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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
by Thomas L. Friedman
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September 8, 2008
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Book Description Thomas L. Friedman’s phenomenal number-one bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world in a new way. In his brilliant, essential new book, Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: America’s surprising ...
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Anathem
by Neal Stephenson
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(450 customer reviews)
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William Morrow
September 9, 2008
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In this follow-up to his historical Baroque Cycle trilogy, which fictionalized the early-18th century scientific revolution, Stephenson (...
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Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture
by Editors of Phaidon Press
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November 5, 2008
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". . . a world smorgasbord. Good gift if you think chain stores and strip malls have eaten the world."- ...
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The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1
by Gerard Way
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(57 customer reviews)
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June 24, 2008
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From Booklist
The newest superhero kids on the block are just that...
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The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
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(717 customer reviews)
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September 30, 2008
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In The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman has created a charming allegory of childhood. Although the book opens with a scary scene--a family is stabbed to death by "a man named Jack” --the story quickly moves into more child-friendly storytelling. The sole survivor of the attack--an 18-month-old baby--escapes his ...
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The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
by Jennet Conant
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Simon & Schuster
September 9, 2008
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Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008: Long before Willy Wonka sent out those five Golden Tickets, Roald Dahl lived a life that was more James Bond than James and the Giant Peach. After blinding headaches cut short his distinguished career as a Royal Air Force fighter pilot, ...
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The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts
by Tom Farley
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(92 customer reviews)
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Viking Adult
May 6, 2008
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Amazon Best of the Month, May 2008: You don't have to be a rabid Chris Farley fan to enjoy The Chris Farley Show, an honest, endearing oral biography about a truly funny, deeply troubled addict that is as likely to make you cry as it is to make you ...
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ABC3D
by Marion Bataille
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(102 customer reviews)
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October 14, 2008
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From Publishers Weekly
One of the most delightful and innovative pop-up books I have ever seen.--Robert Sabuda...
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Black Flies: A Novel
by Shannon Burke
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(38 customer reviews)
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Soft Skull Press
May 21, 2008
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Starred Review. Gunshot wounds, crack pipes and rotting corpses abound in this raw and fascinating novel about Harlem paramedics in the mid-1990s, the second novel from former EMT Burke. Oliver Cross graduated from Northwestern as a middle-class do-gooder....
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Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
by Barton Gellman
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(76 customer reviews)
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September 16, 2008
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"Jaw-dropping . . . It reads like a thriller." -Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times "Angler could well turn out to be the most revealing account of Cheney's activities as vice president that ever gets written" -James Mann, The Washington Post...
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The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order
by Joan Wickersham
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(33 customer reviews)
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
August 4, 2008
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In spare prose, Wickersham (The Paper Anniversary) has produced an artful and vivid memoir. Within the index of suicide, she has found a form capacious enough for both intimate detail and general information; cold data and lyric moments; for mystery and for consolation. As she follows her father's suicide ...
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder
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(286 customer reviews)
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September 29, 2008
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In this startlingly frank account of Buffett's life, Schroeder, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley...
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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
by Larry Smith
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(76 customer reviews)
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February 5, 2008
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Can you describe your life in six words? That's what the editors of storytelling magazine SMITH asked readers in 2006; the results, though decidedly uneven, make for compulsive reading and prove arguably as insightful as any 300+ page biography. Taken as a...
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
by H. W. Brands
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November 4, 2008
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Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: With Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, H.W. Brands penetrates the clenched grin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a masterful biography of one of America's most beloved leaders. Though born into the upper ...
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Tender Morsels
by Margo Lanagan
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(55 customer reviews)
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October 14, 2008
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Starred Review. In her extraordinary and often dark first novel, award-winning story writer Lanagan (...
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The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria
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(362 customer reviews)
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April 17, 2008
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Book Description "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal ...
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"Have You Seen . . . ?": A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films
by David Thomson
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(24 customer reviews)
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October 14, 2008
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Amazon Best of the Month, October 2008: Having already written (and twice revised) the greatest bathroom book of all time, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thomson has refreshed his encyclopedic and idiosyncratic understanding of movie history to confect another giant slab of candy for anyone who loves ...
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The Alcoholic
by Jonathan Ames
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(97 customer reviews)
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September 30, 2008
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With stints as a journalist, novelist, and screenwriter under his belt, Ames tries his hand for the first time at the graphic novel. Beautifully illustrated in moody, expressionist panels by Haspiel, The Alcoholic tells the story of Ames...
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
by David Sheff
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(443 customer reviews)
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Houghton Mifflin Co
February 26, 2008
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Amazon Best of the Month, February 2008: From as early as grade school, the world seemed to be on Nic Sheff's string. Bright and athletic, he excelled in any setting and appeared destined for greatness. Yet as childhood exuberance faded into teenage angst, the precocious boy found himself going ...
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Child 44
by Tom Rob Smith
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(576 customer reviews)
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Grand Central Publishing
April 29, 2008
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If all that Tom Rob Smith had done was to re-create Stalinist Russia, with all its double-speak hypocrisy, he would have written a worthwhile novel. He did so much more than that in ...
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The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking: Book One
by Patrick Ness
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(247 customer reviews)
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September 9, 2008
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Grade 9 Up—Todd Hewitt lives in a world in which all women are dead, and the thoughts of men and animals are constantly audible as Noise. Graphically represented by a set of scratchy fonts and sentence fragments that run into and over each other, Noise is an oppressive chaos ...
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Bottomless Belly Button
by Dash Shaw
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(18 customer reviews)
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June 4, 2008
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Shaw's stunningly conceived and executed comic opus captures one moment of change in a family. Maggie and David Loony have called their three adult children to their childhood home to announce that, after 40 years of marriage, they're getti...
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Graceling
by Kristin Cashore
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(793 customer reviews)
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October 1, 2008
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If you had the power to kill with your bare hands, what would you do with it? ...
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Downtown Owl: A Novel
by Chuck Klosterman
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(120 customer reviews)
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Scribner
September 16, 2008
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*Starred Review* Klosterman, who has made a name for himself as an idiosyncratic pop-cultural commentator on rock music and sports, proves just as entertaining in his first novel. In or on the edge of nondescript Owl, North Dakota, live laid-back high-scho...
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
by Jane Mayer
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(163 customer reviews)
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Doubleday
July 15, 2008
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From Publishers Weekly
This hard-hitting expose examines both the controversial excesses of the war on terror and the home-front struggle to circumvent legal obstacles to its prosecution. New Yorker correspondent Mayer (Strange Justice) details the battle within the Bush Adminis...
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Alive in Necropolis
by Doug Dorst
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(39 customer reviews)
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Riverhead Hardcover
July 17, 2008
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008: Mix one part gritty police procedural with one part ghost story, add a splash of teen angst and a hefty dose of black humor, and you have Doug Dorst's brilliant debut novel--a delicious blend of Paul Auster, Kevin Brockmeier, and Joss Whedon. ...
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The Story of a Marriage: A Novel
by Andrew Sean Greer
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(69 customer reviews)
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 29, 2008
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Starred Review. As he demonstrated in the imaginative ...
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Scrapbooks: An American History
by Jessica Helfand
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(33 customer reviews)
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Yale University Press
November 3, 2008
Hardcover
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Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: The scrapbook has long been a popular and vital form of self-expression embraced by a cross-section of American society. "To read another person's scrapbook" observes Jessica Helfand in Scrapbooks: An American History, "is to acquire a body of knowledge about an ...
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