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'I, Alex Cross'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Patterson, James

You can't run
Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim.
You can't hide
The hunt for her murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to a place where every fantasy is possible, "if" you have the credentials to get in. Alex and Bree are soon facing down some very important, very protected, very dangerous people in levels of society where only one thing is certain--they will do "anything" to keep their secrets safe.
Alex Cross is your only hope to stay alive
As Alex closes in on the killer, he discovers evidence that points to the unimaginable--a revelation that could rock the entire world. With the unstoppable action, unforeseeable twists, and edge-of-your-seat suspense that only a James Patterson thriller delivers, "I, Alex Cross" is the master of suspense at his sharpest and best.

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

ISBN-13: 9780316018784
ISBN-10: 0316018783
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00374
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'The Wrecker'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Cussler, Clive

In "The Chase," Clive Cussler introduced an electrifying new hero, the tall, lean, no-nonsense detective Isaac Bell, who, driven by his sense of justice, travels early-twentieth-century America pursuing thieves and killers . . . and sometimes criminals much worse.
It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn sends in his best man, and Bell quickly discovers that a mysterious saboteur haunts the hobo jungles of the West, a man known as the Wrecker, who recruits accomplices from the down-and-out to attack the railroad, and then kills them afterward. The Wrecker traverses the vast spaces of the American West as if he had wings, striking wherever he pleases, causing untold damage and loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he a striker? An anarchist? A revolutionary determined to displace the "privileged few"? A criminal mastermind engineering some as yet unexplained scheme?
Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create maximum havoc, and Bell senses that he is far from done-that, in fact, the Wrecker is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. If Bell doesn't stop him in time, more than a railroad could be at risk-it could be the future of the entire country.
Filled with intricate plotting and dazzling set pieces, "The Wrecker" is one of the most entertaining thrillers in years.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Action & Adventure

ISBN-13: 9780399155994
ISBN-10: 0399155996
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00470
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Under the Dome'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: King, Stephen

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away.

Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Horror - General
Books > Fiction > Suspense

ISBN-13: 9781439148501
ISBN-10: 1439148503
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 01088
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'The Piano Teacher'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Lee, Janice Y. K.

"A rare and exquisite story...Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin." -Elizabeth Gilbert
In the sweeping tradition of "The English Patient," Janice Y.K. Lee's debut novel is a tale of love and betrayal set in war-torn Hong Kong. In 1942, Englishman Will Truesdale falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But their affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese as World War II overwhelms their part of the world. Ten years later, Claire Pendleton comes to Hong Kong to work as a piano teacher and also begins a fateful affair. As the threads of this spellbinding novel intertwine, impossible choices emerge-between love and safety, courage and survival, the present, and above all, the past.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Literary

ISBN-13: 9780143116530
ISBN-10: 0143116533
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00352
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Shadowland'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Noel, Alyson

"Enter the realm of the Immortals--the #1 New York Times bestselling series that's been acclaimed as breathtaking, mesmerizing, flawless and extraordinary."

Ever and Damen have traveled through countless past lives--and fought off the world's darkest enemies--so they could be together forever. But just when their long-awaited destiny is finally within reach, a powerful curse falls upon Damen...one that could destroy everything. Now a single touch of their hands or a soft brush of their lips could mean sudden death--plunging Damen into the Shadowland. Desperate to break the curse and save Damen, Ever immerses herself in magick--and gets help from an unexpected source...a surfer named Jude.

Although she and Jude have only just met, he feels startlingly familiar. Despite her fierce loyalty to Damen, Ever is drawn to Jude, a green-eyed golden boy with magical talents and a mysterious past. She's always believed Damen to be her soulmate and one true love--and she still believes it to be true. But as Damen pulls away to save them, Ever's connection with Jude grows stronger--and tests her love for Damen like never before...

Related Subjects:Books > Juvenile Fiction > Fantasy & Magic
Books > Juvenile Fiction > Love & Romance

ISBN-13: 9780312590444
ISBN-10: 031259044X
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00368
Reading Level: Ages 12 - 17

'Crocodile Tears'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Horowitz, Anthony

Itas just another day in the life of an average kid. If youare Alex Rider, that is.

A con artist has realized there is big money in charitya the bigger the disaster, the greater the money flow So that is what he will produce: the biggest disaster known to man, all thanks to genetically modified corn that can release a virus so potent it can knock out an entire country in one windy day. But Alex Rider will face whatever it takesagunfire, explosions, hand-to-hand combat with mercenariesa to bring down his most dangerous adversary yet.

Often imitated, never equaled, the series that triggered a reading phenomenon is back, exhilarating and addictive as ever.

Related Subjects:Books > Juvenile Fiction > Action & Adventure - General

ISBN-13: 9780399250569
ISBN-10: 0399250565
Publisher: Philomel Books
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00388
Reading Level: Ages 10 - 14

'Heat Wave'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Castle, Richard

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Thrillers

ISBN-13: 9781401323820
ISBN-10: 1401323820
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Date: September 2009
Page Count: 00208
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'A Christmas Blizzard'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Keillor, Garrison

A wealthy and depressed man bound for Christmas in Hawaii is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. During his stay, he reaches an epiphany worthy of the season and resolves to simplify his life.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Literary

ISBN-13: 9780670021369
ISBN-10: 0670021369
Publisher: Viking Books
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00180
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Wishin' and Hopin''

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Lamb, Wally

It's 1964 and ten-year-old Felix is sure of a few things: the birds and the bees are puzzling, television is magical, and this is one Christmas he'll never forget.

LBJ and Lady Bird are in the White House, "Meet the Beatles" is on everyone's turntable, and Felix Funicello (distant cousin of the iconic Annette ) is doing his best to navigate fifth grade--easier said than done when scary movies still give you nightmares and you bear a striking resemblance to a certain adorable cartoon boy.

Back in his beloved fictional town of Three Rivers, Connecticut, with a new cast of endearing characters, Wally Lamb takes his readers straight into the halls of St. Aloysius Gonzaga Parochial School--where Mother Filomina's word is law and goody-two-shoes Rosalie Twerski is sure to be minding everyone's business. But grammar and arithmetic move to the back burner this holiday season with the sudden arrivals of substitute teacher Madame Frechette, straight from QuEbec, and feisty Russian student Zhenya Kabakova. While Felix learns the meaning of French kissing, cultural misunderstanding, and "tableaux vivants," "Wishin' and Hopin'" barrels toward one outrageous Christmas.

From the Funicello family's bus-station lunch counter to the elementary school playground (with an uproarious stop at the Pillsbury Bake-Off), "Wishin' and Hopin'" is a vivid slice of 1960s life, a wise and witty holiday tale that celebrates where we've been--and how far we've come.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > General

ISBN-13: 9780061941009
ISBN-10: 006194100X
Publisher: Harper
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00275
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Last Night in Twisted River'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Irving, John

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County -- to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto -- pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.

In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River -- John Irving's twelfth novel -- depicts the recent half-century in the United States as "a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course." From the novel's taut opening sentence -- "The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long." -- to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving's breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp.

What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice -- the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: "We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly -- as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth -- the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives."

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Literary

ISBN-13: 9781400063840
ISBN-10: 1400063841
Publisher: Random House
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00576
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'New York'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Rutherfurd, Edward

The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.
Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he illuminates cultural, social, and political upheavals through the lives of a remarkably diverse set of families.
As he recounts the intertwining fates of characters rich and poor, black and white, native born and immigrant, Rutherfurd brings to life the momentous events that shaped New York and America: the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near-demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the '90s, and the attacks on the World Trade Center. Sprinkled throughout are captivating cameo appearances by historical figures ranging from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Babe Ruth.
"New York" is the book that millions of Rutherfurd's American fans have been waiting for. A brilliant mix of romance, war, family drama, and personal triumphs, it gloriously captures the search for freedom and prosperity at the heart of our nation's history.

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

ISBN-13: 9780385521383
ISBN-10: 0385521383
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00880
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Open'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Agassi, Andre

From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.

Agassi's incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. Lonely, scared, a ninth-grade dropout, he rebels in ways that will soon make him a 1980s icon. He dyes his hair, pierces his ears, dresses like a punk rocker. By the time he turns pro at sixteen, his new look promises to change tennis forever, as does his lightning-fast return.

And yet, despite his raw talent, he struggles early on. We feel his confusion as he loses to the world's best, his greater confusion as he starts to win. After stumbling in three Grand Slam finals, Agassi shocks the world, and himself, by capturing the 1992 Wimbledon. Overnight he becomes a fan favorite and a media target.

Agassi brings a near-photographic memory to every pivotal match and every relationship. Never before has the inner game of tennis and the outer game of fame been so precisely limned. Alongside vivid portraits of rivals from several generations--Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer--Agassi gives unstinting accounts of his brief time with Barbra Streisand and his doomed marriage to Brooke Shields. He reveals a shattering loss of confidence. And he recounts his spectacular resurrection, a comeback climaxing with his epic run at the 1999 French Open and his march to become the oldest man ever ranked number one.

In clear, taut prose, Agassi evokes his loyal brother, his wise coach, his gentle trainer, all the people who help him regain his balance and find love at last with Stefanie Graf. Inspired by her quiet strength, he fights through crippling pain from a deteriorating spine to remain a dangerous opponent in the twenty-first and final year of his career. Entering his last tournament in 2006, he's hailed for completing a stunning metamorphosis, from nonconformist to elder statesman, from dropout to education advocate. And still he's not done. At a U.S. Open for the ages, he makes a courageous last stand, then delivers one of the most stirring farewells ever heard in a sporting arena.

With its breakneck tempo and raw candor, "Open" will be read and cherished for years. A treat for ardent fans, it will also captivate readers who know nothing about tennis. Like Agassi's game, it sets a new standard for grace, style, speed, and power.

