Dive into Summer Reading

Don't even think about hitting the beach without browsing the featured picks in our Summer Reading Store. Discover bestsellers, paperback picks, beach reads, and more terrific titles all summer long.

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2008 Edgar Award Winners

The winners for this year's Edgar Awards, sponsored by the Mystery Writers of America, were announced on May 1. In-house favorite Down River by John Hart won the award for Best Novel, while Tana French's In the Woods earned a richly deserved win for Best First Novel.

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The Penguin Classics Reading Group: Book Seven

Join the Penguin Classics Reading Group at Amazon.com, whose members have chosen Shirley Jackson's deliciously unsettling novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle as their summer selection. Visit the Penguin Classics Blog to see the discussion of their last pick, Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm, and to join the talk about We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

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Set Foot on Your Next Adventure with Moon Travel

Moon Travel Guides are best known for their "impeccably eccentric and well-traveled" writers who color their intensive research with rich personal anecdote and practical wisdom. There's no better series than Moon to show you the way to a new destination, be it country, city, or the great outdoors.

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Guest Reviewer: Lee Child

Dr. Jonathan Ransom enters a world of spies, high-tech weaponry, and terrorism in Christopher Reich's Rules of Deception. Lee Child, bestselling author of Nothing to Lose, reviews this latest novel from the master of the espionage thriller for Amazon.com: "[The prologue is] a masterpiece. It promises big things ahead. There are a further 377 pages. They live up to the promise."

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Working Word-of-Mouth

Discover how positive word-of-mouth drives value and reduces the cost of marketing with Conversational Capital. Learn which customer experiences are most likely to be successful and how to decide which to focus on in your own business.

Going Somewhere?

Now you can leave your printed books at home. Amazon Upgrade makes it easy to read your favorite travel guides from any Internet-connected computer, meaning your book is always with you. Packing has never been easier.

Creativity Defined

Looking to brush up on new digital photography techniques? Itching to learn the latest and most effective ways to give presentations? Satisfy these creative needs (and many more) with a selection of top titles for innovative minds from New Riders.

Unlock the Unknown

Do you like to tinker with things? These new Missing Manuals will help you unlock the best parts of Your Brain, Wikipedia, and Facebook.

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