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Have a Little Faith: A True Story
Mitch Albom
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Hyperion
September 29, 2009
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"Clear some space on your bookshelf for Mitch Albom's, Have a Little Faith, the story of a faith journey that could become a classic. Those who were born into faith, have lost faith, or are still searching will all be engaged and challenged by this powerful story of ...
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Steven D. Levitt
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William Morrow
October 20, 2009
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Amazon.com Review
Book Description The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find ...
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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Malcolm Gladwell
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Little, Brown and Company
October 20, 2009
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GREAT PRAISE FOR WHAT THE DOG SAW: "[Malcolm Gladwell] is one of the brightest stars in the media firmament...Gladwell's clear prose and knack for upending conventional wisdom across the social sciences have made The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers, as well as his lengthy magazine features on topics ranging ...
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Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
Glenn Beck
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Threshold Editions
September 22, 2009
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FUNNY.FRIGHTENING.TRUE.It happens to all of us: You're minding your own business, when some idiot informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of taxes.Just go away! you think to yourself -- but they only ...
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The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
Bill Simmons
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ESPN
October 27, 2009
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Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009: The Book of Basketball is a 700-page work of hoops genius that would make Dr. James Naismith beam proudly – and probably blush. Author Bill Simmons, best known as ESPN.com's "The Sports Guy," explores the NBA with hilarious insight, brilliant analysis, and ...
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The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory
David Plouffe
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Viking Adult
November 3, 2009
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"[Plouffe] gives readers a visceral sense of the campaign from an insider's point of view...He offers acute assessments of the larger dynamics at play in the 2008 race, and he is frank about missteps that the Obama campaign made along the way...A detailed ...
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell
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Little, Brown and Company
November 18, 2008
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Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: Now that he's gotten us talking about the viral life of ideas and the power of gut reactions, Malcolm Gladwell poses a more provocative question in Outliers: why do some people succeed, living remarkably productive and impactful lives, while so many more ...
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The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System
Charles Gasparino
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HarperBusiness
November 3, 2009
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"Gasparino is credited with breaking some of the more titillating tales of Wall Street misconduct." (New York Post )...
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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Viking Adult
October 20, 2009
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"Andrew Ross Sorkin pens what may be the definitive history of the banking crisis." ...
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When the Game Was Ours
Larry Bird
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
November 4, 2009
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Amazon Exclusive: Bill Walton Reviews When the Game Was Ours Bill Walton played in the NBA for 13 years, and in 1996, was named one of the top 50 players in NBA history. He's been an analyst for CBS Sports and NBC Sports, and since 2002, ...
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The Time of My Life
Patrick Swayze
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Atria
September 29, 2009
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In a career spanning more than thirty years, Patrick Swayze has made a name for himself on the stage, the screen, and television. Known for his versatility, passion and fearlessness, he's become one of our most beloved actors....
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True Compass: A Memoir
Edward M. Kennedy
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Twelve
September 14, 2009
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Product Description In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events.TRUE COMPASSThe youngest ...
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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
Alexandra Horowitz
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Scribner
September 15, 2009
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From The Washington Post
From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by Michael Schaffer Americans this year will spend $45 billion on veterinary antidepressants, canine hip replacements and doggie spa days. Pet spending has nearly tripled in 15 years, with...
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Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Little, Brown and Company
November 2, 2009
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PRAISE FOR EATING ANIMALS: "For a hot young writer to train his sights on a subject as unpalatable as meat production and consumption takes raw nerve. What makes Eating Animals so unusual is vegetarian Foer's empathy for human meat eaters, his willingness to let both factory farmers and food reform activists ...
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Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful
Bon Jovi
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Collins Design
November 3, 2009
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You think you know Bon Jovi, but you don't until you open this book. With gorgeous, exclusive photographs and revealing text from the band members themselves, Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful captures Jon, Richie, Dave, and Tico at both intimate moments and under the limelight in all aspects ...
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Jon Krakauer
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Doubleday
September 15, 2009
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Book DescriptionThe bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man’s haunting journey. Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist ...
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Life After Death: The Evidence
Dinesh D'Souza
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Regnery Press
November 2, 2009
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“A brilliant investigation of the fascinating and crucial issue of what happens when we die. It is an inquiry conducted on the basis of scholarship and reason and it provides a convincing answer that is explosive in its impact.”--RICK WARREN, author of The Purpose Driven® Life...
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A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories that Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit
Mike Huckabee
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Sentinel HC
November 3, 2009
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"The first Christmas was a simple one. So simple that it had all the makings of a first-class disaster. It's a miracle it turned out well at all. In fact, that's the whole point. It really was, and remains, a miracle--the greatest miracle of all time. And ...
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Christopher McDougall
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Knopf
May 5, 2009
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Book Description Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find ...
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You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
Augusten Burroughs
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St. Martin's Press
October 27, 2009
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From Publishers Weekly
Burroughs's holiday-themed memoir lacks the consistent emotional intensity of his earlier work, despite a few gems. Arranged roughly chronologically, the vignettes begin with concrete Christmas memories (preparing a detailed, multipart list of desired pres...
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