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Crossbearer:
A Memoir of Faith
by Joe Eszterhas
"Joe Eszterhas grew up in refugee camps and then in America's back alleys. He worked as a police reporter, racing the cops to robberies and shootings. He interviewed and wrote about mass murders and serial killers. He wrote dark, sexually graphic, and violent films like Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge, and..."
(Memoir)
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The Question of
MacArthur's Reputation:
Cote de Chatillon,
October 14-16, 1918
"MacArthur never fought shy of the limelight--Yet it is shocking to learn that he wasn't actually present on the Côte de Châtillon on Oct. 16 and that he didn't lead his men through the wire; he was back at a command post behind the lines...."
Robert Messenger
W.S.J 11.24.2008
(History)
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Strangers on a Train
by Patricia Highsmith
"Now, one of her finest works is again in print: Strangers on a Train, Highsmith's first novel and the source for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1953 film. With this novel, Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath..."
(Fiction)
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Cuisines of the Axis of Evil
and Other Irritating States:
A Dinner Party Approach to
International Relations
"Chris Fair has dined with soldiers in the Khyber Pass and with prostitutes in Delhi, rummaged for fish in Jaffna, and sipped Taliban tea in Peshawar. Cuisines of the Axis of Evil is a sophisticated, fun, and provocative cookbook with easy-to-follow recipes from..."
(Cookbook)
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Try to Remember:
Psychiatry's Clash over
Meaning, Memory, & Mind
"He recounts his participation in court battles that erupted over diagnoses of recovered memories and the frequent companion diagnoses of multiple-personality disorders. He also warns that diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder today..."
(Psychiatry)
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Schulz and Peanuts:
A Biography
"And you thought Charlie Brown had issues. The beleaguered cartoon character apparently had nothing on his creator, Charles Schulz, presented in David Michaelis's thorough and revealing doorstop of a biography as bitter, anxious, petty, and depressed..."
(Biography)
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Let It Snow:
Three Holiday Romances
"Sparkling white snowdrifts, beautiful presents wrapped in ribbons, and multicolored lights glittering in the night through the falling snow. A Christmas Eve snowstorm transforms one small town into a romantic haven, the kind you see only in movies..."
(Young Adult)
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The Bubble Economy:
Japan's Extraordinary
Speculative Boom of the '80s
& the Dramatic Bust of the '90s
"The Bubble Economy tells the story of the greatest failure of Japanese economic management since 1945. In the second half of the 1980s Japan's financial madness and arrogance centered on a booming stockmarket and rocketing land prices, which dragged the solid manufacturing economy into a whirlwind of outrageous speculation. Then the boom when spectacularly bust, leaving in its wake a withered stockmarket, crashing land prices, mountains of bad loans, an economy in recession..."
(History)
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Napoleon in Egypt
by Paul Strathern
"Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt was the first Western attack in modern times on a Middle Eastern country. In this remarkably rich and eminently readable historical account, acclaimed author Paul Strathern reconstructs a mission of conquest inspired by glory, executed in haste, and bound for disaster..."
(History)
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A Very Private Woman: *
The Life and Unsolved
Murder of Presidential
Mistress Mary Meyer
by Nina Burleigh
(* purchased by M.W.)
"Mary Pinchot Meyer, the ex-wife of CIA cold warrior Cord Meyer and one of the more distinguished mistresses of President John F. Kennedy, was found shot to death in the Georgetown section of the nation's capital. Ray Crump, an African American man, was lurking near the murder scene, and was subsequently fingered as the single suspect in the case, only to be found not guilty..."
(Nonfiction)
Did JFK Drop LSD?
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Legacy of Secrecy:
The Long Shadow of
the JFK Assassination
by Lamar Waldron
& Thom Hartmann
"John F. Kennedy's assassination launched a frantic search to find his killers. It also launched a flurry of covert actions by Lyndon Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, and other top officials to hide the fact that in November 1963 the United States was on the brink of invading Cuba, as part of a JFK-authorized coup. The coup plan's exposure could have led to a nuclear confrontation with Russia, but the cover-up..."
(Nonfiction)
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Let Me Hold You Longer
by Karen Kingsbury
Mary Collier
(Illustrator)
"With lighthearted illustrations and a sweet, reflective tone, best-selling author Karen Kingsbury encourages parents to savor not only their children's "firsts"--like first steps and first words--but the "lasts" as well..."
(Child to Adult)
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The 7th Victim
by Alan Jacobson
"The Dead Eyes Killer lurks in the backyard of the famed FBI Profiling Unit. His brutal murders confound the local task force, despite the gifted profiling skills of Special Agent Karen Vail. But along with Vail’s insight and expertise comes considerable personal and professional baggage..."
