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Harold's End by Laura Albert The international best selling author of Sarah and The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things presents his new and tremendously moving novella, Harold's End. A San... More about this book »	Sarah by Laura Albert Sarah is the story of the prodigal son recast in the carnivalesque world of the highway truck stop and its environs. The narrator, an androgynous twelve year old... More about this book »
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by Laura Albert The extraordinary stories that brought the author a cult following at the age of sixteen. Circulated copies of LeRoy's handwritten notebook pages brought early... More about this book »	Arguing for Our Lives: A User's Guide to Constructive Dialog by Robert Jensen We live in a time when public discourse is more skewed than ever by the propaganda that big money can buy, with trust in the leadership of elected officials at an... More about this book »
The Cloud by Matt Richtel The Cloud is an exhilarating, cutting-edge thriller from Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times technology and science reporter Matt Richtel. When the next... More about this book »	Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. “America’s funniest... More about this book »
Undercurrent by Pauline Rowson When naval historian Dr Douglas Spalding is found dead in Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard, the Major Crime Team is adamant it is suicide. When another body is... More about this book »	Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm by Thich Nhat Hanh “Written in words so intimate, calm, kind, and immediate, this extraordinary book feels like a message from our very own heart….Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most... More about this book »
Capable of Murder by Brian Kavanagh Belinda Lawrence has been invited to pay a visit to her great-aunt. Upon arrival she finds her aunt's dead body at the bottom of the stairs More about this book »	Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit... by Richard Louv "I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged... More about this book »

Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling by Grant Hayter-Menzies Daughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant, educated like a boy in the Confucian classics, a baptized Catholic blessed by the hand of Pope... More about this book »	The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz Humorous memoir with essays about Paris culture and food from pastry chef David Lebovitz. More about this book »
The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot S. Mifflin The biography of a 19th-century Mormon pioneer who became a celebrity after she was captured, raised, and tattooed on the face by Southwest Indians, then ransomed... More about this book »	Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death,... by Michael Anthony They say the Army makes a man out of you—but for 18-year-old SPC Michael Anthony, that fabled rite of passage proved a very dark journey. After soliciting his... More about this book »
Hold Still by Nina LaCour An arresting story about starting over after a friend’s suicide, from a breakthrough new voice in YA fiction... dear caitlin, there are so many things that i want... More about this book »	The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder is the sweet, sexy, funny journey of Calla Lily’s life set in Wells’ expanding fictional Louisiana landscape. In the small... More about this book »
The Sword of Medina by Sherry Jones Before dying, Muhammad left his jeweled sword, al-Ma'thur, to A'isha, telling her to use it in the jihad to come. But what if the jihad is against her own people?... More about this book »	Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman Twelve-year-old CeeCee is in trouble. For years she’s been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille— the crown-wearing, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an... More about this book »
Earthquake Weather by Catherine Ryan Hyde Each of the 18 stories in this strong collection by Hyde (Funerals for Horses) holds a dangerous emotional temptation for its protagonist. Often, they arrive in... More about this book »	Humberto the Bookworm Hamster by Mayra Calvani Humberto is an antisocial little hamster… he’s totally addicted to books! His neighbors, the squirrel, the rabbit, the skunk, the hedgehog and the beaver want to... More about this book »