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The Alternative Hero
The Alternative Hero
Written by Tim Thornton
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307271099
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The Alternative Hero

Written by Tim Thornton


Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: July 21, 2009
Price: $24.95

What do you do if you’re a failed music fanzine writer in your early thirties with a dead-end job, and the best moment of your life occurred when you went to your first Thieving Magpies gig as a teenager and suddenly you belonged in a way you never had before, and... Read more >
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The Alternative Hero
The Alternative Hero
Written by Tim Thornton
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307272362
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The Alternative Hero

Written by Tim Thornton


Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: July 21, 2009
Price: $24.95

What do you do if you’re a failed music fanzine writer in your early thirties with a dead-end job, and the best moment of your life occurred when you went to your first Thieving Magpies gig as a teenager and suddenly you belonged in a way you never had before, and... Read more >
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Forget Me Knot
Forget Me Knot
Written by Sue Margolis
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385339001
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Forget Me Knot

Written by Sue Margolis


Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $15.00


From the acclaimed author of Gucci Gucci Coo and Apocalipstick comes a funny, sexy novel about questionable engagements—and a love worthy perhaps of the big screen.

Florist Abby Crompton has a knack for arranging the most exquisite bouquets for the hippest clientele. If only her personal life could run as smoothly. Although... Read more >
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Forget Me Knot
Forget Me Knot
Written by Sue Margolis
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780553906721
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Forget Me Knot

Written by Sue Margolis


Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $15.00


From the acclaimed author of Gucci Gucci Coo and Apocalipstick comes a funny, sexy novel about questionable engagements—and a love worthy perhaps of the big screen.

Florist Abby Crompton has a knack for arranging the most exquisite bouquets for the hippest clientele. If only her personal life could run as smoothly. Although... Read more >
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Something Missing
Something Missing
Written by Matthew Dicks
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780767930888
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Something Missing
A Novel
Written by Matthew Dicks


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $14.00

A career criminal with OCD tendencies and a savant-like genius for bringing order to his crime scenes, Martin considers himself one of the best in the biz. After all, he’s been able to steal from the same people for years on end—virtually undetected. Of course, this could also be attributed to... Read more >
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Something Missing
Something Missing
Written by Matthew Dicks
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780767932189
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Something Missing
A Novel
Written by Matthew Dicks


Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $14.00

A career criminal with OCD tendencies and a savant-like genius for bringing order to his crime scenes, Martin considers himself one of the best in the biz. After all, he’s been able to steal from the same people for years on end—virtually undetected. Of course, this could also be attributed to... Read more >
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Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
Written by Jonathan L. Howard
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385530439
Our Price: $25.00
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Johannes Cabal the Necromancer

Written by Jonathan L. Howard


Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $25.00

In this uproarious and clever debut, it’s time to give the Devil his due.

Johannes Cabal, a brilliant scientist and notorious snob, is single-mindedly obsessed in heart and soul with raising the dead. Well, perhaps not soul . . . He hastily sold his years ago in order to learn the laws... Read more >
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Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
Written by Jonathan L. Howard
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385528085
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Johannes Cabal the Necromancer

Written by Jonathan L. Howard


Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $25.00

In this uproarious and clever debut, it’s time to give the Devil his due.

Johannes Cabal, a brilliant scientist and notorious snob, is single-mindedly obsessed in heart and soul with raising the dead. Well, perhaps not soul . . . He hastily sold his years ago in order to learn the laws...

Read more >
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Two Years, No Rain
Two Years, No Rain
Written by Shawn Klomparens
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385342018
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Two Years, No Rain

Written by Shawn Klomparens


Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $15.00

An earnest journey from heartache to heartthrob and all the emotions along the way; at once an old-fashioned love story and a cautionary tale of self-reinvention.

In San Diego County, it hasn’t rained in 580 days. But for weatherman Andy Dunne, everything else is changing fast…Only a few weeks ago, he was... Read more >
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Two Years, No Rain
Two Years, No Rain
Written by Shawn Klomparens
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780440338635
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Two Years, No Rain

Written by Shawn Klomparens


Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $15.00

An earnest journey from heartache to heartthrob and all the emotions along the way; at once an old-fashioned love story and a cautionary tale of self-reinvention.

In San Diego County, it hasn’t rained in 580 days. But for weatherman Andy Dunne, everything else is changing fast…Only a few weeks ago, he was... Read more >
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Never the Bride
Never the Bride
Written by Rene Gutteridge and Cheryl McKay
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307444981
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Never the Bride
A Novel
Written by Rene Gutteridge and Cheryl McKay


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $13.99

“What girl can’t identify with Never the Bride? This is a fabulously funny novel with deep truths embedded in its pages.” –Kristin Billerbeck, author of What a Girl Wants

“I admire writers who employ words to paint touchable pictures, likable characters, introducing us to instant friends who lead us to unexpected endings... Read more >
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Never the Bride
Never the Bride
Written by Rene Gutteridge and Cheryl McKay
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307457905
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Never the Bride
A Novel
Written by Rene Gutteridge and Cheryl McKay


Format: eBook
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $13.99

“What girl can’t identify with Never the Bride? This is a fabulously funny novel with deep truths embedded in its pages.” –Kristin Billerbeck, author of What a Girl Wants

“I admire writers who employ words to paint touchable pictures, likable characters, introducing us to instant friends who lead us to unexpected endings... Read more >
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon
Written by Gideon Defoe
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307378262
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon
A Novel
Written by Gideon Defoe


Format: eBook
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $16.95

The Pirate Captain and his merry band of ne’er-do-wells face off against their toughest—but by no means their tallest—challenge yet.