ISBN-13: 9780307268198
ISBN-10: 0307268195
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00385
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'It's Your Time'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Osteen, Joel

Get your hopes up. Raise your expectations. Your best days are in front of you.

In challenging times, it may be hard to see better days ahead. You may feel as though your struggles will never end, that things won't ever turn around for you.

This is exactly the moment to put your faith into action and expect God's blessings.

It's your time to declare your faith, to look for God's favor, and to give control of your life to Him so that you can find fulfillment in His plans for you.

"It's Your Time" to believe.

It's not easy to always be optimistic. Life can be difficult, and in hard economic times it's not just your finances that suffer. Your relationships can be strained. Your health can be stressed. Bad habits can return and negative thoughts can take over.

When one part of your life after another takes a bad turn, you can feel like there is no end in sight, no way out. The truth is, maybe you don't have an answer. But God does. Maybe you don't have the strength. But God does.

"It's Your Time" for favor.

In "It's Your Time," bestselling author Joel Osteen, pastor of the nation's largest church, offers the inspirational truth that no matter where you stand in life, you are never alone. He reminds you also that the bigger your burden, the greater your blessings to come.

You may have neglected God, but He has not abandoned you. He has already released good things into your future. As long as you're breathing, you can still reclaim His favor by renewing your faith and accepting His plans for you.

"It's Your Time" for restoration.

In these pages, Joel offers assurances that God does not want you to merely survive challenging times; He wants you to thrive. When you give your life over to Him, God will send opportunities your way so that you can soar to new heights of fulfillment.

History has shown that the most difficult times can serve as catalysts for creativity, innovation, and accomplishment. If you hold on to your faith, ask for God's favor, and don't give in to depression or discouragement, you will emerge not bitter but better, not a victim but a victor.

"It's Your Time" to trust.

God already is working in your life to arrange the right people, the right skills, and the right opportunities to give you the tools you need to fulfill and exceed your dreams.

Drawing from Joel's experiences and those of people around the world, "It's Your Time" offers messages of faith, hope, and strength to help you rise above any circumstance so that you can fulfill God's best plan for your life.

"It's Your Time" to stretch.

Joel has filled this book with bold new prayers, inspiring stories, and practical tools for moving forward in faith. You will find inspiration from others who have overcome adversity and achieved their dreams. You will find proven methods for not just picking up the pieces but for building a new life better than you'd imagined.

The hopeful messages and warm encouragements in this book will push you to expand your horizons beyond what you thought you were capable of doing so that you might go even farther than you'd ever dreamed of going.

"It's Your Time."

ISBN-13: 9781439100110
ISBN-10: 143910011X
Publisher: Free Press
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00320
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'The Book of Basketball'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Simmons, Bill

There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA.* Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.com's Sports Guy, is that writer. And The Book of Basketball is that book.
Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another single volume that covers as much in such depth as this wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past, present, and future of pro basketball.
From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens-and then closes, once and for all-every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons's one-of-a-kind, five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball.
Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game's finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.

"
* More to the point, he's the only one crazy enough to try to pull it off.
"

Related Subjects:Books > Sports & Recreation > Basketball - Professional

ISBN-13: 9780345511768
ISBN-10: 034551176X
Publisher: ESPN Video
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00736
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Nightlight'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Harvard Lampoon

"About three things I was absolutely certain. First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe. Second, there was a vampire part of him -- which I assumed was wildly out of his control -- that wanted me dead. And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed me."

And thus Belle Goose falls in love with the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen in the Harvard Lampoon's hilarious send-up of "Twilight."

Pale and klutzy, Belle arrives in Switchblade, Oregon, looking for adventure, or at least an undead classmate. She soon discovers Edwart, a super-hot computer nerd with zero interest in girls. After witnessing a number of strange events -- Edwart leaves his tater tots untouched at lunch, Edwart saves her from a flying snowball -- Belle has a dramatic revelation: Edwart is a vampire. But how can she convince Edwart to bite her and transform her into his eternal bride, especially when he seems to find girls so repulsive?

Complete with romance, danger, insufficient parental guardianship, creepy stalker-like behavior, and a vampire prom, "Nightlight" is the uproarious tale of a vampire-obsessed girl looking for love in all the wrong places.

Related Subjects:Books > Humor > Form - Parodies

ISBN-13: 9780307476104
ISBN-10: 0307476103
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00154
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Ad Hoc at Home'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Keller, Thomas

Thomas Keller shares family-style recipes that you can make any or every day.

In the book every home cook has been waiting for, the revered Thomas Keller turns his imagination to the American comfort foods closest to his heart-flaky biscuits, chicken pot pies, New England clam bakes, and cherry pies so delicious and redolent of childhood that they give Proust's madeleines a run for their money. Keller, whose restaurants The French Laundry in Yountville, California, and Per Se in New York have revolutionized American haute cuisine, is equally adept at turning out simpler fare.

In "Ad Hoc at Home" -- a cookbook inspired by the menu of his casual restaurant Ad Hoc in Yountville-he showcases more than 200 recipes for family-style meals. This is Keller at his most playful, serving up such truck-stop classics as Potato Hash with Bacon and Melted Onions and grilled-cheese sandwiches, and heartier fare including beef Stroganoff and roasted spring leg of lamb. In fun, full-color photographs, the great chef gives step-by-step lessons in kitchen basics- here is Keller teaching how to perfectly shape a basic hamburger, truss a chicken, or dress a salad. Best of all, where Keller's previous best-selling cookbooks were for the ambitious advanced cook, "Ad Hoc at Home" is filled with quicker and easier recipes that will be embraced by both kitchen novices and more experienced cooks who want the ultimate recipes for American comfort-food classics.

Related Subjects:Books > Cooking > Regional & Ethnic - American - General

ISBN-13: 9781579653774
ISBN-10: 1579653774
Publisher: Artisan
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00368
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'The Lacuna'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Kingsolver, Barbara

In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. "The Lacuna" is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities.

Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico--from a coastal island jungle to 1930s Mexico City--Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who put him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. He discovers a passion for Aztec history and meets the exotic, imperious artist Frida Kahlo, who will become his lifelong friend. When he goes to work for Lev Trotsky, an exiled political leader fighting for his life, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution, newspaper headlines and howling gossip, and a risk of terrible violence.

Meanwhile, to the north, the United States will soon be caught up in the internationalist goodwill of World War II. There in the land of his birth, Shepherd believes he might remake himself in America's hopeful image and claim a voice of his own. He finds support from an unlikely kindred soul, his stenographer, Mrs. Brown, who will be far more valuable to her employer than he could ever know. Through darkening years, political winds continue to toss him between north and south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach--the lacuna--between truth and public presumption.

With deeply compelling characters, a vivid sense of place, and a clear grasp of how history and public opinion can shape a life, Barbara Kingsolver has created an unforgettable portrait of the artist--and of art itself. "The Lacuna" is a rich and daring work of literature, establishing its author as one of the most provocative and important of her time.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > General

ISBN-13: 9780060852573
ISBN-10: 0060852577
Publisher: Harper
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00507
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Arguing with Idiots'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Beck, Glenn

FUNNY.

FRIGHTENING.

TRUE.

It happens to all of us: You're minding your own business, when some idiot informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of taxes.

"Just go away " you think to yourself -- but they only become more obnoxious. Your heart rate quickens. You start to sweat. You can't get away. Your only hope is...

...this book.

Glenn Beck, author of the #1 "New York Times" bestsellers "An Inconvenient Book" and "Glenn Beck's Common Sense," has stumbled upon the secret formula to winning arguments against people with big mouths but small minds: knowing the facts.

And this book is full of them.

The next time your Idiot Friends tell you how gun control prevents gun violence, you'll tell them all about England's handgun ban (see page 53). When they tell you that we should copy the UK's health-care system, you'll recount the horrifying facts you read on page 244. And the next time an idiot tells you that vegetable prices will skyrocket without illegal workers, you'll stop saying "no, they won't" and you'll start saying, "actually, eliminating all illegal labor will cause us to spend just $8 a year more on produce." (See page 139.)

Idiots can't be identified through voting records, they can be found only by looking for people who hide behind stereotypes, embrace partisanship, and believe that bumper sticker slogans are a substitute for common sense. If you know someone who fits the bill, then "Arguing with Idiots" will help you silence them once and for all with the ultimate weapon: the truth.

ISBN-13: 9781416595014
ISBN-10: 1416595015
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Date: September 2009
Page Count: 00325
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Ford County'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Grisham, John

In his first collection of short stories, John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, "A Time to Kill."

Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who's been locked away on death row for eleven years. It could well be their last visit.

Mack Stafford, a hard-drinking and low-grossing run-of-the-mill divorce lawyer, gets a miracle phone call with a completely unexpected offer to settle some old, forgotten cases for more money than he has ever seen. Mack is suddenly bored with the law, fed up with his wife and his life, and makes drastic plans to finally escape.

Quiet, dull Sidney, a data collector for an insurance company, perfects his blackjack skills in hopes of bringing down the casino empire of Clanton's most ambitious hustler, Bobby Carl Leach, who, among other crimes, has stolen Sidney's wife.

Three good ol' boys from rural Ford County begin a journey to the big city of Memphis to give blood to a grievously injured friend. However, they are unable to drive past a beer store as the trip takes longer and longer. The journey comes to an abrupt end when they make a fateful stop at a Memphis strip club.

The Quiet Haven Retirement Home is the final stop for the elderly of Clanton. It's a sad, languid place with little controversy, until Gilbert arrives. Posing as a lowly paid bedpan boy, he is in reality a brilliant stalker with an uncanny ability to sniff out the assets of those "seniors" he professes to love.

