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On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

William Zinsser - Harper Perennial; 30 Anv Rep edition
Format: Paperback

On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want...
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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

William Goldman - Harvest Books
Format: Book

William Goldman's modern fantasy classic is a simple, exceptional story about quests - for riches, revenge, power, and, of course, true love - that's thrilling and timeless. Anyone who lived through the 1980s may find it impossible - inconceivable, even - to equate The Princess Bride...
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The Girl of Fire and Thorns

Rae Carson - Greenwillow Books
Format: Book

The first book in the acclaimed and award winning New York Times bestselling trilogy. The Girl of Fire and Thorns is a remarkable novel full of adventure, sorcery, heartbreak, and power. "I stayed up until two a.m. reading this last night. Intense, unique. . . . Definitely recommended."...
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Vampire Academy

Richelle Mead - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Paperback

The story that kicked off the international #1 bestselling Vampire Academy series is NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!St. Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school - it's a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them....
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Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles

Marissa Meyer - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times Bestselling Series!Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted...
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A Light in the Attic Special Edition

Shel Silverstein - HarperCollins; Special edition
Format: Hardcover

Last night, while I lay thinking here,Some Whatifs crawled inside my earAnd pranced and partied all night longAnd sang their same old Whatif songWhatif I flunk that test?Whatif green hair grows on my chest?Whatif nobody likes me?Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me? . . .Here in the attic...
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Little House in the Big Woods

Laura Ingalls Wilder - HarperCollins
Format: Book

The book that started it all! Little House in the Big Woods is the first book in Laura Ingalls Wilders treasured Little House series, which is based on her life growing up as an American pioneer.Told from four-year-old Lauras point-of-view, this story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin...
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The Heist: A Novel

Lee Goldberg - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Janet Evanovich, #1 bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, bestselling author and television writer for Monk, comes the first adventure in an electrifying new series featuring an FBI agent who always gets her man, and a fearless...
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The Yellow Wallpaper (Feminist Press Reprint No. 3)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Feminist Press at CUNY; 1 ed edition
Format: Paperback

Quality ClassicsWe specialize in creating hard to find, high quality classic books optimized for the Kindle.We always have the highest quality books. Sick of spelling errors, weird characters, or a lack of pictures in illustrated books? Well we know how you feel. All of our books are formatted...
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Beautiful

Stacy Mcanulty - RP Kids
Format: Print book

Every girl is unique, talented, and lovable. . . .Every girl is BEAUTIFUL.Much more than how one looks on the outside, true beauty is found in conquering challenges, showing kindness, and spreading contagious laughter. Beautiful girls are empowered and smart and strong!BEAUTIFUL...
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Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History

Kate Schatz - Ten Speed Press
Format: Print book

From the authors of the New York Times bestselling book Rad American Women A-Z, comes a bold new collection of 40 biographical profiles, each accompanied by a striking illustrated portrait, showcasing extraordinary women from around the world.In Rad Women Worldwide, writer Kate Schatz and artist...
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Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

A #1 New York Times bestsellerKetterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price--and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams....
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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published nearly 50 years ago.Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system...
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