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New books published this week.
 Shadow Tag (Hardcover)$19.95 ISBN-13: 9780061536090Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Harper, 02/01/2010 When Irene America discovers that her husband has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, as much the truth about her life and her marriage as the Red Diary is a farce. Alternating between these two records, Shadow Tag is an eerily gripping novel.
 One Amazing Thing (Hardcover)$17.95 ISBN-13: 9781401340995Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Hyperion Books, 02/01/2010 Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. When an earthquake rips through the afternoon lull, trapping these nine characters together, their focus first jolts to their collective struggle to survive. There's little food. The office begins to flood. Then, at a moment when the psychological and emotional stress seems nearly too much for them to bear, the young graduate student suggests that each tell a personal tale, "one amazing thing" from their lives, which they have never told anyone before. And as their surprising stories of romance, marriage, family, political upheaval, and self-discovery unfold against the urgency of their life-or-death circumstances, the novel proves the transcendent power of stories and the meaningfulness of human expression itself.  $23.95 ISBN-13: 9780375424014Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Pantheon, 02/01/2010 Tapping into newly unearthed material--including family and musical stories never before told--Cohodas presents a luminous portrait of Nina Simone.  $19.95 ISBN-13: 9780061431609Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Harper, 02/01/2010 In The Dead Beat, Johnson revealed the stories behind obituary writers. Now, the author celebrates libraries and librarians while trying to answer the question: What is worth saving?
 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)$20.80 ISBN-13: 9781400052172Availability: Subject to Availability: May be out-of-print or otherwise unavailable. Published: Crown, 02/01/2010 Skloot brilliantly weaves together the story of Henrietta Slacks--a women whose cells have been unwittingly used for scientific research since the 1950s--with the birth of bioethics, and the dark history of experimentation on African Americans.  $21.50 ISBN-13: 9781400067589Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Random House, 02/01/2010 From the acclaimed author of Troublesome Young Men comes a major new World War II history that describes the developments of America's crucial wartime alliance with England that became so decisive in defeating Hitler.
 The Kindly Ones (Paperback)$13.50 ISBN-13: 9780061353468Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Harper Perennial, 02/01/2010 Massive in scope, horrific in subject matter, and shocking in its protagonist, Littell's prize-winning fictional memoir of a former Nazi officer who survives the war is intense and utterly original.  Shanghai Girls (Paperback)$11.95 ISBN-13: 9780812980530Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 02/01/2010 From the author of the bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love comes a stunning novel about two sisters who leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles.
 The Long Fall (Paperback)$10.95 ISBN-13: 9780451230256Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: NAL Trade, 02/01/2010 A new mystery series from the author of the classic work Devil in a Blue Dress offers a new character, a new city, and a new era.
 The Book of Night Women (Paperback)$12.75 ISBN-13: 9781594484360Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Riverhead Trade, 02/01/2010 From a young writer who radiates charisma and talent comes a sweeping, stylish historical novel of Jamaican slavery that can be compared only to Toni Morrison's Beloved.
 Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer (Paperback)$12.75 ISBN-13: 9780060773366Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Harper Perennial, 02/01/2010 Acclaimed biographer Kaplan explores the life of America's 16th president through his use of language as a vehicle both to express complex ideas and feelings and as an instrument of persuasion and empowerment.
 Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them) (Paperback)$12.75 ISBN-13: 9780061173943Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: HarperOne, 02/01/2010 This New York Times bestseller reveals how books in the Bible were actually forged by later authors and that the New Testament itself is riddled with contradictory claims about Jesus.
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New books published this week.
