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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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The Best American Comics
(Best American Comics)(Hardcover (Cloth))
by
Barry, Lynda
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$22.00
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Lynda Barry gives us a volume that is an editorial miracle. The whimsical, the malicious, the heartbreaking, the surreal, the hilarious -- all the work included testifies to the vibrancy of the contemporary comic form. This is a collection to convert the remaining unbelievers and to excite the connoisseurs.--Josh Cook, Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)
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The Fire(Hardcover (Cloth))
by
Neville, Katherine
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$26.00
Published: Ballantine Books, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
After reading Katherine Neville's novel The Eight years ago, I had high expectations for this sequel. The Fire delivered more than I could have hoped -- history, intrigue, chess moves, fascinating characters, and an engrossing plot. A great read that I can't wait to recommend.--Susan Sinclair, Newtown Bookshop, Inc (Newtown, PA)
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The Wordy Shipmates(Hardcover (Cloth))
by
Vowell, Sarah
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$25.95
Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
As always, Vowell is darkly hilarious and freshly informative. She pokes fun at the buckle-shoed Puritans who first settled here, but she also tells a story of how their quirks, foibles, and love of words formed our country's personality. Her distinct and sharply witty voice makes this book an edifying delight.--Laura Delaney, The Rediscovered Bookshop (Boise, ID)
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The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir(Hardcover (Cloth))
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Grogan, John
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$25.95
Published: William Morrow & Company, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
John Grogan has another winner in The Longest Trip Home, his reminiscence of growing up a somewhat reluctant Catholic. It's funny, romantic, and poignant -- an entertaining and worthwhile read.--Alec Milner, Vintage Books (Vancouver, WA)
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The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits(Hardcover (Cloth))
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Standiford, Les
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$19.95
Published: Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2008
Inventory Status: On Our Shelves Now
Les Standiford gives us the chance to understand Dickens not only as an author, but as a person struggling to save his career, who, in the process, reinvigorates the Christmas spirit. Standiford excels at telling the story of historical figures in a way that reads like a novel, so we learn almost in spite of ourselves. This is an irresistible read for the holiday season!--Rona Brinlee, The Book Mark (Atlantic Beach, FL)
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The Memorist(Hardcover (Cloth))
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Rose, M. J.
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$24.95
Published: Mira Books, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
M.J. Rose does it again with The Memorist, another breathtaking thriller. She interweaves a multiplicity of themes involving a quest to resolve issues from the past, the music of Beethoven, a secret society, and the threats of terrorism -- bringing all the plot strands together for an incredible denouement.--Mary Alice Gorman, Mystery Lovers Bookshop (Oakmont, PA)
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Between Here and April(Hardcover (Cloth))
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$23.95
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
I loved Between Here and April, which on so many levels raises issues -- memory, facing the past and admitting its impact on the present, motherly love, and fidelity -- all in a novel that has a suspenseful race to its conclusion. Readers will be satisfyingly rewarded.--Cheryl McKeon, Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park, WA)
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The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story(Hardcover (Cloth))
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Bondurant, Matt
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$25.00
Published: Scribner Book Company, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
I loved this book -- an effective symbiosis of style, substance, and narrative technique. The novel absorbs the reader into its riveting account of the 1920s and 1930s Virginia moonshine trade and offers a fascinating perspective of American history. I was immersed from beginning to end.--Kristin Kirkham, The University Book Store (Madison, WI)
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Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff(Hardcover (Cloth))
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Pearce, Fred
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$24.95
Published: Beacon Press, 2008
Inventory Status: On Our Shelves Now
It's official: Everyone is going green. Sometimes, though, learning which behaviors really make a difference seems an impossible task. In Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, Fred Pearce is determined to find the truth by following his possessions from the cradle to the grave. What he learns is sometimes disturbing, occasionally rewarding, and always eye-opening.--Rachel Tavares, Changing Hands Bookstore, Inc. (Tempe, AZ)
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Fred Astaire
(Icons of America)(Hardcover (Cloth))
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Epstein, Joseph,
Miller, Mark Crispin
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$22.00
Published: Yale University Press, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
How could a string bean with an oversize forehead, jug ears, and an obvious toupee be one of the romantic leads of movie history? Epstein meditates on this heavenly hoofer from every angle, and the results will have you jonesing for a TCM movie marathon.--Daniel Goldin, Dickens Books Ltd. Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops (Milwaukee, WI)
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Second Violin: An Inspector Troy Thriller(Hardcover (Cloth))
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Lawton, John
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$24.00
Published: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Second Violin is the work of an accomplished author who draws you into the story through fully developed characters and plot twists that keep you engrossed. I'm not sure how I missed Lawton's earlier Inspector Troy titles, but I will make up for it by recommending them to anyone who loves historical fiction, thrillers, or just a good yarn.--Ann Carlson, Harborwalk Books (Georgetown, SC)
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The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It(Hardcover (Cloth))
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Mazzeo, Tilar J.
