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The Passage of Power (Google eBook)

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Published: Knopf, 5/2012

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Published: Vintage, 7/2009

Means of Ascent (Google eBook)

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Published: Vintage, 11/2011

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Published: Ecco, 10/2009

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Published: Coffee House Pr, 9/2011
In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle.

Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979, Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie. Leaving the Atocha Station is his first novel. Click here for more.


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Published: Random House, 4/2012
Two of America’s most perceptive political reporters join forces for an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the race for the White House in POLITICO’s Playbook 2012, a series of four instant digital books on the 2012 presidential election. The second edition, Inside the Circus, pulls back the curtain on the pursuit of the Republican nomination, as operatives jockey for position and strategists vie to fashion a message that can win over all factions of the fractious GOP. Click for more.

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Published: Random House, 11/2011
The first edition, The Right Fights Back, follows the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.Click for more.

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Published: Random House, 5/2011

 


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Published: Scholastic Inc., 6/2010

Mockingjay (Google eBook)

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Published: Scholastic Inc., 8/2010

The Hunger Games Trilogy (Google eBook)

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Published: Scholastic Inc., 5/2011

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Published: Starscape, 1/2002



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Published: Vintage, 5/2011
Due to request and media attention, we are letting our customers know that Fifty Shades of Grey, and its sequels ARE available through our website as eBooks. Click here for the NPR commentary - "Publishing's Sexiest Trend". The paperbacks will be released on April 3 and 17. We cannot speak for the content. Reader discretion is advised.

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Fifty Shades Darker (Google eBook)

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Published: The Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House, 9/2011

Fifty Shades Freed (Google eBook)

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Published: The Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House, 1/2012



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Published: University of California Press, 10/2010



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The Man in the Empty Boat, by Mark Salzman (Open Road, $24.99 [on sale for $17.49])
Mark Salzman and his autobiographical novel Iron & Silk was a favorite of one of our founders, Carla Cohen. The award-winning author’s new memoir, "The Man in the Empty Boat," is based on a live performance and has been released as an e-book original. It was inspired by his wise and funny, confessional monologue, "An Atheist in Freefall" and speaks of serenity, anxiety, aspirations, self-doubt and about family - the traits he inherited from his parents and what he learned from his children. Click here to preview the book.

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Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices, by Brian McLaren (Thomas Nelson, $17.99 [on sale for $12.59])
Brian McLaren’s book comes highly recommended by the recently appointed Episcopal Bishop of Washington, Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, both in her January 12 blog posting and for the church’s Lenten book discussion. As with Salzman’s book, it also acknowledges struggles and doubts; McLaren addresses rediscovering a more “coherent and compelling way of life,” and looks at the faith experience as a practice in finding meaning in life rather than as defining a rigid system of belief. Click here for Bishop Budde’s book blog, and then sample the eBook with Google Preview by clicking here. (Also available as a $12.99 paperback.)

Both of these books are about building courage and character, about the way we choose to live, and about the way we become the people we wish to be. Try them out on our website before you buy them! I think you’ll soon be hooked

Andrew Getman

Night (Google eBook)

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Published: Hill and Wang, 2/2012



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Published: Avon A, 10/2009

Salt: a world history (Google eBook)

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Published: Walker & Company, 7/2010



Death Comes to Pemberley (Google eBook)

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Published: Knopf, 12/2011



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Published: Knopf, 11/2011

Reamde: A Novel (Google eBook)

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Published: HarperCollins, 9/2011
Stephenson’s fiction is breathtaking in its imaginative range. Like the dazzling Anathem and Cryptonomicon, his new novel starts with established genres and comes up with something startlingly new. A thriller, Reamde follows the fate of a tech entrepreneur as the line between reality and his fantasy online war game disappears.

1Q84 (Google eBook)

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Published: Knopf, 10/2011

 


Steve Jobs (Google eBook)

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Published: Simon and Schuster, 10/2011

You will want to join us when we host Walter Isaacson for a book signing and author talk on Thursday, December 1, and of course, we have the hardcover edition of his new biography of Steve Jobs in stock (at 20% off for P&P members), but the eBook is also available. Why buy it from iTunes when you can get it from us?

To his string of bestselling biographies of Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Kissinger, and others, Isaacson now adds the life story of Steve Jobs. Written with the cooperation of its subject, this profile of the inventor, entrepreneur, leader, and visionary, offers a detailed profile of a man as imaginative as he was fiercely perfectionist.

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

– Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

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Published: Penguin Group USA, 3/2007
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse
by Thomas McNamee and R.W. Apple
($4.99 Google eBook, Penguin Press)
With great skill, McNamee traces the history of one of America
's most respected restaurants.  Waters stands at the center of this culinary world, but it's the array of eccentric, talented people who come into her life at opportune moments that makes this biography unlike any other.  McNamee sets the scene with great precision: you can smell the food cooking in the open kitchen and hear the raucous laughter of the satiated, boisterous customers.  You'll want to plant a garden and throw the most lavish dinner party with your crop.  Conor Moran

 


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Published: Mariner Books, 4/2006

 


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A Visit from the Goon SquadD (Knopf/Google eBook, $9.99), by Jennifer Egan

Time is the goon squad, and it comes for us all. Characters are revealed in their past, present, and future tenses. What begins in a 1970s San Francisco garage takes us to New York, Naples, Africa, an unnamed third world country. Egan experiments with language, with narrative style, with voice. Egan herself may be the goon squad, and she is coming for the novel. She is forcing it forward, like her characters, into the future.

