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Special Topics in Calamity Physics

by Marisha Pessl

Published: 2006-08-03

Hardcover: 514 pages

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"Marisha Pessl's SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS is the most flashily erudite first novel since Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated ... A whirling, glittering, multifaceted marvel, delivered in an irrepressibly smart and flamboyant new voice ... Q: Is SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALA...

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Specials (The Uglies)

by Scott Westerfeld

Published: 2007-09-11

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"Special Circumstances":The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor -- frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting...

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Specials (Thorndike Press Large Print Literacy Bridge Series)

by Scott Westerfeld

Published: 2007-12-05

Hardcover: 441 pages

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"Special Circumstances":The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor -- frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting...

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Specials (Uglies)

by Scott Westerfeld

Published: 2007-09-11

Paperback: 400 pages

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"Special Circumstances":The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor -- frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting...

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The Speckled Monster

by Jennifer Lee Carrell

Published: 2004-01-27

Kindle Edition: 508 pages

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The Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story of two parents who dared to fight back against smallpox.  After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they flouted eighteenth-century medicine by borrowing folk knowledge from African slaves and Eastern women in frantic bids to pr...

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Spectacle in the White City: The Chicago 1893 World's Fair (Calla Editions)

by Stanley Appelbaum

Published: 2009-02-26

Hardcover: 176 pages

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The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, combined nostalgia for the United States' European roots with a celebration of the nation's emergence as a world power. A splendid tribute to the exposition's  "White City" of shining Beaux-Arts buildings, this hardcover volume o...

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A Spectacle of Corruption: A Novel

by David Liss

Published: 2004-11-23

Paperback: 396 pages

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The Spectator Bird (Contemporary American Fiction)

by Wallace Stegner

Published: 1990-11-01

Paperback: 224 pages

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Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace (Bk Currents)

by Bruce Barry

Published: 2007-06-18

Hardcover: 285 pages

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A factory worker is fired because her boss dislikes the political bumper sticker on her car in the parking lot. Another is canned after refusing to display an American flag at his workstation. A flight attendant is grounded because her airline doesn't like what she's writing in her personal blog. Is...

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The Speed of Dark

by Elizabeth Moon

Published: 2005-06-28

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Unfortunately, there will be a generation left behind. For members of that missed generation, small advances will be made. Through various programs, the...