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Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book
by HarperCollins (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-09-30)

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family. . . . Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his New York Times bestselling modern classic coraline. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the graveyard book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.

David Macaulay
The Way We Work
by Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-10-03)

In this comprehensive and entertaining resource, David Macaulay reveals the inner workings of the human body as only he could. In order to present this complicated subject in an accurate and entertaining way, he put in years of research. He sat in on anatomy classes, dissections, and even reached inside the rib cages of two cadavers to compare their spleen sizes. He observed numerous surgeries, including a ten-hour procedure where a diseased pancreas was removed, as well as one where a worn-out old knee was replaced by a brand new one. This hands-on investigation gives Macaulay a unique perspective to lead his readers on a visual journey through the workings of the human body. The seven sections within the book take us from the cells that form our foundation to the individual systems they build. Each beautifully illustrated spread details different aspects of our complex structure, explaining the function of each and offering up-close glimpses, unique cross-sections and ...

Jane Austen
Emma
by Dutton Adult (Hardcover)

Les Standiford
The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
by Crown (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-11-04)

As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how one writer and one book revived the signal holiday of the Western world.Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist.The book immediately caused a sensation. And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen into disfavor, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Revolution. It was a harsh and dreary age, in desperate need of spiritual renewal, ready to embrace a book that ended with blessings for one and all.With warmth, wit, and an infusion of Christmas cheer, Les Standiford whisks us back to Victorian England, its most beloved storyteller, and the birth of the Christmas we know best. The Man Who Invented Christmas ...

Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game
by Starscape (Paperback)

Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
by Del Rey (Mass Market Paperback) (Release Date: 1980-05-12)

Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (Paperback) (Release Date: 2006-01-03)

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by Aladdin (Paperback)

Jane Austen
The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen: Volume II: Pride and Prejudice
by Oxford University Press, USA (Hardcover)

David Macaulay
The New Way Things Work
by Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books (Hardcover)

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