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As Always, Julia:The Letters of Julia Child
and Avis DeVoto |
By
Joan Reardon
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $26.00
Julia Child is known the world wide by her first
name alone. Despite that familiarity, what do we know of the inner Julia? The
hit film Julia & Julia memorably introduced her friendship with her
unofficial agent, Avis DeVoto. Now, for the first time in print, more than 200
letters exchanged between Julia and Avis chronicle their lifelong friendship and
open the window on Julia’s deepest thoughts and feelings. This riveting
correspondence is frank, bawdy, funny, exuberant, and occasionally agonized. The
letters between the two women show Julia first as a new bride in Paris, and then
becoming increasingly worldly and adventuresome as she follows her diplomat
husband to postings in Nice, Germany, and Norway. The letters trace the
blossoming of their unique friendship and also chart the turbulent process of
Julia’s creation of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, one of the most
influential cookbooks ever written. Food historian Joan Reardon provides
commentary as the letters address topics as diverse as the lack of good wine in
the United States, McCarthyism, and sexual mores. Julia’s letters show America
on the verge of political, social, and gastronomic transformation.
 By
Cornelia Funke
Little Brown
Books for Young Readers $19.99
Cornelia Funke once again takes young readers on a
new adventure into magical places where the dark side of fairy tales holds sway.
Jacob Reckless, whose father has been missing for more than a year, is 12 when
he discovers how to use the mirror in his dad’s study as a portal to an
alternate reality. Like his father before him, Jacob escapes into the
Mirrorworld. All is well until his younger brother, Will, follows him down and
falls under the enchantment of the Dark Fairy who turns him into a Goyl, a
person made of stone. Jacob is determined to rescue his brother. Accompanied by
his companion, a shape-shifter girl/vixen named Fox, and Will’s girlfriend
Clara, Jacob seeks the antidote to the Dark Fairy’s spell. There’s a large and
diverse cast of characters as well as multiple fairy-tale motifs as the
characters grabble with fear and despair in their seemingly hopeless journey.
There is a serious tone with themes of guilt, responsibility, abandonment, and
love. Ultimately, the characters keep faith with what matters most to each of
them. The story is the driving force here, and this adventure-driven fantasy
will have readers turning pages. There is room for a s
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I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections |
 By
Nora Ephron
Knopf $22.95
Nora Ephron’s I Feel Bad About My Neck
was an astounding success, and now in her first book since, she takes a cool,
hard, and hilarious look at the past, present, and future, bemoaning the
vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her distinctive brand of clarity
and wisdom, everything she hasn’t (yet) forgotten. Her insights and observations
instantly ring true. Ephron writes about falling hard for a way of life
(Journalism), about hard falls over the men in her life ("The D Word"), email,
and more. She is able to give a candid, edgy voice to everything women who have
reached a certain age have been thinking...but rarely acknowledge at least as
far as they can remember.
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World of Warcraft: The Essential Sunwell Collection
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By
Richard Knaak and Kim Jae-hwan
TokyoPop $19.99
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Danger!
Open With Extreme Caution |
By
Laura Buller
DK Publishing $19.99
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life |
By
Bill Bryson
Doubleday $28.95
The bestselling author of A Short History of Everything takes us
inside private life, and its connection to the past, by means of a tour of his
house, a rural English parsonage. We discover it to be crammed with 10,000 years
of historical bric-a-brac. Each room becomes the starting point for a
free-ranging exploration of the rarely-noticed but foundational aspects of
social life. In demonstrating how everything we take for granted, from
comfortable furniture to smoke-free air, went from unimaginable luxury to
humdrum routine, Bryson reveals how odd and improbable our private lives really
are.