 Three Days Before the Shooting . . . (Hardcover)$39.95 ISBN-13: 9780375759536Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Modern Library, 01/01/2010 At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing. Long awaited, it was to have been the work Ellison intended to follow his masterpiece, Invisible Man. Five years later, Random House published Juneteenth, drawn from the central narrative of Ellison's unfinished epic. Three Days Before the Shooting gathers together in one volume, for the first time, all the parts of that planned opus, including three major sequences never before published.  Where I Must Go (Hardcover)$19.95 ISBN-13: 9780810151857Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Triquarterly, 09/01/2009 Lyrical, penetrating, and highly charged, this novel displays a delicately tuned sense of difference and belonging. Poet Angela Jackson brings her superb sense of language and of human possibility to the story of young Magdalena Grace, whose narration takes readers through both privilege and privation at the time of the American civil rights movement. The novel moves from the privileged yet racially exclusive atmosphere of the fictional Eden University to the black neighborhoods of a Midwestern city and to ancestral Mississippi. Magdalena's story includes a wide range of characters - black and white, male and female, favored with opportunity or denied it, the young in love and elders wise with hope. With and through each other, they struggle to understand the history they are living and making. With dazzling perceptiveness, Jackson's narrator Magdalena tells of the complex interactions of people around her who embody the personal and the political at a crucial moment in their own lives and in the making of America.  Just Kids (Hardcover)$21.50 ISBN-13: 9780066211312Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Ecco, 01/01/2010 Smith's evocative, honest, and moving coming-of-age story reveals her extraordinary relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Part romance, part elegy, Just Kids is about friendship in the truest sense, and the artist's calling.  $19.99 ISBN-13: 9780061655937Availability: Not in stock. Can usually be ordered within 1-5 days. Published: HarperOne, 01/01/2010 Lattin examines the lives and times of four men--Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass), Andrew Weil, and Huston Smith--whose paths crossed in the 1960s at Harvard, and who consequently launched the mind, body, spirit movement.  $19.95 ISBN-13: 9780393070798Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 01/01/2010 The gripping previously untold story of a terrorist leader whose death would catapult his brother--Vladimir Lenin--to revolution.  Bomb Power (Hardcover)$21.95 ISBN-13: 9781594202407Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Penguin Press HC, The, 01/01/2010 From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills comes this groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy, and why we have been in a state of war alert ever since.  Cutting for Stone (Paperback)$12.75 ISBN-13: 9780375714368Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Vintage, 01/01/2010 A stunning debut novel from the author of My Own Country, Cutting for Stone offers an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, fathers and sons, doctors and patients, exile and home.  $11.95 ISBN-13: 9780061536083Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Harper Perennial, 01/01/2010 In Louise Erdrich's fictional world, the mystical can emerge from the everyday, the comic can turn suddenly tragic, and violence and splendor inhabit a single emotional landscape. The fantastic twists and leaps of her imagination are made all the more meaningful by the deeper truth of human feeling that underlies them. These thirty-six short works selected by the author herself--including five previously unpublished stories--are ordered chronologically as well as by theme and voice, each tale spellbinding in its boldness and beauty. The Red Convertible is a stunning literary achievement, the collected brilliance of a fearless and inventive writer.  Wish Her Safe At Home (Paperback)$12.75 ISBN-13: 9781590173350Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: NYRB Classics, 01/01/2010 Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city--and she sheds her old life without delay. Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. She will live as a woman of leisure, devoted to beauty, creativity, expression, and love. Once installed in her new quarters, Rachel plants a garden, takes up writing, and impresses everyone she meets with her extraordinary optimism. But as Rachel sings and jokes the days away, her new neighbors begin to wonder if she might be taking her transformation just a bit too far. In Wish Her Safe at Home, Stephen Benatar finds humor and horror in the shifting region between elation and mania. His heroine could be the next-door neighbor of the Beales of Grey Gardens or a sister to Jane Gardam's oddball protagonists, but she has an ebullient charm all her own.  $12.76 ISBN-13: 9781400078455Availability: Not in stock. Can usually be ordered within 1-5 days. Published: Vintage, 01/01/2010 After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer Grann sets out to solve the greatest exploration mystery of the 20th century: what happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z?  $9.50 ISBN-13: 9780061719431Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Harper Perennial, 01/01/2010 The New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning made six-word memoirs an international phenomenon. This much-anticipated sequel contains a thousand more glimpses of humanity from writers famous and obscure--six words at a time.