One of the hazards of litigating against people in a small town is that one day, long after the trial, you will probably come face-to-face with someone you've beaten in a lawsuit. Lawyer Stanley Wade bumps into an old adversary, a man with a long memory, and the encounter becomes a violent ordeal.

Clanton is rocked with the rumor that the gay son of a prominent family has finally come home, to die. Of AIDS. Fear permeates the town as gossip runs unabated. But in Lowtown, the colored section of Clanton, the young man finds a soul mate in his final days.

Featuring a cast of characters you'll never forget, these stories bring Ford County to vivid and colorful life. Often hilarious, frequently moving, and always entertaining, this collection makes it abundantly clear why John Grisham is our most popular storyteller.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Short Stories (single author)

ISBN-13: 9780385532457
ISBN-10: 0385532458
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00308
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'True Blue'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Baldacci, David

A mysterious high-profile homicide in the nation's capital collides with the dark side of national security in David Baldacci's new, heart-stopping thriller.TRUE BLUE Mason "Mace" Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything-her badge, her career, her freedom-and spent two years in prison. Now she's back on the outside and focused on one mission: to be a cop once more. Her only shot to be a true blue again is to solve a major case on her own, and prove she has the right to wear the uniform. But even with her police chief sister on her side, she has to work in the shadows: A vindictive U.S. attorney is looking for any reason to send Mace back behind bars. Then Roy Kingman enters her life. Roy is a young lawyer who aided the poor until he took a high-paying job at a law firm in Washington. Mace and Roy meet after he discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm. As they investigate the death, they start uncovering surprising secrets from both the private and public world of the nation's capital. Soon, what began as a fairly routine homicide takes a terrifying and unexpected turn-into something complex, diabolical, and possibly lethal.

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ISBN-13: 9780446195515
ISBN-10: 0446195510
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00456
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Southern Lights'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Steel, Danielle

"Danielle Steel sweeps us from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novel--at once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and punishment.
"
Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, Alexa has finally put her demons to rest, making a name for herself as a top prosecutor, handling the city's toughest cases while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter.
But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Sifting through mountains of forensic evidence, Alexa prepares for a high-stakes trial...until threatening letters throw her private life into turmoil. The letters are addressed to her beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter, Savannah, whom Alexa has been raising alone since her divorce. Alexa is certain that Quentin is behind the letters--and that they are too dangerous to ignore. Suddenly she must make the toughest choice of all--and send her daughter back to the very place she swore she would never return to: the place where her marriage ended in heartbreak...her ex-husband's world of southern tradition, memories of betrayal, and the antebellum charm of Charleston.
Now, while Alexa's trial builds to a climax in New York, her daughter is settling into southern life, discovering a part of her family history and a father she barely knows--from the ice-cold stepmother who stole him away to a fascinating ancestry and a half-sister and half-brothers she comes to love. As secrets are exposed and old wounds are healed, Alexa and Savannah, after a season in different worlds, will come together again--strengthened by the challenges they have faced, changed by the mysteries they have unraveled, and with Savannah now at home in the southern world her mother fled.
In this masterfully told tale, Danielle Steel creates a stunning array of contrasts: from the gritty chaos of Manhattan's criminal court system to the seductive gentility of the South, from the rage of a hardened criminal to the tender bond between a mother and daughter--and a loving father who has welcomed Savannah home at last. A novel that will catch you off guard at every turn, Southern Lights is Danielle Steel at her electrifying best.

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ISBN-13: 9780385340281
ISBN-10: 0385340281
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00326
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'The Scarpetta Factor'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

From the world's #1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel.
It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta-despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN- to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments later during the same telecast, she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatric patient of Benton Wesley's. When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds an ominous package-possibly a bomb-waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta's life finds her embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom Lucy seems to have shared a secret past.
Scarpetta's CNN producer wants her to launch a TV show called "The Scarpetta Factor." Given the bizarre events already in play, she fears that her growing fame will generate the illusion that she has a "special factor," a mythical ability to solve all her cases. She wonders if she will end up like other TV personalities: her own stereotype.
"The Scarpetta Factor," the seventeenth in the series, finds the familiar cast of characters together again in New York. Marino is working for the NYPD; Benton Wesley uses his forensic psychoA-logical expertise at Kirby and Bellevue; and Lucy continues to dazzle with her expertise in forensic computer investigations as she works yet another case with NY prosecutor Jaime Berger.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Thrillers

ISBN-13: 9780399156397
ISBN-10: 0399156399
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00512
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'The Gathering Storm'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Jordan, Robert

Tarmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.

The final volume of the Wheel of Time, "A Memory of Light," was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan's editor -- his wife, Harriet McDougal -- to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents "The Gathering Storm" as the first of three novels that will make up "A Memory of Light." This short sequence will complete the struggle against the Shadow, bringing to a close a journey begun almost twenty years ago and marking the conclusion of the Wheel of Time, the preeminent fantasy epic of our era.

In this epic novel, Robert Jordan's international bestselling series begins its dramatic conclusion. Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. As he attempts to halt the Seanchan encroachment northward -- wishing he could form at least a temporary truce with the invaders---his allies watch in terror the shadow that seems to be growing within the heart of the Dragon Reborn himself.

Egwene al'Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is a captive of the White Tower and subject to the whims of their tyrannical leader. As days tick toward the Seanchan attack she knows is imminent, Egwene works to hold together the disparate factions of Aes Sedai while providing leadership in the face of increasing uncertainty and despair. Her fight will prove the mettle of the Aes Sedai, and her conflict will decide the future of the White Tower -- and possibly the world itself.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Fantasy - Epic

ISBN-13: 9780765302304
ISBN-10: 0765302306
Publisher: Tor Books
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00784
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'To Try Men's Souls'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Gingrich, Newt

After two bestselling series examining the Civil War and WWII, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen have turned their sharp eye for detail on the Revolutionary War. Their story follows three men with three very different roles to play in history: General George Washington, Thomas Paine, and Jonathan Van Dorn, a private in Washington's army. The action focuses on one of the most iconic events in American history: Washington cross - ing the Delaware. Unlike the bold, courageous General in Emanuel Leutze's painting, Washington is full of doubt on the night of December 25, 1776. After five months of defeat, morale is dangerously low. Each morning muster shows that hundreds have deserted in the night. While Washington prepares his weary troops for the attack on Trenton, Thomas Paine is in Philadelphia, overseeing the printing of his newest pamphlet, "The Crisis." And Jonathan Van Dorn is about to bring the war to his own doorstep. In the heat of battle, he must decide between staying loyal to the cause and sparing his brother who has joined up with the British. Through the thoughts and private fears of these three men, Gingrich and Forstchen illu minate the darkest days of the Revolution. With detailed research and an incredible depth of military insight, this novel provides a rare and personal perspective of the men who fought for, and founded the United States of America.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Historical - General
Books > Fiction > War & Military
Books > Fiction > Alternative History

ISBN-13: 9780312591069
ISBN-10: 0312591063
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00345
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'A Touch of Dead'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Harris, Charlaine

Every Sookie Stackhouse short story ever written-in one special volume-from the "New York Times" bestselling author.
"New York Times" bestselling author Charlaine Harris has re-imagined the supernatural world with her "spunky" ("Tampa Tribune") Southern Vampire novels starring telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse. Now, for the first time, here is every Sookie Stackhouse short story ever written-together in one volume.
Stories include "Fairy Dust," "One Word Answer," "Dracula Night," "Lucky," and "Giftwrap."

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Fantasy - General
Books > Fiction > Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths

ISBN-13: 9780441017836
ISBN-10: 0441017835
Publisher: Ace Books
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00192
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Grave Secret'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Harris, Charlaine

New in the series from "New York Times" bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels.

Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two little girls they both think of as sisters. But, as always happens when they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood resurface.

To make matters worse, Tolliver learns from his older brother that their father is out of jail and trying to reestablish contact with other family members. Tolliver wants no part of the man -- but he may not have a choice in the matter.

Soon, family secrets ensnare them both, as Harper finally discovers what happened to her missing sister, Cameron, so many years before.

And what she finds out will change her world forever.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths

ISBN-13: 9780425230152
ISBN-10: 0425230155
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00306
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Nine Dragons'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Connelly, Michael

LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in the fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of his life.
Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murder of John Li, the store's owner, hits Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer.
The world Bosch steps into next is unknown territory. He brings in a detective from the Asian Gang Unit for help with translation--not just of languages but also of the cultural norms and expectations that guided Li's life. He uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad, a lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S.
And instantly his world explodes. The one good thing in Bosch's life, the person he holds most dear, is taken from him and Bosch travels to Hong Kong in an all-or-nothing bid to regain what he's lost. In a place known as Nine Dragons, as the city's Hungry Ghosts festival burns around him, Bosch puts aside everything he knows and risks everything he has in a desperate bid to outmatch the triad's ferocity.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Thrillers

ISBN-13: 9780316166317
ISBN-10: 0316166316
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00384
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'An Echo in the Bone'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Gabaldon, Diana

Diana Gabaldon's brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in An Echo in the Bone, the enormously anticipated seventh volume, Gabaldon continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall.
Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant rebel, is already certain of three things about the American rebellion: The Americans will win, fighting on the side of victory is no guarantee of survival, and he'd rather die than have to face his illegitimate son-a young lieutenant in the British army-across the barrel of a gun.
Claire Randall knows that the Americans will win, too, but not what the ultimate price may be. That price won't include Jamie's life or his happiness, though-not if she has anything to say about it.
Meanwhile, in the relative safety of the twentieth century, Jamie and Claire's daughter, Brianna, and her husband, Roger MacKenzie, have resettled in a historic Scottish home where, across a chasm of two centuries, the unfolding drama of Brianna's parents' story comes to life through Claire's letters. The fragile pages reveal Claire's love for battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and their flight from North Carolina to the high seas, where they encounter privateers and ocean battles-as Brianna and Roger search for clues not only to Claire's fate but to their own. Because the future of the MacKenzie family in the Highlands is mysteriously, irrevocably, and intimately entwined with life and death in war-torn colonial America.
With stunning cameos of historical characters from Benedict Arnold to Benjamin Franklin, An Echo in the Bone is a soaring masterpiece of imagination, insight, character, and adventure-a novel that echoes in the mind long after the last page is turned.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Historical - General

ISBN-13: 9780385342452
ISBN-10: 0385342454
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Date: September 2009
Page Count: 00832
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Half Broke Horses'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Walls, Jeannette

Jeannette Walls's "The Glass Castle" was "nothing short of spectacular" ("Entertainment Weekly"). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic.

""Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did."" So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony, all alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car ("I loved cars even more than I loved horses. They didn't need to be fed if they weren't working, and they didn't leave big piles of manure all over the place") and fly a plane, and, with her husband, ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette's memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in "The Glass Castle."

Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds -- against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn't fit the mold. "Half Broke Horses" is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's "Out of Africa" or Beryl Markham's "West with the Night." It will transfix readers everywhere.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Biographical
Books > Fiction > Literary

ISBN-13: 9781416586289
ISBN-10: 1416586288
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00272
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Sookie Stackhouse Set'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Harris, Charlaine

Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is no typical Southern belle. She can read minds. And she's got a thing for vampires. Which, in a town like Bon Temps, Louisiana, means she'll have to watch her back-and neck...
Includes:
Dead Until Dark
Living Dead in Dallas
Club Dead
Dead to the World
Dead as a Doornail
Definitely Dead
All Together Dead
From Dead to Worse

ISBN-13: 9780441018239
ISBN-10: 0441018238
Publisher: Ace Books
Date: September 2009
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Angel Time'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Rice, Anne

Anne Rice returns to the mesmerizing storytelling that has captivated readers for more than three decades in a tale of unceasing suspense set in time past--a metaphysical thriller about angels and assassins.
The novel opens in the present. At its center: Toby O'Dare--a contract killer of underground fame on assignment to kill once again. A soulless soul, a dead man walking, he lives under a series of aliases--just now: Lucky the Fox--and takes his orders from "The Right Man."
Into O'Dare's nightmarish world of lone and lethal missions comes a mysterious stranger, a seraph, who offers him a chance to save rather than destroy lives. O'Dare, who long ago dreamt of being a priest but instead came to embody danger and violence, seizes his chance. Now he is carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England, to dark realms where accusations of ritual murder have been made against Jews, where children suddenly die or disappear . . . In this primitive setting, O'Dare begins his perilous quest for salvation, a journey of danger and flight, loyalty and betrayal, selflessness and love.

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ISBN-13: 9781400043538
ISBN-10: 1400043530
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00267
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Her Fearful Symmetry'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Niffenegger, Audrey

Audrey Niffenegger's spectacularly compelling second novel opens with a letter that alters the fate of every character. Julia and Valentina Poole are semi-normal American twenty-year-olds with seemingly little interest in college or finding jobs. Their attachment to one another is intense. One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in the suburbs of Chicago. From a London solicitor, the enclosed letter informs Valentina and Julia that their English aunt Elspeth Noblin, whom they never knew, has died of cancer and left them her London apartment. There are two conditions to this inheritance: that they live in it for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. Julia and Valentina are twins. So were the estranged Elspeth and Edie, their mother.

The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders the vast and ornate Highgate Cemetery, where Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Radclyffe Hall, Stella Gibbons and Karl Marx are buried. Julia and Valentina come to know the living residents of their building. There is Martin, a brilliant and charming crossword-puzzle setter suffering from crippling obsessive compulsive disorder; Marijke, Martin's devoted but trapped wife; and Robert, Elspeth's elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. As the girls become embroiled in the fraying lives of their aunt's neighbors, they also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including -- perhaps -- their aunt.

Author of one of the most beloved first novels in recent years, Niffenegger returns with an unnerving, unforgettable and enchanting ghost story, a novel about love and identity, secrets and sisterhood and the tenacity of life -- even after death.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Literary
Books > Fiction > Ghost

ISBN-13: 9781439165393
ISBN-10: 1439165394
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Date: September 2009
Page Count: 00406
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Blood Game'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Johansen, Iris

First comes darkness. Then comes fear...

Eve Duncan is back.

Blockbuster New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen's latest thriller brings Eve closer to discovering her daughter's killer... and into a web of danger from which she may not be able to escape.

Eve Duncan returns in a thriller that pits her against the most evil mind she has ever encountered: a ruthless killer who taunts her with his every move... and who has a special affinity for blood. When a Georgia senator's daughter is found murdered and her body drained of blood, Eve Duncan is drawn into the web of Kevin Jelak -- a serial murderer who is on Eve's short list of killers who might know something about her missing daughter Bonnie. When a goblet of blood is found in Eve's refrigerator, she knows the taunting is over... and the games have begun. As Eve and Jelak engage in a dance of death, Eve must call upon those she loves and trusts the most... even if it means bringing them into the game as well.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
Books > Fiction > Thrillers

ISBN-13: 9780312368128
ISBN-10: 0312368127
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00338
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Pursuit of Honor'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Flynn, Vince

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR VINCE FLYNN RETURNS WITH HIS MOST EXHILARATING POLITICAL THRILLER TO DATE, A PULSE-POUNDING TALE OF ESPIONAGE, COVERT INTELLIGENCE, AND COUNTERTERRORISM.

The action begins six days after a series of explosions devastated Washington, D.C., targeting the National Counterterrorism Center and killing 185 people, including public officials and CIA employees. It was a bizarre act of extreme violence that called for extreme measures on the part of elite counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp and his trusted team member, Mike Nash. Now that the initial shock of the catastrophe is over, key Washington officials are up in arms over whether to make friends or foes of the agents who stepped between the enemy's bullets and countless American lives regardless of the legal consequences. Not for the first time, Rapp finds himself in the frustrating position of having to illustrate the realities of national security to politicians whose view from the sidelines is inevitably obstructed.

Meanwhile, three of the al Qaeda terrorists are still at large, and Rapp has been unofficially ordered to find them by any means necessary. No one knows the personal, physical, and emotional sacrifices required of the job better than Rapp. When he sees Nash cracking under the pressure of the mission and the memories of the horrors he witnessed during the terrorist attack, he makes a call he hopes will save his friend, assuage the naysayers on Capitol Hill, and get him one step closer to the enemy before it's too late. Once again, Rapp proves himself to be a hero unafraid "to walk the fine line between the moral high ground and violence" ("The Salt Lake Tribune") for our country's safety, for the sake of freedom, for the pursuit of honor.

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

ISBN-13: 9781416595168
ISBN-10: 1416595163
Publisher: Atria Books
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00431
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Evidence'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Kellerman, Jonathan

#1 "New York Times" bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman writes unforgettable tales of crime and detection that expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles. And in Evidence, readers are once again in the dexterous grip of a master storyteller and stylist equally skilled at teasing your brain and taking your breath away.
In the half-built skeleton of a monstrously vulgar mansion in one of L.A.'s toniest" "neighborhoods, a watchman stumbles on the bodies of a young couple-murdered in flagrante and left in a gruesome postmortem embrace. Though he's cracked some of the city's worst slayings, veteran homicide cop Milo Sturgis is still shocked at the grisly sight: a twisted crime that only Milo's killer instincts-and psychologist Alex Delaware's keen insights-can hope to solve.
While the female victim's identity remains a question mark, her companion is ID'd as eco-friendly architect Desmond Backer, who disdains the sort of grandiose superstructure he's found dead in. And the late Mr. Backer, it's revealed was also notorious for his power to seduce women.
The rare exception is his ex-boss, Helga Gemein, who's as indifferent to Desmond's death as she apparently was to his advances. Though Milo and Alex place her on their short list of suspects, the deeper they dig for clues the longer the list grows. An elusive prince who appears to harbor decidedly American appetites, an eccentric blueblood with an ax to grind, one of Desmond's restless ex-lovers and her cuckolded husband-all are in the homicidal mix spiced with eco-terrorism, arson, blackmail, conspiracy, and a vendetta that runs deep. But when the investigation veers suddenly in a startling direction, it's the investigators who may wind up on the wrong end of a cornered predator's final fury.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural

ISBN-13: 9780345495150
ISBN-10: 0345495152
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00355
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Dracula the Un-Dead'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Stoker, Dacre

At last -- the sequel to Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula, written by his direct descendant and a Dracula historian. Bram Stoker's Dracula is the prototypical horror novel, an inspiration for the world's seemingly limitless fascination with vampires. Though many have tried to replicate Stoker's horror classic -- in books, television shows, and movies -- only the 1931 Bela Lugosi film bore the Stoker family's support. Until now.

Dracula The Un-Dead is a bone-chilling sequel based on Bram Stoker's own handwritten notes for characters and plot threads excised from the original edition. Dracula The Un-Dead begins in 1912, twenty-five years after Dracula "crumbled into dust." Van Helsing's protg Dr. Jack Seward is now a disgraced morphine addict obsessed with stamping out evil across Europe. Meanwhile, an unknowing Quincey Harker, the grown son of Jonathan and Mina, leaves law school for the London stage, only to stumble upon the troubled production of Dracula, directed and produced by Bram Stoker himself.