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The Mental Floss History of the United States:
The (Almost) Complete and (Entirely) Entertaining Story of
America
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By
Erik Sass
Harper $24.99
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Atlantic:
Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic
Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories |
By
Simon WinchesterHarper $27.99
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Earth (The Book):
A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race
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By
Jon Stewart
Grand Central Publishing $27.99
Eight-time Emmy-winner Jon Stewart expands his audience with this guide for
aliens who, landing on earth after the human race has become extinct, are sure
to be puzzled by the artifacts we’ve left behind. Stewart’s characteristic
deadpan humor fills this laugh-out-loud, rollicking social satire. Nothing is
off-limits. The book begins with "Greetings...on behalf of not only ourselves,
but the entire Viacom family." It ends with a plea to the aliens to
reconstruct the human race from DNA in the hope that, with guidance from the
visitors, "we could overcome the baser aspects of our nature...and give this
planet the kind of caretakers it deserves." Behind Stewart’s satire, there are
tears.
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Harry Potter Film Wizardry |
By
Brian SibleyCollins Design $39.99
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Fed UP! Our Fight to Save America from Washington |
By
Rick Perry
Little Brown and Company $21.99
Rick Perry argues with force and conviction for the proposition that the
best government is the one that governs least. Perry believes in the greatness
of America, in how great America has been in the past, and how many great
things Americans can do in the future...if only the government will just get
out of the way. Perry is fed up: fed up with being over-taxed and
over-regulated. He says Americans are tired of being told how much salt to put
on our food, what kind of cars to drive, what kind of prayers to say and where
we can say them, and what we are allowed to do to elect political candidates.
Fed up!
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Barefoot Contessa How Easy is That?: Fabulous Recipes &
Easy Tips |
By
Ina Garten
Clarkson Potter $35.00
In the latest from the bestselling author and Food Network guru, the focus is
on creating simpler yet appetizing dishes that save time and minimize stress in
the kitchen. Ina Garten showcases recipes with fewer, easily-accessible
ingredients and steers clear of time-consuming techniques. Despite the
simplicity, these are dishes elegant enough for dinner parties. Garten’s
trademark style is to show how delicious food can be prepared with a minimum of
fuss, even with guests on the way.
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The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary
Recipes for Better Living |
By
Mark Bittman
Simon & Schuster $35.00
The active, versatile Mark Bittman shares his passion for "slow food" and
agricultural sustainability and promotes his basic prescriptions: know where
your food comes from, choose intelligently, attend to broad nutritional
principles, balance intake, and ensure that your food is as attractive to the
palate as it is to the waistline. His recipes back up his contemporary
nutritional wisdom. Bittman’s diet offers guilt-free pleasure and healthy
alternatives to processed foods of questionable origins.
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Fannie’s Last Supper: Recreating One Amazing Meal from
Fannie Farmer’s 1896 Cookbook |
By Christopher KimballHyperion $25.99
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One Big Table: 600 Recipes from the Nation’s Best Home
Cooks, Farmers, Fishermen,
Pit-Masters, and Chefs |
By
Molly O’Neill
Simon & Schuster $50.00
After ten years and over 300,000 miles on the
road, Molly O’Neill brings back proof that home cooks still transform family
histories, as well as personal tastes and ambitions, into delicious meals.
American cuisine is alive and well. From Park Avenue to trailer parks, from
suburbs to isolated outposts, the nation’s cooks are preserving and creating
culinary traditions around the all-American home-cooked meal.
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Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes
from Mia Famiglia |
By
Buddy Valastro
Free Press $25.99
By
Taste of Home
Readers Digest $29.95
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Rachael Ray’s Look & Cook |
By
Rachael RayClarkson Potter $24.99
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Jan Karon’s Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader |
By
Jan Karon
Penguin $20.00
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Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D.