 $12.75 ISBN-13: 9781590202876Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Overlook Press, 01/01/2010 In A.D. 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subjects were required to subscribe to a belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This edict defined Christian orthodoxy and brought to an end a lively and wide-ranging debate about the nature of God; all other interpretations were now declared heretical. It was the first time in a thousand years of Greco-Roman civilization free thought was unambiguously suppressed. Why has Theodosius's revolution been airbrushed from the historical record? In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed historian Charles Freeman argues that Theodosius's edict and the subsequent suppression of paganism not only brought an end to the diversity of religious and philosophical beliefs throughout the empire, but created numerous theological problems for the Church, which have remained unsolved. The year A.D. 381, as Freeman puts it, was "a turning point which time forgot."  Mrs. Lincoln: A Life (Paperback)$12.75 ISBN-13: 9780060760410Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Harper Perennial, 01/01/2010 Abraham Lincoln is the most revered president in American history, but the woman at the center of his life--his wife, Mary--has remained a historical enigma. One of the most tragic and mysterious of nineteenth-century figures, Mary Lincoln and her story symbolize the pain and loss of Civil War America. Authoritative and utterly engrossing, Mrs. Lincoln is the long-awaited portrait of the woman who so richly contributed to Lincoln's life and legacy. |
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These lavishly illustrated oversized books are available at not-so-lavish prices while supplies last.
 Art of the Japanese Postcard: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Hardcover)$26.95 ISBN-13: 9780878466689Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: MFA Publications, 06/01/2004  Frida Kahlo (Hardcover)$29.95 ISBN-13: 9789685208574Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Editorial RM, 10/01/2006  Gotta Have 'em: Portraits of Women by R. Crumb (Hardcover)$29.95 ISBN-13: 9780967236681Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Greybull Press, 01/01/2003  Suffragettes to She Devils (Hardcover)$35.95 ISBN-13: 9780714836195Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Phaidon Press, 12/01/1997  $29.95 ISBN-13: 9780714844091Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Phaidon Press, 10/01/2004  Arts and Crafts Style (Paperback)$23.95 ISBN-13: 9780714834696Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Phaidon Press, 05/01/1996  Pop (Hardcover)$39.95 ISBN-13: 9780714843636Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Phaidon Press, 09/01/2005  Dada (Hardcover)$39.95 ISBN-13: 9780714844237Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Phaidon Press, 10/01/2006  $35.95 ISBN-13: 9780714844701Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Phaidon Press, 11/01/2005  Bizarre Buildings (Hardcover)$19.95 ISBN-13: 9781554073085Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Firefly Books, 09/01/2007  The Age of Empires (Hardcover)$24.95 ISBN-13: 9780500251362Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Thames & Hudson, 11/01/2007 |
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New books published this week.
 The Swan Thieves (Hardcover)$19.95 ISBN-13: 9780316065788Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Little, Brown and Company, 01/01/2010 Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love to create a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.  Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction (Hardcover)$19.95 ISBN-13: 9781400063574Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Random House, 01/01/2010 The New York Times-bestselling author of Away returns with a collection of stories showing the beautiful flaws of humanity.  The Godfather of Kathmandu (Hardcover)$20.95 ISBN-13: 9780307263193Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Knopf, 01/01/2010 Sonchai Jitpleecheep--Burdett's inimitable Thai police detective--is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Sonchai is more interested in finding Nirvana than in solving murders, in Burdett's most inventive, darkly comic novel yet.  $21.95 ISBN-13: 9780307378187Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Pantheon, 01/01/2010 A winner of the National Jewish Book Award and a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award, Goldstein presents a novel that transforms the great debate between faith and reason into an exhilarating romance of both heart and mind.  Lark and Termite (Paperback)$11.95 ISBN-13: 9780375701931Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Vintage, 01/01/2010 Set in the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, Lark and Termite is a story of the power of loss and love; the echoing ramifications of war, family secrets, dreams and ghosts; and the unseen, almost magical bonds that unite and sustain a family.  The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (Paperback)$11.95 ISBN-13: 9780307454706Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Anchor, 01/01/2010 Following the New York Times bestseller The World According to Bertie, this delightfully wry series continues with an entertaining tale of some of Scotland's most quirky and beloved characters--all set in the beautiful city of Edinburgh.  