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April 1
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The Hammock: A Celebration of a Summer Classic
The Adirondack Chair: A Celebration of a Summer Classic
By Daniel Mack $17.95
There’s no
competition. When it comes to the American Idyll, the hammock and the Adirondack chair are the shoe-in (and shoes-off!) winners. Built for lazing around in, they’re the classic icons of a
summer getaway. And they’re both quintessentially American. The hammock, invented by the native inhabitants of the Caribbean, was discovered by Columbus on his first voyage to the New
World. And the Adirondack chair whose name evokes the mountain retreats for which it was originally fashioned is deeply rooted in the American Arts & Crafts movement. In these
charming books, furniture maker Daniel Mack captures the nostalgic, carefree, and oh-so-comfortable spirit of the hammock and Adirondack chair. Illustrated with scores of contemporary
photographs and images from vintage memorabilia, "The Hammock" and "The Adirondack Chair" are also filled with who knew? history. And each contains instructions for
hanging your own hammock or building your own chair. But really, these books splendid gifts for Fathers Day or as thank-you tokens for summer-weekend hosts are "not" about work.
In fact, they’re perfect for taking a little break with (while relaxing, of course, in a hammock or Adirondack chair).
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The Modern Con Man: How to Get Something for
Nothing
By Todd Robbins $16.95
Whether it's winning $50 on a bar bet, scoring seats closer to the
fifty-yard line, or finagling a free meal, The Modern Con Man ensures that aspiring low-risk grifters will always come out on top. Filled with humorous facts and tables, a glossary of con
terms, illustrations, the history of the con, and easy-to-follow swindles, this is the perfect gift for the hidden flim-flam artist in your life.
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Parenting, Inc.
By Pamela Paul $25
In Parenting, Inc., Pamela Paul investigates the whirligig of marketing hype, peer pressure, and easy
consumerism that spins parents into purchasing overpriced products and raising overprotected, overstimulated, and over-provided-for children. Paul shows how the parenting industry has
persuaded parents that they cannot trust their children's health, happiness, and success to themselves. She offers a behind-the-scenes look at the baby business so that any parent can
decode the claims--and discover shockingly unuseful products and surprisingly effective services. And she interviews educators, psychologists, and parents to reveal why the best thing for
a baby is to break the cycle of self-recrimination and indulgence that feeds into overspending..
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Set with Style: Perfect Tables
from the Dining Room to the Kitchen
By Caroline Clifton-Mogg $40
Illustrated throughout with 300 full-color photographs, this resource is packed with menu ideas, tips, and a resource guide of china and
accessory suppliers.
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Winter Study: An Anna Pigeon Mystery
By Nevada Barr $24.95
Anna is edgier than ever in Winter Study, a character driven mystery
set on Isle Royale in the dark days of January when the island is inhabited only by the wolves, the moose, and the researchers who are there to study them.
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What to Expect when you're expecting (4TH Ed.)
By Heidi Murkoff $14.95
Announcing a brand-new, cover-to-cover revision of America's pregnancy bible. The perennial New York Times bestseller and one
of USA Today's 25 most influential books is a must-have for parents to be
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A Remarkable Mother
By Jimmy Carter $24
A registered nurse, pecan grower, university housemother,
Peace Corps volunteer, public speaker, and renowned raconteur, Miss Lillian Carter ignored the mores and prejudices of the racially segregated South of the Great Depression Years. She was
an avid supporter of the Brooklyn Dodgers (because she happened to attend the first major league baseball game in which Jackie Robinson, from Cairo, Georgia, played), was a favored guest
on television talk shows (usually able to “steal the microphone” from hosts as Johnny Carson and Walter Cronkite), and an important role model for the nation.
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Rosie O'Donnell's Crafty U: 100 Easy Projects
the Whole Family Can Enjoy All Year Long
By Rosie O’Donnell $21.95
From television personality, children's advocate, and veteran crafter O'Donnell comes a fresh and fun collection of 100 easy craft projects for parents and kids aged
5-12. Packed with practical advice, step-by-step instructions, and gorgeous full-color illustrations, this guide offers plenty of inspiration for craft projects the whole family can enjoy.