Eisenhower, 1961-1969 |
 By
David Eisenhower & Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Simon & Schuster $28.00
By
George W. BushCrown $35.00
 By
Keith Richards
Little Brown and Company $29.99
Here is the long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer,
and founding member of The Rolling Stones. Keith Richards lived the original
rock and roll life, and now tells the story of his time in that crossfire
hurricane. With his distinctive disarming honesty, Richards tells it all:
early-listening to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters, forming the band with Mick
Jagger and Brian Jones, the band’s estrangement and reconciliation, Brian’s
death, drug busts, immortal riffs, tax exile, wildfire tours, isolation,
addiction, and romance. This outlaw folk hero gives us his story as we would
expect of him: unfettered, fearless, and true.
By Pat Conroy
Nan A. Talese $25.00
By
Ron ChernowPenguin Press HC $40.00
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Extraordinary Ordinary People:
A Memoir of Family |
By
Condoleezza RiceCrown Archetype $27.00
By James KaplanDoubleday $35.00
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Last Boy:Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood |
By
Jane LeavyHarper $27.99
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Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia |
By Michael KordaHarper $36.00
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Let’s Take the Long Way Home:
A Memoir of Friendship |
By Gail Caldwell
Random House $23.00
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Find A Way: Three Words That Changed My Life |
By
Merril HogeCenter Street $21.99
By
Fannie FlaggRandom House $26.00
The irresistible and hilarious Fannie Flagg gives us a comic mystery romp
through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama: past, present, and future. Meet
Maggie Fortenberry, a still-beautiful former Miss Alabama who graduated top of
her class in charm school, can fold a napkin in 48 different ways, and enters
and exits cars gracefully, but all her finesse can’t help her now as life has
gone from bad to worse. While Maggie carries some heartbreaking secrets from her
past, she soon discovers, through strange turns of events, that everybody seems
to have at least one little secret. Maggie does come up with a brilliant plan to
make everything all right in the end.
 By
P. L. GausPlume $13.00
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Charming Quirks of Others |
By
Alexander Mccall SmithPantheon $24.95
By
Richard Paul Evans
Simon & Schuster $19.99
Bestselling author, Evans, has something up his sleeve Beth is living a
charmed life: loving husband, adorable daughter, great job, friends. But it all
falls apart. Her perfect husband is dying of cancer. Her daughter becomes
mysteriously ill. She is soon impoverished and embittered. An enigmatic,
handsome stranger enters her life on Christmas day, solves the mystery of her
daughter’s illness, and offers a way towards hope and trust...until he
disappears with the home equity loan he pushed her into getting. He comes back
with a story beyond belief. This is a novel propelled by the unexpected. An
inventive, heartwarming tale.
By
Jodi PicoultWashington Square Press $16.00
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter |
By
Tom FranklinWilliam Morrow $24.99
By
Dennis LehaneWilliam Morrow $26.99
By Lee ChildDelacorte
Press $28.00
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The Seventeen Second Miracle |
 By
Jason F. WrightBerkley Trade $14.00
By Carl
Hiaasen
Knopf $26.95
By
Nora RobertsBerkley $16.00
By
John le CarreViking Adult $27.95
By
John GrishamDoubleday $28.95
By Tom ClancyPutnam Adult
$28.95
 By
Kate Morton
Atria $26.00
Australian author Kate Morton (The Forgotton Garden) brings us an
enthralling romantic thriller. The story begins with a letter posted in 1941
that finally reaches its destination in 1992. It carries powerful repercussions
for Edie Burchill, a London book editor. The letter was addressed to Edie’s
mother, who at the time was a young teen evacuated during the Blitz. Many
narratives intertwine as Edie seeks to unravel mysteries of the past involving
the author of a children’s classic, a missing soldier, and eccentric spinsters
inhabiting a seedily alluring castle. Readers will be stunned by the answers
Edie discovers in the distant hours.
