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		The Time Traveller’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger (MacAdam/Cage, $25.00) Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing. More on our New Fiction page...
		True Notebooks: A Writer’s Year at Juvenile Hall, by Mark Salzman (Knopf, $24.00, 0375413081) When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles’s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes – expecting the worst – and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks is an account of Salzman’s first years teaching at Central. Through it, we come to know his students as he did: in their own words. More on our New Non-Fiction Page...
		A Million Little Pieces, James Frey (Nan A. Talese, $22.95, 0385507755) Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, A Million Little Pieces is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self-pity, it brings us face-to-face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery. More on our Staff Picks Page...
		The River Between Us, by Richard Peck (Dial $16.99, 0803727356) Richard Peck is a master of stories about people in transition, but perhaps never before has he told a tale of such dramatic change as this one, set during the first year of the Civil War. The whole country is changing in 1861-even the folks from a muddy little Illinois settlement on the banks of the Mississippi. Here, fifteen-year-old Tilly Pruitt frets over the fact that her brother is dreaming of being a soldier and that her sister is prone to supernatural visions. A boy named Curry could possibly become a distraction. More on our Children's Page...
		Have you ever wondered how the volumes here at the Chester County Book & Music Company are organized? We follow standard methods of arranging our stock by book type, subject, genre, and just plain alphabetical order. But when whimsy strikes, or we are gripped by a particularly idea, our creative (some might say crazy) staff may just gather up a collection of titles to be featured in a special topical display. If you would like to know more about those topics that have preoccupied our minds of late, click on the END CAPS link!