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The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? (Pigeon)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Mo Willems
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH (2012, Apr 3rd).
Pages: 40
The Duckling asks for a cookie -- and gets one! Do you think the Pigeon is happy about that? more
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Insurgent (Divergent, Book 2)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Veronica Roth
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books (2012, May 1st).
Pages: 496
One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so. more
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Stolen Prey
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: John Sandford
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Putnam Adult (2012, May 15th).
Pages: 416
Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Wayzata, an entire family has been killed—husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. There’s something about the scene that pokes at Lucas’s cop instincts—it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he’s seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale town, and the husband was an executive vice president at a big bank. It just doesn’t seem to fit. Until it does. And where it leads Lucas will take him into the darkest nightmare of his life. more
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The Official Red Book: A Guide Book of U.S. Coins 2013 (Official Red Book: A Guide Book of United States Coins)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jeff Garrett
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Whitman Publishing; 66th Edition edition (2012, Apr 3rd).
Pages: 448
The Official Red Book®, now in its 66th year, is famous nationwide as the premiere resource for U.S. coin collectors. This best-selling one-volume library helps you make smart buying decisions as you build your collection. Millions of readers rely on it for full-color photographs, detailed technical data, and up-to-date mintages. The Red Book covers the history of colonial and early American coins; official federal issues from half cents through silver dollars and gold coins; classic and modern commemoratives; Proof and Mint sets; error coins; Civil War tokens; pioneer (territorial) gold; every state and territorial quarter, plus the new National Park quarters; all of the presidential dollars; and more. You ll benefit from its practical essays on grading, investing, auctions, and other hobby subjects and of course, its pricing for 6,000-plus coins, in up to 9 grades each, gathered from more than 100 of the nation s leading coin dealers! The 2013 edition features more than 1,800 full-color photographs to help you confidently identify your coins. more
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In One Person: A Novel
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: John Irving
Format: Deckle Edge]
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2012, May 8th).
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A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love—tormented, funny, and affecting—and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a “sexual suspect,” a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of “terminal cases,” The World According to Garp. His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving’s In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy’s friends and lovers—a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. more
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The Sins of the Father (The Clifton Chronicles)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jeffrey Archer
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition (2012, Apr 3rd).
Pages: 448
On the heels of the international bestseller Only Time Will Tell, Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweeping story of the Clifton Chronicles….Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets, and forced to accept that his desire to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. But his ship is sunk in the Atlantic by a German U-boat, drowning almost the entire crew. An American cruise liner, the SS Kansas Star, rescues a handful of sailors, among them Harry and the third officer, an American named Tom Bradshaw. When Bradshaw dies in the night, Harry seizes on the chance to escape his tangled past and assumes his identity. more
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Big Nate: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Lincoln Peirce
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins (2012, May 1st).
Pages: 224
Big Nate is awesome!Did you know that Nate's the star of his own comic strip? Check it out!Will Nate get away with his master plan? Or will Mrs. Godfrey catch him in the act? Find out what happens next!Plus, bonus Big Nate material in the back! more
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A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel: Volume One
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: George R.R. Martin
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam (2012, Mar 27th).
Pages: 176
This graphic novel adaptation contains more than fifty pages of exclusive content not available in the original comic books, including • a new Preface by George R. R. Martin • early renderings of key scenes and favorite characters from the novels • a walk-through of the entire creative process, from auditioning the artists to tweaking the scripts to coloring the final pages • behind-the-scenes commentary from Daniel Abraham, Tommy Patterson, and series editor Anne GroellYou’ve read the books. You’ve watched the hit series on HBO. Now acclaimed novelist Daniel Abraham and illustrator Tommy Patterson bring George R. R. Martin’s epic fantasy masterwork A Game of Thrones to majestic new life in the pages of this full-color graphic novel. more
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A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jeff Shaara
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine Books (2012, May 29th).
Pages: 464
In the first novel of a spellbinding new trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows best. A Blaze of Glory takes us to the action-packed Western Theater for a vivid re-creation of one of the war’s bloodiest and most iconic engagements—the Battle of Shiloh. It’s the spring of 1862. The Confederate Army in the West teeters on the brink of collapse following the catastrophic loss of Fort Donelson. Commanding general Albert Sidney Johnston is forced to pull up stakes, abandon the critical city of Nashville, and rally his troops in defense of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Hot on Johnston’s trail are two of the Union’s best generals: the relentless Ulysses Grant, fresh off his career-making victory at Fort Donelson, and Don Carlos Buell. more
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The Columbus Affair: A Novel
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Steve Berry
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine Books (2012, May 15th).
Pages: 432
A family’s secret, a ruthless fanatic, and a covert arm of the American government—all are linked by a single puzzling possibility: What if everything we know about the discovery of America was a lie? What if that lie was designed to hide the secret of why Columbus sailed in 1492? And what if that 500-year-old secret could violently reshape the modern political world? Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan has written hard-hitting articles from hot spots around the world. But when one of his stories from the Middle East is exposed as a fraud, his professional reputation crashes and burns. Now he lives in virtual exile—haunted by bad decisions and a shocking truth he can never prove: that his downfall was a deliberate act of sabotage by an unknown enemy. more
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