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The Blind Side (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Michael Lewis
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W.W. Norton & Co.
October 12, 2009
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A wonderful tale. (John Gapper - Financial Times )It's much more than a treatise on football; it's an exploration of the limits of conventional thinking and how strategic changes affect the value of quick-footed behemoths.... That he makes it easy for his reader to comprehend—and enjoy—is ...
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Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
Al Gore
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Rodale Books
November 3, 2009
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It is now abundantly clear that we have at our fingertips all of the tools we need to solve the climate crisis. The only missing ingredient is collective will. Properly understood, the climate crisis is an unparalleled opportunity to finally and effectively address many persistent causes of suffering and ...
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
David Oliver Relin
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Penguin Books
January 30, 2007
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Some failures lead to phenomenal successes, and this American nurse's unsuccessful attempt to climb K2, the world's second tallest mountain, is one of them. Dangerously ill when he finished his climb in 1993, Mortenson was sheltered for seven weeks by the small Pakistani village of Korphe; in ...
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Stephen J. Dubner
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Out of Print--Limited Availability
William Morrow
April 12, 2005
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Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that e...
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls
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Scribner
January 9, 2006
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Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In ...
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I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
Tucker Max
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Citadel
January 1, 2009
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My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and jus...
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
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Back Bay Books
April 3, 2007
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Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart ...
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
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Little, Brown and Company
February 1, 2000
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"The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "i...
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Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
Glenn Beck
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Threshold Editions
June 16, 2009
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"If you believe it's time to put principles above parties, character above campaign promises, and Common Sense above all -- then I ask you to read this book...."In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction what they believe within themselves. They ...
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Niall Ferguson
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Penguin (Non-Classics)
October 27, 2009
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From The Washington Post
From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by Shelby Coffey III ...
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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Max Brooks
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Three Rivers Press
September 16, 2003
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In this outrageous parody of a survival guide, Saturday Night Live staff writer Brooks prepares humanity for its eventual battle with zombies. One would expect the son of Mel Brooks to have a genetic predisposition to humor, and indeed, he does, and he exh...
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris
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Back Bay Books
June 2, 2009
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Starred Review. Sedaris's sparkling essays always shimmer more brightly when read aloud by the author. And his expert timing, mimicry and droll asides are never more polished than during live performances in front of an audience. Happily, four of the 22 pi...
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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life
Don Piper
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Revell
September 1, 2004
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More than 4 million copies sold! On the way home from a conference, Don Piper's car was crushed by a semi-truck that crossed into his lane. Medical personnel said he died instantly. While his body lay lifeless inside the ruins of his car, ...
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My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
Chelsea Handler
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Bloomsbury USA
May 12, 2005
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Opening with a cute story from when she was seven and photographed her parents having sex, stand-up comedian Handler goes on to discuss the virtues of the one-night stand, which amount to having sex early enough so you're not months into a relationship bef...
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Same Kind Of Different As Me
Ron Hall
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Thomas Nelson
January 1, 2006
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Meet Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana ...
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Penguin (Non-Classics)
January 30, 2007
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Starred Review. Gilbert (The Last American Man) grafts the structure of romantic fiction upon the inquiries of reporting in this sprawling yet methodical travelogue of soul-searching and self-discovery. Plagued with despair after a nasty divorce, the author, in her early 30s, divides a year equally among three dissimilar ...
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Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid
Denis Leary
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Plume
October 27, 2009
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According to Leary, his first book is not for the faint of heart, by which he means Americans: "I am here to debunk and declassify and otherwise hold up a brutally honest mirror to our fat, ugly, lazy American selves." Now, a good many comedians make a car...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan
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Penguin
August 28, 2007
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[Signature]Reviewed by Pamela KaufmanPollan (The Botany of Desire) examines what he calls "our national eating disorder" (the Atkins craze, the precipitous rise in obesity) in this remarkably clearheaded book. It's a fascinating journey up and down the food chain, one that might change the way you read the label ...
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My Life in France (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Random House Movie Tie-In Books)
Alex Prud'homme
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Anchor
June 23, 2009
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Book Description Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of good cooking with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn't know the first thing about cooking when she ...
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Letter to My Daughter
Maya Angelou
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Random House Trade Paperbacks
October 27, 2009
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From the mellifluous voice of a venerable American icon comes her first original collection of writing to be published in ten years, anecdotal vignettes drawn from a compelling life and written in Angelou's erudite prose. Beginning with her childhood, Ange...
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