The play plunges Quincey into the world of his parents' terrible secrets, but before he can confront them he experiences evil in a way he had never imagined. One by one, the band of heroes that defeated Dracula a quarter-century ago is being hunted down. Could it be that Dracula somehow survived their attack and is seeking revenge? Or is their another force at work whose relentless purpose is to destroy anything and anyone associated with Dracula?

Dracula the Un-Dead is deeply researched, rich in character, thrills and scares, and lovingly crafted as both an extension and celebration of one of the most classic popular novels in literature.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Horror - General

ISBN-13: 9780525951292
ISBN-10: 0525951296
Publisher: Dutton Books
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00432
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Hush, Hush'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Fitzpatrick, Becca

For Nora Grey, romance was not part of the plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how much her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch came along.

With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Nora is drawn to him against her better judgment.

But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure who to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is, and to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.

For Nora is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen - and, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost her life.

ISBN-13: 9781416989417
ISBN-10: 1416989412
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00391
Reading Level: Ages 13 - 17

'Tempted'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Cast, P. C.

Click Here To Read The First Chapter Of TEMPTED!

So...you'd think after banishing an immortal being and a fallen High Priestess, saving Stark's life, biting Heath, getting a headache from Erik, and almost dying, Zoey Redbird would catch a break. Sadly, a break is not in the House of Night school forecast for the High Priestess in training and her gang. Juggling three guys is anything but a stress reliever, especially when one of them is a sexy Warrior who is so into protecting Zoey that he can sense her emotions. Speaking of stress, the dark force lurking in the tunnels under the Tulsa Depot is spreading, and Zoey is beginning to believe Stevie Rae could be responsible for a lot more than a group of misfit red fledglings. Aphrodite's visions warn Zoey to stay away from Kalona and his dark allure, but they also show that it is Zoey who has the power to stop the evil immortal.

Soon it becomes obvious that Zoey has no choice: if she doesn't go to Kalona he will exact a fiery vengeance on those closest to her. Will Zoey have the courage to chance losing her life, her heart, and her soul? Find out in the next spectacular installment in the House of Night Series, "Tempted."

ISBN-13: 9780312567484
ISBN-10: 0312567480
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00319
Reading Level: Ages 12 - 17

'In Too Deep [With 6 Cards]'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Watson, Jude

The 39 Clues series gets treacherous. Book 6 takes Amy and Dan across oceans on the trail of a famous aviator, but they find more than they're looking for. Their enemies are becoming more vicious, and the truths they discover more crushing than ever.

ISBN-13: 9780545060462
ISBN-10: 054506046X
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00207
Reading Level: Ages 08 - 12

'Fancy Nancy's Splendiferous Christmas'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: O\'Connor, Jane

What could be fancier than Christmas?

Presents with elegant wrapping paper, festive decorations, Christmas cookies with sprinkles--and who could forget the tree? After all, there is no such thing as too much tinsel. Ooh la la This year, Nancy is especially excited about decorating the Christmas tree. She bought a brand-new sparkly tree topper with her own money and has been waiting for Christmas to come. But when things don't turn out the way Nancy planned, will Christmas still be splendiferous?

In this merriest of stories from bestselling duo Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser, Nancy proves once again that a little fancying up can go a long, festive way

ISBN-13: 9780061235900
ISBN-10: 0061235903
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00032
Reading Level: Ages 04 - 07

'The Christmas Sweater'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Beck, Glenn

Just in time for the holidays, a picture book adapation of the #1 New York Times bestselling book from author and popular radio/tv host Glenn Beck.

ISBN-13: 9781416995432
ISBN-10: 1416995439
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00040
Reading Level: Ages 04 - 08

'Tollins'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Iggulden, Conn

These are the first three stories of the Tollins. Yes, they do have wings, but no, they aren't fairies. Tollins are a lot less "fragile" than fairies. In fact, the word fragile can't really be used about them at all. They are about as fragile as a house of brick.

In "How to Blow Up Tollins" a fireworks factory comes to the village of Chorleywood and the Tollins find themselves being used as industrial supplies. Being blasted into the night sky or spun round on a Catherine wheel is nowhere near a much fun as it sounds. It's up to one young Tollin to save his people from becoming an ingredient.

In "Sparkler and the Purple Death" our hero look execution in the face. Luckily, the executioner's mask in backwards.

Finally, in "Windbags and Dark Tollins" Tollin society faces a threat from the Dorset countryside, which, again, is much more frightening and nail-bitingly dramatic than it actually sounds.

Related Subjects:Books > Juvenile Fiction > Fantasy & Magic

ISBN-13: 9780061730986
ISBN-10: 006173098X
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00172
Reading Level: Ages 10 - UP

'Twilight Saga Set'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Meyer, Stephenie

This stunning boxed set contains all four of Meyer's New York Times bestselling novels in the Twilight saga: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.

Twilight
In this exquisite fantasy, Bella adores beautiful Edward, and he returns her love. But Edward must control the blood lust she arouses in him because--he's a vampire. This deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful novel captures the struggle between defying instincts and satisfying desires.

New Moon
In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. Star-crossed lovers Bella and Edward find themselves facing new obstacles, including a devastating separation, in this vampire love saga.

Eclipse
Eclipse is the much anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire love saga. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob -- knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?

Breaking Dawn
Twilight tempted the imagination. New Moon made readers thirsty for more. Eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon. And now, the book that everyone has been waiting for... Breaking Dawn, the final book in the #1 bestselling Twilight Saga.

ISBN-13: 9780316031844
ISBN-10: 0316031844
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Date: October 2008
Page Count: 2560
Reading Level: Ages 12 - 17

'The Fury and Dark Reunion'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Smith, L. J.

Elena: transformed, the golden girl has become what she once feared and desired.

Stefan: tormented by losing Elena, he's determined to end his feud with Damon once and for all--whatever the cost. But slowly he begins to realize that his brother is not his only enemy.

Damon: at last, he possesses Elena. But will his thirst for revenge against Stefan poison his triumph? Or can they come together to face one final battle?

Collected here in one edition are the third and fourth volumes of The Vampire Diaries, a riveting conclusion to the tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them.

Related Subjects:Books > Juvenile Fiction > Horror & Ghost Stories
Books > Juvenile Fiction > Love & Romance

ISBN-13: 9780061140983
ISBN-10: 0061140988
Publisher: Harper Teen
Date: January 2008
Page Count: 00528
Reading Level: Ages 12 - 17

'Fallen'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Kate, Lauren

There's something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.
Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price's attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He's the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move.
Even though Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce--and goes out of his way to make that very clear--she can't let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, she has to find out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret . . . even if it kills her.
Dangerously exciting and darkly romantic, "Fallen "is a page turning thriller and the ultimate love story.

Related Subjects:Books > Juvenile Fiction > Love & Romance
Books > Juvenile Fiction > Horror & Ghost Stories

ISBN-13: 9780385738934
ISBN-10: 0385738935
Publisher: Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
Date: December 2009
Page Count: 00464
Reading Level: Ages 12 - 17

'Percy Jackson and the Olympians Set'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Riordan, Rick

Humans and half-bloods alike agree-Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a series fit for heroes Re-live the adventure from the beginning with this boxed set of the first three books. The Lightning Thief
Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. When his mom tells him the truth about where he came from, she takes him to the one place he'll be safe-Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island). There, Percy learns that the father he never knew is actually Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon Percy finds himself caught up in a mystery that could lead to disastrous consequences. Together with his friends-a satyr and other the demigod daughter of Athena-Percy sets out on a quest to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.
The Sea of Monsters
After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly calm. But things don't stay quiet for long. Percy soon discovers there is trouble at Camp Half-Blood: the magical borders which protect Half-Blood Hill have been poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and the only safe haven for demigods is on the verge of being overrun by mythological monsters. To save the camp, Percy needs the help of his best friend, Grover, who has been taken prisoner by the Cyclops Polyphemus on an island somewhere in the Sea of Monsters-the dangerous waters Greek heroes have sailed for millennia-only today, the Sea of Monsters goes by a new nameL: the Bermuda Triangle. Now Percy and his friends must retrieve the Golden Fleece from the Island of the Cyclopes by the end of the summer or Camp Half-Blood will be destroyed. But first, Percy will learn a stunning new secret about his family-one that makes him question whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor or simply a cruel joke...
The Titan's Curse
When Percy Jackson receives a distress call from his friend Grover, he immediately prepares for battle. He knows he'll need his powerful demigod allies, Annabeth and Thalia, at his side; his trusty broze sword Riptide; and... a ride from his mom. The demigods race to the rescue, to find that Grover has made an important discovery: two new powerful half-bloods whose parentage is unknown. But that's not all that awaits them. The Titan lord, Kronos, has set up his most devious trap yet, and the young heroes have unwittingly fallen prey. Hilarious and action-packed, this third adventure in the series finds Percy faced with his most dangerous challenge so far: the chilling prophecy of the Titan's curse.

ISBN-13: 9781423113492
ISBN-10: 1423113497
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Date: September 2008
Page Count: 01032
Reading Level: Ages 10 - 14

'ArchEnemy'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Beddor, Frank

Discover the fate of Wonderland -- and imagination itself -- in this riveting conclusion to the "New York Times" bestselling trilogy.

The Heart Crystal's power has been depleted, and Imagination along with it. The people of Wonderland have all lost their creative drive, and most alarmingly, even Queen Alyss is without her powers. There is some comfort in the fact that the vicious Redd Heart seems to be similarly disabled. Amazingly, she is attempting to team up with her enemy, Alyss, in order to reclaim Wonderland from King Arch. Alyss might have no choice but to accept Redd's overtures, especially when she begins to receive alarming advice from the caterpillar oracles.

Page-turning and complex, this culmination of the Wonderland saga is intensely satisfying.

