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Paperback:
9781510713420 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, October 25, 2016, cover price $16.99
Hardcover:
9781481434942 | Simon & Schuster, August 30, 2016, cover price $17.99
A committed slacker enlists the help of his best friend (who may or may not be the devil) to get his act together in this novel filled with humor, awkwardness, and honesty, ideal for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.Leon Harris isnât exceptional and he isnât popular. Heâs the kind of guy that peaked in middle school, when once upon a time he was in the âgiftedâ program and on the fast track to Ivy League glory. Now, a high school senior, heâs a complete slacker who spends his time hanging out in a third-rate ice cream parlor with his best friend, Stan, a guy who (jokingly, Leon thinks) claims to be Satan. Committed to his sloth, Leon panics when he finds out that Anna, the love of his life aka middle school girlfriend, might be moving back to town. Determined to get his act together, Leon asks Stan for help. Stan gives him a few seemingly random and mysterious assignments. Date a popular girl. Listen to Moby-Dick, the audiobook. Find the elusive white grape slushee. Join the yearbook committee. As each task brings Leon one step away from slacker city and one step closer to Anna, he starts to wonder if maybe he shouldnât have promised Stan his soul after allâ¦
Hardcover:
9781481401029 | Simon & Schuster, August 26, 2014, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: A committed slacker enlists the help of his best friend (who may or may not be the devil) to get his act together in this novel filled with humor, awkwardness, and honesty, ideal for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Paperback:
9781481401036 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, September 15, 2015), cover price $10.99
Product Description: Abraham Lincoln is one of the most hauntedâand hauntingâpresidents in US history. Sightings of Lincolnâs ghost, as well as the ghost of his assassin, have been reported for more than 150 years. Visited by eerie premonitions, morbid dreams, and unusual events that seem too bizarre to be coincidence, Lincoln has become the source of dozens of myths and paranormal mysteries...read more
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9780738741536 | Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd, August 8, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Abraham Lincoln is one of the most hauntedâand hauntingâpresidents in US history.
Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907â1913). As entertaining as it is informative, Flickering Empire straddles the worlds of academic and popular nonfiction in its vivid illustration of the rise and fall of the major Chicago movie studios in the mid-silent era (principally Essanay and Selig Polyscope). Colorful, larger-than-life historical figures, including Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin, Oscar Micheaux, and Orson Welles, are major players in the narrativeâin addition to important though forgotten industry titans, such as "Colonel" William Selig, George Spoor, and Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson.
Hardcover:
9780231174480 | Wallflower Pr, January 20, 2015, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907â1913).
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9780231174497 | Wallflower Pr, January 20, 2015, cover price $25.00
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9780984633487 | Independent Pub Group, July 1, 2014, cover price $19.95
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9780738736112 | Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd, September 8, 2013, cover price $15.99
Product Description: The lives of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary--if misunderstood--thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes, jerks, and evil doers from history all get their due in the short essays featured in these enlightening, informative books...read more
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9780762772919 | Globe Pequot Pr, November 6, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The lives of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary--if misunderstood--thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes, jerks, and evil doers from history all get their due in the short essays featured in these enlightening, informative books.
Product Description: Jennifer Van Der Berg would like you to know that the book ostensibly written about her—Born to Be Extraordinary by Eileen Codlin—is a bunch of bunk. Yes, she had a fairy godparent mess with her life, but no, she was not made into a princess or given the gift of self-confidence, and she sure as hell didn't get a hot boyfriend out of it...read more
Hardcover:
9780385736497 | Delacorte Pr, November 8, 2011, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Jennifer Van Der Berg would like you to know that the book ostensibly written about herâBorn to Be Extraordinary by Eileen Codlinâis a bunch of bunk.
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9780385906128 | Delacorte Pr, November 8, 2011, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Jennifer Van Der Berg would like you to know that the book ostensibly written about her—Born to Be Extraordinary by Eileen Codlin—is a bunch of bunk.
