Library Books - To Borrow

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The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People...

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:56:10 PST

Amazon.com: The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People: Susan Orlean: Books

Urban Tribes: Are Friends the New Family? (Paperback)

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:05:23 PST

Amazon.com: Urban Tribes: Are Friends the New Family?: Ethan Watters: Books

The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:02:35 PST

* Paperback: 176 pages * Publisher: Riverhead Trade (September 4, 2007) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 1594482640 * ISBN-13: 978-1594482649 * Product Dimensions: 8.9 x...

George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior...$9.95

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:01:07 PST

Its title, textured red cover and gold embossing suggest a certain formality, but this little book is occasionally a riotous read. Contains one hundred and ten rules...

It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be: The World's Best Selling...

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:46:49 PST

* Paperback: 128 pages * Publisher: Phaidon Press (June 1, 2003) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0714843377 * ISBN-13: 978-0714843377 * Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.6 x 0.6...

The American Girl's Handy Book

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:17:39 PST

A reprint of a 1890's publication for young ladies instructing them in such hobbies as fancy needlework, handmade dolls, china painting, painting in oils, heraldic...

Mr. Dixon Disappears: A Mobile Library Mystery (Mobile Library)

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:01:13 PST

Sansom, who lives in Northern Ireland, is a writer and reviewer for the Guardian and the London Review of Books. He is the author of The Impartial Recorder (published in...

The Case of the Missing Books: A Mobile Library Mystery (Mobile Library...

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:00:47 PST

From Publishers Weekly British author Sansom (The Impartial Recorder) launches a humorous new series set in Tumdrum, Northern Ireland, the small village that transplanted...

Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:45:48 PST

From Publishers Weekly Jack-of-all-trades Borchert shares wholesome, guardedly witty dispatches from the suburban L.A. library system in this charming tell-all. For 12...

PsychoBible: Behavior, Religion and the Holy Book

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:29:57 PST

PsychoBible offers an enlightening and entertaining examination of the Bible'ss impact on behavior through time and space -- from its formation to the present day. It'ss...

Philip Zimbardo: The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:17:55 PST

What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing...

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:26:01 PST

* Paperback: 512 pages * Publisher: Modern Library; New edition (October 8, 2002) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0679642579 * ISBN-13: 978-0679642572 * Product...

Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:23:38 PST

* Paperback: 544 pages * Publisher: Penguin Classics; Revised edition (December 31, 2002) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 0141439564 * ISBN-13: 978-0141439563 * Product...

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:31:17 PST

From Library Journal Upon its publication last year in Germany Susskind's first novel Perfume immediately became an international best seller. Set in 18th-century France,...

No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:33 PDT

Hells Angels and fallen televangelist Ted Haggard. Cross-country truckers and suburban mothers. Trailer parks, gay sex clubs, college campuses, and military...

The Testament of Gideon Mack

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:33 PDT

A Scottish minister who doesn't believe in God meets the devil in this beguiling American debut A good manand a good minister despite his atheismGideon Mack leads a...

The Book of Liz

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:33 PDT

Santaland Diaries & Seasons Greetings: 2 Plays

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:32 PDT

Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:32 PDT

A collection of stories and essays by humorist and NPR commentator David Sedaris based upon his own experiences and the hidden perversity that can be found in Anytown,...

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:32 PDT

“I cannot remember when I read a book with such delight.” —Paul Yamazaki, City Lights Bookstore November, a dark, rainy Tuesday, late afternoon. This is my ideal time to...

Santaland Diaries

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:31 PDT

Stoned, Naked, and Looking in My Neighbor's Window: The Best Confessions from...

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:31 PDT

GroupHug (www.grouphug.us) was started as a place for people to totally anonymously post their deepest, darkest secrets. To confess them to the world. GroupHug received...

The Best American Travel Writing 2002 (Best American)

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:31 PDT

Giving new life to armchair travel for 2002, here are ten unabridged tales on such varied concerns as God and airports; a dangerous Bolivian festival; one perfect meal in...

Harlequin Valentine

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:31 PDT

In this modern retelling of a classic commedia dell' arte legend of tomfoolery and hopeless, fawning love, creators Neil Gaiman (Sandman) and John Bolton (Manbat: Batman)...

Forever and Ever, Amen

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:31 PDT

A funny, poignant account of a young woman's experiences becoming a Catholic nun during the tumultuous 1960s. In 1964, Karol Jackowski was an eighteen-year-old girl just...

The World Without Us

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:31 PDT

A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity’s impact on the...

Hatchet

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:31 PDT

ALONEThirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in...

Don't Shoot the Dog!

