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      <title>The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385504225&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385504225&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385504225&quot;&gt;The Lost Symbol&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=3446&quot;&gt;Dan Brown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 528 pages | Doubleday | Fiction - Thrillers | &lt;b&gt;$29.95&lt;/b&gt; | September 15, 2009 | 978-0-385-50422-5 (0-385-50422-5)&lt;p&gt;In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon &lt;b&gt;The Da Vinci Code&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;,&lt;/i&gt; Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. &lt;b&gt;The Lost Symbol&lt;/b&gt; is a masterstroke of storytelling&amp;mdash;a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., &lt;b&gt;The Lost Symbol&lt;/b&gt; accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object &amp;mdash;artfully encoded with five symbols&amp;mdash;is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation . . . one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When Langdon's beloved mentor, Peter Solomon&amp;mdash;a prominent Mason and philanthropist &amp;mdash;is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations&amp;mdash;all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As the world discovered in &lt;b&gt;The Da Vinci Code&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;Angels &amp;amp; Demons&lt;/b&gt;, Dan Brown's novels are brilliant tapestries of veiled histories, arcane symbols, and enigmatic codes. In this new novel, he again challenges readers with an intelligent, lightning-paced story that offers surprises at every turn. &lt;b&gt;The Lost &lt;/b&gt;Symbol is exactly what Brown's fans have been waiting for . . . his most thrilling novel yet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>Ford County: Stories by John Grisham</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385532457&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385532457&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385532457&quot;&gt;Ford County: Stories&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=11178&quot;&gt;John Grisham&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 320 pages | Doubleday | Fiction | &lt;b&gt;$24.00&lt;/b&gt; | November 3, 2009 | 978-0-385-53245-7 (0-385-53245-8)&lt;p&gt;In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, &lt;i&gt;A Time to Kill&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;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, Raymond, who's been locked away on death row for eleven years. It could well be their last visit.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Mack Stafford, a hard-drinking and low-grossing run-of-the-mill divorce lawyer gets a miracle phone call with a completely unexpected offer to settle some old, forgotten cases for more money than he has ever seen. Mack is suddenly bored with the law, fed up with his wife and his life, and makes drastic plans to finally escape.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Quiet, dull Sidney, a data collector for an insurance company, perfects his blackjack skills in hopes of bringing down the casino empire of Clanton's most ambitious hustler, Bobby Carl Leach, who, among other crimes, has stolen Sidney's wife.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Three good ol' boys from rural Ford County begin a journey to the big city of Memphis to give blood to a grievously injured friend. However, they are unable to drive past a beer store as the trip takes longer and longer. The journey comes to an abrupt end when they make a fateful stop at a Memphis strip club.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Quiet Haven Retirement Home is the final stop for the elderly of Clanton. It's a sad, languid place with little controversy, until Gilbert arrives. Posing as a lowly paid bedpan boy, he is in reality a brilliant stalker with an uncanny ability to sniff out the assets of those &quot;seniors&quot; he professes to love.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;One of the hazards of litigating against people in a small town is that one day, long after the trial, you will probably come face-to-face with someone you've beaten in a lawsuit. Lawyer Stanley Wade bumps into an old adversary, a man with a long memory, and the encounter becomes a violent ordeal.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Clanton is rocked with the rumor that the gay son of a prominent family has finally come home, to die. Of AIDS. Fear permeates the town as gossip runs unabated. But in Lowtown, the colored section of Clanton, the young man finds a soul mate in his final days.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Featuring a cast of characters you'll never forget, these stories bring Ford County to vivid and colorful life. Often hilarious, frequently moving, and always entertaining, this collection makes it abundantly clear why John Grisham is our most popular storyteller.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>Open by Andre Agassi</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307268198&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307268198&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307268198&quot;&gt;Open&lt;/a&gt; An Autobiography&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=79555&quot;&gt;Andre Agassi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 400 pages | Knopf | Biography &amp; Autobiography - Sports; Biography &amp; Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Sports &amp; Recreation - Tennis | &lt;b&gt;$28.95&lt;/b&gt; | November 9, 2009 | 978-0-307-26819-8 (0-307-26819-5)&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Agassi&amp;#8217;s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. Lonely, scared, a ninth-grade dropout, he rebels in ways that will soon make him a 1980s icon. He dyes his hair, pierces his ears, dresses like a punk rocker. By the time he turns pro at sixteen, his new look promises to change tennis forever, as does his lightning-fast return. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And yet, despite his raw talent, he struggles early on. We feel his confusion as he loses to the world&amp;#8217;s best, his greater confusion as he starts to win. After stumbling in three Grand Slam finals, Agassi shocks the world, and himself, by capturing the 1992 Wimbledon. Overnight he becomes a fan favorite and a media target.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Agassi brings a near-photographic memory to every pivotal match and every relationship. Never before has the inner game of tennis and the outer game of fame been so precisely limned. Alongside vivid portraits of rivals from several generations&amp;#8212;Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer&amp;#8212;Agassi gives unstinting accounts of his brief time with Barbra Streisand and his doomed marriage to Brooke Shields. He reveals a shattering loss of confidence. And he recounts his spectacular resurrection, a comeback climaxing with his epic run at the 1999 French Open and his march to become the oldest man ever ranked number one.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In clear, taut prose, Agassi evokes his loyal brother, his wise coach, his gentle trainer, all the people who help him regain his balance and find love at last with Stefanie Graf. Inspired by her quiet strength, he fights through crippling pain from a deteriorating spine to remain a dangerous opponent in the twenty-first and final year of his career. Entering his last tournament in 2006, he&amp;#8217;s hailed for completing a stunning metamorphosis, from nonconformist to elder statesman, from dropout to education advocate. And still he&amp;#8217;s not done. At a U.S. Open for the ages, he makes a courageous last stand, then delivers one of the most stirring farewells ever heard in a sporting arena.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With its breakneck tempo and raw candor, &lt;i&gt;Open &lt;/i&gt;will be read and cherished for years. A treat for ardent fans, it will also captivate readers who know nothing about tennis. Like Agassi&amp;#8217;s game, it sets a new standard for grace, style, speed, and power.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
      <dc:date>2009-11-09T00:30:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The Associate by John Grisham</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780440243823&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780440243823&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780440243823&quot;&gt;The Associate&lt;/a&gt; A Novel&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=11178&quot;&gt;John Grisham&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 448 pages | Dell | Fiction | &lt;b&gt;$9.99&lt;/b&gt; | September 22, 2009 | 978-0-440-24382-3 (0-440-24382-3)&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#8217;ll use to ruin him&amp;#8211;unless he does exactly what they say. What they offer Kyle is something any ambitious young lawyer would kill for: a job in Manhattan as an associate at the world&amp;#8217;s largest law firm. If Kyle accepts, he&amp;#8217;ll be on the fast track to partnership and a fortune. But there&amp;#8217;s a catch. Kyle won&amp;#8217;t be working for the firm but against it in a dispute between two powerful defense contractors worth billions. Now Kyle is caught between the criminal forces manipulating him, the FBI, and his own law firm&amp;#8211;in a malignant conspiracy not even Kyle with all his intellect, cunning, and bravery may be able to escape alive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
      <dc:date>2009-09-22T00:30:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition) by Sapphire</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307474841&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307474841&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307474841&quot;&gt;Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=55306&quot;&gt;Sapphire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 192 pages | Vintage | Fiction | &lt;b&gt;$13.00&lt;/b&gt; | October 20, 2009 | 978-0-307-47484-1 (0-307-47484-4)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Includes a Reading Group Guide&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;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 second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
      <dc:date>2009-10-20T00:30:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Your Heart Belongs to Me by Dean Koontz</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553591712&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780553591712&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553591712&quot;&gt;Your Heart Belongs to Me&lt;/a&gt; A Novel&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=16127&quot;&gt;Dean Koontz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 384 pages | Bantam | Fiction | &lt;b&gt;$9.99&lt;/b&gt; | October 27, 2009 | 978-0-553-59171-2 (0-553-59171-1)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br&gt;For one man, they are the five most terrifying words of all . . .&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;One year after the heart transplant that saved his life, thirty-five-year-old Ryan Perry has never felt better. He&amp;#8217;s getting back everything he nearly lost forever&amp;#8212;his business, his his life, and, with luck, his beloved girlfriend. Miracles do happen. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then the unmarked gifts begin to arrive&amp;#8212;a box of candy hearts, a heart pendant. Most disturbing of all is a graphic heart-surgery video and its chilling message: &lt;i&gt;Your heart belongs to me.&lt;/i&gt; Ryan is being stalked by someone who feels entitled to everything he has. She&amp;#8217;s the spitting image of the twenty-six-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily in Ryan&amp;#8217;s own chest. And she&amp;#8217;s come to take it back.