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Religion, college textbooks, Dan Brown, Mitch Albom, JK Rowling and Harper Lee’s classic are among AbeBooks.com’s eclectic list of bestselling books in 2005.
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JK Rowling
The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names.
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Neale Donald Walsch
When Neale Donald Walsch was experiencing a low point in his life he wrote a letter to God. He did not expect a response and the result was Conversations With God, Book 1.
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Dan Brown
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum.
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Stephen Lundin
A powerful parable that will help you love the work you do - even if you can't always do work that you love.
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Dan Brown
World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization.
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JK Rowling
Harry Potter confronts the unreliability of the very government of the magical world, and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts. Lord Voldemort’s rise has opened a rift in the wizarding world between those who believe the truth about his return
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Malcolm Gladwell
Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. An intellectual adventure story and a road map to change, with a profoundly hopeful message.
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Mark Haddon
This improbable story of Christopher’s quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.
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Khaled Hosseini
Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable, beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.
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MH Abrams
Offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable, teachable format. More selections by women and twentieth-century writers.
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Rick Warren
The Purpose-Driven™ Life is a blueprint for Christian living in the 21st century—a lifestyle based on God’s eternal purposes, not cultural values.
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Harper Lee
Lawyer Atticus Finch defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic, Puliter Prize-winning novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white woman.
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Mitch Albom
Plot Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife.
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Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.
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Stephen P. Robbins
With its conversational writing style, cutting-edge content, current examples, the three-level integrative model, dialogues, and technological learning tools, Organizational Behavior remains the global book, used by more readers interested in the topic than any other since 1979.
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William J. Stevenson
Dr. Stevenson is an associate professor of Decision Sciences in the College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in production/operations management, management science, quality concepts, and quality applications.
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First complete Bible published in the slim, trim format that fits perfectly into a pocket or purse.
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Spencer Johnson
Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple parable that reveals profound truths about change. It is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a "Maze" and look for "Cheese" to nourish them and make them happy.
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Sue Monk Kidd
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed.
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Lansing M. Prescott et al
Appropriate for students preparing for careers in medicine, dentistry, nursing, and allied health, as well as research, teaching, and industry.
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