Crushed with disappointment at the Pirate of the Year Awards, our Pirate Captain decides that it’s time for a career change. And so with his loyal (if soon-to-be-dismayed) crew, he sets... Read more >
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon
Written by Gideon Defoe
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375423987
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon
A Novel
Written by Gideon Defoe


Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $16.95

The Pirate Captain and his merry band of ne’er-do-wells face off against their toughest—but by no means their tallest—challenge yet.

Crushed with disappointment at the Pirate of the Year Awards, our Pirate Captain decides that it’s time for a career change. And so with his loyal (if soon-to-be-dismayed) crew, he sets... Read more >
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The Comedy Writer
The Comedy Writer
Written by Peter Farrelly
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307517999
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The Comedy Writer

Written by Peter Farrelly


Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2009
Price: $16.95

A Confederacy of Dunces meets The Player in an offbeat, sidesplittingly hilarious novel about making it against all odds in 1990s' Hollywood, by the co-writer/director of Dumb and Dumber.

When Henry Halloran's girlfriend dumped him, his Boston-based life suddenly seemed pointless.  He was thirty-two with a dead-end job, and nothing on the horizon.  There... Read more >
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The Reavers
The Reavers
Written by George MacDonald Fraser
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307388056
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The Reavers

Written by George MacDonald Fraser


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $14.95

After twelve gloriously scandalous Flashman novels, the incomparable George MacDonald Fraser gives us a totally hilarious tale of derring-do from a different era.

It's the turn of the seventeenth century (sort of) in the wild Borderlands of Scotland. The irresistible Lady Godiva Dacre and her "chocolate-box pretty" companion Mistress Kylie Delishe... Read more >
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Written by Douglas Adams
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307498465
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Entering the Tibetan Buddhist Path
Written by Douglas Adams


Format: eBook, 832 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $20.00

At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five classic novels from Douglas Adams’s beloved Hitchiker series.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out... Read more >
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What-the-Dickens
What-the-Dickens
Written by Gregory Maguire
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780763643072
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What-the-Dickens
The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy
Written by Gregory Maguire


Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Price: $6.99

"Gregory Maguire does for the dark and stormy night what he did for witches in Wicked." — The New York Times Book Review

A terrible storm is raging, and Dinah is huddled by candlelight with her brother, sister, and cousin Gage, who is telling a very unusual tale. It’s thestory of What-the-Dickens... Read more >
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Super in the City
Super in the City
Written by Daphne Uviller
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ISBN: 9780385342698
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Super in the City

Written by Daphne Uviller


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $12.00

In this off-the-beaten-sidewalk debut, native New Yorker Daphne Uviller reveals the secrets of a sexy, story-filled Big Apple, where a mystery lurks behind every apartment door—and a savvy but slightly lost young woman unexpectedly finds herself holding the keys.

In a city brimming with opportunities for heroism, twenty-seven-year-old Zephyr Zuckerman has... Read more >
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Super in the City
Super in the City
Written by Daphne Uviller
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780553906288
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Super in the City

Written by Daphne Uviller


Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $12.00

In this off-the-beaten-sidewalk debut, native New Yorker Daphne Uviller reveals the secrets of a sexy, story-filled Big Apple, where a mystery lurks behind every apartment door—and a savvy but slightly lost young woman unexpectedly finds herself holding the keys.

In a city brimming with opportunities for heroism, twenty-seven-year-old Zephyr Zuckerman has... Read more >
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A False Sense of Well Being
A False Sense of Well Being
Written by Jeanne Braselton
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307484611
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A False Sense of Well Being

Written by Jeanne Braselton


Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $13.95

“I was married eleven years before I started imagining how different life could be if my husband were dead. . . .”

At thirty-eight, Jessie Maddox subscribes to House Beautiful, Southern Living, even Psychology Today. She has a comfortable life in Glenville, Georgia, with Turner, the most reliable, responsible husband in the... Read more >
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Quite a Year for Plums
Quite a Year for Plums
Written by Bailey White
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307489968
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Quite a Year for Plums
A Novel
Written by Bailey White


Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $13.95

Anyone who has read the best-selling Mama Makes Up Her Mind or listened to Bailey White's commentaries on NPR knows that she is a storyteller of inimitable wit and charm. Now, in her stunningly accomplished first novel, she introduces us to the peculiar yet lovable people who inhabit a small town... Read more >
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Tuscany for Beginners
Tuscany for Beginners
Written by Imogen Edwards-Jones
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307492197
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Tuscany for Beginners
A Novel
Written by Imogen Edwards-Jones


Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $13.95

Oh, the dream of escaping to Italy–and the nightmare of reality. . . .

Belinda Smith has found her very own Tuscan valley in the sun, having abandoned a dreary cheating husband and an even drearier English town. Running Casa Mia, her own too, too divine bed and breakfast, everything is coming... Read more >
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The Swap
The Swap
Written by Antony Moore
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385342346
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The Swap

Written by Antony Moore


Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $11.00

Ever have a moment you wish you could undo? A wickedly brilliant tale of revenge, mystery, and fate, Antony Moore’s The Swap is at once a gripping thriller and a hilarious black comedy—a book for anyone who’s ever wondered what could have been. . . .

Harvey Briscow—smoker, drinker, comic-shop owner—is facing... Read more >
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists
Written by Gideon Defoe
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307274915
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists
A Novel
Written by Gideon Defoe


Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $9.95

London, 1840: Wagner's latest opera plays to packed houses while disgruntled workers gather in crowded pubs to eat ice cream and plan the downfall of the bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the Pirate Captain finds himself incarcerated at Scotland Yard, in a case of mistaken identity.

Discovering that his doppelgänger is none other than Karl... Read more >
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