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Product Description: Dark and compassionate, graceful yet raw, Undressing the Moon explores the seams between childhood and adulthood, between love and loss. . . At thirty, Piper Kincaid feels too young to be dying. Cancer has eaten away her strength; she'd be alone but for a childhood friend who's come home by chance...read more

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9780758238764 | Reprint edition (Kensington Pub Corp, October 1, 2010), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Dark and compassionate, graceful yet raw, Undressing the Moon explores the seams between childhood and adulthood, between love and loss.

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Paperback:

9780385343497 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, January 19, 2010), cover price $16.00

Prebinding:

9780606238304 | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, January 19, 2010), cover price $28.20

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In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life. To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse.... An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight. From the Hardcover edition.

Hardcover:

9781410419170 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 2, 2009), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison.
9780385342308 | Delacorte Pr, April 28, 2009, cover price $23.00
9780385665827 | Doubleday of Canada, February 10, 2009, cover price $25.00
9780752891934 | Orion Pub Co, January 22, 2009, cover price $22.65 | About this edition: It is June 1950 and a sleepy English village is about to be awakened by the discovery of a dead body in Colonel de Luce's cucumber patch.

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9780553840766 | Random House, November 2, 2009, cover price $7.99
9780140350760, titled "Kim" | Reprint edition (Viking Childrens Books, October 1, 1987), cover price $3.99 | also contains Kim | About this edition: "In all India is no one so alone as I!

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9780440338468 | Delacorte Pr, April 28, 2009, cover price $15.00

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9780739384305 | Unabridged edition (Random House, April 28, 2009), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison.

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The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth

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9780131359338, titled "Conceptual Physical Science - Exploration: Exploration With Practice Book" | 2 pck har/ edition (Benjamin-Cummings Pub Co, February 9, 2009), cover price $162.55

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9780192827593, titled "Persuasion" | Oxford Univ Pr, December 6, 1990, cover price $4.50 | also contains Persuasion | About this edition: The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth

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The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth.
By Gillian Beer (editor)

Hardcover:

9780141197692 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, April 24, 2012), cover price $22.00

Paperback:

9780141439686 | Reissue edition (Penguin Classics, May 1, 2003), cover price $7.00 | About this edition: The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth.

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