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Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, John Grisham was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel.
Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn't have the right stuff for a pro career, he shifted gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University. After graduating from law school at Ole... Read More
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Ford County: Stories
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $24.00
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $24.00
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... Read more >
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Open
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2009
Price: $28.95
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2009
Price: $28.95
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... Read more >
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The Lost Symbol
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $29.95
In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling—a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $29.95
In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling—a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under... Read more >
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The Associate
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $9.99
Kyle McAvoy possesses an outstanding legal mind. Good-looking and affable, he has a glittering future. He also has a dark secret that could destroy his dreams, his career, even his life. One night that secret catches up with him. The men who accost Kyle have a compromising video they’ll use to... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $9.99
Kyle McAvoy possesses an outstanding legal mind. Good-looking and affable, he has a glittering future. He also has a dark secret that could destroy his dreams, his career, even his life. One night that secret catches up with him. The men who accost Kyle have a compromising video they’ll use to... Read more >
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Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition)
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $13.00
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Includes a Reading Group Guide
Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $13.00
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Includes a Reading Group Guide
Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a... Read more >
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Push
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 29, 1997
Price: $13.00
"Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire," directed by Lee Daniels and written
by Damien Paul
GRAND JURY PRIZE and AUDIENCE AWARD winner at the 2009 Sundance Film
Festival
Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" (Newsday) is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: April 29, 1997
Price: $13.00
"Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire," directed by Lee Daniels and written
by Damien Paul
GRAND JURY PRIZE and AUDIENCE AWARD winner at the 2009 Sundance Film
Festival
Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" (Newsday) is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and... Read more >
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Your Heart Belongs to Me
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $9.99
For one man, they are the five most terrifying words of all . . .
One year after the heart transplant that saved his life, thirty-five-year-old Ryan Perry has never felt better. He’s getting back everything he nearly lost forever—his business, his his life, and, with luck, his beloved girlfriend. Miracles... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $9.99
For one man, they are the five most terrifying words of all . . .
One year after the heart transplant that saved his life, thirty-five-year-old Ryan Perry has never felt better. He’s getting back everything he nearly lost forever—his business, his his life, and, with luck, his beloved girlfriend. Miracles... Read more >
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Ice
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $22.00
’Tis the season for mistletoe and holly, Santa . . . and suspense. And the gift that keeps on giving is Ice: premier thriller author Linda Howard’s breathless tale of a man, a woman, and a battle for survival against an unforgiving winter–and an unrelenting killer. Oh what fun it is... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $22.00
’Tis the season for mistletoe and holly, Santa . . . and suspense. And the gift that keeps on giving is Ice: premier thriller author Linda Howard’s breathless tale of a man, a woman, and a battle for survival against an unforgiving winter–and an unrelenting killer. Oh what fun it is... Read more >
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Southern Lights
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $28.00
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $28.00
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... Read more >
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While My Sister Sleeps
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $7.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Once again New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky brings us a masterful family portrait, filled with thought-provoking insights into how emotions affect the decisions we make and how letting go can be the hardest thing to do and the greatest expression of love all at the same... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $7.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Once again New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky brings us a masterful family portrait, filled with thought-provoking insights into how emotions affect the decisions we make and how letting go can be the hardest thing to do and the greatest expression of love all at the same... Read more >
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The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2009)
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $14.95
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year
The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington Post
The searing... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $14.95
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year
The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington Post
The searing... Read more >
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $14.95
National Bestseller
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $14.95
National Bestseller
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle... Read more >
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New York: The Novel
Format: Hardcover, 880 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $30.00
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 880 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $30.00
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... Read more >
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Knockout
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $25.99
In Knockout, Suzanne Somers interviews doctors who are successfully using the most innovative cancer treatments—treatments that build up the body rather than tear it down. Somers herself has stared cancer in the face, and a decade later she has conquered her fear and has emerged confident with the path she's chosen.
Now... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $25.99
In Knockout, Suzanne Somers interviews doctors who are successfully using the most innovative cancer treatments—treatments that build up the body rather than tear it down. Somers herself has stared cancer in the face, and a decade later she has conquered her fear and has emerged confident with the path she's chosen.
Now... Read more >
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $14.00
January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $14.00
January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. Read more >
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Last Night in Twisted River
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $28.00
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $28.00
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... Read more >
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True Detectives
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $9.99
Moses Reed and Aaron Fox have the same mother; their respective fathers were cops, friends, and partners. And despite their shared calling, their turbulent family history has set them at odds. Moses is a no-frills LAPD detective; Aaron is a smooth-talking private eye. Usually they go their separate ways, but the... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $9.99
Moses Reed and Aaron Fox have the same mother; their respective fathers were cops, friends, and partners. And despite their shared calling, their turbulent family history has set them at odds. Moses is a no-frills LAPD detective; Aaron is a smooth-talking private eye. Usually they go their separate ways, but the... Read more >
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Olive Kitteridge
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $14.00
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $14.00
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician... Read more >
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One Shot
Format: Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $9.99
Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me.
And sure enough, ex—military investigator Jack Reacher... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $9.99
Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me.
And sure enough, ex—military investigator Jack Reacher... Read more >
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Rachael Ray's Book of 10
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $20.00
Rachael's top 10 lists of 30-minute meals
For more than a decade, Rachael Ray has wowed you with her flavorful dishes on TV. And she has written one incredible collection after collection of delicious 30-minute meals. Her latest cookbook includes her most-requested recipes from fans like you and her family faves. Rachael... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $20.00
Rachael's top 10 lists of 30-minute meals
For more than a decade, Rachael Ray has wowed you with her flavorful dishes on TV. And she has written one incredible collection after collection of delicious 30-minute meals. Her latest cookbook includes her most-requested recipes from fans like you and her family faves. Rachael... Read more >
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The Book of Basketball
Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $30.00
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $30.00
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... Read more >
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No Less Than Victory
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $28.00
No Less Than Victory is the crowning achievement in master storyteller Jeff Shaara’s soaring World War II trilogy, revealing the European war’s unforgettable and harrowing final act.
After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a matter of... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $28.00
No Less Than Victory is the crowning achievement in master storyteller Jeff Shaara’s soaring World War II trilogy, revealing the European war’s unforgettable and harrowing final act.
After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a matter of... Read more >
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
"Sentimental, heartfelt….the exploration of Henry’s changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take heed we don’t repeat those injustices."-- Kirkus Reviews
“A tender... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
"Sentimental, heartfelt….the exploration of Henry’s changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take heed we don’t repeat those injustices."-- Kirkus Reviews
“A tender... Read more >
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Green Eggs and Ham
Format: Hardcover, 72 pages
On Sale: August 12, 1960
Price: $8.99
Illus. in color. Sam-I-Am mounts a determined campaign to convince another Seuss character to eat a plate of green eggs and ham. Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 72 pages
On Sale: August 12, 1960
Price: $8.99
Illus. in color. Sam-I-Am mounts a determined campaign to convince another Seuss character to eat a plate of green eggs and ham. Read more >
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The Private Patient
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $15.00
Cheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic. When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a successful operation and a peaceful week recuperating. But... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $15.00
Cheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic. When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a successful operation and a peaceful week recuperating. But... Read more >
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