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All In My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache
by Paula Kamen
Hardcover: Feb 2005
Paperback: 30 Apr 2006
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| Full of self-deprecating humor, and razor sharp reporting, All in My Head is the remarkable story of perseverance, acceptance, and patience in the face of terrifying pain. |
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Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss
Hardcover: Apr 2004
Paperback: 11 Apr 2006
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| 'Who would have thought a book about punctuation could cause such a sensation? Truss serves up a delightful, unabashedly strict and sometimes snobby little book, with cheery Britishisms dotting pages that express a more international righteous indignation.' |
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Leaping Beauty: and other animal fairy tales
by Gregory Maguire
Hardcover: Aug 2004
Paperback: 1 Mar 2006
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| Zany animals of all species run through these fractured retellings of classic stories, including Cinderella recast as an enormous, lovable elephant and Sleeping Beauty as a frog with a promising dance career. |
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A Changed Man
by Francine Prose
Hardcover: Mar 2005
Paperback: 28 Feb 2006
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| Masterfully plotted, darkly comic, A Changed Man illuminates the
everyday transactions in our lives, exposing what remains invisible in plain
sight in our drug-addled and media-driven culture. |
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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
by A. J. Jacobs
Hardcover: Sep 2004
Paperback: 4 Oct 2005
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| Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. |
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Metro Girl
by Janet Evanovich
Hardcover: Nov 2004
Paperback: 1 Oct 2005
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| Buckle your seat belts and move into the fast lane with Metro Girl, a thrilling, high-octane misadventure with high stakes, hot nights, cold-blooded murder, sunken treasure, a woman with a chassis built for speed. |
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Going Postal: A Discworld Novel
by Terry Pratchett
Hardcover: Sep 2004
Paperback: 1 Oct 2005
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| Set in Pratchett's wonderfully crazed city of Ankh-Morpork, Going Postal hilariously reflects the plight of post offices the world over as they struggle to compete in an era when e-mail has stolen much of the glamour from the postal trade. |
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Something Rotten: A Thursday Next mystery
by Jasper Fforde
Hardcover: Aug 2004
Paperback: 26 Jul 2005
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| Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop the hostile takeover of Hamlet by Orphelia? Can Swindon win the world croquet championship and thus prevent the end of the world? All this and more is revealed in this, the 4th volume in the Thursday Next series. |
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