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How to Pay Zero Taxes

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Schnepper, Jeff A.

Hundreds of legal deductions, credits, and exemptions are presented in an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand style updated for 2012 to include all the latest changes to the tax codes. 896 pp.

ISBN-13: 9780071778756
ISBN-10: 0071778756
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Date: November 2011
Page Count: 00841
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

The Money Class

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Orman, Suze

ISBN-13: 9780812982138
ISBN-10: 0812982134
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Date: January 2012
Page Count: 00320
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2012

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: J. K. Lasser Institute

America's number one bestselling tax guide offers the best balance of thoroughness, organization, and usability. For over half a century, more than 39 million Americans have turned to Lasser for easy-to-follow, expert advice and guidance on planning and filing their taxes. Written by a team of tax specialists, this guide includes all the outstanding features that have made the book the nation's all-time top-selling tax guide. (Consumer Finance)

Related Subjects:Books > Business & Economics > Personal Finance - Taxation

ISBN-13: 9781118072547
ISBN-10: 1118072545
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: November 2011
Page Count: 00848
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

J.K. Lasser's 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Weltman, Barbara

Owning a small business is a big responsibility. While all small business owners seek to improve their bottom line, few realize all the ways that both current and new tax laws can help them do so. With this book, small business owners will quickly discover how. 464 pp.

ISBN-13: 9781118072578
ISBN-10: 111807257X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: November 2011
Page Count: 00452
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

Women & Money

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Orman, Suze

Why is it that women, who are so competent in all other areas of their lives, cannot find the same competence when it comes to matters of money?

Suze Orman investigates the complicated, dysfunctional relationship women have with money in this groundbreaking new book. With her signature mix of insight, compassion, and soul-deep recognition, she equips women with the financial knowledge and emotional awareness to overcome the blocks that have kept them from making more out of the money they make. At the center of the book is The Save Yourself Plana streamlined, five-month program that delivers genuine long-term financial security. But whats at stake is far bigger than money itself: Its about every womans sense of who she is and what she deserves, and why it all begins with the decision to save yourself.

Join the Movement to Save Yourself with this Unprecedented Offer to Readers of Women & Money:

Suze Orman believes that having an account of your own is the cornerstone of long-term financial security, and so she has begun a national movement called Save Yourself to turn this wishthat every woman have an account in her own nameinto a reality. She is joined in this crusade by the financial brokerage firm TD Ameritrade, which has come up with an extraordinary offer for readers of WOMEN & MONEY. Follow Suzes Save Yourself Plan and open an account in your name with TD Ameritrade. Commit to an automatic deposit of at least $50 per month for twelve consecutive months, and TD Ameritrade will provide the incentive in the form of a $100 deposit into your account in the thirteenth month. In other words, you save $600 or more over the course of a year, and TD Ameritrade will reward that effort with a $100 bonus.

Related Subjects:Books > Business & Economics > Personal Finance - General

ISBN-13: 9780385519311
ISBN-10: 0385519311
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Date: February 2007
Page Count: 00272
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

The Total Money Makeover Workbook

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

	By: Ramsey, Dave
	In this fresh, interactive companion to Related Subjects:Books > Business & Economics > Personal Finance - Money Management ISBN-13: 9780785263272 ISBN-10: 0785263276 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers Date: February 2004 Page Count: 00256 Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

Individual Incomes Taxes 2012 Edition

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Boyd, James H., Ph.D.

Related Subjects:Books > Business & Economics > Accounting - General
Books > Law > Taxation

ISBN-13: 9781111825553
ISBN-10: 1111825556
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Date: May 2011
Page Count: 1

Ernst & Young Tax Guide

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Bernstein, Peter W.

The latest edition of the bestselling tax guide from the foremost authority in the business. 1,008 pp.

