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The Time Traveler's Wife [December 26, 2010]
Audrey Niffenegger
From Publishers WeeklyThis clever and inventive tale works on three levels: as an intriguing science fiction concept, a realistic character study and a touching love story. Henry De Tamble is a Chicago librarian with "Chrono Displacement" disorder; a...
Travel Team [December 13, 2010]
Mike Lupica
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
Danny Walker may be the smallest kid on the basketball court, but no one has a bigger love of the game, or a better sense of how to hit the open player with the perfect pass. Then the local travel team—the same travel team Danny...
The Big Field [December 13, 2010]
Mike Lupica
For Hutch, shortstop has always been home. It's where his father once played professionally, before injuries relegated him to watching games on TV instead of playing them. And it's where Hutch himself has always played and starred. Until now. The arr...
Summer Ball [December 13, 2010]
Mike Lupica
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
The sequel to the #1 bestseller *Travel Team*.
When you're the smallest kid playing a big man's game, the challenges never stop-especially when your name is Danny Walker. Leading your travel team to the national championship m...
Heat [December 13, 2010]
Mike Lupica
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family’s escape from Cuba, Michael’s onl...
Miracle on 49th Street [December 12, 2010]
Mike Lupica
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
Josh Cameron is MVP of the championship Boston Celtics and a media darling with a spotless reputation. He has it all . . . including a daughter he never knew. When twelve-year-old Molly Parker arrives in his life, claiming to be...
Brave New World [December 6, 2010]
Aldous Huxley
A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. "Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack,...
Many Waters [December 6, 2010]
Madeleine L'Engle
The Time Quintet [4]: Amazon.com ReviewWe've all done it. In the frigid depths of winter we've wished we could be magically transported to someplace warm and sunny. But most people don't have genius parents who just happen to be working on a scientif...
An Acceptable Time [December 6, 2010]
Madeleine L'Engle
The Time Quintet [5]: From Publishers WeeklyFor this time-slip novel, L'Engle again reaches into her bag of weird and wonderful knowledge, blending snippets of tantalizing information from a variety of disciplines--history, natural history, physics a...
A Wind in the Door [December 6, 2010]
Madeleine L'Engle
The Time Quintet [2]: Amazon.com Review"There are dragons in the twins' vegetable garden," announces six-year-old Charles Wallace Murry in the opening sentence of The Wind in the Door. His older sister, Meg, doubts it. She figures he's seen something...
A Swiftly Tilting Planet [December 6, 2010]
Madeleine L'Engle
The Time Quintet [3]: Amazon.com ReviewFifteen-year-old Charles Wallace Murry, whom readers first met in __, has a little task he must accomplish. In 24 hours, a mad dictator will destroy the universe by declaring nuclear war--unless Charles Wallace ...
A Wrinkle in Time [December 6, 2010]
Madeleine L'Engle
The Time Quintet [1]: Amazon.com ReviewEveryone in town thinks Meg is volatile and dull-witted and that her younger brother Charles Wallace is dumb. People are also saying that their father has run off and left their brilliant scientist mother. Spurr...
Fahrenheit 451 [December 3, 2010]
Ray Bradbury
Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to afire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl whotold him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor whotold him of a future where people could think...
New Spring: The Novel [October 3, 2010]
Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time: EDITORIAL REVIEW:
rom America's premier fantasy writer-the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Crossroads of Twilight-comes New Spring: The Novel. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time has captured the imagination of milli...
Prey [August 13, 2010]
Michael Crichton
In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practi...
Dearly Devoted Dexter [August 13, 2010]
Jeff Lindsay
Dexter [2]: In this acclaimed follow-up to the bestselling novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter, we pick up with Dexter Morgan when he’s under considerable pressure. It’s not easy being an ethical serial killer—but he’s doing his best to keep up the disguise...
Congo [August 13, 2010]
Michael Crichton
Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Superv...
Dexter in the Dark [August 13, 2010]
Jeff Lindsay
Dexter [3]: In his work as a Miami crime scene investigator, Dexter Morgan is accustomed to seeing evil deeds. . . particularly because, on occasion, he commits them himself. But Dexter's happy existence is turned upside down when he is called to an ...
Darkly Dreaming Dexter [August 13, 2010]
Jeff Lindsay
Dexter [1]: The Basis for a New Showtime® Original Series Starring Michael C. Hall(Sundays at 10pm ET/PT - starts Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 10pm ET/PT)Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep’s clothing. He’s handsome and charming, but something i...
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