ISBN-13: 9780803731561
ISBN-10: 0803731566
Publisher: Dial Books
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00370
Reading Level: Ages 12 - 17

'The Maze Runner'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Dashner, James

When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he's not alone. When the lift's doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade--a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls.
Just like Thomas, the Gladers don't know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened. Every night they've closed tight. And every 30 days a new boy has been delivered in the lift.

Thomas was expected. But the next day, a girl is sent up--the first girl to ever arrive in the Glade. And more surprising yet is the message she delivers.

Thomas might be more important than he could ever guess. If only he could unlock the dark secrets buried within his mind.

ISBN-13: 9780385737944
ISBN-10: 0385737947
Publisher: Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00375
Reading Level: Ages 12 - 17

'Nubs'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Dennis, Brian

Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own. He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely surviving. But Nubs's life changed when he met Marine Major Brian Dennis. The two formed a fast friendship, made stronger by Dennis's willingness to share his meals, offer a warm place to sleep, and give Nubs the kind of care and attention he had never received before. Nubs became part of Dennis's human "pack" until duty required the Marines to relocate a full 70 miles away--without him. Nubs had no way of knowing that Marines were not allowed to have pets.
So began an incredible journey that would take Nubs through a freezing desert, filled with danger tofind his friend and would lead Dennis on a mission that would touch the hearts of people all over the world.
Nubs and Dennis will remind readers that friendship has the power to cross deserts, continents, and even species.

ISBN-13: 9780316053181
ISBN-10: 031605318X
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Date: November 2009
Reading Level: Ages 04 - 08

'Lego Star Wars'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Beecroft, Simon

In true DK style, " LEGO(R) Star Wars(TM): The Visual Dictionary "elucidates, illuminates, and excites even the most discerning LEGO Group, Star Wars(TM), and minifigure fans around the world. Darth Vader, Boba Fett, Yoda, Luke Skywalker, and more are brought to life with dozens of little-known facts and hundreds of photos, as are accessories, vehicles, weapons, and even the Death Star Learn about the history, manufacture, and construction of the minifigures of the "Star Wars" galaxy, and come away a LEGO(R) Jedi Master.
LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Brick configuration and the Minifigure are trademarks of the LEGO Group. (c)2009 The LEGO Group. (c)2009 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved. Production by Dorling Kindersley under license from the LEGO Group.

Related Subjects:Books > Juvenile Nonfiction > Toys, Dolls & Puppets

ISBN-13: 9780756655297
ISBN-10: 0756655293
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00095
Reading Level: Ages 08 - 12

'Catching Fire'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Collins, Suzanne

Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with Peeta Mellark. But it had been a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion.

ISBN-13: 9780439023498
ISBN-10: 0439023491
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Date: September 2009
Page Count: 00391
Reading Level: Ages 12 - 17

'The Magician's Elephant'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: DiCamillo, Kate

In a highly awaited new novel, Kate DiCamillo conjures a haunting fable about trusting the unexpected -- and making the extraordinary come true.
What if? Why not? Could it be?
When a fortuneteller's tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the questions that he needs to ask: Does his sister still live? And if so, how can he find her? The fortuneteller's mysterious answer (an elephant An elephant will lead him there ) sets off a chain of events so remarkable, so impossible, that you will hardly dare to believe it's true. With atmospheric illustrations by fine artist Yoko Tanaka, here is a dreamlike and captivating tale that could only be narrated by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo. In this timeless fable, she evokes the largest of themes -- hope and belonging, desire and compassion -- with the lightness of a magician's touch.

ISBN-13: 9780763644109
ISBN-10: 0763644102
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Date: September 2009
Page Count: 00208
Reading Level: Ages 08 - 13

'Vampire Academy Collection'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Mead, Richelle

Tear into the utterly addictive Vampire Academy series this holiday season

Now you can have the first three novels in the "New York Times" Bestselling VAMPIRE ACADEMY series in a special edition box set Find out where it all began for Guardian Rose Hathaway and her bloodthirsty best friend Lissa in "Vampire Academy," watch all the delicious drama unfold in "Frostbite," and fall in love with "Shadow Kiss"afor the first time, or all over again

ISBN-13: 9781595142719
ISBN-10: 1595142711
Publisher: Sleuth RazorBill
Date: October 2009
Reading Level: Ages 12 - 12

'Harry Potter Boxed Set Trade Paper'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Rowling, J.K.

For the first time, Rowling's seven bestselling Harry Potter books are available in a paperback boxed set. This is the ultimate Harry Potter collection for Potter fans.

Set includes:

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Related Subjects:Books > Juvenile Fiction > Fantasy & Magic

ISBN-13: 9780545162074
ISBN-10: 0545162076
Publisher: Arthur A Levine Books
Date: July 2009
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Have a Little Faith'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Albom, Mitch

What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together?

In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds--two men, two faiths, two communities--that will inspire readers everywhere.

Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.

Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof.

Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner-city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.

As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Albom and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen; what heaven is; intermarriage; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. Although the texts, prayers, and histories are different, Albom begins to recognize a striking unity between the two worlds--and indeed, between beliefs everywhere.

In the end, as the rabbi nears death and a harsh winter threatens the pastor's wobbly church, Albom sadly fulfills the rabbi's last request and writes the eulogy. And he finally understands what both men had been teaching all along: the profound comfort of believing in something bigger than yourself.

Have a Little Faith is a book about a life's purpose; about losing belief and finding it again; about the divine spark inside us all. It is one man's journey, but it is everyone's story.

Ten percent of the profits from this book will go to charity, including The Hole In The Roof Foundation, which helps refurbish places of worship that aid the homeless.

Related Subjects:Books > Self-Help > General

ISBN-13: 9780786868728
ISBN-10: 0786868724
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Date: September 2009
Page Count: 00254
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'The Noticer'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Andrews, Andy

A new story of common wisdom from the bestselling author of "The Traveler's Gift."

Orange Beach, Alabama is a simple town filled with simple people. But like all humans on the planet, the good folks of Orange Beach have their share of problems - marriages teetering on the brink of divorce, young adults giving up on life, business people on the verge of bankruptcy, as well as the many other obstacles that life seems to dish out to the masses.

Fortunately, when things look the darkest - a mysterious man named Jones has a miraculous way of showing up. An elderly man with white hair, of indiscriminate age and race, wearing blue jeans, a white T-shirt and leather flip flops carrying a battered old suitcase, Jones is a unique soul. Communicating what he calls "a little perspective," Jones explains that he has been given a gift of noticing things that others miss. "Your time on this earth is a gift to be used wisely," he says. "Don't squander your words or your thoughts. Consider even the simplest action you take, for your lives matter beyond measure x2026;and they matter forever."

Jones speaks to that part in everyone that is yearning to understand why things happen and what we can do about it.

Like "The Traveler's Gift," "The Noticer" is a unique narrative is a blend of fiction, allegory, and inspiration. Gifted storyteller Andy Andrews helps us see how becoming a "noticer" just might change a person's life forever.

Related Subjects:Books > Self-Help > Personal Growth - General
Books > Religion > Inspirational

ISBN-13: 9780785229216
ISBN-10: 0785229213
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
Date: April 2009
Page Count: 00176
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'The Memory Quilt'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Jakes, T. D.

A perfect Christmas for Lela Edwards this year would include the presence of her husband, her three daughters, and her favorite granddaughter, Darcie. They would each be happy, healthy, and properly married. But life doesn't always unfold in a perfect way, even for God-loving, churchgoing people like these. Lela's husband of fifty years, Walter, has recently passed, and the daughters now live in towns and states far from the Chicago neighborhood where they were raised.

Darcie is traveling to Missouri City, Texas, to be with her mother, not to Chicago to be with her grandmother, whom she expects to come down hard on her for deciding to divorce her husband and the father of her unborn child. Lela is upset and annoyed with Darcie and herself for breaking her own time-honored tradition of making a quilt to celebrate each family wedding. The quilt is still in separate pieces, and apparently so is the marriage of Doug and Darcie.

The Christmas season is about celebrating the birth and meaning of Christ; about the hope and inspiration that the story we revisit each year offers. So, as the days of the season progress, Lela participates in a Bible study group that focuses on the Virgin Mary. This is the cold season in Chicago and rough weather, literally and figuratively, is ahead for Lela, her family, neighbors, and fellow church members, but in the Scriptures are messages and guidance. If they heed the lessons of the Virgin Mary, they will learn from their mistakes and misjudgments of each other and find favor with God.

Related Subjects:Books > Fiction > Religious - General
Books > Fiction > Literary

ISBN-13: 9781439170458
ISBN-10: 1439170452
Publisher: Atria Books
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00240
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Forgotten God'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Chan, Francis

Chan contends that Christians have ignored the Holy Spirit for far too long, and it's causing disastrous results. Thorough scriptural support and compelling narrative form Chan's invitation to stop and remember the Spirit of the living God.

ISBN-13: 9781434767950
ISBN-10: 1434767957
Publisher: David C. Cook
Date: September 2009
Page Count: 00186
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Daily Guideposts'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Guideposts

America's favorite devotional for more than 30 years with more than 20 million copies sold, Daily Guideposts is a trusted companion, helping readers to live and grow their faith in their everyday lives.

Related Subjects:Books > Religion > Devotional

ISBN-13: 9780824947835
ISBN-10: 0824947835
Publisher: GuidepostsBooks
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00431
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'One Simple Act'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Macomber, Debbie

What if you, personally, could make the world a better place...by tomorrow?

Debbie Macomber knows the secret to doing exactly that In a world that seems too often stingy and grudging, she has witnessed how one simple act of generosity can yield unforeseen miracles.

