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What do readers say about Eats, Shoots & Leaves?
tongue in cheekwry british styledry british witengaging and wittyThe spirited and scholarly #1 New York Times bestseller combines boisterous history with grammar how-to's to show how important punctuation is in our world-period.... Read more about Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Either this will ring bells for you, or it won't. A printed banner has appeared on the concourse of a petrol station near to where I live. "Come inside," it says, "for CD's, VIDEO'S, DVD's, and BOOK'S...
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What do readers say about Fablehaven?
fantasy and fairiesengaging and wittyyoung adult fantasyvery unique and creativeBrandon Mull's New York Times bestselling series about siblings Seth and Kendra who discover their grandparents are the caretakers of a sanctuary for magical creatures!
For centuries mystical creatures of all description were gathered into a hidden r... Read more about Fablehaven
Kendra stared out the side window of the SUV, watching foliage blur past. When the flurry of motion became too much, she looked up ahead and fixed her gaze on a particular tree, following it as it slo...
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What do readers say about Cleopatra?
muddy and discursiveegypt’s most famous queenan academic journala biased biographyThe Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.
Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue.... Read more about Cleopatra
AMONG THE MOST famous women to have lived, Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for twenty-two years. She lost a kingdom once, regained it, nearly lost it again, amassed an empire, lost it all. A goddess as a ch...
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What do readers say about A Voyage Long and Strange?
historical investigative journalisminteresting and engagingengaging and witty stylea fun history lessonA Voyage Long and Strange is a rich mixture of scholarship and modern-day adventure that brings the forgotten first chapter of America's history vividly to life.
What happened in North America between Columbus's sail in 1492 and the Pilgrims' arriva... Read more about A Voyage Long and Strange
THE STORY OF America’s discovery by Europeans begins with a fugitive. Eirik the Red fled his native Norway, the sagas say, “because of some killings.” Settling in Iceland, Eirik took up farming and fe...
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What do readers say about Across the Nightingale Floor?
comfortable and predictableengaging and wittyfantasy action bookeasy to followAn international bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor is the first book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn. Don't miss the related series, The Tale of Shikanoko.
In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys... Read more about Across the Nightingale Floor
But when I did get back, muddy from sliding down the hillside, bruised from fighting, once bleeding great spouts of blood from a stone wound to the head (I still have the scar, like a silvered thumbna...
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What do readers say about Arcadia?
love, intellectualism, and discoverythat idyllic worldengaging and wittyreinventing the 19th century"It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them." -Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septim... Read more about Arcadia
Septimus Not necessarily, my lady, but when carnal embrace is sinful it is a sin of the flesh, QED. We had caro in our Gallic Wars – ‘The Britons live on milk and meat’ – ‘lacte et carne vivunt’. I am...
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What do readers say about The Overdue Life of Amy Byler?
fun, engaging and wittyfiction and women’s fictionlaugh out loud momentshallmark chick flickAn Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller.
"A laugh-out-loud funny, pitch-perfect novel that will have readers rooting for this unlikely, relatable, and totally lovable heroine, The Overdue Life of Amy Byler is the ultimate escape-and will leav... Read more about The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
There are a lot of people you don’t expect to run into in small-town Pennsylvania. And a few you do. I run into my best friend, Lena, almost every day—she teaches in the same school that I do, so when...
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What do readers say about The Princess Bride?
satirical and sarcasticsatirical romantic fairy taletongue – n-cheekmostly omniscient narrativeBeautiful, flaxen-haired Buttercup has fallen for Westley, the farm boy, and when he departs to make his fortune, she vows never to love another. So when she hears that his ship has been captured by the Dread Pirate Roberts - who never leaves survivo... Read more about The Princess Bride
How is such a thing possible? I’ll do my best to explain. As a child, I had simply no interest in books. I hated reading, I was very bad at it, and besides, how could you take the time to read when th...
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What do readers say about The Fourteenth Goldfish?
middle grade novellife, death and agingcoming of age storyengaging, comical, and wittyBelieve in the possible . . . with this New York Times bestseller by three-time Newbery Honor winner Jennifer L. Holm. A perfect read about a child's relationship with her grandfather!
Galileo. Newton. Salk. Oppenheimer. Science can change the world... Read more about The Fourteenth Goldfish
I used to love how my bedroom was decorated, but lately I’m not so sure. The walls are covered with the painted handprints of me and my best friend, Brianna. We started doing them back in first grade ...
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What do readers say about Turtle in Paradise?
vivid and thought provokingculture and comedychildren's literature, historical fictiona historical novelIn Jennifer L. Holm's New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor winning middle grade historical fiction novel, life isn't like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple. She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world... Read more about Turtle in Paradise
Everyone thinks children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I’ve lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murde...
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