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A video bookwrap combines author interviews in streaming video and audio with book and author biographical information. It's a multimedia book jacket that contains all the information of a print jacket - and more!

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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Susanna Clarke's wonderous tale of two magicians in the service of the English military during the Napoleonic wars.

Baudolino by Umberto Eco
This abundant novel includes dazzling digressions, outrageous tricks, extraordinary feeling, and vicarious...

Bunker 13 by Aniruddha Bahal
A brilliant international thriller, set in contemporary Kashmir, about an investigative journalist, espionage...

Coraline by Neil Gaiman
A chilling and charming children's debut from the New York Times best-selling author of American Gods...

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
From the author of the international best-selling novel THE THIEF LORD comes another thrilling and magical...

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Open Wide the Freedom Gates by Dr. Dorothy Height
A heroine of the Civil Rights Movement tells the remarkable story of her life, her work, and...

The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
A woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters--moves...

The Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel
The fifth installment of Jean Auel's Earth's Children® series, which began with The Clan of the Cave Bear...

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