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April 8
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Alphabet
By Matthew Van Fleet $19.99
From the bestselling creator of Tails and Dog comes an alphabet book that will tickle and delight. The
grand finale spread is a feat of novelty mastery bursting with 26 individual pop-ups of every letter of the alphabet.
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The Art of Mexican Cooking: Traditional Mexican
Cooking for Aficionados
By Diana Kennedy $30
The Art of Mexican Cooking is a brilliant exploration of one of the world's truly great
cuisines, including more than 200 extraordinary recipes, many for dishes previously unknown north of the border, as well as more than 50 evocative illustrations and 150 photographs.
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Certain Girls
By Jennifer Weiner $26.95
Described by The Miami Herald as a breezy, sweetly oddball urban fairy tale, this sequel to the
bestselling Good in Bed picks up with an older, wiser, and thinner Cannie Shapiro raising her 13-year-old daughter, Joy.
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The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
By George Johnson $22
From the acclaimed "New York Times" science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on the
ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science--moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a crisp, unambiguous reply.
Johnson takes us to those times when the world seemed filled with mysterious forces, when scientists were dazzled by light, by electricity, and by the beating of the
hearts they laid bare on the dissecting table.
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Where Are You Now?
By Mary Higgins Clark $25.95
International bestselling suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark proves she knows how to tell a gripping story
with this mystery of a family tragedy and one woman's dangerous quest for the truth.
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Unaccustomed Earth
By Jhumpa Lahiri $25
From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a superbly crafted new work of
fiction: eight stories--longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written--that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters
and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.
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April 15
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The Alzheimer's Action Plan: The Experts' Guide
to the Best Diagnosis and Treatment for Memory Problems
By P. Murali Doraiswamy and Lisa P. Gwyther $26.95
Five million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, with a new diagnosis being made every seventy-two seconds. Advances in medicine have led to more effective treatments, especially when Alzheimer’s is caught early; and there is a grassroots movement to preserve the highest possible quality of life for as long as possible.
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder
and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
By Kate Summerscale $24.95
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an
outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the
greatest detective in the land.
At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they
called out of London, but this crime was so shocking, as Kate Summerscale relates in her scintillating new book, that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan
Whicher.
Whicher quickly believed the unbelievable--that someone within the family was responsible for the murder of young Saville Kent. Without sufficient evidence
or a confession, though, his case was circumstantial and he returned to London a broken man. Though he would be vindicated five years later, the real legacy of Jonathan Whicher lives on
in fiction: the tough, quirky, knowing, and all-seeing detective that we know and love today... from the cryptic Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett's Sam
Spade.
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The Miracle at Speedy Motors: A No. 1 Ladies
Detective Agency Novel
By Alexander McCall Smith $21.95
Precious Ramotswe visits a game preserve to uncover
the truth about an elderly American traveler whose safari proved to be his last journey. What she discovers is a surprise to everyone concerned.
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April 22
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Quicksand
By Iris Johansen $26.95
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is consumed with the prolonged search for the body of her daughter, Bonnie.
The man in her life, Atlanta detective and former navy SEAL Joe Quinn, questions whether or not he can continue his relationship with Eve as the specter of Bonnie continues to haunt them.
At one of their most trying times, Joe pursues a lead that may either solve the mystery or destroy their relationship. Add the pressure of child killer Henry Kistle focusing on Eve and
drug lord Montalvo, from Stalemate (2007), whose desire to help is fueled by his desire for Eve, and things get complicated. Kistle taunts Eve with phone calls and written statements as
he uses his military training to lead Joe, Montalvo, and the FBI on a chase from remote Bloomberg, Illinois, to alligator-infested swamps. Eve needs more help, so Johansen reaches back to
Pandora’s Daughter (2007) and brings in psychic Megan Blair. Keeping the tension high and the pace relentless, prolific and compelling Johansen adds depth to her popular characters as she
continues this suspenseful series.