Salmonella Men on Planet Porno (Paperback)$12.75 ISBN-13: 9780307389152Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Vintage, 01/01/2010 An irresistible mix of imagination, satire, and humor, these stories by acclaimed Japanese author Yasutaka Tsutsui imagine the consequences of a world where the fantastic and the mundane collide.  Brothers (Paperback)$13.50 ISBN-13: 9780307386069Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Anchor, 01/01/2010 A bestseller in China, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.  The First Person and Other Stories (Paperback)$11.95 ISBN-13: 9780307454850Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Anchor, 01/01/2010 From the Whitbread Award-winning author of The Accidental and Hotel World comes this stunning collection of stories set in a world of everyday dislocation, where people nevertheless find connection, mystery, and love.  A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (Paperback)$13.50 ISBN-13: 9781400034420Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Vintage, 01/01/2010 In a narrative of immense scope and fascination--spanning nearly 400 years and brimming with Showalter's characteristic wit and incisive opinions--readers are introduced to more than 250 female writers, both famous and little known.  $12.75 ISBN-13: 9780307455260Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Vintage, 01/01/2010 Ryback has uncovered in the Library of Congress hundreds of volumes from Hitler's forgotten private book collection and traces key phrases and ideas from these works into his writing, speeches, conversations, thinking, and actions.  Body Painting: Masterpieces by Joanne Gair (Hardcover)$17.98 ISBN-13: 9780789320476Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books, 01/01/2010 From creating painted swimsuits on supermodels for Sports Illustrated or making music videos with Madonna, Joanne Gair sees the human body as a canvas to be transformed and has worked with some of the world's most celebrated personalities to create unforgettable images. Showcased here are 75 of her most iconic images.  Magic Tree House #43: Leprechaun in Late Winter (Hardcover)$10.25 ISBN-13: 9780375856501Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Random House Books for Young Readers, 01/01/2010 Jack and Annie meet an Irish girl and go on a magical adventure that changes the girl's life--she grows up to be Lady Gregory, who helps to bring back the Irish legends, starts a theater, and helps her people regain both their heritage and their pride. |
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New books published this week.
 Noah's Compass (Hardcover)$19.95 ISBN-13: 9780307272409Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Knopf, 01/01/2010 From the incomparable Tyler comes a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher who has been forced to retire at age 61, who must suddenly come to terms with the final phase of his life.  Remarkable Creatures (Hardcover)$19.95 ISBN-13: 9780525951452Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Dutton Adult, 01/01/2010 From the New York Times-bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring comes this stunning novel of how one woman's gift transcends class and social prejudice to lead to some of the most important discovers of the 19th century.  The Kingdom of Ohio (Hardcover)$19.95 ISBN-13: 9780399155604Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 12/01/2009 The maze-like streets of New York at the dawn of the mechanical age are the setting, as an unlikely duo find themselves wrestling with the nature of history, technology, and the unfolding of time itself. An incredibly original, intelligent love story.  Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage (Hardcover)$19.95 ISBN-13: 9780670021659Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Viking Adult, 01/01/2010 Picking up where her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love left off, Gilbert details the extraordinary circumstances that surround her love with Felipe, the man she swore never to marry. Told with Gilbert's trademark wit, Committed is a celebration of love with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.  The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (Hardcover)$21.95 ISBN-13: 9780345453211Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Ballantine Books, 01/01/2010 Richly researched and utterly captivating, The Lady in the Tower presents the full array of evidence of Anne Boleyn's guilt--or innocence. Only in Weir's capable hands can readers learn the truth about the fate of one of the most influential and important women in English history.  $13.50 ISBN-13: 9780345453242Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Ballantine Books, 01/01/2010 Acclaimed author Weir brings to life the extraordinary tale of Katherine Swynford, a 15th-century royal mistress who became one of the most crucial figures in the history of Great Britain.  A Reliable Wife (Paperback)$11.95 ISBN-13: 9781565129771Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 01/01/2010 In rural Wisconsin in 1909, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting.  Basketball Jones (Paperback)$11.95 ISBN-13: 9780307278678Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Anchor, 01/01/2010 The late Harris explores the down low culture that made his first novel Invisible Life a groundbreaking phenomenon in his latest rip-roaring tale of sex, secrets, and betrayal. |
