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Free-Range Chicken Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jessi Bloom
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Timber Press (2012, Jan 31st).
Pages: 224
Many gardeners fear chickens will peck away at their landscape, and chicken lovers often shy away from gardening for the same reason. But you can keep chickens and have a beautiful garden, too! Fresh eggs aren't the only benefit — chickens can actually help your garden grow and thrive, even as your garden does the same for your chickens. In this essential handbook, award-winning garden designer Jessi Bloom covers everything a gardener needs to know, including chicken-keeping basics, simple garden plans to get you started, tips on attractive fencing options, the best plants and plants to avoid, and step-by-step instructions for getting your chicken garden up and running. For anyone who wants a fabulous garden where colorful chickens happily roam, Free-Range Chicken Gardens is the guide that will bring the dream home to roost. more
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Richard Dawkins
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press (2012, Jan 10th).
Pages: 256
“WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM? WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE IT? WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? AND FINALLY, WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?” Lawrence Krauss’s provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular lecture now on YouTube have attracted almost a million viewers. The last of these questions in particular has been at the center of religious and philosophical debates about the existence of God, and it’s the supposed counterargument to anyone who questions the need for God. As Krauss argues, scientists have, however, historically focused on other, more pressing issues—such as figuring out how the universe actually functions, which can ultimately help us to improve the quality of our lives. more
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Kill Shot (Mitch Rapp)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Vince Flynn
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria (2011, Oct 11th).
Pages: 448
#1 INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR VINCE FLYNN DELIVERS THE YOUNG, HUNGRY, AND LETHAL MITCH RAPP AT THE ONSET OF HIS CAREER AS A CIA SUPERAGENT. In the year since the CIA trained and then unleashed him, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of men, bullet by bullet. With each swift and untraceable kill, the tangled network of monsters responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians in the Pan Am Lockerbie attack become increasingly aware that someone is hunting them. Rapp is given his next target, and finds the man asleep in his bed in Paris. In the split second it takes the bullet to leave Rapp’s silenced pistol, the trap is sprung and he finds himself in the fight of his life. The next morning, nine bodies are discovered in one of Paris’s finest hotels—among them the Libyan oil minister. more
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Celebrity In Death
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: J.D. Robb
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Putnam Adult (2012, Feb 21st).
Pages: 400
J.D. Robb is the pseudonym for a number one New York Times bestselling author of more than 190 novels, including the futuristic suspense In Death series. There are more than 400 million copies of her books in print. more
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I've Got Your Number: A Novel
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Sophie Kinsella
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: The Dial Press (2012, Feb 7th).
Pages: 256
I’ve lost it. :( The only thing in the world I wasn’t supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It’s been in Magnus’s family for three generations. And now the very same day his parents are coming, I’ve lost it. The very same day! Do not hyperventilate, Poppy. Stay positive :) !! Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her “happily ever after” begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. more
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Witch & Wizard: The Fire
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jill Dembowski
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2011, Dec 5th).
Pages: 352
JAMES PATTERSON was selected by teens across America as the Children's Choice Book Awards Author of the Year in 2010. He is the internationally bestselling author of the highly praised Maximum Ride novels, the Witch & Wizard series (which was nominated for the 2011 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards), the Daniel X series, Med Head, and the detective series featuring Alex Cross and the Women's Murder Club. His books have sold more than 230 million copies worldwide, making him one of the bestselling authors of all time. He lives in Florida.Jill Dembowski graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Literature and Creative Writing. She lives in New York City. more
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The Wolf Gift
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Anne Rice
Format: Deckle Edge]
Publisher: Knopf (2012, Feb 14th).
Pages: 400
A daring new departure from the inspired creator of The Vampire Chronicles (“unrelentingly erotic . . . unforgettable”—The Washington Post), Lives of the Mayfair Witches (“Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature”—San Francisco Chronicle), and the angels of The Songs of the Seraphim (“remarkable”—Associated Press). A whole new world—modern, sleek, high-tech—and at its center, a story as old and compelling as history: the making of a werewolf, reimagined and reinvented as only Anne Rice, teller of mesmerizing tales, conjurer extraordinaire of other realms, could create. The time is the present. The place, the rugged coast of Northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. more
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Home Front
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Kristin Hannah
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (2012, Jan 31st).
Pages: 384
In her bestselling novels Kristin Hannah has plumbed the depths of friendship, the loyalty of sisters, and the secrets mothers keep. Now, in her most emotionally powerful story yet, she explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband and wife, in love and at war. All marriages have a breaking point. All families have wounds. All wars have a cost. . . .Like many couples, Michael and Jolene Zarkades have to face the pressures of everyday life---children, careers, bills, chores---even as their twelve-year marriage is falling apart. Then an unexpected deployment sends Jolene deep into harm’s way and leaves defense attorney Michael at home, unaccustomed to being a single parent to their two girls. more
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Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 2 (The Twilight Saga)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Stephenie Meyer
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Yen Press (2011, Oct 11th).
Pages: 240
Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English literature, and she lives with her husband and three young sons in Arizona. After the publication of her debut novel, Twilight, booksellers chose her as one of the "most promising new authors of 2005" (Publishers Weekly). Her website is www.stepheniemeyer.com. Young Kim graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in painting from the College of Fine Arts. She has worked on numerous animation and cover illustration projects and currently makes her home in Yongin, Korea. Her adaptation of the first volume of Twilight: The Graphic Novel was a #1 bestseller on the New York Times hardcover graphic books list. more
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Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga (The Forerunner Saga, Book 2)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Greg Bear
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (2012, Jan 3rd).
Pages: 352
A long time ago, I was a living, breathing human being. I went mad. I served my enemies. They became my only friends.Since then, I’ve traveled back and forth across this galaxy, and out to the spaces between galaxies--a greater reach than any human before me. You have asked me to tell you about that time. Since you are the last true Reclaimer, I must obey. Are you recording? Good. Because my memory is failing rapidly. I doubt I’ll be able to finish the story.Once, on my birth-world, a world I knew as Erde-Tyrene, and which now is called Earth, my name was Chakas...In the wake of apparent self-destruction of the Forerunner empire, two humans--Chakas and Riser--are like flotsam washed up on very strange shores indeed.Captured by the Master Builder, misplaced during a furious battle in space, they now find themselves on an inverted world where horizons rise into the sky, and where humans of all kinds are trapped in a perilous cycle of horror and neglect. more
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