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Madness

A Bipolar Life

By Marya Hornbacher


An astonishing dispatch from inside the belly of bipolar disorder, reflecting major new insights. In Madness, in her trademark wry and utterly self-revealing voice, Hornbacher tells her new story. Ten years after Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind, this storm of a memoir will revolutionize our understanding of bipolar disorder.


The Willoughbys

By Lois Lowry
"[S]ly humor and a certain deadpan zaniness give literary conventions an ironic twist, with hilarious results." —Booklist, ALA, Starred Review

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    Merle's Door

    Lessons From A Freethinking Dog

    By Ted Kerasote


    "Merle’s Door is a window into the mind of a dog. You will experience his loyalty, fears, and joys and his true inner self. Everybody who loves dogs must read this book."—Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation

    Updated Spring 2008 Book Tour



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    Arnie and Jack

    Palmer, Nicklaus, and Golf's Greatest Rivalry

    By Ian O'Connor

    Ian O’Connor explores the heated professional and personal battle between Palmer and Nicklaus in fascinating, intimate, and revelatory detail. Drawing on unique access to both players and having conducted more than 200 new interviews with everyone from family to fellow players to business associates right down to the caddies and clubhouse attendants.




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How Doctors Think

By Jerome Groopman
How Doctors Think reveals a profound view of twenty-first-century medical practice, providing medical students, doctors, and patients with the vital information they need to improve health care.

The Canon

A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

By Natalie Angier
In this exuberant book, the best-selling author Natalie Angier distills the scientific canon to the absolute essentials, delivering an entertaining and inspiring one-stop science education. The Canon provides their answers, taking readers on a joyride through the fascinating fundamentals of the incredible world around us and revealing how they are relevant to us every day. Even science-phobes will find her passion infectious as she strives to make the invisible visible, the distant neighborly, the ineffable affable.

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    Keeping Score

    By Linda Sue Park

    Keeping Score is a novel about Maggie Fortini, a girl who lives in Brooklyn in the 1950s. It's a story about baseball and the Korean War.

    "This finely crafted novel should resonate with a wide audience of readers." —School Library Journal


    The Wednesday Wars

    By Gary D. Schmidt
    Winner 2008 Newbery Honor Award

    Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero in THE WEDNESDAY WARS—a wonderfully witty and compelling novel about a teenage boy’s mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967–68 school year.

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    Spanish Word Histories and Mysteries: English Words That Come From Spanish

    from The Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
    Most people know that words like burrito and quesadilla come from Spanish, but there are many more English words that we would never suspect are Spanish until we look closely. Did you know that the words breeze and hammock come from Spanish?

    Spanish Word Histories and Mysteries tells the fascinating stories behind 200 English words from Spanish. Photographs and line drawings enliven the pages and illustrate the history of the words.
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