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This past Monday, artist Minck Oosterveer passed away tragically and unexpectedly. Boom! Studios is honoring the late artist and his work by offering all of his work with writer Mark Waid on The Unknown and The Unknown: Devil Made Flesh for free download. All of Boom!'s digital partners, including  comiXology, iVerse, Graphicly, and mydigitalcomics, are offering the books for free right now. Check them out and help keep this talented artist's creative work alive. Rest in peace, Minck.

Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

September 2011

Ben and Rose secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother's room and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out alone on desperate quests to find what they are missing.

Week of September 29, 2011

This week's top 5 on the Indie Bestseller List are The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, State of Wonder by Ann Patchett, Reamde by Neal Stephenson and The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach.

Published Thursday, September 29, 2011 (for the sales week ended Sunday, September 25,  2011).

by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott - Fiction, Thriller

It is 1910, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than 50 days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates --- an intrepid woman named Josephine Frost --- and that's where Detective Isaac Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, comes in. 

September 30, 2011

I am looking out the window and see brown leaves on the ground. There were some floating in the pool this morning that I was pushing out of the way as I swam. Actually I was gathering them in my hands and tossing them on the side of the pool as I made the turn. Wonder if Michael Phelps ever tried that maneuver! For those wondering, yes, my trusty wetsuit has been pulled out for swimming as the temperature of the water has been holding at 70. I fear I am on my last week or so of churning up the water in the pool here until next May.

September 2011

Boo! Can you believe October has snuck up on us? Scared us too. Yet, while fall is always full of important activities, like coming up with the perfect Halloween costume (awesome) and raking the yard (less awesome, unless you can jump in the pile afterwards), we know you always make time for some good books, especially as curling-up-next-to-the-fire-with-hot-chocolate season approaches. As the leaves have been turning, we’ve been turning the leaves (I know...pushing the humor here, but hey, it's Friday!) of some great books, and have we got some treats (no tricks, we swear) for you!

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