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What we love about bestseller lists is that they strip us down to just the facts. To find out who we are is to find out who you are, which is to say, what you, our customers, buy. How are we different from other stores? Well, to start, notice what isn't at the top of our bestseller list. Dan Brown's new book, The Lost Symbol, doesn't even make our top 20. What does top our list? The top three are critically-acclaimed works of literary fiction--for that matter half of the top ten are. (Okay, so 4 of the other 5 are the books in the Twilight series. We're not quite that immune to trends.) And while we're speaking of trends to which we're not immune, 4 of the 5 books in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series clock in between numbers 11 and 18, with the straggler appearing at number 38. Other trends we noticed: It's obvious we're across the street from a movie theater, since 14 of our top 100 for the year are books made into movies this year, from Time Traveler's Wife and Push, to Mastering the Art of French Cooking (we're blaming Julie & Julia for that one). Thanks to OPRF Freshman and Sophomore summer reading requirements, Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian came in at #28, and Tuesdays With Morrie was #65. We are, however, concerned about the considerably smaller numbers of Juniors and Seniors that seem to be doing their summer reading. In case it comes as a surprise to you, our customers seem to be somewhat left-leaning politically, considering our list is populated with two Obama books, Ted Kennedy's memoir, a Nader book, a book by Nader's former campaign manager, and not a single book by a Fox News Personality, conservative radio host, or a certain former governor of Alaska. We swear we would stock those other books more heavily if people ever came in to buy them! Supply and demand, we're told, is one of the fundamentals of our economic system. And finally, the joy of the local bookstore, is of course the localness. Five Oak Park authors made the list, along with 3 Chicago authors. And we counted 9 books, whether fiction or nonfiction, that cover Oak Park or Chicago. Fiction beat nonfiction by 40 titles to 35 (note that we count anything that isn't a novel or short story collection as nonfiction, so that includes humor titles like Cake Wrecks and FU Penguin). And children's and young adult books made the list 25 times (most of which were fiction as well). Thanks to you, our customers, for making this such a great list. We had a great year!  The Women (Paperback)$12.75 ISBN-13: 9780143116479Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 12/01/2009 #1
 Olive Kitteridge: Fiction (Paperback)$10.95 ISBN-13: 9780812971835Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 10/01/2008 #2
 The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)$11.95 ISBN-13: 9781933372600Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Europa Editions, 09/01/2008 #3
 Twilight (Paperback)$8.75 ISBN-13: 9780316015844Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 09/01/2006 #4
 New Moon (Paperback)$7.95 ISBN-13: 9780316024969Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 05/01/2008 #5
 $10.95 ISBN-13: 9780385341004Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 05/01/2009 #6
 Eclipse (Paperback)$9.95 ISBN-13: 9780316027656Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 08/01/2009 #7
 Breaking Dawn Special Edition (Hardcover)$19.95 ISBN-13: 9780316044615Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 08/01/2009 #8
 The Shack (Paperback)$11.95 ISBN-13: 9780964729230Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Windblown Media, 07/01/2008 #9
 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Paperback)$10.95 ISBN-13: 9781594483295Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Riverhead Books, 09/01/2008 #10
 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (Hardcover)$9.95 ISBN-13: 9780810970687Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Harry N. Abrams, 01/01/2009 #11
 Loving Frank (Paperback)$10.95 ISBN-13: 9780345495006Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Ballantine Books, 04/01/2008 #12
 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book (Hardcover)$8.75 ISBN-13: 9780810979772Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Harry N. Abrams, 10/01/2008 #13
 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (Hardcover)$10.95 ISBN-13: 9780810983915Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Harry N. Abrams, 10/01/2009 #14
 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance-Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem (Paperback)$10.25 ISBN-13: 9781594743344Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Quirk Books, 04/01/2009 #15
 Three Cups of Tea (Paperback)$12.75 ISBN-13: 9780143038252Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 02/01/2007 #16
 $20.95 ISBN-13: 9781595583949Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: New Press, 06/01/2009 #17
 Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Hardcover)$9.95 ISBN-13: 9780810993136Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Harry N. Abrams, 04/01/2007 #18
 Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)$20.95 ISBN-13: 9780316017923Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Little, Brown and Company, 11/01/2008 #19
 The Time Traveler's Wife (Paperback)$11.95 ISBN-13: 9780156029438Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Mariner Books, 07/01/2004 #20
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New books published this week.
 The Bronte Sisters (Paperback)$17.50 ISBN-13: 9780143105831Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Penguin Classics, 12/01/2009 The most cherished novel from each of the Bronte sisters--Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Emily's Wuthering Heights, and Anne's Agnes Grey--are gathered together in one gorgeously packaged volume.
