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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl
Hardcover: Aug 2006
Paperback: 24 Apr 2007
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A darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaust—appearing in English for the first time.
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