- Bill Leggett


A Dance With Dragons (Google eBook)

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Published: Bantam, 7/2011
Finally! Here are all your favorite characters from George R.R.Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire that didn't make it into A Feast for Crows. Jon Snow, at the wall. Tyrion Lannister, on the run. Daenerys Targaryen,... well, you get the idea. One more thing; Winter is Coming. Also get the bundled first four books on ebook here. - David Maritz

The Troubled Man (Google eBook)

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Published: Knopf, 3/2011
Don’t miss the last Kurt Wallander novel! THE TROUBLED MAN is the final book in Mankell’s internationally bestselling series. The Swedish detective, now 60-years-old and suspended from the Ystad police force, is investigating a cold war case from 1980. When his source for the case, a retired naval commander, disappears, Wallander is drawn deeper into a mystery that could cause scandal in the current government. Mankell deftly interweaves international and Swedish politics with Wallander’s own quest. As any mystery reader knows, Scandinavian crime novels are in their Golden Age, and Henning Mankell started it all. - Anna Thorn

The Free World: A Novel (Google eBook)

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Published: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 3/2011

As with his dazzling debut Natasha: and Other Stories (Picador/Google eBook, $9.99), David Bezmozgis's first novel THE FREE WORLD focuses on the immigrant experience. In Natasha, it was that of the Berman family recently emigrated to Canada adjusting to their new lives. In The Free World, the Krasnansky family — three generations of Russian Jews — is stuck in bureaucratic limbo in Rome. Bezmozgis's strength lies in his compassion for his characters, their meditations on imperfect pasts and unsure futures told with black humor and keen insight.

-Sarah Baline


State of Wonder (Google eBook)

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Published: HarperCollins, 6/2011
As with her award-winning Bel Canto (HarperPerennial/Google eBooks, $9.99), Ann Patchett takes the stuff of thrillers (this time, it’s the Amazonian jungle, lost tribes, and intrepid researchers) and focuses exquisitely on the intimate human dramas within. STATE OF WONDER (HarperCollins/Google eBook, $12.99) explores what happens when the characters leave their routines, are forced to shed the trappings that they believe define them, and enter strange environments and prolonged periods of waiting. The results, as usual, are enthralling.
- Elizabeth Sher

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Published: Macmillan, 3/2011

Geoff Dyer's writing can be acerbic, intellectual, critical, irreverent, hilarious, or any combination of these. All his essays, though, display his keen intelligence and insatiable curiosity. In the introduction to OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE HUMAN CONDITION, Dyer describes why he chose his particular literary path. "What," he asks, "could be nicer than one day to be writing a review of a novel or exhibition and the next to be going off to Moscow to write about flying a MiG-29?" He divides the book into sections he calls Visuals, Verbals, Musicals, Variables, and Personals, an arrangement that showcases the versatility of his critical eye. - Mark LaFramboise


Under Heaven (Google eBook)

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Published: Roc, 4/2010

It's a shame, librarian and Book Lust author Nancy Pearl remarked on NPR, if the masterful UNDER HEAVEN by Guy Gavriel Kay is shelved only under Sci-Fi/Fantasy, where ardent historical-fiction fans might never find it. Gorgeously written and impeccably researched, this novel depicts the rich, teeming universe of the Tang Dynasty in 8th century China (known in this book as "Kitai."). Kay seamlessly blends history and fantasy, magic and myth, in this tale of assassins, scholars, warriors, poets, ruthless courtiers, Machiavellian politicians, and ghosts. Among the best characters are the women, who fuel their world and the novel with intelligence and strength.

-Elizabeth Sher


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Published: Little, Brown, 7/2010

How did obscure molybdenum change the course of World War I? And what ubiquitous element was briefly the most prized metal in the world? THE DISAPPEARING SPOON is a collection of mesmerizing tales about the greed, love and genius that it took to develop the periodic table of elements. You can read our interview with Sam Kean here.


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Published: Random House Incorporated, 3/2011

Check out our video review of THE TIGER'S WIFE here.


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Published: Knopf, 5/2009

The Tarahumara Indians in Mexico's hostile and remote Copper Canyon have a legendary ability to run for days on end. While regaling us with their story, Christopher McDougall introduces nutritionists, personal trainers, barefoot racers, and anthropologists who describe how Homo sapiens were BORN TO RUN. Ultimately, ultrarunners invite Tarahumara to the Colorado Rockies to compete in the Leadville Trail 100 Mile, and then return to Mexico to race on the Tarahumara's home turf. McDougall's wide-ranging documentation and the exuberance of the men and women he encounters will fascinate even those who have never hit the trails.

-Andrew Getman


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