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Stieg Larsson, who lived in Sweden, was the editor in chief of the magazine Expo and a leading expert on antidemocratic right-wing extremist and Nazi organizations. He died in 2004, shortly after delivering the manuscripts for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.
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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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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $26.00
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $26.00
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are... 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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Secrets of Eden
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $25.00
From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice.
"There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to the husband who will kill her... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $25.00
From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice.
"There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to the husband who will kill her... Read more >
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Shanghai Girls
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $15.00
In 1937 Shanghai—the Paris of Asia—twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree—until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth. To repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $15.00
In 1937 Shanghai—the Paris of Asia—twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree—until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth. To repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to... 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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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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Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I
Format: Hardcover, 752 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2001
Price: $40.00
This is the classic cookbook, in its entirety—all 524 recipes.
“Anyone can cook in the French manner anywhere,” wrote Mesdames Beck, Bertholle, and Child, “with the right instruction.” And here is the book that, for more than forty years, has been teaching Americans how.
Mastering the Art of French Cooking is for both... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 752 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2001
Price: $40.00
This is the classic cookbook, in its entirety—all 524 recipes.
“Anyone can cook in the French manner anywhere,” wrote Mesdames Beck, Bertholle, and Child, “with the right instruction.” And here is the book that, for more than forty years, has been teaching Americans how.
Mastering the Art of French Cooking is for both... Read more >
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Staying True
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2010
Price: $25.00
In this candid and compelling memoir, the first lady of South Carolina reveals the private ordeal behind her very public betrayal—and offers inspiration for anyone struggling to keep faith during life’s most trying times.
She’s been a successful investment banker, a mother of four, and the campaign manager for one of American... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2010
Price: $25.00
In this candid and compelling memoir, the first lady of South Carolina reveals the private ordeal behind her very public betrayal—and offers inspiration for anyone struggling to keep faith during life’s most trying times.
She’s been a successful investment banker, a mother of four, and the campaign manager for one of American... Read more >
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The Quants
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $27.00
“Beware of geeks bearing formulas.”
--Warren Buffett
In March of 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes, but those numbers meant nothing to them. They were accustomed to risking billions.
... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $27.00
“Beware of geeks bearing formulas.”
--Warren Buffett
In March of 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes, but those numbers meant nothing to them. They were accustomed to risking billions.
... Read more >
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Let the Great World Spin
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2009
Price: $15.00
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2009
Price: $15.00
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a... Read more >
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Cutting for Stone
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2010
Price: $15.95
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2010
Price: $15.95
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers... Read more >
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $25.95
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.
But he has no idea just how explosive the story will... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $25.95
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.
But he has no idea just how explosive the story will... Read more >
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Magic Tree House #43: Leprechaun in Late Winter
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $12.99
Jack and Annie are on their third mission to find (and inspire!) creative people to bring happiness to others through the arts (Mozart and Louis Armstrong so far). Set in Ireland, Jack and Annie meet an Irish girl and go on a magical adventure that changes the girl’s life—she grows up... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $12.99
Jack and Annie are on their third mission to find (and inspire!) creative people to bring happiness to others through the arts (Mozart and Louis Armstrong so far). Set in Ireland, Jack and Annie meet an Irish girl and go on a magical adventure that changes the girl’s life—she grows up... Read more >
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When You Reach Me
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $15.99
Winner of the 2010 John Newbery Medal
Four mysterious letters change Miranda’s world forever.
By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it’s safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid, like the crazy... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $15.99
Winner of the 2010 John Newbery Medal
Four mysterious letters change Miranda’s world forever.
By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it’s safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid, like the crazy... Read more >
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Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: December 21, 1999
Price: $4.99
It's a mushy gushy mystery!
Hurray! February 14—Valentime's Day, as June B. calls it—is just around the corner. Junie B. can't wait to see all the valentimes she'll get. But she never expected a big, mushy card from a secret admirer! Who is this secret mystery guy, anyway? Junie B. is determined... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: December 21, 1999
Price: $4.99
It's a mushy gushy mystery!
Hurray! February 14—Valentime's Day, as June B. calls it—is just around the corner. Junie B. can't wait to see all the valentimes she'll get. But she never expected a big, mushy card from a secret admirer! Who is this secret mystery guy, anyway? Junie B. is determined... Read more >
Also available as an
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hardcover library binding.
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The Book Thief
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $11.99
It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .
Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $11.99
It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .
Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl... Read more >
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Nightlight
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
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Fallen
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Price: $17.99
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Price: $17.99
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... Read more >
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Born to Run
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $24.95
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $24.95
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance... Read more >
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The Lost City of Z
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2010
Price: $15.95
A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Denver Post Bestseller
In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2010
Price: $15.95
A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Denver Post Bestseller
In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to... 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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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1987
Price: $6.99
In the Pacific, there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea birds abound. Karana is the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Hers is not only an... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1987
Price: $6.99
In the Pacific, there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea birds abound. Karana is the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Hers is not only an... 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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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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