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Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great
Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign.
By Stephan Talty $14.95
Awash with bloody battles, political intrigue, and an incredible epoch-ending natural disaster, this is
the real-life story of Henry Morgan, the legendary pirate of the Caribbean, who in the 17th century challenged the greatest military power on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades and
brought it to its knees.
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April 29
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Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of
Vanishing Seafood
By Taras Grescoe $24.95
Dividing his sensibilities between Epicureanism and ethics, Taras Grescoe set out on a
nine-month, worldwide search for a delicious--and humane--plate of seafood. What he discovered shocked him. From North American Red Lobsters to fish farms and research centers in China,
"Bottomfeeder "takes readers on an illuminating tour through the $55-billion-dollar-a-year seafood industry. Grescoe examines how out-of-control pollution, unregulated fishing
practices, and climate change affect what ends up on our plate. More than a screed against a multibillion-dollar industry, however, this is also a balanced and practical guide to eating,
as Grescoe explains to readers which fish are best for our environment, our seas, and our bodies.
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May 1
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Even Buffett Isn't Perfect: What You Can--And
Can't--Learn from the World's Greatest Investor
By Vahan Janjigian $24.95
In this penetrating look at Warren Buffett--the most successful and revered
investor of all time--Janjigian shows readers how to learn from the master's best moves while avoiding strategies that don't apply to small investors.
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Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
By John Cornwell $16
The explosive, untold story of the most dangerous church man in modern history--Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius
XII--pontiff from 1939 to 1958, from the eve of World War II to the height of the Cold War. Award-winning journalist John Cornwell shows that Pope Pius XII was instrumental in negotiating
an accord that helped the Nazis rise to unhindered power--and sealed the fate of the Jews in Europe.
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The Secret History of the American Empire: The
Truth about Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World
By John Perkins $15
In this riveting memoir, bestselling
author Perkins details his former role as an economic hit man. This stunning, behind-the-scenes expose reveals a conspiracy of corruption that has fueled instability and anti-Americanism
around the globe.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: No Schedules,
No Meetings, No Joke--The Big Idea That's Already Transforming the Way We Work
By Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson $24.95
In a “Results-Only” company or department, employees can do whatever they want whenever they want as long
as business objectives are achieved. It sounds like a fantasy, but the authors have already made in a reality at Best Buy, a Fortune 500 company that has embraced the Results-Only Work
Environment.
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
By Michael Chabon $15.95
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" pens a
homage to the stylish menace of 1940s noir, in a novel that imagines if Alaska, not Israel, had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II.
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May 5
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Skeletons at the Feast
By Chris Bohjalian $25
In his 12th novel, Bohjalian ("The Double Bind") paints the brutal landscape of Nazi Germany as
German refugees struggle westward ahead of the advancing Russian army. Inspired by the unpublished diary of a Prussian woman who fled west in 1945, the novel exhumes the ruin of spirit,
flesh and faith that accompanied thousands of such desperate journeys. Prussian aristocrat Rolf Emmerich and his two elder sons are sent into battle, while his wife flees with their other
children and a Scottish POW who has been working on their estate. Before long, they meet up with Uri Singer, a Jewish escapee from an Auschwitz-bound train, who becomes the group's
protector.
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Exercises for Osteoporosis (Third Edition)
By Dianne Daniels $15.95
More than 25 million Americans, almost 10% of our
population, suffer from osteoporosis. While it is often thought of as an old woman's disease, about 20% of osteoporosis sufferers are men and a growing number of young women, especially
athletes, are being diagnosed with the disease.
The good news is that we can help prevent and treat osteoporosis and its precursor, osteopenia. Exercise can
increase bone density, strengthen muscles, and improve balance and flexibility, thus reducing the risk of injury and helping to maintain daily functioning.
