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Neal Shusterman - Unwind

Neal Shusterman - Unwind

In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by ...
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Latest review by joonyacaldoff Sep 18, 2011
"Unwind was the first book I've read by Neal Shusterman, and my favorite by him, too. It is a dy..." Read full review

$10

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Saburo Sakai, Martin Caidin, Fred Saito - Samurai!: The Autobiography of Japan's Bravest Fighter Ace

Saburo Sakai, Martin Caidin, Fred Saito - Samurai!: The Autobiography of Japan's Bravest Fighter Ace

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Latest review by aku_djinn Jul 19, 2004
"Co-written with Martin Caidin and Fred Saito, Samurai was first published in 1957. This is a reprint..." Read full review

$22 - $23

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Clyde Robert Bulla - Sword in the Tree

Clyde Robert Bulla - Sword in the Tree

In the days of King Arthur there stood a mighty oak tree within the walls of a castle. Peace reigned in the castle until the fearsome night when ...
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Latest review by befus Nov 3, 2009
"Shan is a happy young boy growing up on his father's estate. He has never known another home besides..." Read full review

$4 - $5

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Louis de Bernieres - Birds Without Wings

Louis de Bernieres - Birds Without Wings

Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in southwest Turkey (Anatolia) in the early part of the last century, a quirky ...
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Latest review by jc_hall Sep 24, 2006
"The little Anatolian town of Eskibahce at the turn of the 20th century is home to an eclectic group..." Read full review

$6 - $21

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Mary Stewart - Wicked Day

Mary Stewart - Wicked Day

Free Worldwide Delivery : The Wicked Day : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers Inc : 9780060548285 : 0060548282 : 06 May 2003 : The incomparable ...
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Latest review by jenn_richard Jan 16, 2000
"The Wicked Day is a fantastic end to Mary Stewart's Merlin Series. However, this book could be..." Read full review

$8 - $14

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Stephen Coonts - America: A Jake Grafton Novel

Stephen Coonts - America: A Jake Grafton Novel

When the USS America, the latest and most intricate nuclear submarine, is stolen, Admiral Jake Grafton is called in to investigate the matter and ...
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Latest review by phungus Aug 11, 2009
"America is a thriller about a stolen submarine. It comes from bestselling author Stephen Coonts, who..." Read full review

$25 - $43

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Geraldine Brooks - March

Geraldine Brooks - March

In a story inspired by the father character in Little Women and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father Bronson, a man ...
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Latest review by befus Sep 25, 2008
"At the mid-way point of Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women, there's a touching scene where the..." Read full review

$9 - $14

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Max Brooks - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Max Brooks - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of ...
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Latest review by ssjakira1 Sep 1, 2011
"We've seen it all before. In movies. In other books. Tales of people trying to sur..." Read full review

$10 - $24

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Lisa Kleypas - Secrets of a Summer Night

Lisa Kleypas - Secrets of a Summer Night

This Victorian-era romance is the initial volume in a series about the "wallflowers," four young ladies, who, for one reason or another, are finding ...
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Latest review by rcoaxum12 Feb 16, 2011
"Why is it every time that I read a book by Lisa Kleypas, I am always so into the characters and the..." Read full review
Christopher Paul Curtis - Elijah of Buxton

Christopher Paul Curtis - Elijah of Buxton

As the first child born into freedom in a Canadian town for runaway slaves, eleven-year-old Elijah finds himself on a dangerous journey to America to ...
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Latest review by donnamr Feb 28, 2009
"Author Christopher Paul Curtis' children's stories are riveting, his characters intelligent, his the..." Read full review

$43

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Eric Metaxas - Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery

Eric Metaxas - Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery

Hero to Abraham Lincoln and an inspiration to the anti-slavery movement in America, Wilberforce worked tirelessly for the cessation of slavery in ...
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Latest review by befus Mar 31, 2010
"On March 25, 1784, a young man by the name of William Wilberforce delivered what was, at that point,..." Read full review

$16 - $22

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Faye Kellerman - Straight Into Darkness

Faye Kellerman - Straight Into Darkness

In 1920s Munich, the body of Anna Gross, a young society wife, has been found in the English Gardens, still clothed in finery.
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Latest review by heyfrito500 Sep 18, 2006
"I had never read a Faye Kellerman book before, and I don't expect I'll ever do it again. I was not f..." Read full review

$8 - $23

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Karen Traviss - Order 66: Star Wars: A Republic Commando

Karen Traviss - Order 66: Star Wars: A Republic Commando

With the horrors of the Clone Wars continuing to rage on unchecked, the elite warriors of the Republic stumble upon a growing menace that threatens ...
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Latest review by talyseon Apr 9, 2009
"Star Wars: A Republic Commando Order 66. By Karen TravissRejorhaa'ruetiise meg'oyacyi jorcu mh..." Read full review

$3 - $7

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Linda Hayward - The First Thanksgiving

Linda Hayward - The First Thanksgiving

The story of the Pilgrims is vividly retold in simple language for beginning readers. They set sail for far-off America in 1620. The cross-Atlantic ...

$6

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Martin Dillon - The Shankill Butchers: The Real Story of Cold-Blooded Mass Murder

Martin Dillon - The Shankill Butchers: The Real Story of Cold-Blooded Mass Murder

<P>During the 1970s a group of Protestant paramilitaries embarked on a spree of indiscriminate murder which left thirty Northern Irish Catholics ...
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Latest review by lansky2000 Nov 21, 2007
"When I went looking for this one, the fellow at the bookstore led me through the Ireland section, th..." Read full review

$26 - $48

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