Product Description: Algonquin “Ali” Rhodes, the high school newspaper’s music critic, meets an intriguing singer, Doug, while reviewing a gig. He’s a weird-looking guy—goth, but he seems sincere about it, like maybe he was into it back before it was cool...read more
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9780385735032 | Delacorte Pr, January 26, 2010, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Algonquin “Ali” Rhodes, the high school newspaper’s music critic, meets an intriguing singer, Doug, while reviewing a gig.
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9780385904971 | Delacorte Pr, January 26, 2010, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Algonquin âAliâ Rhodes, the high school newspaperâs music critic, meets an intriguing singer, Doug, while reviewing a gig.
Paperback:
9780385736503 | 1 edition (Delacorte Pr, December 22, 2009), cover price $12.99
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9780385906135 | Delacorte Pr, December 22, 2009, cover price $15.99
Product Description: A dynamic and hilarious new hero for early middle-grade.Andrew "Danger" North is no ordinary third-grader. He, his brother, Jack, and his father are spies. That is what Jack has always told him, and everything Andrew has learned from his dadâs favorite spy movies tells him it must be true...read more
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9780385736480 | Delacorte Pr, September 8, 2009, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A dynamic and hilarious new hero for early middle-grade.
Library:
9780385906111 | Delacorte Pr, September 8, 2009, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: A dynamic and hilarious new hero for early middle-grade.
Product Description: Do ghosts really exist, or is "ghostly phenomena" just strange stuff that gets blamed on dead people? Giving you the real story, professional ghostbuster and skeptic Adam Selzer of Weird Chicago Tours delves into a mysterious death at a former funeral parlor, nightly ghost sightings at Hull House, and more...read more
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9780738715575 | Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd, September 1, 2009, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Do ghosts really exist, or is "ghostly phenomena" just strange stuff that gets blamed on dead people?
Product Description: It all starts with an assignment. Leon's "gifted and talented" class has to make educational videos for the sixth and seventh graders. Leon originally chooses "sex ed" as his subject in the hopes of showing a flash of boob. But as time goes on, his project starts to mean something...read more
Hardcover:
9780385733694 | Delacorte Pr, February 13, 2007, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Gifted eighth-grader Leon Harris becomes an instant celebrity when the film he makes for a class project sends him to in-school suspension.
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9780440421603 | Reprint edition (Laurel Leaf, September 9, 2008), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: It all starts with an assignment.
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9780385903844 | Delacorte Pr, February 13, 2007, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Gifted eighth-grader Leon Harris becomes an instant celebrity when the film he makes for a class project sends him to in-school suspension.
Product Description: COME SPELLING BEE season, the tiny town of Preston erupts in excitement: the bee is televised, and the hottest ticket in town. This year, an assortment of sixth-grade miscreants is going for the top prize: Jennifer, an overscheduled free spirit whose parents are obsessed with her college applications; Mutual, a previously home-schooled outsider who's enrolled in public school for the first time in order to participate in the bee; Harlan, the class clown who has spectacular plans for making the most of his time in the spotlight; and Chrissie, the constant observer, who suspects something is off at the bee and will stop at nothing to get to the truth...read more
Hardcover:
9780385735049 | Delacorte Pr, September 9, 2008, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: COME SPELLING BEE season, the tiny town of Preston erupts in excitement: the bee is televised, and the hottest ticket in town.
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9780385904988 | Delacorte Pr, September 9, 2008, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: COME SPELLING BEE season, the tiny town of Preston erupts in excitement: the bee is televised, and the hottest ticket in town.
Product Description: The city of Chicago is unquestionably the weirdest and most haunted city in America! With a history dating back to the early 1800s that is filled with violent events, mysterious happenings and a lot of very strange characters, there is no other place like it in the country...read more
Paperback:
9781892523594 | Whitechapel Productions, July 30, 2008, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The city of Chicago is unquestionably the weirdest and most haunted city in America!
Hardcover:
9780385734820 | Delacorte Pr, April 8, 2008, cover price $15.99
Library:
9780385904803 | Delacorte Pr, April 8, 2008, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: When eighth-grader Leon decides what to do for his project in the gifted program, it involves coffee houses, pirates, and filmmaking.
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