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The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport
By Carl Hiaasen $22
Hiaasen, the "Miami Herald" columnist and author of some hilarious fiction (e.g.,
"Striptease, Skinny Dip"), shares his renewed interest in golf in this departure onto the green. He recounts how easy it is to get sucked into the sport, even when trying not
to. Better than most, he points out how golfers tend to hope for the quick fix, be it via an instructional tip, new equipment, or even a talisman. What really comes through is how Hiaasen
thoroughly and rationally studies an issue such as dimples on a golf ball, realizes that after a certain point the discussion is largely irrelevant, and then buys into the hype anyway. In
this, he speaks volumes for all golfers.
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15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three
Generals Who Saved the American Century
By Stanley Weintraub $15
In the closing days of World War II, America looked up to three five-star
generals as its greatest heroes. George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Douglas MacArthur personified victory, from the Pentagon to Normandy to the Far East. Counterparts and on
occasion competitors, they had leapfrogged each other, sometimes stonewalled each other, even supported and protected each other throughout their celebrated careers. In the public mind
they stood for glamour, integrity, and competence. But for dramatic twists of circumstance, all three -- rather than only one -- might have occupied the White House.
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Killing Rommel
By Steven Pressfield $24.95
Hitler's legions have swept across Europe, leaving
Churchill and the English isolated. In North Africa, Rommel and his Panzers have routed the British Eighth Army and stand poised to overrun Egypt, Suez, and the oil fields of the Middle
East, in Pressfield's latest riveting historical novel
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Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last
Confederate Warship
By John Baldwin $14.95
As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the
South launched a desperate counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to prowl the world's
oceans and sink the U.S. merchant fleet.
The raider's name was Shenandoah, and her executive officer was Conway Whittle, a twenty-four-year-old warrior who might
have stepped from the pages of Arthurian legend. Whittle would share command with a dark and brooding veteran of the seas, Capt. James Waddell, and together with a crew of strays,
misfits, and strangers, they would spend nearly a year sailing two-thirds of the way around the globe, destroying dozens of Union ships and taking more than a thousand prisoners, all
while continually dodging the enemy.
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The Last Summer (of You and Me)
By Ann Brashares $14
Riley and Alice, two sisters now in their twenties, and as fiercely different as they are loyal, have
spent every summer at their parents’ modest beach house on New York’s Fire Island. Each year, they return to the house and community they have known since they were children – and to
Paul, the boy next door. But this summer marks a season of change: budding love and sexual interest, an illness, and a deep secret force all three to confront the increasing complexities
of their lives and friendships.
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Phantom Prey: A Lucas Davenport Mystery
By John Sandford $26.95
Lucas Davenport has had disturbing cases before, but never one quite like this. Filled with his brilliant
trademark suspense, "Phantom Prey" is the shocking new novel from the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author.
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The Supreme Court Phalanx: The Court's New
Right-Wing Bloc
By Ronald Dworkin $14
George W. Bush's appointments of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court were
expected to cause a revolution in the Court's decisions. But no one could have foreseen how rapidly that revolution is proceeding.
Ronald Dworkin argues that these
two new justices, along with Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, have created an "unbreakable phalanx bent on remaking constitutional law." They are guided not by political
ideology or conservative judicial principle, but rather by "partisan, cultural, and perhaps religious allegiance." In analyzing the decisions of their first term, Dworkin
worries that they are "remaking constitutional law by overruling, most often by stealth, the central constitutional doctrines that generations of past justices, conservative as well
as liberal, had constructed."
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Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey
By Chuck Palahniuk $13.95
"What 'Typhoid Mary' Mallon was to typhoid, what Gaetan Dugas was to AIDS, and Liu Jian-lun was to SARS, Buster Casey would become for rabies."
A high school rebel who always wins (and a childhood murderer?), Rant Casey escapes from his small hometown of Middleton for the big city. He becomes the leader of
an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On appointed nights participants recognize one another by such designated car markings as "Just Married" toothpaste graffiti and
then stalk and crash into each other. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life.