(Novel)
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Backstabbing for Beginners
My Crash Course in
International Diplomacy
by Michael Soussan
"Maybe he imagines some future group of nations that will live up to the U.N. Charter, because his views regarding the current one are unequivocal: 'I was glad I was no longer working for an organization that valued its employees most dearly for their ability to hide their eyes, cover their ears, and shut their mouths in the face of gross incompetence and corruption.' What U.N. skeptic could put it better?"
John R. Bolton
(former U.N. Ambassador)
(Novel)
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Why We Suck:
A Feel Good Guide to
Staying Fat, Loud,
Lazy, and Stupid
"A pissed off Leary is the best Leary," says one critic of the writer and comic. In Why We Suck, Dr. Denis Leary uses his common sense, and his biting and hilarious take on the world, to attack the politically correct, the hypocritical, the obese, the thin..."
(Nonfiction)
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Romance of the Three
Kingdoms Vol. 1
by Lo Kuan-Chung,
Guanzhong Luo
"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Lo Kuan-chung's re-telling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220 A.D., one of the most tumultuous and fascinating periods in Chinese history. It is an epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death. As important..."
(Foreign Language Epic)
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A House for Mr. Biswas:
A Novel *
V.S. Naipaul
(* purchased by M.W.)
"The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul’s brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels..."
(Foreign Language Novel)
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Moving to Higher Ground:
How Jazz Can Change Your Life
"“In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life..."
(Nonfiction)
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The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
"...About halfway through Pelevin's Intelligently vulgar and smuttily erudite novel The Sacred Book of the Werewolf, first published in 2005 and newly available in English, Pelevin's protagonist-narrator A Hu-Li chastises her sister E Hu-Li against pat declarations of national "character." Like E, A Hu-Li is a 2,000-year old Asiatic were-creature..."
(Foreign Language Novel)
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The Butt
by Will Self
"One of contemporary fiction’s most 'wickedly brilliant…endlessly talented' satirists delivers a dystopian novel skewering global politics and Big Brother-style government post-9/11.
When Tom Brodzinksi tries to give up smoking, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events that threaten to upset the tenuous balance of peace in a not-too-distant land..."
(Novel)
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Last Night at the Lobster
"Now O'Nan peers into a suburban Connecticut Red Lobster restaurant on the last night of its operation. Who knew an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet could evoke such mournful, Edward Hopper–ish pathos? It's all in the telling..."
(Nonfiction)
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Blue Highways:
A Journey into America
by William Least Heat-Moon
(William Trogdon)
"William Least Heat-Moon's journey into America began with little more than the need to put home behind him. At a turning point in his life, he packed up a van he called Ghost Dancing and escaped out of himself and into the country..."
(Nonfiction)
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The Yacoubian Building
by Alaa Al Aswany
"This controversial bestselling novel in the Arab world reveals the political corruption, sexual repression, religious extremism, and modern hopes of Egypt today---All manner of flawed and fragile humanity reside in the Yacoubian Building, a once-elegant temple of Art Deco splendor now slowly decaying in the smog and bustle of downtown Cairo..."
(Foreign Language Novel)
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Beyond Basketball:
Coach K's Keywords for Success
"For Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke University men's basketball team, certain words have special importance and force. Coach K uses them every day to energize, motivate, and teach his players how to be winners on the court..."
(Sports)
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The Brenner Assignment:
The Untold Story of the Most
Daring Spy Mission of World War II
"An impossible mission. Behind enemy lines. The never-before-told true story of a small team of American saboteurs with orders to sever the Third Reich’s main supply artery—the Brenner Pass..."
(WWII History)
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American Wife
by Curtis Sittenfeld
"From her husband's desk in the Oval Office, Alice Blackwell can contemplate the deep incongruities of her own life. How, for example, did a quiet, bookish girl from small-town Wisconsin become involved with the gregarious, charismatic Charlie Blackwell?"
(Novel)
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American Lightning:
Terror, Mystery, the Birth of
Hollywood, and the Crime
of the Century
"The October 1910 bombing of the offices of the Los Angeles Times, which killed 21 people, seemed to portend that the vicious battle between capital and labor would escalate into the United States' second civil war..."
(History)
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Promise to Ourselves:
A Journey Through
Fatherhood and Divorce
" 'I have been through some of the worst of contentious divorce litigation,' Alec Baldwin declares in A Promise to Ourselves. Using a very personal approach, he offers practical guidance to help others avoid the anguish he has endured...."
(Nonfiction)
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Stealing Elections:
How Voter Fraud Threatens
Our Democracy
"John Fund explores the real divide the country faces with the looming election. Through wary thoughts on voting integrity, he shows how eletions can be decided by the votes of dead people, illegal felon voters, and absentee voters that simply don't exist. If nothing is done to address the growing cynicism about vote counting..."
