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Soon-to-be fourth-grader Mason Dixon does not want a pet, but his parents think it will be good for him. When Dog comes, it takes a little dose of jealousy for Mason to realize he wants a pet of his own. Illustrations.

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When 12-year-old Linc Crenshaw decides he wants to go to public school, his professor mom isn't so happy with the idea. He's convinced it will be the ticket to a new social life. Instead, it's a disaster when his mom shows up at their field trip to the local cemetery to lecture them on gravestones, and Linc sees her through his fellow-students' eyes. He's convinced his chances at a social life are over until a cemetery-related project makes hi...

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From the author of the universally acclaimed debut novel "A Case of Exploding Mangoes, " a subversive, often shockingly funny new novel set in steaming Karachi, about second chances, thwarted ambitions, and love in the most unlikely places.

A dark comedy set in London in the late 1990s during the last gasp of the newspaper wars just before the dot-com tidal wave--about two female journalists at opposite ends of their life and work who become locked in a fierce tango of wills.

The American debut of an enthralling new voice in fiction: a vivid, indelibly told novel that follows four generations of a family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century--a novel about inheritance, about fate and passion, and about what it means to truly break free of the past.

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A formerly overweight veteran food writer tells how he lost 35 pounds and kept them off by thinking more--not less--about food, and shows how to eat in a healthy way without sacrificing any of the fun and pleasure in food.

From the award-winning author of "A Country Called Home, " a richly imagined new novel about a young woman who leaves the dusty farmland of 1960s Oklahoma to follow her husband to the oil fields of Saudi Arabia and finds wealth, glamour, American privilege, and corruption.

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Wilkinson recounts the thrilling story of the visionary Swedish explorer S.A. Andree, who in 1897, at the height of the heroic age of Arctic endeavor, attempted to discover the North Pole by flying over it in a hydrogen balloon.

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Ever since he first read Graham Greene's work as a schoolboy, Iyer has been obsessed by the figure of the writer and by one of the great themes of Greene's work: what it means to be an outsider. Yet as Iyer recounts the history of his obsession, another phantom image begins to assert itself, one that Iyer had long banished from his inner life--that of his father.

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This adorable, playful, picture-based book features two very young children and an adorable dog navigating the troubles and triumphs of sharing. Full color.

After the bestselling "Arthur & George" and "Nothing to Be Frightened Of, " Barnes returns with 14 stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examines with his trademark wit and observant eye.