Their collected anecdotes explore the possibility that his saliva caused a silent urban plague of rabies and that he found a way to escape the prison house of linear time....
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211 Things a Clever Girl Can Do
By Bunty Cutler $15.95
The hysterical, cheecky, female counterpart to the smash hit 211 Things a Bright Boy Can Do.
If you’ve ever wanted to walk on stilts, make sloe gin, ride an ostrich, or forecast the weather like your grandmother used to, this is the book you’ve been waiting
for.
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The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008
Edited by Laura Furman $14.95
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 is studded with great writers: Alice Munro, David Malouf, Ha Jin, William
Trevor, Stephen Millhauser, Mary Gaitskill, and more. The winning stories feature locales as diverse as rural Alaska, a soon-to-be-flooded village in China, and an internet café in Kiev
and are accompanied here by short essays from each of the eminent jurors on his or her favorite story, observations from all twenty winners on what inspired them, and an extensive
resource list of literary magazines.
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Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to
Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer
By Jen Lancaster $14
Jen Lancaster is the author of "Bitter Is the New Black," She has lived in Chicago for ten years with her husband and pets, and has yet to get the hang of the subway or
returning library books in a timely manner.
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Percy Jackson #4: The Battle of the Labyrinth
By Rick Riordan $17.99
Time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Camp
Half-Blood grows more vulnerable as Kronos' army prepares to invade. To stop them, Percy and his demigod friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth.
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May 13
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Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's
Farmers' Markets
By Deborah Madison $24.95
In "Local Flavors, bestselling cookbook author Deborah Madison takes readers along as
she explores farmers' markets across the country, sharing stories, recipes, and dozens of market-inspired menus. Her portraits of markets from Maine to Hawaii showcase the bounty of
America's family farms and reveal the sheer pleasure to be found in shopping for and cooking with local foods.
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Swine Not?
By Jimmy Buffett $23.99
When Southern belle Ellie McBride moves her twins from Vertigo, Tennessee to New York City, they wouldn't
dream of leaving behind the family pig Rumpy. But the posh hotel where Ellie has found work (and living space) has "No Pets" writ large on its portal. So hiding Rumpy from the
hotel staff---especially the ultra-carnivorous hotel chef, who would like nothing better than to transform their pet into pork roast---becomes imperative.
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Up Till Now: The Autobiography
By William Shatner $25.95
This book will take readers from the streets of Montreal to regional theatre, where Shatner was once
called upon to replace Christopher Plummer as Henry V – in a roll he had never rehearsed, with actors he had never met. It will also describe his early TV work and movies as well as
stories from three other series including Boston Legal.
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The Lark's Lament: A Fools' Guild Mystery
By Alan Gordon $13.95
In 1204 A.D., the Fools' Guild is in hiding, under attack from the
forces of Pope Innocent III. Theophilos and Claudia, jesters with the Guild, are sent to enlist the help of a former guild member - the minstrel Folquet, now the abbot Folq at a
Cistercian monastery - to intercede with the pope on their behalf. But while they are at the abbey pleading their case, a gruesome murder takes place - a monk is killed in the librarium
and a cryptic message written on the wall in his blood.
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May 20
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The Diana Chronicles
By Tina Brown $16.95
Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she "the people's princess,"
who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? Only Tina Brown, former
editor-in-chief of "Tatler," England's glossiest gossip magazine; "Vanity Fair"; and "The New Yorker" could possibly give us the truth.
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
By James Rollins $26
In the cinematic event of the
year, one of the 20th century's most beloved heroes is back in movie theaters worldwide. "New York Times"-bestselling author Rollins offers this official movie tie-in novel.
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The Manny
By Holly Peterson $12
What's a Park Avenue working mom to do when her troubled son desperately needs a male role model
and her husband is a power workaholic? If she's like the gutsy heroine of Holly Peterson's astute new comedy of manners among the ill-mannered elite, she does what every other woman on
the block does. She hires herself a "manny."
