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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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Killer Smile
by Lisa Scottoline
Hardcover: May 2004
Paperback: 1 Jul 2005
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| A stunning new tale filled with witty dialogue, vibrant characters, and breakneck pacing, in which true-life history reinforces Scottoline's hallmark themes of justice and family. |
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A Hat Full of Sky
by Terry Pratchett
Hardcover: May 2004
Paperback: 1 Jun 2005
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| Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world. Ages 12+. |
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A Hole In Texas
by Herman Wouk
Hardcover: Mar 2004
Paperback: 1 Jun 2005
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| A rollicking Washington tale about a media firestorm swirling around a vast Hole in Texas and one obscure scientist who gets swept up in the vortex. |
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris
Hardcover: Jun 2004
Paperback: 31 May 2005
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| Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface in another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today. |
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Guardian of The Horizon
by Elizabeth Peters
Hardcover: Mar 2004
Paperback: 1 Apr 2005
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| A hitherto lost journal of the indomitable Amelia Peabody has been miraculously recovered: a chronicle from one of the "missing years", 1907–1908, shedding new light on a remarkable family and an unexpected terror. |
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Dating Dead Men
by Harley Jane Kozak
Hardcover: Jan 2004
Paperback: 15 Mar 2005
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| Lots of action, quirky characters, an engaging new sleuth who designs greeting cards, and a ferret named Margaret -- what more could any reader want? Dating Dead Men is a superb debut. |
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Bandbox
by Thomas Mallon
Hardcover: Jan 2004
Paperback: 10 Jan 2005
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| A madcap and poignant book portraying New York in the 1920s, the Jazz Age - the gaudiest American decade of them all. |
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