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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT


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A pocket compendium of food wisdom-from the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food Michael Pollan, our nation's most trusted resource for food-related issues, offers this indispensible guide for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible, and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable rules for eating wisely, many drawn from a variety of ethnic or cultural traditions. Whether at the supermarket or an all-you-can-eat-buffet, (read more)

SHIFT: How Top Real Estate Agents Tackle Tough Times

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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Ready to tackle today?s difficult markets, an updated, limited edition of the #1 bestselling, guidebook to real estate success.

This special limited edition of Gary Keller's New York Times bestselling real estate classic shows agents how they can SHIFT to seize new opportunities, even in today's unpredictable markets. Based on years of research, the book taps into a wealth of proven tactics to help readers thrive in the midst of one of the most challenging (read more)

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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In Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the country?s leading political reporters, use their unrivaled access to pull back the curtain on the Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Palin campaigns.

Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character-driven and dialogue-rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, it?s an intimate portrait of some of the (read more)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT


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Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor (read more)

The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT


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?The greatest political saga, the one that has it all, that gets to the real heart of American politics, is the John Edwards story... This isn?t just politics, it?s literature. It?s the great American novel, the kind that isn?t written anymore.? --Michael Wolff on John Edwards's trajectory, on VanityFair.com The underside of modern American politics -- raw ambition, manipulation, and deception --(read more)

Dear John

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT


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An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah fa(read more)

On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT


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When Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, was appointed in 2006 to become the nation's next Secretary of the Treasury, he knew that his move from Wall Street to Washington would be daunting and challenging.... (read more)