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$6.95 (pb, 1989)

A Porcupine Named Fluffy
by Helen Lester

This is the cutest children's book ever written and perfect for reading aloud. In his effort to live up to his name, Fluffy expresses the importance of name to one's identity and to the process of making friends. --Mien

$9.95 (pb, 1972)

Hope for the Flowers
by Trina Paulus

This inspirational, beautifully illustrated book is loaded with insight and symbolic metaphors. With child-like honesty, the author presents her interpretation of Western society and ways that she feels people may learn to discover hope. Her writing is hauntingly simple in that the reader can identify with its meaning so much that they may acquire a sixth sense that they wrote it themselves. This is a wonderful book to share with your family and friends. --Katy

$13.95 (pb, 1998)

Thirteen Ways: Theoretical Investigations in Architecture
by Robert Harbison

Neither stuffy, nor over-academic, this book encourages us to look at architecture for it's beauty and art. In brilliant essays that dart through and around our understanding of building, Robert Harbison highlights the poetic beauty, technical wonder, and philosophical challenges of architecture like no other person writing today. Try this book, become a fan! --Chris Tiné

$22.95 (hc, 2000)

Bee Season
by Myla Goldberg

Myla Goldberg's Bee Season is a thrill-ride for serious intellectuals; for word-o-philes (lexiphiles), lexicographers, ex-spelling bee contestants, Scrabble players, crossword puzzle addicts, kleptomaniacs, kabbalists and Hare Krishnas. Read to understand the mystical search for God in the ordinary and the extraordinary. --H.B.

$12.00 (pb, 1997)

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
by Ursula K. Le Guin

A superb collection of feminist and other essays, this is Le Guin at her most insightful, playful, and controversial. A very refreshing read. --Mien

$10.00 (hc, 1998)

Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder

Are your morbid? I am. This classic novel concerns itself with why some people die while others live. Is there a God; an eternal plan? When a rope bridge over a precipice breaks in 18th century Peru, one monk, Brother Juniper, tries to find out. Riveting. --H.B.

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