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|  | Thanksgiving by Michael Dibdin
Anthony Baines's wife Lucy has died in a plane crash, and he becomes obsessed with finding out the details of her first marriage, in order to assuage the jealousy he still feels of her first husband, Darryl Bob. A series of increasingly disturbed actions leads eventually to a confrontation between the two men. AUTHOR: Michael Dibdin
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Buffy Yearbook by Nancy Holder, Pocket
Description not available.Buffy fans will cherish the vampire slayer's Sunnydale yearbook, which is embellished with personal notes, funny drawings, song lyrics, and short passages recalling key episodes, as well as an In Memoriam section honoring students who have died or been transferred out of Sunnydale under questionable circumstances. AUTHOR: Nancy Holder, Pocket
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Idiot, The by Constance Black Garnett, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dostoyevsky wanted to create a portrait of a good man in Prince Myshkin, a Christlike figure who is the heir to a large fortune and whose simple goodness has a profound impact on those around him. Myshkin`s saintly impulses occasionally backfire, as when the prostitute Natasha, believing he loves her, is devastated to learn his love is only pity; she runs away with the evil Rogozhin, who murders her. At times the plot reads like a thriller, though throughout the novel Dostoyevsky probes the meaning of human suffering and the nature of true compassion. In spite of the fact that he felt he didn`t achieve his stated goal, THE IDIOT was Dostoyevsky`s favorite among his novels. AUTHOR: Constance Black Garnett, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Black Arrow by N. C. Wyeth, Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of adventure and romance is set amid the shifting alliances of England's Wars of the roses. A vivid depiction of fifteenth-century conflicts, The Black Arrow is yet timeless in its portrayal of the suffering that war inflicts on all sides. AUTHOR: N. C. Wyeth, Robert Louis Stevenson
PUBLISHER: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker
The narrator of Baker`s second novel muses about life in all its fascinating trivia while he gives his baby daughter a bottle. AUTHOR: Nicholson Baker
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Old Shell, New Shell by Helen Ward
Set in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, this tale of a hermit crab in search of a new shell features dazzling pen-and-ink illustrations with a jewel-toned watercolor-and-gouache wash. AUTHOR: Helen Ward
PUBLISHER: Millbrook Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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