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The botany of desire_ a plant's - Michael Pollan
SUMMARY: Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the fl... -
The amazing adventures of Kaval - Michael Chabon
SUMMARY: This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist... -
The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. *The Year of the Flood* is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. **The times and speci... -
The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard
SUMMARY: "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard in a deceptively jaunty intr... -
The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching - a wise shepherd - might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and it's up to Tiffany to work it all out when stra... -
The Undertaker's Gift - Trevor Baxendale
SUMMARY: The Hokrala Corp lawyers are back. They're suing planet Earth for mishandling the twenty-first century, and they won't tolerate any efforts to repel them. An assassin has ... -
The Ultimate Harry Potter and P - William Irwin; Gregory Bassham
Product DescriptionA philosophical exploration of the entire seven-book Harry Potter seriesHarry Potter has been heralded as one of the most popular book seri... -
The Things a Brother Knows - Dana Reinhardt
From School Library JournalGr 8 Up–Levi Katznelson's older brother, Boaz, is home after three years as a Marine. He has been changed by the experience, which emerges bit by bit thr... -
The Terminal State - Jeff Somers
SUMMARY: Avery Cates is an army man. Between the army's new dental plan and a set of first class augments, he's been given a second chance - albeit a quick one.When a corrupt offic... -
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
SUMMARY: In this tale by William Shakespeare, Prospero--the rightful Duke of Milan--has been usurped and, along with his daughter Miranda, has been exiled on an island for twelve y...