(Nonfiction)
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Shoot Them down!
The Flying Saucer Air Wars Of 1952
"During the summer of 1952, Americans reported a record amount of UFO sightings to Project Blue Book, the Air Force group responsible for investigating unidentified flying objects. Author/Illustrator Frank C. Feschino, Jr. has written an exciting new book that encompasses the summer of 1952 and America's overwhelming UFO problem during that time..."
(Nonfiction)
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Love You Forever
"I'll love you forever / I'll like you for always / As long as I'm living / My baby you'll be." Since Love You Forever was first published in 1986, millions of parents have lulled their children to sleep with these affectionate words."
(Age Range 4-8)
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Holy Smoke
The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue
"The smell of meat roasting over a hardwood fire is one of life's few surviving primal pleasures -- which may explain the popularity of barbecue entries in everything from Greek diners to Vietnamese carry-outs." By ARAM BAKSHIAN JR.
(Nonfiction)
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Sea of Poppies
"In the first chapter of Sea of Poppies, he plunges us into the heavy-scented air of India and infuses that air with a growing sense of unease. 'It happened at the end of winter,' Ghosh writes, 'in a year when the poppies were strangely slow to shed their...'--This is, after all, India in the 1830s. The poppy is not just a pretty flower. It is the source of opium, an essential fuel for the..."
(Fiction)
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This Republic of Suffering:
Death and the American Civil War
"An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent proportion of today’s population would be six million. This Republic of Suffering explores the impact of this enormous death toll from every angle..."
(History)
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Young Stalin
"Based on ten years' astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy became a student priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary, and the merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image: How Stalin became Stalin."
(Biography)
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Dexter in the Dark
by Jeff Lindsay
"In his work as a Miami crime scene investigator, Dexter Morgan is accustomed to seeing evil deeds. . . particularly because, on occasion, he commits them himself. But Dexter's happy existence is turned upside down when he is called to an unusually disturbing crime scene at the university campus..."
(Novel)
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Nudge:
Improving Decisions about
Health, Wealth, & Happiness
"Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain..."
(Nonfiction)
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The Rise of the Fourth Reich:
The Secret Societies That
Threaten to Take over America
"In this explosive new book...reveals the frighteningly real possibility that today the United States is becoming the Fourth Reich, the continuation of an ideology thought to have been vanquished more than a half century ago. This concept may seem absurd to those who cannot see past the rose-colored spin, hype, and disinformation poured out daily by the corporate mass media..."
(Nonfiction)
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Planet Google:
One Company's Audacious Plan
to Organize Everything We Know
"According to this plan, users will increasingly store all of their data on Google's massive servers -- a network of a millioncomputers that amounts to the world's largest supercomputer, with unlimited capacity to house all the information Google seeks...Will Google stay true to its famous "Don't Be Evil" mantra, using its power in its customers' best interests?..."
Algorithm & Blues
(Nonfiction)
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Queen of the Oil Club:
The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski
and the Power of Information
"Jablonski talked her way into exploration sites in Middle Eastern deserts, drilling camps in the Venezuelan jungle, male-only board rooms in London, and even the king's harem in Saudi Arabia. With her gift for pulling explosive secrets out of otherwise laconic men, Jablonski challenged the control of the corporate oil titans and became the most powerful woman in this most powerful of industries...."
(Biography)
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Against the Machine
Lee Siegel
"In an intellectually engaging and spirited style, Siegel argues that the Web and complementary developments—from reality television to the emergence of business prophets like Malcolm Gladwell—are giving rise to a new and malevolent mass culture, an "electronic mob..."
(Non-Fiction)
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The Lace Reader
Brunonia Barry
"Can you read your future in a piece of lace? All of the Whitney women can. But the last time Towner read, it killed her sister and nearly robbed Towner of her own sanity. Vowing never to read lace again, her resolve is tested when faced with the mysterious, unsolvable disappearance of her..."
(Novel)
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The 33-Year Old Rookie
Chris Coste
"The 33-Year-Old Rookie is like a real-life Rocky, an unforgettable and inspirational story of one man’s unwavering pursuit of a lifelong goal. Beginning in a single-parent home in Fargo, North Dakota, and ending behind home plate on the flawless diamond..."
(Sports)
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The Girls of Riyadh
Rajaa Alsanea
"When Rajaa Alsanea boldly chose to open up the hidden world of Saudi women—their private lives and their conflicts with the traditions of their culture—she caused a sensation across the Arab world. Now in English, Alsanea's tale of the personal struggles of four young upper-class women offers Westerners an unprecedented glimpse..."
(Novel)
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