 Lords of Finance (Paperback)$13.95 ISBN-13: 9780143116806Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 12/01/2009 As another financial crisis makes headlines today, the year 1929 remains the benchmark for true economic mayhem. Ahamed lays the blame for the 1929 meltdown on a small number of central bankers--men as prominent in their time as Alan Greenspan is today.
 Drive (Hardcover)$19.95 ISBN-13: 9781594488849Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 12/01/2009 The author of the groundbreaking bestseller A Whole New Mind is back with a paradigm-changing examination of how to harness motivation to find greater satisfaction in life. This book of big ideas discusses the surest pathway to high performance, creativity, and well-being.
 Food Rules (Paperback)$8.75 ISBN-13: 9780143116387Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 12/01/2009 From the bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food comes this collection of simple, sensible, and easy to use rules--the perfect guide for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food he or she eats.
 Blindspot (Paperback)$11.95 ISBN-13: 9780385526203Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Spiegel & Grau, 12/01/2009 Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter fleeing his debtors in Edinburgh, has washed up on the British Empire's far shores--in the city of Boston, lately seized with the spirit of liberty. Eager to begin anew, he advertises for an apprentice, but the lad who comes knocking is no lad at all. Fanny Easton is a fallen woman from Boston's most prominent family who has disguised herself as a boy to become Jameson's defiant and seductive apprentice.
Written with wit and exuberance by accomplished historians, Blindspot is an affectionate send-up of the best of eighteenth-century fiction. It celebrates the art of the Enlightenment and the passion of the American Revolution by telling stories of ordinary people caught up in an extraordinary time.  The Wings of the Sphinx (Paperback)$10.95 ISBN-13: 9780143116608Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 12/01/2009 Food, love, and murder--Sicilian style--feature prominently in the gripping 11th installment of The New York Times-bestselling Montalbano mystery series.
 Best African American Fiction 2010 (Paperback)$12.75 ISBN-13: 9780553385359Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: One World/Ballantine, 12/01/2009 Bursting with energy and innovation, the second volume in the annual anthology collects the year's best short stories by African American authors.
 Fun with Problems (Hardcover)$17.95 ISBN-13: 9780618386253Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 01/01/2010 "One of our greatest living writers" (Los Angeles Times) returns with this collection of stories and novellas involving violence, longing, black humor, and various vices.
The Women (Paperback)$12.75 ISBN-13: 9780143116479Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 12/01/2009 Finally in paperback, T.C. Boyle's novel of Frank Lloyd Wright's life and loves.  Eve (Paperback)$11.95 ISBN-13: 9780385341455Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Bantam, 01/01/2010 In this mesmerizing debut novel, Elissa Elliott blends biblical tradition with recorded history to put a powerful new twist on the story of creation's first family. Here is Eve brought to life in a way religion and myth have never allowed-as a wife, a mother, and a woman. With stunning intimacy, Elliott boldly reimagines Eve's journey before and after the banishment from Eden, her complex marriage to Adam, her troubled relationship with her daughters, and the tragedy that would overcome her sons, Cain and Abel. From a woman's first awakening to a mother's innermost hopes and fears, from moments of exquisite tenderness to a climax of shocking violence, Eve explores the very essence of love, womanhood, faith, and humanity.
 White Noise (Paperback)$12.75 ISBN-13: 9780143105985Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Penguin Classics, 12/01/2009 From a National Book Award-winning author comes a new edition of this postmodern masterpiece. After a deadly toxic accident and his wife's addiction to an experimental drug, a man is forced to question everything about his life. Includes a new introduction by Richard Powers.  Twitterature (Paperback)$9.50 ISBN-13: 9780143117322Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 12/01/2009 Twitterature is a hilarious and irreverent re-imagining of the classics as a series of 140-character tweets. From Homer to Harry Potter, Virgil to Voltaire, Tolstoy to Twilight, this work provides a crash course in more than 80 of the world's best-known books.
 Summertime (Hardcover)$19.95 ISBN-13: 9780670021383Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Viking Adult, 12/01/2009 This brilliant new work of fiction from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year allows Coetzee to imagine his own life, revealing painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to care for another human being.
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