Browsing the "Most Popular" category: 30 books
In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"—<
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ISBN: 0061668680 / HarperCollins e-books / Pub Date: May 2008 / File Size: 1226K
No matter what the occasion, this collection of poems is the perfect gift to cheer up a friend or family member. Here, in this compact volume, are 100 poems written by the world's greatest poets, some inspiring, some hilarious, and all memorable. Eac
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ISBN: 0446511927 / Grand Central Publishing / Pub Date: Mar 2008 / File Size: 293K
Twilight tempted the imagination. New Moon made readers thirsty for more. Eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon. And now, the book that everyone has been waiting for.... Breaking Dawn, the final book in the #1 bestselling Twilight Sag
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ISBN: 0316032832 / Little, Brown / Pub Date: Aug 2008 / File Size: 613K
Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen were the reigning princesses of the Upper East Side. Until now. In Gossip Girl, The Carlyles the inimitable Gossip Girl introduces the most fabulous sixteen year-old triplets to ever inhabit the Upper East
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ISBN: 5551740749 / Little, Brown / Pub Date: May 2008 / File Size: 310K
From the sun-scorched sands of the Kalahari to the snake-infested jungles of the Amazon, Les Stroud has made a life of surviving in the harshest—and most remote—regions on Earth. Now, the creator, producer, and host of
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ISBN: 0061716855 / HarperCollins e-books / Pub Date: Mar 2009 / File Size: 6614K
A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks—revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into
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ISBN: 0385525443 / Doubleday Publishing / Pub Date: Mar 2008 / File Size: 477K
No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through... A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with
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ISBN: 1416587918 / Scribner / Pub Date: Jan 2008 / File Size: 637K
""By filling one's head instead of one's pocket, one cannot be robbed."" The appeal of Chinese proverbs is profound and universal. With brevity, clarity, and simplicity, these carefully chosen words help pass wisdom and insight th
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ISBN: 0061726893 / HarperCollins e-books / Pub Date: Jan 2009 / File Size: 2058K
For Abraham Lincoln, whether he was composing love letters, speeches, or legal arguments, words mattered. In Lincoln, acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan explores the life of America's sixteenth president through his use of language as a
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ISBN: 0061717851 / HarperCollins e-books / Pub Date: Nov 2008 / File Size: 462K
In Laurell K. Hamilton's New York Times bestselling novels, Vampire Hunter and zombie animator Anita Blake is an expert at sniffing out the bad from the good. But she's about to learn that nothing is ever as it seems-especially in matters of the not-
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ISBN: 1429589000 / Jove / Pub Date: Jan 2008 / File Size: 540K