ISBN-13: 9781879161023
ISBN-10: 1879161028
Publisher: Ernst & Young
Date: November 2011
Page Count: 00985
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

Toolkit Tax Guide 2012

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Suelzer, Marcia Richards

With expert commentary and line-by-line explanations, this resource addresses the federal tax-filing process while helping to minimize liabilities. Detailed discussions focus on issues of primary importance to small business owners and help answer commonly asked questions, such as "What is the best form of organization for a given business? How should personal and business expenses be differentiated? How should employee benefit plans be handled on tax returns? "and "What might the IRS look for when conducting an audit? "Free online information and support are included, as are sections covering the latest changes to the federal tax code. In addition, book buyers will have free access to an online tax-preparation service.

Related Subjects:Books > Business & Economics > Taxation - Small Business

ISBN-13: 9780808026280
ISBN-10: 0808026283
Publisher: Toolkit Media Group
Date: January 2012
Page Count: 00432
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

Federal Taxation 2012 (with H&r Block at Home Tax Preparation Software CD-ROM, Cpaexcel 2012 Printed Access Card)

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Pratt, James W.

ISBN-13: 9781111824112
ISBN-10: 1111824118
Publisher: South Western Educational Publishing
Date: June 2011
Page Count: 01616
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

The Money Saving Mom's Budget

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Paine, Crystal

Mommy-money blogger Paine distills her best financial advice and secrets from her blog, Money Saving Mom, to help families get their finances in order. Based on "The Money Saving Mom's Seven Rules for Financial Success" and written in a simple, straightforward style, this book offers an easy plan for a complete financial makeover.

ISBN-13: 9781451646207
ISBN-10: 1451646208
Publisher: Gallery Books
Date: January 2012
Page Count: 00224
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

Clark Howard's Living Large in Lean Times

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Howard, Clark

Today's most trusted consumer advocate shows how to survive--and flourish--during tough economic times.

ISBN-13: 9781583334331
ISBN-10: 1583334335
Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
Date: August 2011
Page Count: 00258
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

Save Me

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Scottoline, Lisa

From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Think Twice" and "Look Again" comes an emotionally powerful novel about a split-second choice, agonizing consequences, and the need for justice. "Save Me" will have readers wondering just how far they would go to save the ones they love.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Thrillers
Books > Fiction > Contemporary Women

ISBN-13: 9780312380793
ISBN-10: 0312380798
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date: February 2012
Page Count: 00416
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

Oath of Office

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Palmer, Michael

When Dr. John Merriman goes on a shooting spree at the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Merriman turns the gun on himself. After hearing the news of the violent outburst, Dr. Lou Welcome is in shock like everyone else, but mostly he's incredulous. And when he begins to look into it further, the terrifying evidence he finds takes him down a path to an unspeakable conspiracy that seems to lead directly to the White House and those in the highest positions of power.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Thrillers

ISBN-13: 9780312587536
ISBN-10: 0312587538
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date: February 2012
Page Count: 00384
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

The House I Loved

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: De Rosnay, Tatiana

From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Sarah's Key" and "A Secret Kept" comes an absorbing new novel about one woman's resistance during an poque that shook 1860's Paris to its very core.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Historical - General
Books > Fiction > Contemporary Women

ISBN-13: 9780312593308
ISBN-10: 0312593309
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date: February 2012
Page Count: 00240
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

Mob Daughter

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Gravano, Karen

Related Subjects:Books > Biography & Autobiography > Criminals & Outlaws

ISBN-13: 9781250003058
ISBN-10: 1250003059
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date: February 2012
Page Count: 00256
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

The Wolf Gift

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Rice, Anne

A whole new world--modern, sleek, high-tech, and at its center, a story as old and compelling as history--the making of a werewolf, re-imagined and re-invented as only Anne Rice, teller of mesmerizing tales, conjurer extraordinaire of other realms, could create it.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Romance - Paranormal
Books > Fiction > Fantasy - Paranormal
Books > Fiction > Suspense

ISBN-13: 9780307595119
ISBN-10: 0307595110
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Date: February 2012
Page Count: 00416
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

Use Your Brain to Change Your Age

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Amen, Daniel G.

