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Second Glance
by Jodi Picoult
Hardcover: Apr 2003
Paperback: 1 Mar 2004
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When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there's nothing spiritual about the property. An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal. (An interview about the book is included below the reading guide).

The Kalahari Typing School For Men : More from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith
Hardcover: Apr 2003
Paperback: 1 Mar 2004
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Life is never without its problems. Will Precious Ramotswe’s delightfully cunning and profoundly moral methods save the day? Find out in this, the fourth volume in the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series featuring Botswana's first and only lady detective.

The Dante Club
by Matthew Pearl
Hardcover: Feb 2003
Paperback: 1 Feb 2004
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A magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end.

The Dream of Scipio
by Iain Pears
Hardcover: Jun 2002
Paperback: 1 Jun 2003
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Three narratives, set in the fifth, fourteenth, and twentieth centuries, all revolving around an ancient text and each with a love story at its center, are the elements of this ingenious novel, a follow-up to the bestselling, An Instance Of The Fingerpost.

Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
by Ruth Rendell
Hardcover: Feb 2002
Paperback: 1 Jan 2003
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With consummate skill, Ruth Rendell pulls the colorful strands of this harrowing story ever tighter, increasing the tension page by page.

The Grand Complication
by Allen Kurzweil
Hardcover: Aug 2001
Paperback: 1 Aug 2002
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A delicious compendium of quirky colleagues, erotic pop-ups, deviant passions, and miraculous examples of theft, the book is a grand and complicated "timepiece," told with a devilish sense of fun.

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And the Mountains Echoed
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Khaled Hosseini has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations
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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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