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When former pirate Billy Bones leaves an old sea chest and an ancient treasure map at the Admiral Benbow Inn, young Jim Hawkins embarks on a treasure-hunting adventure that takes him to the South Seas. Amazon.com Review
Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long… More >>
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Cutting for Stone: A Novel
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
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A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel–an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medici… More >>
Cutting for Stone: A Novel
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
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What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times.Amazon.com Review
Amazon Significant Seven, January 2008: Food is the one thing that Americans hate to love and, as it turns out, love to hate. What we want to eat has been ousted by the notion of what we should eat, and it’s at this nexus of hunger and hang-up that Michael Pollan poses his most salient question: where is the food in our food? What follows in In D… More >>
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
The Art of Racing in the Rain CD
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
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Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn’t simply about going fast. Using the techniques needed on the… More >>
The Art of Racing in the Rain CD
The Last Song
Monday, March 8th, 2010Sometimes you just dont know what the future holds, but you can be sure it will not be boring, You never imagine what the past may be.
Some times life can be cruel,
Seventeen year old Veronica “Ronnie” Miller’s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father…until her mother decides it would be in everyone’s best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie’s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the… More >>
The Last Song
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
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Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest n… More >>
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
The Lovely Bones
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
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Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. THE LOVELY BONES is such a book — a #1 bestseller celebrated at once for its artistry, for its luminous clarity of emotion, and for its astonishing power to lay claim to the hearts of millions of readers around the world. Now in an audiobook edition read by the author, with movie tie-in art.
“My name was Salmon, like the fish; first nam… More >>
The Lovely Bones
Outliers: The Story of Success
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Imagine taking a journey that you never thought you would be taking…
In this stunning new audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of “outliers”–the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of t… More >>
Outliers: The Story of Success
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
Friday, March 5th, 2010
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The inspiring account of one man’s campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia…. More >>
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