From a bestselling author and PBS star comes a brain-healthy program for readers to turn back the clock and keep their minds sharp and their bodies fit.

Related Subjects:Books > Self-Help > Aging
Books > Health & Fitness > Healthy Living
Books > Science > Life Sciences - Neuroscience

ISBN-13: 9780307888549
ISBN-10: 0307888541
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Date: February 2012
Page Count: 00384
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

I've Got Your Number

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Kinsella, Sophie

Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, but in one afternoon her "happily ever after" begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect! Well, perfect except that the phone's owner, businessman Sam Roxton, doesn't agree. He wants his phone back and doesn't appreciate Poppy reading his messages and wading into his personal life.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > General
Books > Fiction > Humorous
Books > Fiction > Romance - Contemporary

ISBN-13: 9780385342063
ISBN-10: 0385342063
Publisher: Dial Press
Date: February 2012
Page Count: 00448
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

Robert Ludlum's (TM) the Janson Command

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Garrison, Paul

Reformed from his days as a covert operative and assassin for the U.S. government, Paul Janson has a new mission and a new partner. Working independently with sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid, Janson only takes operations he believes contributes to the world's greater good. When his latest job rescuing a doctor abducted in international waters by African pirates goes haywire, Janson realizes he's caught in the middle of something much bigger.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > General
Books > Fiction > Thrillers

ISBN-13: 9780446564502
ISBN-10: 0446564508
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date: February 2012
Page Count: 00432
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

A Perfect Blood

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Harrison, Kim

Ritually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in to help investigate by the FIB, former witch turned day-walking demon Rachel Morgan soon realizes a horrifying truth--a would-be creator is determined to make his (or her) own demons. But it can't be done without Rachel's blood, in this latest blockbuster by a "New York Times"-bestselling author.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Fantasy - General

ISBN-13: 9780061957895
ISBN-10: 0061957895
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Date: February 2012
Page Count: 00448
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

All That Is Bitter and Sweet

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Judd, Ashley

Actress and human rights activist Judd has recorded her experiences both abroad and at home in journal entries, which she has woven into a highly personal and powerful memoir about change, hope, and human transformation. This edition of the "New York Times" bestseller features a new Afterword by Judd.

ISBN-13: 9780345523624
ISBN-10: 0345523628
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date: February 2012
Page Count: 00432
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

Kill Me If You Can

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Patterson, James

A poor art student living in New York City finds a duffel bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his gorgeous girlfriend fill his thoughts--until he realizes that he is being hunted, and that whoever is after him won't stop until they have reclaimed the diamonds and exacted their revenge.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Thrillers

ISBN-13: 9780446571876
ISBN-10: 0446571873
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date: February 2012
Page Count: 00400
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Rothenberg, Jessica

Just before her 16th birthday, Brie Eagan literally dies of a broken heart after her boyfriend tells her he does not love her. She then must go through the five stages of grief, while watching her friends and family try to cope with her death, before her faith in love is restored and she can move on to the afterlife.

ISBN-13: 9780803737204
ISBN-10: 0803737203
Publisher: Dial Books
Date: February 2012
Page Count: 00400
Reading Level: Ages 13 - 17

Celebrity in Death

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Robb, J. D.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Mystery & Detective - General

ISBN-13: 9780399158308
ISBN-10: 0399158308
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Date: February 2012
Page Count: 00400
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

Fever

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Destefano, Lauren

In a future where genetic engineering has cured humanity of all diseases and defects but has also produced a virus that kills all females by age 20 and all males by the age 25, teenaged Rhine escapes her forced marriage and journeys back to New York to find her twin brother.

