Home Alone 2

Home Alone 2

Todd Strasser

Memoir / Young Adult / Historical Fiction

It's Christmas in the McCallister house and the family is going to Florida. Unfortunately, Kevin is on a plane to New York! This is the digest novelization of the eagerly awaited sequel to 20th Century Fox's blockbuster hit Home Alone, which grossed more than $500 million worldwide. Full-color movie stills.
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Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company

Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company

Homer Hickam

Memoir / Historical Fiction / Fiction

Akidnapped lunar heiress. A deranged-science syndicate. An imminent asteroidimpact. Crater Trueblood has more to rescue than just his ex-girlfriend . . .namely the entire human race.Maria Medaris is the 21-year-old matriarch of the mostpowerful family on the moon. She is gorgeous, she is powerful, and she is highmaintenance. But when Maria is kidnapped by purple-faced, gene-splicingscientists in league with her father, her only hope is the very man she oncespurned: Crater Trueblood.Much more than Maria is at stake: the planet Earth,majestically rising over the lunar horizon, is in the crosshairs of an asteroidengineered by Maria's abductors. If Crater can't stop it, then Earth faces adinosaur-style collision. And humanity faces an extinction-level event.Along with Crescent, his fiercely loyal, bioengineeredshe-warrior, Crater and the Lunar Rescue Company must come to Maria'srescue—before she joins forces with the brainiac lunatics...
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The Night Before Christmas

The Night Before Christmas

Alice Taylor

Cultural / Ireland / Autobiography / Memoir

Alice Taylor takes a nostalgic, loving look back to a family firmly rooted in tradition and humour and - in particular - the Christmas traditions of her childhood. With her unerring knack of bringing her readers into her home, her stories of a childhood Christmas are rich, warm and amusing, giving a wonderful insight into life as it was.
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Contractual

Contractual

Alice Montalvo-Tribue

Cultural / Ireland / Autobiography / Memoir

They told me I’d be an escort; they made it sound so easy.Really I’m just a high priced call girl.Desperation brought me to this and it led me to him, my one and only client.Hating him is easy, he reminds me of my shame.Wanting him is wrong it fills me with guilt.Loving him is a losing battle yet it’s become everything.A gift and a curse, he consumes my every thought and I’d rather play my part in his bed than to spend one day without him.
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Uni the Unicorn

Uni the Unicorn

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Children's / Memoir

An original picture book about a unicorn from bestselling author Amy Krouse Rosenthal (Plant a Kiss). In this clever twist on the age-old belief that there's no such thing as unicorns, Uni the unicorn is told there's no such thing as little girls! No matter what the grown-up unicorns say, Uni believes that little girls are real. Somewhere there must be a smart, strong, wonderful, magical little girl waiting to be best friends. In fact, far away (but not too far), a real little girl believes there is a unicorn waiting for her. This refreshing and sweet story of friendship reminds believers and nonbelievers alike that sometimes wishes really can come true.
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A Leg to Stand On

A Leg to Stand On

Colleen Haggerty

Autobiography / Memoir / Nonfiction

When Colleen Haggerty lost her leg in an accident during her senior year of high school, she could have retreated from life and let her disability become her defining quality—and no one would have blamed her for it. Instead, she went the opposite way. In the years following her accident, Haggerty explored her physical world with vigor, testing the limits of her body by joining a ski team, playing with a co-ed soccer team, and taking up kayaking and backpacking. She also tested the limits of her heart, pursuing love and passion with restless men. In A Leg to Stand On, Haggerty recounts her life as a disabled woman, from redefining herself as a young woman after tragedy—fierce and able, but haunted by hard choices and suppressed grief—to choosing marriage and motherhood. That choice comes at great cost to the physical freedom Haggerty has fought for, but ultimately she redemption, fulfillment, and self-acceptance in the bargain. No one will read this book without...
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Sarong Party Girls

Sarong Party Girls

Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Autobiography / Memoir / Nonfiction

A brilliant and utterly engaging novel—Emma set in modern Asia—about a young woman's rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism.On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher, Imo, and Fann. Before the year is out, these Sarong Party Girls will all have spectacular weddings to rich ang moh—Western expat—husbands, with Chanel babies (the cutest status symbols of all) quickly to follow. Razor-sharp, spunky, and vulgarly brand-obsessed, Jazzy is a determined woman who doesn't lose.As she fervently pursues her quest to find a white husband, this bombastic yet tenderly vulnerable gold-digger reveals the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapore's glamorous nightclubs and busy streets, its grubby wet markets and seedy hawker centers. Moving through her colorful, stratified world, she...
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Happy Mutant Baby Pills

Happy Mutant Baby Pills

Jerry Stahl

Autobiography / Memoir / Nonfiction

From the acclaimed and controversial author of Permanent Midnight comes a savagely satiric novel about taking revenge on those who poison the world in order to sell the cure Lloyd has a particular set of skills. He writes the small print for presciption drugs, marital aids, and incontinence products. The clients present him with a list of possible side effects, and his job is "to recite and minimize-sometimes by just saying them really fast-other times by finding the language that can render them acceptable." The results are ingenious. The methods diabolical. Lloyd has a habit, too. He cops smack during coffee breaks at his new job writing copy for Christian Swingles, an online dating service for the faithful. He finds a precarious balance between hackwork and heroin until he encounters Nora, a mysterious and troubled young woman, a Sylvia Plath with tattoos and implants, who asks for his help. Lloyd falls swiftly in love, but Nora bestows her affections at a cost. Before Lloyd clears his head from the fog of romance, he finds himself complicit in Nora's grand scheme to horrify the world, to exact revenge on those who poison the populace in order to sell them the cure. Stahl's gleefully twisted, maniacally brilliant prose, will delight, appall, and prove, once again, that Stahl is "a better-than-Burroughs virtuoso" (New Yorker).
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