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Odd Hours
By Dean Koontz $27
The legend began in the obscure little town of Pico Mundo. A fry cook named Odd was rumored to have the
extraordinary ability to communicate with the dead. Through tragedy and triumph, exhilaration and heartbreak, word of Odd Thomas's gifts filtered far beyond Pico Mundo, attracting
unforgettable new friends--and enemies of implacable evil. With great gifts comes the responsibility to meet great challenges. But no mere human being was ever meant to face the darkness
that now stalks the world--not even one as oddly special as Odd Thomas.
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The
Presence of a Hidden God: Evidence for the God of the Bible
By James Kennedy $16.99
Richard Dawkins, Christopher
Hitchens, and other prominent atheists proclaim there is no God. Are they right? Kennedy and Newcombe answer God's loudest critics with the resounding voice of reasoned faith! Through
biblical exposition and relevant examples, they show how repentance, prayer, Scripture reading, meditation, giving, and sharing can reveal the hidden God in our midst.
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Snuff
By Chuck Palahniuk $24.95
Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial
fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Mr. 600, who await their turn on camera in a" "very crowded green room.
This wild, lethally funny, and thoroughly researched novel brings the huge yet underacknowledged presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction at last.
Who else but Chuck Palahniuk would dare do such a thing? Who else could do it so well, so unflinchingly, and with such an incendiary (you might say) climax?
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The Front
By Patricia Cornwell $22.95
When Patricia Cornwell introduced the quicksilver, cut-to-the-bone style and extraordinary cast of characters of At Risk, the result was electrifying.
At Risk featured Massachusetts state investigator Win Garano; District Attorney Monique Lamont; and Garano’s grandmother, who has certain unpredictable talents
that you ignore at your peril.
And in The Front, peril is what comes to them all.
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Golf: The Marvelous Mania
By Alistair Cooke $24.99
On a fateful day in 1964, Alistair Cooke was dragged into Van Cortland Park in New York City to
play his first game of golf. He was immediately hooked, and golf became his greatest passion, even though he called it a method of self-torture, disguised as a game. No one has written
more brilliantly or more lovingly about golf than he does here. GOLF gathers together for the first time the best of Cooke’s pieces on what he called the marvelous mania and showcases the
incomparable wit and mischievous charm that made Cooke one of the greatest journalists and broadcasters of the twentieth century. Watch as he describes Arnold Palmer playing in 102-degree
heat in San Antonio, dapper Gary Player winning the U.S. Open at Creve Coeur, Missouri, and Jack Nicklaus playing and winning almost everywhere.
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May 27
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Cure, Unknown: Inside the Lyme Disease Epidemic
By Pamela Weintraub $24.95
In "Cure, Unknown," Pamela Weintraub has produced both the definitive book about Lyme
disease and associated disorders and a survivor's account of a grueling medical odyssey. Weintraub is a masterful science writer and storyteller, and she tackles the quarrels and
quagmires surrounding this baffling illness with intelligence and pathos. This is an important and unforgettable book, destined to make a lasting contribution to the field of
investigative health journalism.
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London Rising: The Men Who Made Modern London
By Leo Hollis $25.95
By the middle of the seventeenth century, London was on the verge of collapse. Its ancient infrastructure
could no longer support its explosive growth; the English Civil War had torn society apart; and in 1665 the capital was struck by a plague that claimed 100,000 lives. And then, the
following year, the Great Fire destroyed huge swaths of the city. As Leo Hollis recounts in his stirring history of the period, modern London was born out of this crucible.
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Devil May Care
By Sebastian Faulks $24.95
Devil May Care, a novel written by British author Sebastian Faulks and authorized by the estate of
the late Ian Fleming, is due to come out in 2008, the centennial of Fleming’s birth. According to the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, Devil May Care is set during the Cold War and,
like so many Bond adventures, moves about a variety of scenic locales.
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June 1
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Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East
By Juan Cole $16.95
| In this vivid and timely history, Cole tells the story of Napoleons invasion of Egypt and delves into the psychology of the military titan and his entourage.
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