witches for a living in Restoration England. But when this precocious child witnesses the horrifying death of her beloved Aunt Isobel, unjustly executed as a sorceress, she makes it her life's mission to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. |
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp
by Richard (Rick) Yancey
Hardcover: Oct 2005
Paperback: 1 Jan 2007
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| With an ancient order of knights in hot cars, thugs on motorcycles, and a mysterious international organization following his every lumbering step, Alfred undertakes a modern-day quest to unravel a thousand-year-old mystery and return
Excalibur to its rightful place. Ages 12+. |
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The End: A Series of Unfortunate Events #13
by Lemony Snicket
Hardcover: 13 Oct 2006
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| The last volume of the fabulously popular A Series of Unfortunate Events series, in which the history of the Baudelaire orphans is brought to its end. |
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Son of a Witch
by Gregory Maguire
Hardcover: Sep 2005
Paperback: 1 Oct 2006
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| Ten years after the publication of Wicked, Maguire returns to the land of Oz to follow the story of Liir, the
adolescent boy left hiding in the shadows of the castle when Dorothy killed the
witch. |
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned
by Alan Alda
Hardcover: Sep 2005
Paperback: 12 Sep 2006
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| Alan Alda, one of America’s most recognizable and acclaimed actors, has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. |
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The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde
Hardcover: Jul 2005
Paperback: 25 Jul 2006
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| It's Easter in Reading—a bad time for eggs. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity, Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, is found shattered to death. Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary are on the case and before long find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, beanstalks, titans seeking asylum, and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody. |
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Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
by Morgan Spurlock
Hardcover: May 2005
Paperback: 2 May 2006
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| Can man live on fast food alone? Spurlock tried to do just that for a month during which he gained twenty-five pounds, his blood pressure skyrocketed, and his libido all but disappeared. In this groundbreaking, hilarious book, Spurlock debuts a wry investigative voice that will appeal to anyone interested in the health of our country, our children, and ourselves. |
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