By
Elmore LeonardWilliam Morrow $26.99
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Luka and the Fire of Live |
By
Salman RushdieRandom House $25.00
By Clive Cussler
Berkley $9.99
This is the second thriller to feature detective Isaac Bell (from The
Chase). Set in 1907, Bell is up against the Wrecker, who’s been destroying
trains and railroad facilities around the country for no apparent reason. The
saboteur is also wrecking the plans of Osgood Hennessy, Southern Pacific
Railroad’s president up against bankers and deadlines as he is constructing the
massive Cascade Canyon Bridge in Oregon. The thriller moves at a brisk pace as
fire-breathing trains fly along at top speeds matched by the diabolical
cleverness of the Wrecker’s quest to stop the new railway line from being
completed. Readers will find sparks in Cussler’s story-telling and be surprised
in the final scenes.
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience,
and Redemption |
By
Laura Hillenbrand
Random House $27.00
One of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War began on a
May afternoon in 1943. An Army Air Force bomber crashed into the Pacific,
leaving a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on
the ocean’s surface, a face emerged. It was that of a young lieutenant, the
bombardier, who struggled on to a life raft and began a journey across the
open ocean, facing sharks, thirst, starvation, enemy aircraft, and even
greater trials. Our lieutenant survives with ingenuity, resolve, humor, and
even rebellion. Hillenbrand writes with the same rich, vivid narrative
displayed in her bestselling Seabiscuit.
By
John Shors
NAL Trade $15.00
Shors gives us a poignant, sensitively rendered study of grief and loss, as
he reveals the healing power of artistic expression and the life-altering
rewards of travel to distant lands. Ian and his 10-year-old daughter, Mattie,
are still reeling from the loss of wife and mother, Kate, who succumbed to
cancer after a long, drawn-out battle. On Ian’s birthday, he opens the letter
Kate gave to him before she died. In it, Kate asks Ian to take Matte on the
long-anticipated family trip to Asia, originally planned to commemorate their
fifteenth wedding anniversary. On the winding journey through distant lands, Ian
tells Matte stories of her mother. Matte sketches landscapes. Both tie paper
wishes to trees as messages to Kate. Together, they come to terms with loss.
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Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People |
By Amy Sedaris
Grand Central Publishing $27.99
Off-the-wall crafting and entertaining
suggestions from Amy Sedaris in a follow-up to her bestselling I Like You.
Sedaris again asks us all to remember the "good old days" when most crafts were
made with found or salvaged materials. This book is not so much a real "how to"
guide, but more a vehicle for Sedaris’s knack for farce and costume. She
succeeds in creating hilarious, well-styled photo spreads depicting the fruits
of her labors. Some of the more popular crafts: crab-claw roach clips, tinfoil
balls, and crepe-paper moccasins. Amazing what you can do with a little time and
some pipe cleaners!
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More Show Me How: Everything We Couldn’t Fit in the First Book
- Instructions for Life from the Everyday to the Exotic |
By
Lauren Smith and Derek Fagerstrom
Collins Design $24.99
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By
Nick RobinsonAlpha $19.95
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SoulPancake: Chew on Life’s Big Questions |
By
Rainn WilsonHyperion $19.99
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The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to
Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristole, and
Generally Have More Fun |
By Gretchen RubinHarper $14.99
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Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the
Genius of the Royal Society |
By
Bill BrysonWilliam Morrow $35.00
By
SmithsonianDK Publishing $50.00
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Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave |
 By
Laban Carrick HillLittle Brown Books for Young Readers $16.99
An inspiring story of an astonishingly prolific potter who lived and died as
a slave in 19th-century South Carolina. Dave’s jars and pots are legendary, and
the short poems he inscribed evoke powerful images. Detailed illustrations show
Dave’s rural surroundings, contain hidden messages, and emphasize his hands,
eyes, and strength. There’s also a photo of Dave’s surviving works and online
links for further exploration.