You are about to discover, through true stories, what happens when we commit intentional acts of generosity. Lives are changed in ways we never envisioned. Come with Debbie late one evening through the checkout line at the grocery store. Visit a midwestern train station. Discover the link between a submarine, a few bread crumbs, and some minnows. Visit ancient Galilee as a young boy volunteers his fishes and loaves to Jesus only to see his meager gift multiplied many times over to feed five thousand. Listen in on a touching phone call with an elderly widow. You will stand amazed at what God accomplishes when we make ourselves available through simple acts of generosity.

This blend of true stories and motivating messages will delight and surprise you as you discover how giving the gifts of time, encouragement, hope, laughter, prayer, hospitality, service, and even forgiveness can have lasting, life-changing impact, not only on the recipient of such gifts but on the giver as well.

Debbie Macomber, through the power of story, invites us to live with open hands, offering who we are and what we have to God, to use in the lives of others. When we do so, lives--including our own--are changed in ways we couldn't have imagined. All it takes is one simple act.

ISBN-13: 9781439108932
ISBN-10: 1439108935
Publisher: Howard Books
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00216
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Game Plan for Life'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Gibbs, Joe

Three-time Super Bowl and NASCAR champion Joe Gibbs's Game Plan for Life is an "average Joe's" guide to what the Bible has to say about the 11 most-important topics for men. Topics such as: finances, relationships, living a life of purpose, finding the right vocation, physical, emotional, and spiritual health, and overcoming sin and addictions. Edited by Jerry Jenkins, and featuring contributions from Randy Alcorn, Ravi Zacharias, John Lennox, Tony Evans, Chuck Colson, Josh McDowell, Don Meredith, Walt Larimore, Ron Blue, Ken Boa, and Os Guinness, "Game Plan for Life" shows readers how to live a balanced, God-centered, purpose-filled life, using examples of Coach Gibbs's own storied championship careers as a backdrop. A perfect blend of sports and basic theology, "Game Plan for Life" is designed to bring God's word home to sports fans of all generations.

ISBN-13: 9781414329796
ISBN-10: 1414329792
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Date: July 2009
Page Count: 00268
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'One Month to Live'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Shook, Kerry

Read an excerpt.

What if you only had one month to live? How would you make each day meaningful? How would you relate to others differently? What would you do to make the rest of your life "really" matter?

With eye-opening insights and soul-inspiring truths, "One Month to Live" will challenge you to embrace the life God has entrusted to you and you alone, and to live it out moment by moment with wholehearted authenticity, honesty, and integrity.

Each chapter overflows with inspiring quotations, colorful true stories, and questions for reflection. The four sections, which can be read over four weeks, help you examine the core areas inside you that long to be exercised and expressed: how you're made to live passionately, love boldly, learn from your mistakes, and leave a legacy that endures for generations after you're gone. Complete with uplifting action points, each of the thirty chapters-one per day in a life-changing month-offers you fresh strategies for overcoming habits that mire you in mediocrity.

Open yourself to the challenge of embracing your mortality and being empowered to live each day engaged in being fully alive.

Kerry Shook and his wife, Chris, founded Fellowship of The Woodlands in The Woodlands, Texas, with eight people in 1993. Now the church has grown to 14,000 in attendance each Sunday. Winner of the prestigious Church Health Award presented by Saddleback Church, Kerry and his church have been featured in numerous publications and media outlets. Kerrys sermons are televised each week across the country and around the world. Kerry and Chris are the parents of four children.

Related Subjects:Books > Religion > Christian Life - Personal Growth

ISBN-13: 9781400073795
ISBN-10: 1400073790
Publisher: Waterbrook Press
Date: February 2008
Page Count: 00226
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'The Case for God'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Armstrong, Karen

Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. Why has God become unbelievable? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors?
Answering these questions with the same depth of knowledge and profound insight that have marked all her acclaimed books, Armstrong makes clear how the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level. And she makes a powerful, convincing argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age. Yet she cautions us that religion was never supposed to provide answers that lie within the competence of human reason; that, she says, is the role of "logos." The task of religion is "to help us live creatively, peacefully, and even joyously with realities for which there are no easy explanations." She emphasizes, too, that religion will not work automatically. It is, she says, a practical discipline: its insights are derived not from abstract speculation but from "dedicated intellectual endeavor" and a "compassionate lifestyle that enables us to break out of the prism of selfhood."

Related Subjects:Books > Religion > Philosophy
Books > Religion > History
Books > Religion > Agnosticism

ISBN-13: 9780307269188
ISBN-10: 0307269183
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Date: September 2009
Page Count: 00406
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Crazy Love'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Chan, Francis

Have you ever wondered if we're missing it?

It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe--the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor--loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrifi cing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.

Whether you've verbalized it yet or not.we all know something's wrong.

Does something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. Because the answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts-it's falling in love with God. And once you encounter His love, as Francis describes it, you will never be the same.

Because when you're wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.

Learn more about Crazy Love at www.crazylovebook.com

Check out Francis Chan's video blog at francischanblog.blogspot.com.

Related Subjects:Books > Religion > Christian Life - General

ISBN-13: 9781434768513
ISBN-10: 1434768511
Publisher: David C. Cook
Date: May 2008
Page Count: 00186
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Fearless'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Lucado, Max

Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

They're talking layoffs at work, slowdowns in the economy, flare-ups in the Middle East, turnovers at headquarters, downturns in the housing market, upswings in global warming. The plague of our day, terrorism, begins with the word "terror." Fear, it seems, has taken up a hundred-year lease on the building next door and set up shop. Oversized and rude, fear herds us into a prison of unlocked doors. Wouldn't it be great to walk out?

Imagine your life, wholly untouched by angst. What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats? If you could hover a fear magnet over your heart and extract every last shaving of dread, insecurity, or doubt, what would remain? Envision a day, just one day, where you could trust more and fear less.

Can you imagine your life without fear?

Additional Fearless Products include:

978-0-8499-6397-1 Fearless Audio Book 978-1-4185-4182-8 Fearless Curriculum

ISBN-13: 9780849921391
ISBN-10: 0849921392
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
Date: September 2009
Page Count: 00224
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Rediscovering Faith'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Munroe, Myles

Munroe strips away the common errors and misconceptions surrounding faith to reveal the nature, character, and power of true faith--Kingdom faith.

Related Subjects:Books > Religion > Christian Life - Spiritual Growth
Books > Religion > Faith

ISBN-13: 9780768430929
ISBN-10: 0768430925
Publisher: Destiny Image
Date: August 2009
Page Count: 00231
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Superfreakonomics'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Levitt, Steven D.

The "New York Times" best-selling "Freakonomics" was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with "SuperFreakonomics, " and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.

Four years in the making, "SuperFreakonomics" asks not only the tough questions, but the unexpected ones: What's more dangerous, driving drunk or "walking" drunk? Why is chemotherapy prescribed so often if it's so ineffective? Can a sex change boost your salary?

"SuperFreakonomics" challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as:

How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa? Why are doctors so bad at washing their hands? How much good do car seats do? What's the best way to catch a terrorist? Did TV cause a rise in crime? What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common? Are people hard-wired for altruism or selfishness? Can eating kangaroo save the planet? Which adds more value: a pimp or a Realtor?

Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else, whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically. By examining how people respond to incentives, they show the world for what it really is - good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, super freaky.

"Freakonomics" has been imitated many times over - but only now, with "SuperFreakonomics, " has it met its match.

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

ISBN-13: 9780060889579
ISBN-10: 0060889578
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00288
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Freakonomics'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Levitt, Steven D.

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime?

These may not sound like typical questions for an econo-mist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life--from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing--and whose conclusions turn conventional wisdom on its head.

"Freakonomics" is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They usually begin with a mountain of data and a simple question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics.

Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives--how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In "Freakonomics," they explore the hidden side of . . . well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Klu Klux Klan.

What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a great deal of complexity and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and--if the right questions are asked--is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking.

"Freakonomics" establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But "Freakonomics" can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.

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

ISBN-13: 9780061234002
ISBN-10: 0061234001
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Date: October 2006
Page Count: 00336
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Googled'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Auletta, Ken

A revealing, forward-looking examination of the outsize influence Google has had on the changing media Landscape.
There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. As only he can, bestselling author Ken Auletta takes readers for a ride on the Google wave, telling the story of how it formed and crashed into traditional media businesses-from newspapers to books, to television, to movies, to telephones, to advertising, to Microsoft. With unprecedented access to Google's founders and executives, as well as to those in media who are struggling to keep their heads above water, Auletta reveals how the industry is being disrupted and redefined.
Using Google as a stand-in for the digital revolution, Auletta takes readers inside Google's closed-door meetings and paints portraits of Google's notoriously private founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as those who work with-and against-them. In his narrative, Auletta provides the fullest account ever told of Google's rise, shares the "secret sauce" of Google's success, and shows why the worlds of "new" and "old" media often communicate as if residents of different planets.
Google engineers start from an assumption that the old ways of doing things can be improved and made more efficient, an approach that has yielded remarkable results- Google will generate about $20 billion in advertising revenues this year, or more than the combined prime-time ad revenues of CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX. And with its ownership of YouTube and its mobile phone and other initiatives, Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells Auletta his company is poised to become the world's first $100 billion media company. Yet there are many obstacles that threaten Google's future, and opposition from media companies and government regulators may be the least of these. Google faces internal threats, from its burgeoning size to losing focus to hubris. In coming years, Google's faith in mathematical formulas and in slide rule logic will be tested, just as it has been on Wall Street.
Distilling the knowledge accrued from a career of covering the media, Auletta will offer insights into what we know, and don't know, about what the future holds for the imperiled industry.

ISBN-13: 9781594202353
ISBN-10: 1594202354
Publisher: Penguin Press
Date: November 2009
Page Count: 00384
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'What the Dog Saw'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Gladwell, Malcolm

What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard -- but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?