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>Southern Lights by Danielle Steel</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385340281&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385340281&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385340281&quot;&gt;Southern Lights&lt;/a&gt; A Novel&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=29599&quot;&gt;Danielle Steel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 336 pages | Delacorte Press | Fiction | &lt;b&gt;$28.00&lt;/b&gt; | October 20, 2009 | 978-0-385-34028-1 (0-385-34028-1)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Danielle Steel sweeps us from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novel&amp;#8212;at once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and punishment.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband&amp;#8217;s betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, Alexa has finally put her demons to rest, making a name for herself as a top prosecutor, handling the city&amp;#8217;s toughest cases while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Sifting through mountains of forensic evidence, Alexa prepares for a high-stakes trial&amp;#8230;until threatening letters throw her private life into turmoil. The letters are addressed to her beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter, Savannah, whom Alexa has been raising alone since her divorce. Alexa is certain that Quentin is behind the letters&amp;#8212;and that they are too dangerous to ignore. Suddenly she must make the toughest choice of all&amp;#8212;and send her daughter back to the very place she swore she would never return to: the place where her marriage ended in heartbreak&amp;#8230;her ex-husband&amp;#8217;s world of southern tradition, memories of betrayal, and the antebellum charm of Charleston.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now, while Alexa&amp;#8217;s trial builds to a climax in New York, her daughter is settling into southern life, discovering a part of her family history and a father she barely knows--from the ice-cold stepmother who stole him away to a fascinating ancestry and a half-sister and half-brothers she comes to love. As secrets are exposed and old wounds are healed, Alexa and Savannah, after a season in different worlds, will come together again&amp;#8212;strengthened by the challenges they have faced, changed by the mysteries they have unraveled, and with Savannah now at home in the southern world her mother fled.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In this masterfully told tale, Danielle Steel creates a stunning array of contrasts: from the gritty chaos of Manhattan&amp;#8217;s criminal court system to the seductive gentility of the South, from the rage of a hardened criminal to the tender bond between a mother and daughter&amp;#8212;and a loving father who has welcomed Savannah home at last. A novel that will catch you off guard at every turn, &lt;b&gt;Southern Lights&lt;/b&gt; is Danielle Steel at her electrifying best.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2009) by Cormac McCarthy</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307476302&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307476302&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307476302&quot;&gt;The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2009)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=19680&quot;&gt;Cormac McCarthy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 304 pages | Vintage | Fiction | &lt;b&gt;$14.95&lt;/b&gt; | November 3, 2009 | 978-0-307-47630-2 (0-307-47630-8)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;NATIONAL BESTSELLER&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;PULITZER PRIZE WINNER&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;A &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; Notable Book&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;One of the Best Books of the Year&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Boston Globe&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Christian Science Monitor&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Denver Post&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Kansas City Star&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;New York&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;People&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Rocky Mountain News&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Time&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Village Voice&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Washington Post&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food&amp;#8212;and each other.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Road&lt;/b&gt; is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, &amp;quot;each the other's world entire,&amp;quot; are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385341004&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385341004&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385341004&quot;&gt;The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=76459&quot;&gt;Mary Ann Shaffer&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=84487&quot;&gt;Annie Barrows&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 304 pages | Dial Press Trade Paperback | Fiction - Literary | &lt;b&gt;$14.00&lt;/b&gt; | May 5, 2009 | 978-0-385-34100-4 (0-385-34100-8)&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780440246077&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780440246077&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780440246077&quot;&gt;One Shot&lt;/a&gt; A Reacher Novel&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=37661&quot;&gt;Lee Child&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 496 pages | Dell | Fiction - Thrillers | &lt;b&gt;$9.99&lt;/b&gt; | October 27, 2009 | 978-0-440-24607-7 (0-440-24607-5)&lt;p&gt;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. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And sure enough, ex&amp;#8212;military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. He knows this shooter&amp;#8211;a trained military sniper who never should have missed a shot. Reacher is certain something is not right&amp;#8211;and soon the slam-dunk case explodes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now Reacher is teamed with a beautiful young defense lawyer, moving closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings. Reacher knows that no two opponents are created equal. This one has come to the heartland from his own kind of hell. And Reacher knows that the only way to take him down is to match his ruthlessness and cunning&amp;#8211;and then beat him shot for shot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345517197&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780345517197&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345517197&quot;&gt;Ice&lt;/a&gt; A Novel&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=35941&quot;&gt;Linda Howard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 208 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction | &lt;b&gt;$22.00&lt;/b&gt; | November 10, 2009 | 978-0-345-51719-7 (0-345-51719-9)&lt;p&gt;&amp;rsquo;Tis the season for mistletoe and holly, Santa . . . and suspense. And the gift that keeps on giving is &lt;b&gt;Ice&lt;/b&gt;: premier thriller author Linda Howard&amp;rsquo;s breathless tale of a man, a woman, and a battle for survival against an unforgiving winter&amp;ndash;and an unrelenting killer. Oh what fun it is to read.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Gabriel McQueen has only just arrived home on holiday leave from the service when his county-sheriff father sends him back out again with new marching orders. A brewing ice storm, and a distant neighbor who&amp;rsquo;s fallen out of contact, have the local lawman concerned. So he enlists Gabriel to make the long haul to the middle of nowhere, and make sure Lolly Helton is safe and sound. It&amp;rsquo;s a trip the younger McQueen would rather not make given the bitter winter weather&amp;ndash;and the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But there&amp;rsquo;s no talking back when your dad is the town&amp;rsquo;s top cop. And there&amp;rsquo; s no turning back when night falls just as Gabriel arrives&amp;ndash;and discovers that the weather outside isn&amp;rsquo;t the only thing that&amp;rsquo;s frightful. Spotting strangers in Lolly&amp;rsquo; s home&amp;ndash;one of them packing a weapon&amp;ndash;is all it takes to kick Gabriel into combat mode. And his stealth training is all he needs to extract Lolly from the house without alerting her captors. But when the escape is discovered, the heat&amp;ndash;and the hunt&amp;ndash;are on. And the winter woods are nowhere to be once the ice storm touches down, dropping trees, blocking roads, and trapping the fleeing pair in the freezing dark.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345511768&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780345511768&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345511768&quot;&gt;The Book of Basketball&lt;/a&gt; The NBA According to The Sports Guy&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=92013&quot;&gt;Bill Simmons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Foreword by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=106286&quot;&gt;Malcolm Gladwell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 736 pages | ESPN | Sports &amp; Recreation | &lt;b&gt;$30.00&lt;/b&gt; | October 27, 2009 | 978-0-345-51176-8 (0-345-51176-X)&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#8217;s Sports Guy, is that writer. And &lt;b&gt;The Book of Basketball &lt;/b&gt;is that book. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another single volume that covers as much in such depth as this wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past, present, and future of pro basketball.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens&amp;#8211;and then closes, once and for all&amp;#8211;every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons&amp;#8217;s one-of-a-kind, five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), &lt;b&gt;The Book of Basketball &lt;/b&gt;offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game&amp;#8217;s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br&gt;* More to the point, he&amp;#8217;s the only one crazy enough to try to pull it off. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>While My Sister Sleeps by Barbara Delinsky</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307473226&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307473226&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307473226&quot;&gt;While My Sister Sleeps&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=6819&quot;&gt;Barbara Delinsky&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 384 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Contemporary Women | &lt;b&gt;$7.99&lt;/b&gt; | October 27, 2009 | 978-0-307-47322-6 (0-307-47322-8)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Once again &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; 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 time. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Molly and Robin Snow are sisters in the prime of life. So when Molly receives the news that Robin has suffered a massive heart attack, the news couldn't be more shocking. At the hospital, the Snow family receives a grim prognosis: Robin may never regain consciousness. Feelings of guilt and jealousy flare up as Robin's family struggles to cope. It's up to Molly to make the tough decisions, and she soon makes discoveries that shatter some of her most cherished beliefs about the sister she thought she knew.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>New Super Mario Bros (Wii) by Fernando Bueno</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307465924&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307465924&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307465924&quot;&gt;New Super Mario Bros (Wii)&lt;/a&gt; Prima Official Game Guide&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=71226&quot;&gt;Fernando Bueno&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 192 pages | Prima Games | Games - Video &amp; Electronic | &lt;b&gt;$19.99&lt;/b&gt; | November 15, 2009 | 978-0-307-46592-4 (0-307-46592-6)&lt;p&gt;* Exclusive maps for every world. Every map was created for this guide, you won't find them anywhere else!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;* Locations for every Star Coin!&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;* Super strategies for tricky levels so you find every nook and cranny!