ISBN-13: 9781442409071
ISBN-10: 144240907X
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Date: February 2012
Page Count: 00352
Reading Level: Ages 14 - 17

The Devil's Light

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Patterson, Richard North

Al Qaeda operative Amer Al Zaroor directs the theft of a nuclear weapon from the Pakistani military, and then transports it toward its intended target, Israel. CIA operative Brooke Chandler thinks he knows how the bomb is being moved and how to find it. First he must overcome the skepticism of the CIA and the White House. Available in a tall Premium Edition.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Thrillers
Books > Fiction > Political
Books > Fiction > Espionage

ISBN-13: 9781451616811
ISBN-10: 1451616813
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date: February 2012
Page Count: 00512
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

The Ten, Make That Nine, Habits of Very Organized People. Make That Ten.

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Martin, Steve

With more than 1.4 million followers and a now famously uncanny ability to pack 140 characters with a maximum amount of humor and wit, Martin has defined what it means to be a celebrity in today's world of social media. Martin's tweets have been covered by personal blogs, major news outlets, and everything in between, and this collection brings his funniest, most memorable messages together for avid followers and offline fans alike.

Related Subjects:Books > Humor > General

ISBN-13: 9781455512478
ISBN-10: 1455512478
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date: February 2012
Page Count: 00112
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

Raylan

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Leonard, Elmore

The revered "New York Times" bestselling author, recognized as "America's greatest crime writer" ("Newsweek"), brings back U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the mesmerizing hero of "Pronto," "Riding the Rap," and the hit FX series "Justified."
With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky, coal mines, marijuana has become the biggest cash crop in the state. A hundred pounds of it can gross $300,000, but that's chump change compared to the quarter million a human body can get you--especially when it's sold off piece by piece.
So when Dickie and Coover Crowe, dope-dealing brothers known for sampling their own supply, decide to branch out into the body business, it's up to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens to stop them. But Raylan isn't your average marshal; he's the laconic, Stetson-wearing, fast-drawing lawman who juggles dozens of cases at a time and always shoots to kill. But by the time Raylan finds out who's making the cuts, he's lying naked in a bathtub, with Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys.
The bad guys are mostly gals this time around: Layla, the nurse who collects kidneys and sells them for ten grand a piece; Carol Conlan, a hard-charging coal-mine executive not above ordering a cohort to shoot point-blank a man who's standing in her way; and Jackie Nevada, a beautiful sometime college student who can outplay anyone at the poker table and who suddenly finds herself being tracked by a handsome U.S. marshal.
Dark and droll, "Raylan" is pure Elmore Leonard--a page-turner filled with the sparkling dialogue and sly suspense that are the hallmarks of this modern master.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Men's Adventure

ISBN-13: 9780062119469
ISBN-10: 006211946X
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Date: January 2012
Page Count: 00263
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

The Flame Alphabet

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Marcus, Ben

From one of the most innovative and important writers of his generation comes a brilliant, mesmerizing, dark new novel in which the speech of children is killing their parents. Marcus's nightmarish vision is both completely alien and frighteningly familiar.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Literary

ISBN-13: 9780307379375
ISBN-10: 030737937X
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Date: January 2012
Page Count: 00289
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

1Q84

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Murakami, Haruki

"Murakami is like a magician who explains what hes doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers... But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves." The New York Times Book Review

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 "Q is for 'question mark.' A world that bears a question." Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.

As Aomame's and Tengos narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.

A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell's1Q84 is Haruki Murakamis most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Literary

ISBN-13: 9780307593313
ISBN-10: 0307593312
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Date: October 2011
Page Count: 00925
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

The Art of Fielding

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Harbach, Chad

At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.

Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's best friend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life. As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths. Written with boundless intelligence and filled with the tenderness of youth, "The Art of Fielding "is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment--to oneself and to others.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Sports
Books > Fiction > Literary

ISBN-13: 9780316126694
ISBN-10: 0316126691
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date: September 2011
Page Count: 00512
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

The Orphan Master's Son

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Johnson, Adam

An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, "The Orphan Master's Son" follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Literary
Books > Fiction > Thrillers
Books > Fiction > Suspense

ISBN-13: 9780812992793
ISBN-10: 0812992792
Publisher: Random House
Date: January 2012
Page Count: 00464
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

The Secret Garden

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved novel is now 100 years old And, to celebrate this special occasion, Sterling presents a gorgeous new edition of "The Secret Garden," illustrated by the acclaimed Robert Ingpen.
After her parents' death, Mary Lennox-a plain, sickly, and unloved little girl-leaves her home in India to stay in her uncle's English manor. There, thanks to a very special hidden garden and some wonderful new friends, she undergoes a physical and spiritual transformation that ultimately affects the lives of all around her.
Robert Ingpen's stunning art fully captures the story's poignancy and beauty-making this a volume that parents and children will treasure forever.

ISBN-13: 9780143106456
ISBN-10: 0143106457
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date: October 2011
Page Count: 00258
Reading Level: Ages 09 - 12

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Foer, Jonathan Safran

Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history.
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Literary

ISBN-13: 9780618711659
ISBN-10: 0618711651
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date: April 2006
Page Count: 00326
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

Little Bee

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Cleave, Chris

WE DON'T WANT TO TELL YOU TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS BOOK.

It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it.

Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this:

It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific.

The story starts there, but the book doesn't.

And it's what happens afterward that is most important.

Once you have read it, you'll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Literary
Books > Fiction > Contemporary Women

ISBN-13: 9781416589648
ISBN-10: 1416589643
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date: February 2010
Page Count: 00304
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Carroll, Lewis

This edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, one of the most popular works of children's literature of all time, follows in the track of a recent successful Collins Design title: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald, illustrated by Calef Brown and published in sync with the release of David Fincher's film starring Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt.

This new edition of Carroll's cult classic, designed in a compelling package and priced affordably, will publish in sync with the release of one of 2010's major Hollywood films. According to Variety, Tim Burton's forthcoming movie is generating a lot of buzz as one of the year's biggest. And it's got an all-star cast to draw in audiences and position our book nicely in the market: Johnny Depp (Mad Hatter), Alan Rickman (Caterpillar), Helena Bonham-Carter (Red Queen), Anne Hathaway (White Queen), Michael Sheen (White Rabbit), Crispin Glover (Knave of Hearts) and Australian actress Mia Wasikoska (Alice).

The style of Camille Rose Garcia's work has a dark yet Disneyesque sensibility that strongly recalls Burton's aesthetic, so book buyers and readers will both readily make that visual connection, which should help both buy-in and sell-through.

Think Alice goes Goth, and youve got the magic of this special book.

ISBN-13: 9780061886577
ISBN-10: 0061886572
Publisher: Collins Design
Date: February 2010
Page Count: 00159
Reading Level: Ages 12 - 17

Watergate

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Mallon, Thomas

From one of our most esteemed historical novelists comes a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators. Mallon conveys the drama and high comedy of the Nixon presidency through the urgent perspectives of seven characters we only thought we knew before now.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Historical - General
Books > Fiction > Political

ISBN-13: 9780307378729
ISBN-10: 0307378721
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Date: February 2012
Page Count: 00448
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

The Marriage Plot

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Eugenides, Jeffrey

The way of true love never works out, except at the end of an English novel. Anthony Trollope

The author of two beloved novels, MIDDLESEX (bestselling winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, with more than 3 million copies sold) and the now-classic THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (made into a haunting film by Sofia Coppola), is back with a delicious novel about modern love.

Its the early 1980s -- the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafs on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to the Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels.

As Madeleine tries to understand why it became laughable to read writers like Cheever and Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about deflowering virgins in eighteenth century France, real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead charismatic loner, college Darwinist, and lost Portland boy suddenly turns up in a semiotics seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and intellectual relationship with him. At the same time, her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus whos been reading Christian mysticism and generally acting strange resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate.