In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw, he brings together for the first time the best of his writing from The New Yorker over the same period.

Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill and the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen, as he sells rotisserie ovens. He divines the secrets of Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand. He explores intelligence tests and ethnic profiling and hindsight bias and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.

"Good writing," Gladwell says in his preface, "does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head." What the Dog Saw is yet another example of the buoyant spirit and unflagging curiosity that has made Malcolm Gladwell our most brilliant investigator of the hidden extraordinary.

Related Subjects:Books > Psychology > Social Psychology
Books > Business & Economics > General

ISBN-13: 9780316075848
ISBN-10: 0316075841
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00410
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Meltdown Iceland'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Boyes, Roger

The compelling and authoritative story of the financial destruction of Iceland--a saga that mirrors, in microcosm, the forces that caused the global economic crisis.

The economic crisis that emerged in America in 2008 unleashed a veritable epidemic of ill health around the world. However it was Iceland, whose population of three hundred thousand had the world's highest GDP per capita and counted itself the happiest of countries, that caught the worst cold. It has nearly killed them.

No story from the economic crisis of 2008 is more evocative than I celand's. The names may be unfamiliar--Johanesson, Bjoergolfsson, Oddsson--but their exuberance, greed, and miscalculation have many counterparts on our shores. And however traumatic the collapse of individual companies may be in the United States, in Iceland's case an entire country melted down. All the wealth accumulated in the previous decade--during which a new breed of Icelanders had dared to believe they could compete economically on an international level, during which Reykjavik became the Capital of Cool--disappeared practically overnight. Iceland's story shows how closely the world economy is interconnected: The default on subprime mortgages in the U .S. led to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which led directly to the run on Iceland's banks, which forced local authorities in Britain to switch off the heating in their classrooms.

With panache and color, Roger Boyes tells the inside story of the bankrupting of I celand: how it happened, the human dramas--from politicians to financiers to fishermen--that continue to swirl around it, and the lessons we can not ignore. Published on the first anniversary of its collapse, "Meltdown Iceland "is a cautionary tale for our times, an authoritative and compelling account of the financial destruction of a tiny country whose saga should resonate for us all.

Related Subjects:Books > Business & Economics > International - Economics

ISBN-13: 9781608190188
ISBN-10: 1608190188
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date: September 2009
Page Count: 00244
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'How the Mighty Fall'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Collins, Jim

Decline can be avoided.

Decline can be detected.

Decline can be reversed.

Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How "do" the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course?

In "How the Mighty Fall," Collins confronts these questions, offering leaders the well-founded hope that they can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course. Collins' research project--more than four years in duration--uncovered five step-wise stages of decline:

Stage 1: Hubris Born of Success

Stage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of More

Stage 3: Denial of Risk and Peril

Stage 4: Grasping for Salvation

Stage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death

By understanding these stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom.

Great companies can stumble, badly, and recover.

Every institution, no matter how great, is vulnerable to decline. There is no law of nature that the most powerful will inevitably remain at the top. Anyone can fall and most eventually do. But, as Collins' research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover--in some cases, coming back even stronger--"even after having crashed into the depths of Stage 4."

Decline, it turns out, is largely self-inflicted, and the path to recovery lies largely within our own hands. We are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our history, or even our staggering defeats along the way. As long as we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.

ISBN-13: 9780977326419
ISBN-10: 0977326411
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date: June 2009
Page Count: 00222
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'No Time for Tact'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Winget, Larry

A daily kick in the pants from the Pitbull of Personal Development and "Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek," and "New York Times" bestseller Larry Winget
In these uncertain times, why mince words? America needs a straight- talk dose of Winget reality more than ever. "No Time for Tact" is the ultimate wake-up call for anyone who's looking for a lifeline and true empowerment. Packed with memorable gems and signature Winget quips including:
a "Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong."
a "When people say, 'Let me be honest with you, ' it means in the past, they haven't been."
a "If you are unhappy, unsuccessful, broke, or sick-please just keep it to yourself. The rest of us don't want to hear it, so don't feel compelled to share "
a "Training is expensive. Books are expensive. Going to seminars is expensive. Being stupid is even more expensive."
No one does what Larry does, says what he says, or looks the way he looks He is truly one of the most unique and outrageous professional speakers and business authors out there today. "No Time for Tact" is a daily kick in the pants, 365 days of Larry Winget wisdom, full of advice harvested from his past books on career, personal finance, leadership, family, and customer service, which have topped the "Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, " and "New York Times" bestseller lists.

ISBN-13: 9781592405039
ISBN-10: 1592405037
Publisher: Gotham Books
Date: August 2009
Page Count: 00384
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Put Your Dream to the Test'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Maxwell, John C.

What's the difference between a dreamer and someone who achieves a dream? According to best-selling author Dr. John Maxwell, the answer lies in answering ten powerful, yet straightforward, questions. Whether you've lost sight of an old dream or you are searching for a new one within you, "Put Your Dream to the Test" provides a step-by-step action plan that you can start using today to see, own, and reach your dream. Dr. Maxwell draws on his forty years of mentoring experience to expertly guide you through the ten questions required of every successful dreamer:

The Ownership Question
The Clarity Question
The Reality Question
The Passion Question
The Pathway Question
The People Question
The Cost Question
The Tenacity Question
The Fulfillment Question
The Significance Question

More importantly, Dr. Maxwell helps you to create the right answers, giving you principles and tips to so you can make good decisions and maximize every moment to achieve your dream.

Don't leave your dream to chance. This book is a must-have and can make the difference between failure and success.

Related Subjects:Books > Business & Economics > Leadership
Books > Business & Economics > Motivational

ISBN-13: 9780785214120
ISBN-10: 0785214127
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
Date: March 2009
Page Count: 00234
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Priceless'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Constantine, Lloyd

In a ground-breaking case that shook the business and legal worlds to their very cores, New York-based law firm Constantine & Partners sought to end a devastating credit monopoly that personally touched millions of consumers. Its efforts culminated in the largest federal antitrust settlement in U.S. history. In "Priceless," author and lead counsel Lloyd Constantine relates the dramatic account of backroom strategizing and courtroom conniving during the high-stakes litigation. Constantine, who led the team representing the plaintiffs, vividly describes how the case pitted retailers against credit card companies, and pries the lid off dodgy debit card practices. The plaintiffs, including Wal-Mart, Sears Roebuck, The Limited, Safeway, and a class of fi ve million stores, pitted their fi nancial futures against Visa and Mastercard in this war between giants.

In the vein of breakout bestsellers like "A Civil Action "and "A Confederacy of Fools," this fast-paced narrative, peppered with larger-than-life characters, tears open the case and shows readers how the more than $3-billion-dollar settlement came about. The riveting story features cameos by lawyers, judges, and businessmen, including then University of Arkansas law professor Bill Clinton and New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. The triumph is also a David and Goliath tale, in which a small boutique law fi rm beats four of the largest law fi rms in the world, including London-based law fi rm Clifford Chance.

Related Subjects:Books > Law > Legal History
Books > Law > Antitrust
Books > Law > Consumer

ISBN-13: 9781607144564
ISBN-10: 1607144565
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Date: October 2009
Page Count: 00256
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'Strengths Finder 2.0'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Rath, Tom

DO YOU DO WHAT YOU DO BEST EVERY DAY?
Chances are, you don’ t. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.
To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced StrengthsFinder in the 2001 management book "Now, Discover Your Strengths." The book ignited a global conversation, while StrengthsFinder helped millions discover their top five talents.
In "StrengthsFinder 2.0," Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular online assessment. With hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, "StrengthsFinder 2.0" will change the way you look at yourself— and the world— forever.
AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY IN "STRENGTHSFINDER 2.0 "(using the access code included with each book)
• "The StrengthsFinder 2.0" assessment, fine-tuned to be faster and more accurate
• A Strengths Discovery and Action-Planning Guide featuring: A customized version of your top five theme report; 50 Ideas for Action for building on your top five themes; A strengths-based action plan for setting goals
• And much more on the "StrengthsFinder 2.0" website: A strengths community area; Resources, activities, and discussion guides; A strengths screensaver and program for creating display cards of your top five themes

ISBN-13: 9781595620156
ISBN-10: 159562015X
Publisher: Gallup Press
Date: February 2007
Page Count: 00175
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'End the Fed'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Paul, Ron

In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve.
Most people think of the Fed as an indispensable institution without which the country's economy could not properly function. But in END THE FED, Ron Paul draws on American history, economics, and fascinating stories from his own long political life to argue that the Fed is both corrupt and unconstitutional. It is inflating currency today at nearly a Weimar or Zimbabwe level, a practice that threatens to put us into an inflationary depression where $100 bills are worthless. What most people don't realize is that the Fed -- created by the Morgans and Rockefellers at a private club off the coast of Georgia -- is actually working against their own personal interests. Congressman Paul's urgent appeal to all citizens and officials tells us where we went wrong and what we need to do fix America's economic policy for future generations.

Related Subjects:Books > Political Science > Public Policy - Economic Policy

ISBN-13: 9780446549196
ISBN-10: 0446549193
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Date: September 2009
Page Count: 00224
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA

'The Age of the Unthinkable'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:02 CST

By: Ramo, Joshua Cooper

Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Decisions made to stem a financial crisis guarantee its worsening. Environmental strategies to protect species lead to their extinction.
The traditional physics of power has been replaced by something radically different. In The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramo puts forth a revelatory new model for understanding our dangerously unpredictable world. Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, psychology, immunology, and the science of networks, he describes a new landscape of inherent unpredictability--and remarkable, wonderful possibility.

ISBN-13: 9780316118088
ISBN-10: 0316118087
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date: March 2009
Page Count: 00288
Reading Level: Ages NA - NA