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:30 PDT

Karen Pryor's clear and accessible explanation of reinforcement-based teaching and training has made Don't Shoot The Dog! a worldwide, bestselling classic. The book has...

Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic.

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:30 PDT

Share the shame.In the days before blogs, teenagers recorded their lives with a pen in top-secret notebooks, usually emblazoned with an earnest, underlined plea to...

The River

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:30 PDT

"We want you to do it again."These words, spoken to Brian Robeson, will change his life. Two years earlier, Brian was stranded alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days...

Downriver

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:30 PDT

No adults, no permit, no river map. Just some "borrowed" gear from Discovery Unlimited, the outdoor education program Jessie and her new companions have just ditched....

White Oleander: A Novel

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:29 PDT

Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 1999: Astrid Magnussen, the teenage narrator of Janet Fitch's engrossing first novel, White Oleander, has a mother who is as sharp as a...

Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1)

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:28 PDT

Playing on every teen's passionate desire to look as good as everybody else, Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters) projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at...

Pretties (Uglies Trilogy, Book 2)

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:28 PDT

Gorgeous. Popular.Perfect. Perfectly wrong.Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and...

Specials (Uglies Trilogy, Book 3)

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:28 PDT

"Special Circumstances":The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor --...

Going Gray: What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity,...

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:28 PDT

Anne Kreamer considered herself a youthful 49 until a photo of herself with her teenage daughter stopped her in her tracks. In one unguarded moment she saw herself for...

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:28 PDT

New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations...

Um. . .: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:28 PDT

Um… is about how you really speak, and why it’s normal for your casual, everyday speech to be filled with verbal blunders — about one in every ten words. Why do they...

Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low...

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:27 PDT

David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess. Whether he is contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic...

Fraud: Essays

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:27 PDT

Let's get this out of the way: David Rakoff is not David Sedaris. When you hear him being incredibly smart and funny on This American Life, you invariably think, "Oh,...

I Am America (And So Can You!)

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:26 PDT

Stephen Colbert was The Daily Shows longest-running and most diverse correspondent. In addition to his role as Senior Political Correspondent he was one of the hosts of...

Insiders (Insiders Novel)

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:26 PDT

A captivating, scandalous look into the privileged and turbulent world of five fabulous guys living in Manhattan's trendiest neighborhoods. Jonathan is the leader of the...

Private (Private, Book 1)

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:26 PDT

Tradition, Honor, Excellence...and secrets so dark they're almost invisibleFifteen-year-old Reed Brennan wins a scholarship to Easton Academy -- the golden ticket away...

She's the Man (Widescreen Edition)

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:26 PDT

Shakespearean comedy and American high school are a match made in heaven--or Hollywood, at any rate. Somehow the exaggerated emotions and budding hormones of adolescence...

Summer People: A Novel (P.S.)

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:25 PDT

Nathan Empson has just accepted the most unusual summer job of his life. In exchange for serving as a "caretaker for Ellen Broderick, the eccentric matriarch of an...

A Great and Terrible Beauty

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:25 PDT

A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique of girlfriends, and a dark other-worldly fantasy--jumble them all together and...

Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:25 PDT

A vivid, funny, and viscerally powerful memoir about childhood, assimilation, food, and growing up in the 1980s As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids,...

Love Walked In

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:25 PDT

When Martin Grace enters the hip Philadelphia coffee shop Cornelia Brown manages, her life changes forever. But little does she know that her newfound love is only the...

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:25 PDT

Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both...

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and...

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:25 PDT

This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all...

Atonement: A Novel

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:25 PDT

Ian McEwan's Booker Prize-nominated Atonement is his first novel since Amsterdam took home the prize in 1998. But while Amsterdam was a slim, sleek piece, Atonement is a...

The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 4)

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:25 PDT

The zombie-raising business gets slow in December, so Anita Blake is starting to see some oddball cases. She's got a neatly typed list of eight missing lycanthropes given...

The Killing Dance (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 6)

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:25 PDT

Anita Blake, vampire hunter, is now herself a hunted woman. Who put the $500,000 price on her head--a man or a monster? It's not just her own skin she needs to save; the...

Bloody Bones (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 5)

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:25 PDT

When Anita Blake's boss at Animators, Inc., informs her that she's expected to raise 300-year-old zombies from a field of jumbled bones just to settle a land dispute, ...

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:25 PDT

An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's...

Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That...

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:25 PDT

Improve your presentationsand increase your impactwith 50 powerful, practical, and easy-to-apply techniques for Microsoft PowerPoint. With Beyond Bullet Points, youll...

Burnt Offerings (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 7)

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:25 PDT

Burnt Offerings is the seventh in Laurell K. Hamilton's genre-straddling Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. Anita carries a gun and an attitude: "Questions are great,...