Over the next year, as the members of the triangle in this amazing, spellbinding novel graduate from college and enter the real world, events force them to reevaluate everything they learned in school. Leonard and Madeleine move to a biologicy laboratory on Cape Cod, but cant escape the secret responsible for Leonards seemingly inexhaustible energy and plunging moods. And Mitchell, traveling around the world to get Madeleine out of his mind, finds himself face-to-face with ultimate questions about the meaning of life, the existence of God, and the true nature of love.

Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce? With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the Novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own lives.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Literary

ISBN-13: 9780374203054
ISBN-10: 0374203059
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Date: October 2011
Page Count: 00406
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

The War of the Worlds

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Wells, H. G.

H.G. Wells's spellbinding account of an invasion from outer space is the first and still the best of all such stories. Ten massive, super-intelligent aliens from Mars touch down in Victorian England and threaten to reduce the civilized world to cinder in short order, as humanity's vaunted knowledge proves to be of little use in such an emergency. First published in 1898, famously dramatized by Orson Welles in an extraordinary 1938 radio presentation that had listeners fearing for their lives, and the subject of a forthcoming movie by Steven Spielberg, The War of the Worlds is a fantasy that is both startlingly up-to-date and in touch with the most ancient of human fears. Here this classic work receives its definitive visual interpretation at the hands of master illustrator Edward Gorey, who offers spectacular front and back cover art and several of his inimitably unsettling line drawings. One color illustration and 29 black-and-white illustrations are featured.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Science Fiction - General

ISBN-13: 9781590171585
ISBN-10: 1590171586
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Date: June 2005
Page Count: 00260
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

When My Baby Dreams

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Enersen, Adele

Based on Enersen's mega-hit blog, "When My Baby Dreams" follows a new mother as she watches her baby sleep, imagining the adventures her daughter is having in her dreams. Full color.

Related Subjects:Books > Juvenile Fiction > Bedtime & Dreams
Books > Juvenile Fiction > Family - New Baby

ISBN-13: 9780062071750
ISBN-10: 0062071750
Publisher: Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
Date: January 2012
Page Count: 00048
Reading Level: Ages 01 - 05

The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Carle, Eric

A brilliant new Eric Carle picture book for the artist in us all

Every child has an artist inside them, and this vibrant new picture book from Eric Carle will help let it out. The artist in this book paints the world as he sees it, just like a child. There's a red crocodile, an orange elephant, a purple fox and a polka-dotted donkey. More than anything, there's imagination. Filled with some of the most magnificently colorful animals of Eric Carle's career, this tribute to the creative life celebrates the power of art.

Rather than use the same old colors, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues. Includes biographical information about the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s. 32 pp. 300,000 print. (Children's - Ages 4-8)

Related Subjects:Books > Juvenile Fiction > Art & Architecture

ISBN-13: 9780399257131
ISBN-10: 0399257136
Publisher: Philomel Books
Date: October 2011
Page Count: 00032
Reading Level: Ages 03 - 05

Stuck

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Jeffers, Oliver

When Floyd's kite gets stuck in a tree, he's determined to get it out. But how? Well, by knocking it down with his shoe, of course. But strangely enough, it too gets stuck. And the only logical course of action . . . is to throw his other shoe. Only now "it's" stuck! Surely there must be something he can use to get his kite unstuck. An orangutan? A boat? His front door? Yes, yes, and yes. And that's only the beginning.
"Stuck" is Oliver Jeffers' most absurdly funny story since "The Incredible Book-Eating Boy." Childlike in concept and vibrantly illustrated as only Oliver Jeffers could, here is a picture book worth rescuing from any tree.

ISBN-13: 9780399257377
ISBN-10: 0399257373
Publisher: Philomel Books
Date: November 2011
Page Count: 00032
Reading Level: Ages 04 - 07

I Want My Hat Back

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:01 CST

By: Klassen, Jon

The bear's hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it. Told completely in dialogue, this delicious take on the classic repetitive tale plays out in sly illustrations laced with visual humor. Full color.

ISBN-13: 9780763655983
ISBN-10: 0763655988
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Date: September 2011
Page Count: 00040
Reading Level: Ages 05 - 08