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Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected
Diversion |
By
Mo WillemsBalzer + Bray $17.99
By
Ian FalconerAtheneum $17.99
By
Anne IsaacsSchwartz & Wade $17.99
A publishing event! This sequel to the innovative and hugely successful
Caldecott Honor-winning book, Swamp Angel, is sure to gain eye-popping
attention from every part of the children’s book community. Paul Zelinsky’s
illustrations propel this hilarious, multilayered story as Angelica "Angel"
Longrider moves to Montana and wrestles a violent storm to find Dust Devil, a
horse powerful enough to carry her. Tall tales abound as the duo embark on
action-packed adventures. Along the way, readers learn the origins of buttes,
geysers, the Grand Canyon, and even the California gold rush.
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Llama Llama Holiday Drama |
By
Anna DewdneyViking Juvenile $16.99
Patience is not Llama Llama’s strong suit. But, wait he must, as he rushes
around with Mama Llama shopping for presents, baking cookies, decorating the
tree, and all of the other things to do and make during the holidays. Will
Christmas ever come? Finally, Llama Llama just can’t wait any more! Fortunately,
Mama Llama is there to save the day with hugs, kisses, and a little quiet time.
"Gifts are nice, but there’s another: The true gift is, we have each other."
By
Jan BrettPutnam Juvenile $17.99
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Beauty & The Beast: A Pop-Up Book of
the Classic Fairy Tale |
By Robert SabudaLittle
Simon $29.99
By
Patricia Maclachlan and Emily Maclachlan CharestKatherine Tegen Books
$16.99
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Greatest Snowman in the World |
By
Peter HannanHarperCollins 16.99
By
Lemony SnicketHarperCollins $16.99
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Fletcher and the Snowflake Christmas |
By
Julia
RawlinsonGreenwillow Books $16.99
By
Matthew Van FleetSimon & Schuster $17.99
By
Rick RiordanHyperion Book $18.9
This is the first book in the new Heroes of Olympus series featuring
Percy Jackson, made famous in the New York Times bestselling series,
Percy Jackon and the Olympians, which included The Lightning Thief, The
Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The
Last Olympian. If you’ve read the Percy Jackson books, you’ll not be
disappointed by the new adventure, and if you’re new to Percy’s story, you’ll be
equally pleased to immerse yourself in his world of Camp Half-Blood. After
saving Olympus from the evil Titan lord, Kronos, Percy and friends must now
prepare for a chilling prophecy of their own. Riordan’s previous novels also
include the Tres Navarre series, winner of top awards in the mystery
genre.
By
Lincoln PeirceHarperCollins $12.99
By
Erin HunterHarperCollins $16.99
By
Tony DiTerlizziSimon & Schuster $17.99
By Jennifer Donnelly
Delacorte Books for Young Readers $18.99
Revolution is Donnelly’s first young adult novel since her award-winning
A Northern Light. Revolution is the most talked about young adult
novel of the season. It is a magnificent piece of storytelling. Donnelly
effectively melds contemporary teen drama with researched historical fiction,
and mixes in a measure of time travel that connects a depressed modern-day teen
with a brave young woman caught up in the French Revolution.
By
Lauren Kate
Delacorte Books for Young Readers $17.99
Torment is the second book in the bestselling Fallen series. Fans
of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, P.C. & Kristin Cast’s House of Night,
and Alyson Noel’s The Immortals will be thrilled by Lauren Kate’s complex
tale of epic romance between Luce and Daniel. Daniel, a fallen angel, seeks to
protect Luce from the Demons and Outcasts who would do her harm. Danger abounds
and the mystery runs deep.
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Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer |
By
John GrishamDutton Children’s Books $16.99
Bestselling author Grisham turns his flare for legal thrillers to young adult
readers with the story of Theo Boone, a 13-year-old who hasn’t taken the bar,
but who dispenses advice to friends, hangs out at the courthouse, and loves
Perry Mason reruns. Things turn serious when a witness to a murder comes to Theo
with evidence, solicits a promise of confidentiality, and puts Theo in a
difficult moral dilemma when it looks like a guilty defendant might walk unless
Theo can figure out what to do about it.
By
Terry PratchettHarperCollins $16.99
By
Scott WesterfeldSimon Pulse $18.99
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