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Hellboy Volume 8: Darkness Calls (Hellboy (Graphic Novels)) (Hellboy (Graphic Novels))

July 20, 2008 – 3:26 pm

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Mike Mignola, Duncan Fegredo, Dave Stewart
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Product Description
Hellboy has finally returned from his adventures at sea, but no sooner has he settled on land than a conclave of witches drags him from his respite and into the heart of Russian folklore, where he becomes the quarry [...]

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People of the Book: A Novel

June 30, 2008 – 1:14 pm

Rating: (105 reviews)
Author: Geraldine Brooks
Publisher: Viking Adult

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Amazon Best of the Month, January 2008: One of the earliest Jewish religious volumes to be illuminated with images, the Sarajevo Haggadah survived centuries of purges and wars thanks to people of all faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Geraldine Brooks, the Pulitzer [...]

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Cracking the AP English Literature Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep)

May 7, 2008 – 2:18 pm

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Product Description
Scoring high on the AP English Literature Exam is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about English literature—only the strategies and information you’ll need to get your highest score. In Cracking [...]

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Cracking the AP World History Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep)

March 28, 2008 – 7:12 am

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Book Description
Scoring high on the AP World History Exam is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about World history—only the strategies and information you’ll need to get your highest score. In Cracking [...]

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Timothy Cratchit’s Christmas Carol, 1917

December 4, 2007 – 12:30 am

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Dale Powell, Charles Dickens
Publisher: Dickens World

Book Description
The original sequel to a Christmas Carol from DickensWorld. Get it in its original form. No more copies of this version of this critically acclaimed masterpiece will be printed.

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The Man in the High Castle

November 23, 2007 – 12:58 am

Rating: (158 reviews)
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Vintage

Book Description
It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war–and [...]

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The Chosen

November 22, 2007 – 8:32 am

Rating: (291 reviews)
Author: Chaim Potok
Publisher: Fawcett
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Few stories offer more warmth, wisdom, or generosity than this tale of two boys, their fathers, their friendship, and the chaotic times in which they live. Though on the surface it explores religious faith–the intellectually committed as well as the passionately observant–the struggles addressed in The [...]

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The Night before Christmas

November 18, 2007 – 4:41 am

Rating: (42 reviews)
Author: Clement Clarke Moore
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
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Whose tiny faces are peeking out from Santa’s golden sleigh? Yikes! It’s two of Santa’s elves who are Christmas Eve stowaways. Beloved illustrator Jan Brett’s version of The Night Before Christmas lets these two mischievous elves add their rambunctious spirit to this familiar 1823 [...]

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The Torn Skirt

November 15, 2007 – 10:09 pm

Rating: (36 reviews)
Author: Rebecca Godfrey
Publisher: Harper Perennial

Book Description
I was born with a fever, but it seemed to subside for sixteen years. . . . And then as I turned sixteen and stopped smiling, the fever returned though my skin stayed pale and sure, showing no sign of the heat inside [...]

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

November 15, 2007 – 8:10 am

Rating: (1228 reviews)
Author: Stephen Chbosky
Publisher: MTV
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What is most notable about this funny, touching, memorable first novel from Stephen Chbosky is the resounding accuracy with which the author captures the voice of a boy teetering on the brink of adulthood. Charlie is a freshman. And while’s he’s not the biggest geek [...]

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The Time Machine (Signet Classics)

November 13, 2007 – 6:50 pm

Rating: (311 reviews)
Author: H.G. Wells
Publisher: New American Library

Book Description
The story that launched Wells’s successful career-the classic tale of the Time Traveler and the extraordinary world he discovers in the far distant future. A haunting portrayal of Darwin’s evolutionary theory carried to a terrible conclusion.
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When the Time Traveler courageously stepped out [...]

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