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New and Noteworthy

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The Abstinence Teacher - trade paperback
By Tom Perrotta - $19.95 - add to cart

Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise children: it has the proverbial good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market. It’s the kind of place where parents are involved in the...

 

Ambivalence: Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide - trade paperback
By Jonathan Garfinkel - $20.00 - add to cart

As he starts to question the assumptions of his faith and the Zionist teachings of his youth, Jonathan Garfinkel hears a curious, touching story about a house in Jerusalem that is shared between a ...

 

American Widow - hardcover
By Alissa R. Torres - $25.00 - add to cart

On September 10, 2001, Eddie Torres started his dream job at Cantor Fitzgerald in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The next morning, he said goodbye to his 7½-months-pregnant wife, Alissa...

 

The Architects Are Here - trade paperback
By Michael Winter - $19.00 - add to cart

Michael Winter's eagerly anticipated new novel The Architects are Here features the unexpected return of Gabriel English, the popular and controversial protagonist of three of his previous critical...

 

Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life - trade paperback
By Cesar Milan - $15.95 - add to cart

Be the Pack Leader is Cesar Millan’s guide for taking your relationship with your dog to a higher level. By developing the skills necessary to become the calm-assertive owner your dog needs in orde...

 

The Best American Essays 2008 - trade paperback
By Adam Gopnik (editor) - $16.50 - add to cart

Edited by The New Yorker's much-loved Adam Gopnik, this year's Best American Essays continues the laudable tradition of collecting the finest essays, "judiciously selected from countless publicatio...

 

The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 - trade paperback
By George Pelecanos (editor) - $16.50 - add to cart

The award-winning author and Emmy-nominated television writer George Pelecanos serves as editor of the twelfth installment of this genre-expanding anthology, featuring twenty of the past year's mos...

 

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 - trade paperback
By David Eggers (editor) - $16.50 - add to cart

This great volume highlights the very best of this year's fiction, nonfiction, alternative comics, screenplays, blogs, and more" (OK!). Compiled by Dave Eggers and students of his San Francisco wri...

 

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008 - trade paperback
By Jerome Groopman (editor) - $16.50 - add to cart

"The articles . . . draw the reader more tightly into the web of the world. They forge links in unexpected ways. They connect us to nature and to each other, and those connections nourish the intel...

 

The Best American Spiritual Writing 2008 - trade paperback
By Philip Zaleski (editor) - $16.50 - add to cart

In his introduction to this volume, President Jimmy Carter writes that The Best American Spiritual Writing "approaches the writing of both poetry and prose as a spiritual discipline, a way to explo...

 

The Best American Sports Writing 2008 - trade paperback
By William Nack (editor) - $16.50 - add to cart

In this exciting new collection, William Nack, veteran sportswriter and author of the classic Secretariat, honors the year's finest sports journalism and thus upholds the tradition that began seven...

 

The Best Buddhist Writing 2008 - trade paperback
By Melvin Mcleod (editor) - $20.00 - add to cart

Eclectic and thought-provoking, The Best Buddhist Writing 2008 is the fifth volume in this annual series that brings together the year’s most notable literature, inspired by Buddhist philosophy and...

 

The Bottomless Belly Button - trade paperback
By Dash Shaw - $32.99 - add to cart

The Bottomless Belly Button is a comedy-drama that follows the dysfunctional adventures of the Loony Family. After 40-some years of marriage, Maggie and David Loony shock their children with the...

 

9780394703176 - trade paperback
By Junot Diaz - $15.50 - add to cart

Although the listener may be a bit confused at times, both Jonathan Davis and Staci Snell do well in narrating Diazs long-awaited novel in Spanglish, a difficult English and Spanish language mix th...

 

Burma Chronicles - hardcover
By Guy Delisle - $19.95 - add to cart

After developing his acclaimed style of firsthand reporting with his bestselling graphic novels Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea and Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China, Guy Delisle is back with T...

 

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