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Librarian s note An alternate cover edition can be found here n nIN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS Wade s devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world s d
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780439554930 n nHarry Potter s life is miserable His parents are dead and he s stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under the stairs But his fortune changes when he receives a letter that tells him the truth about himself he s a
Before Liz Lemon, before Weekend Update, before Sarah Palin, Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle school gym teacher She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV n nShe has seen bo
In Amy Poehler s highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice some useful, some not so much , like when to be funny and when to be serious Powered by Amy s charming and h
The memoir of one man s coming of age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed n nTrevor Noah s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act his birth Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a bl
Librarian s note An alternate cover edition can be found here n nTara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home canned peaches and sleeping with her head for the hills bag In
Ever since Harry Potter had come home for the summer, the Dursleys had been so mean and hideous that all Harry wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry But just as he s packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange impish creature who says that if Harry
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here n nRachel catches the same commuter train every morning She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens She s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses Jess and J
Harry Potter s third year at Hogwarts is full of new dangers A convicted murderer, Sirius Black, has broken out of Azkaban prison, and it seems he s after Harry Now Hogwarts is being patrolled by the dementors, the Azkaban guards who are hunting Sirius But Harry can t imagine that Sirius or, for
Harry Potter is midway through his training as a wizard and his coming of age Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush and maybe do than dream He wants to
A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door Meet Ove He s a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window He has staunch principles, strict routine
For years, rumors of the Marsh Girl have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so called Marsh Girl But Kya is not what they say Sensitive and intelligent, she has
There is a door at the end of a silent corridor And it s haunting Harry Pottter s dreams Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror Harry has a lot on his mind for this, his fifth year at Hogwarts a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poi
Librarian s note An alternate cover edition can be found here n nNo one s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine n nMeet Eleanor Oliphant she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she s thinking Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of av