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Contemporary Literature
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel
Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell
Staff Pick
"For readers who enjoy good stories wrapped around an inventive structure. Each tale is obliquely connected to another moving forward through time. And each has a totally different voice and style."... (read more)

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Nonfiction
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David Sedaris - 14 CD Boxed Set
David Sedaris - 14 CD Boxed Set
by David Sedaris
From Powells.com
"When a new David Sedaris book comes out it is an instant bestseller. No question about it ? his frequently autobiographical stories and essays are riotously funny. The type of funny where tears actually come to your eyes. But when Sedaris's pipsqueak... (read more)

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Food and Wine
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Giada's Family Dinners
Giada's Family Dinners
by Giada De Laurentiis
Staff Pick
From simple to prepare after-work dinners to hearty and generous meals for ten or more, Giada's recipes can really be used everyday with little fuss and much reward. The language is warm, the recipes are clear, uncluttered, and surprisingly rich and... (read more)

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Mystery
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Lost Light
Lost Light
by Michael Connelly
From Powells.com
"Lost Light is fast and furious, with the murder's implications expanding the investigation far and wide, possibly implicating police corruption, FBI conspiracy, and international terrorism. The twists and turns are never predictable, and are revealed in... (read more)

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Nonfiction
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The Polysyllabic Spree
The Polysyllabic Spree
by Nick Hornby
Staff Pick
Name one other book critic that consistently makes you laugh out loud without denigrating the work of his subject. Right, you can't. (If you can, please, let me know.) Hornby's monthly "What I've Been Reading" columns for the Believer magazine (collected... (read more)

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Nonfiction
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Dirt : Motley Crue : Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band (02 Edition)
Dirt : Motley Crue : Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band (02 Edition)
by Tommy Lee
Publisher Comments
Whiskey and porn stars, hot reds and car crashes, black leather and high heels, overdoses and death. This is the life of MÖtley CrÜe, the heaviest drinking, hardest fighting, most oversexed and arrogant band in the world. Their unbelievable... (read more)

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Mystery
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Dialogues of the Dead
Dialogues of the Dead
by Reginald Hill
Publisher Comments
Normally, there would be nothing sinister about a death by drowning and a motorcycle fatality -- had these tragic occurrences not been predicted before the fact in a pair of macabre "Dialogues" submitted to a Yorkshire short story competition. Yet the... (read more)

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Nonfiction
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch
Staff Pick
"I urge everyone to read this book. The cover shows a picture of serenity, a scene from the beach of Lake Kivu in Rwanda. The landscape is devoid of human beings and an empty chair sits on the sand. The title in red stands out starkly from this backdrop.... (read more)

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Sale Books
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Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture
Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture
by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter
Publisher Comments
In this wide-ranging and perceptive work of cultural criticism, Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter shatter the most important myth that dominates much of radical political, economic, and cultural thinking. The idea of a counterculture — a world outside... (read more)

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Used Books
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Big Cats: Stories
Big Cats: Stories
by Holiday Reinhorn
Publisher Comments
Big Cats opens with "Charlotte," in which a young girl with a broken pelvis spies on her voluptuous neighbor during a long, hot summer night, setting the tone of irrepressible curiosity and yearning that is evident throughout the collection. In "Get Away... (read more)

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Bestsellers

Friday, December 25, 2009
Cloud Atlas: A Novel
  1. Cloud Atlas: A Novel
    by David Mitchell
  2. David Sedaris - 14 CD Boxed Set
    by David Sedaris
  3. Dirt : Motley Crue : Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band (02 Edition)
    by Tommy Lee
  4. The Polysyllabic Spree
    by Nick Hornby
  5. Giada's Family Dinners
    by Giada De Laurentiis
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