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The Uses of Enchantment: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Heidi Julavits

Published: 2008-01-08

Paperback: 356 pages

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One Autumn day in 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal vanishes from her Massachusetts prep school. A few weeks later she reappears unharmed and with little memory of what happened to her--or at least little that she is willing to share.  Was Mary abducted, or did she fake her disappearance?�...

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Using Picture Books to Teach Writing With the Traits: K-2: An Annotated Bibliography of More Than 150 Mentor Texts With Teacher-Tested Lessons

by Ruth Culham, Raymond Coutu

Published: 2008-05-01

Paperback: 112 pages

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Good teachers have long recognized the power of using picture books as models of good writing. The short, focused, and tightly woven text mirrors the kind of writing they want their students to be doing. In this essential resource, the authors have organized by trait more than 150 annotations of new...

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The Usual Rules

by Joyce Maynard

Published: 2004

Paperback: 400 pages

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Thirteen-year-old Wendy lives in Brooklyn. Her world is transformed one day in September 2001--her mother goes to work that morning and doesn't come back. Through Wendy's eyes, readers follow her slow and terrible realization that her mother has died, and the family's struggle to move forward with their...

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Utopia

by Thomas More

Published: 2012-02-27

Paperback: 108 pages

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Controversial, contradictory, and mysterious, Utopia by Sir Thomas More has engaged scholars and intrigued readers since its initial publication in the 16th century. More s imagining of Utopia presents a solution to many of the social ills discussed in the first part of the text, yet seems also to embody...

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Utopia (Penguin Classics)

by Thomas More

Published: 2003-05-06

Paperback: 176 pages

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Utterly Charming

by Kristine Grayson

Published: 2011-10-04

Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages

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"Utterly charming, indeed! A delightful mix of fun and fantasy." ? Kasey Michaels, USA Today bestselling author of How to Wed a Baran"Magical and sweet. . .I was charmed." ? Susan Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of Burning UpHe could be her own personal Prince Charming if only ...

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Utterly Monkey: A Novel (P.S.)

by Nick Laird

Published: 2006-01-01

Paperback: 344 pages

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Danny Williams didn't mean to be a lawyer, but somehow he is -- and for up to eighteen hours a day. He's well paid, home owning, and twenty-seven but is also overworked, lonely, and frequently stoned. The plan was to leave the troubles of a small town in Northern Ireland for the big city ...

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V for Vendetta

by Alan Moore

Published: 2008-10-24

Comic: 0 pages

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A new trade paperback edition of the graphic novel that inspired the hit movie!A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V FOR VENDETTA takes place in a totalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet. In a world without political freedo...

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V is for Vengeance

by Sue Grafton

Published: 2012-10-30

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages

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Private detective Kinsey Millhone feels a bit out of place in Nordstrom’s lingerie department, but she’s entirely in her element when she puts a stop to a brazen shoplifting spree. For her trouble she nearly gets run over in the parking lot by one of the fleeing thieves—and later learns that the...

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V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone Mystery)

by Sue Grafton

Published: 2011-11-14

Hardcover: 448 pages

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A spiderweb of dangerous relationships lies at the heart of V is for Vengeance, Sue Grafton's daring new Kinsey Millhone novel. A woman with a murky past who kills herself-or was it murder? A spoiled kid awash in gambling debt who thinks he can beat the system. A lovely woman whose life i...