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$25.95
Published: Collins, 2008
Inventory Status: On Our Shelves Now
The story of how -- in 1800s France -- this brave and cunning woman emerged from small-time broker to dominate the international luxury market is intoxicating. Mazzeo's prose is appropriately effervescent as she explores the secrets and science of wine making and the numerous factors that contributed to champagne becoming the world's most powerful symbol of celebration and the good life. A toast to Mazzeo for capturing the essence of a radical life -- cheers!--Melba Major, Square Books (Oxford, MS)
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A Mercy(Hardcover (Cloth))
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Morrison, Toni
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$23.95
Published: Knopf Publishing Group, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
With an economy of language that is both piercing and fine, Toni Morrison is a master in full stride as she takes us on a journey, set in 1680s America, where survival requires trust and dependence between people, particularly women, of different race and experience. Raising the question of the price of dominion, A Mercy explores the very art of thwarted mercy itself. This is a brilliant and flawless novel.--Sheryl Cotleur, Book Passage (Corte Madera, CA)
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Once Were Cops(Hardcover (Cloth))
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Bruen, Ken
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$22.95
Published: Minotaur Books, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
If you haven't read any Bruen yet, this gritty noir tale of a wild Irish cop on the loose in the NYPD is a great introduction. There are twists and turns aplenty is this riveting read.--Rich Chasse, The Kennebunk Book Port (Kennebunk, ME)
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The Eleventh Man(Hardcover (Cloth))
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Doig, Ivan
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$26.00
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
A football team that makes the papers in 1941 goes to war in 1943, its players deployed from Europe to the Pacific -- all but the quarterback, who, son of a journalist, is assigned to chronicle their exploits for the wartime propaganda machine he loathes. Indelibly wrought characters and a plot that mixes love, treason, heroism, and history make this a blissfully good read.--Betsy Burton, The King's English Bookshop (Salt Lake City, UT)
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Hardly Knew Her(Hardcover (Cloth))
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Lippman, Laura
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$23.95
Published: William Morrow & Company, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
It's fair to say that not many know Baltimore and Maryland as well as Laura Lippman, and her latest stories in Hardly Knew Her really delve into the lives of both the under-employed and the moneyed from every level. A terrific collection by a wonderful writer!--Kathleen Dixon, Islandtime Books & More (Washington Island, WI)
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Freeman Walker(Hardcover (Cloth))
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Cates, David Allan
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$25.95
Published: Unbridled Books, 2008
Inventory Status: On Our Shelves Now
Armed with his 'free' papers and a copy of the Declaration of Independence, seven-year-old Jimmy Gates is sent to England for an education by his owner-father. After his father dies, the schooling ends, as Jimmy becomes an apprentice, learning life's lessons from prostitutes and revolutionaries. Taking a new name, Freeman Walker grows into manhood on the battlegrounds of the Civil War and his adventures tell us much about freedom and bring home the message that 'freedom isn't free.--Barbara Theroux, Fact & Fiction (Missoula, MT)
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Songs for the Missing(Hardcover (Cloth))
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O'Nan, Stewart
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$25.95
Published: Viking Books, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Popular high school student Kim Larsen disappears from her Midwestern home. Yes, it's every parent's nightmare. And, yes, this book pulls you in with its quiet power and alternating moods of hope and doom, as you are drawn into reading it long into the night. Highly recommended.--Nancy Simpson, Book Vault (Oskaloosa, IA)
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Conspiracy of Silence(Hardcover (Cloth))
by
Powers, Martha
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$24.95
Published: Oceanview Publishing, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Mystery lovers are in for a treat. Martha Powers' character, Clare Prentice, a Chicago journalist, begins to unravel secrets of her past ... and discovers that her whole life is a lie. A compelling, fast-paced story set in a small town determined to keep its secrets, Conspiracy of Silence is a must-read, not-to-be-missed mystery.--Melissa Wade, Vero Beach Book Center (Vero Beach, FL)
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I See You Everywhere(Hardcover (Cloth))
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Glass, Julia
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$24.95
Published: Pantheon Books, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Louisa -- solid, steady, dependable. Clem -- younger, rebellious, daring, and the favorite. This is a story, told over 25 years, of two sisters -- opposite as night and day, oil and water, yin and yang -- and how they remain connected. In my opinion, this is Julia Glass' best book yet!--Vicki McNeil, Watermark Book Co. (Anacortes, WA)
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