&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;* Full details to unlock every World!&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;* Tips for party play. Get your friends in the game for endless fun!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;* Exclusive poster!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400063840&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781400063840&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400063840&quot;&gt;Last Night in Twisted River&lt;/a&gt; A Novel&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=14109&quot;&gt;John Irving&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 576 pages | Random House | Fiction | &lt;b&gt;$28.00&lt;/b&gt; | October 27, 2009 | 978-1-4000-6384-0 (1-4000-6384-1)&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#8217;s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County&amp;#8211;to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto&amp;#8211;pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a story spanning five decades, &lt;b&gt;Last Night in Twisted River&lt;/b&gt;&amp;#8211;John Irving&amp;#8217;s twelfth novel&amp;#8211;depicts the recent half-century in the United States as &amp;#8220;a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.&amp;#8221; From the novel&amp;#8217;s taut opening sentence&amp;#8211;&amp;#8220;The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long&amp;#8221;&amp;#8211;to its elegiac final chapter, &lt;b&gt;Last Night in Twisted River&lt;/b&gt; is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of &lt;b&gt;The Cider House Rules&lt;/b&gt; and A &lt;b&gt;Prayer for Owen Meany.&lt;/b&gt; It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving&amp;#8217;s breakthrough bestseller, &lt;b&gt;The World According to Garp.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What further distinguishes &lt;b&gt;Last Night in Twisted River&lt;/b&gt; is the author&amp;#8217;s unmistakable voice&amp;#8211;the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: &amp;#8220;We don&amp;#8217;t always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly&amp;#8211;as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth&amp;#8211;the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>New York: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385521383&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385521383&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385521383&quot;&gt;New York: The Novel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=26548&quot;&gt;Edward Rutherfurd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 880 pages | Doubleday | Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Literary | &lt;b&gt;$30.00&lt;/b&gt; | November 10, 2009 | 978-0-385-52138-3 (0-385-52138-3)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;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 illuminates cultural, social, and political upheavals through the lives of a remarkably diverse set of families. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As he recounts the intertwining fates of characters rich and poor, black and white, native born and immigrant, Rutherfurd brings to life the momentous events that shaped New York and America: the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near-demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the '90s, and the attacks on the World Trade Center. Sprinkled throughout are captivating cameo appearances by historical figures ranging from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Babe Ruth.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;New York&lt;/i&gt; is the book that millions of Rutherfurd's American fans have been waiting for. A brilliant mix of romance, war, family drama, and personal triumphs, it gloriously captures the search for freedom and prosperity at the heart of our nation's history.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>Knockout by Suzanne Somers</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307587466&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307587466&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307587466&quot;&gt;Knockout&lt;/a&gt; Interviews with Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer--And How to Prevent Getting It in the First Place&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=29103&quot;&gt;Suzanne Somers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 352 pages | Crown | Health &amp; Fitness - Diets | &lt;b&gt;$25.99&lt;/b&gt; | October 20, 2009 | 978-0-307-58746-6 (0-307-58746-0)&lt;p&gt;In &lt;i&gt;Knockout&lt;/i&gt;, Suzanne Somers interviews doctors who are successfully using the most innovative cancer treatments&amp;mdash;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.&lt;br&gt;Now she shares her personal choices and outlines an array of options from doctors across the country:&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;EFFECTIVE ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull;without chemotherapy&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull;without radiation&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull;sometimes, even without surgery&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;INTEGRATIVE PROTOCOLS&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull;combining standard treatments with therapies that build up the immune system&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;METHODS FOR MANAGING CANCER&lt;br&gt;&amp;bull;outlining ways to truly live with the diease&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Since prevention is the best course, Somers' experts provide nutrition, lifestyle, and dietary supplementation options to help protect you from getting the disease in the first place. Whichever path you choose, &lt;i&gt;Knockout&lt;/i&gt; is a must-have resource to navigate the life-and-death world of cancer and increase your odds of survival.&amp;nbsp; After reading stunning testimonials from inspirational survivors using alternative treatments, you'll be left with a feeling of empowerment and something every person who is touched by this disease needs&amp;hellip;HOPE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford</title>
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