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The Lost Symbol
Written by Dan Brown
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 >
Written by Dan Brown
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 >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
unabridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and in
large print trade paperback.
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Last Night in Twisted River
A Novel
Written by John Irving
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 >
A Novel
Written by John Irving
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 >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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Michael Symon's Live to Cook
Recipes and Techniques to Rock Your Kitchen
Written by Michael Symon and Michael Ruhlman
Foreword by Bobby Flay
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
Hometown boy turned superstar, Michael Symon is one of the hottest food personalities in America. Hailing from Cleveland, Ohio, he is counted among the nation’s greatest chefs, having joined the ranks of Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, and Masaharu Morimoto as one of America’s Iron Chefs. At his core, though, he’s a... Read more >
Recipes and Techniques to Rock Your Kitchen
Written by Michael Symon and Michael Ruhlman
Foreword by Bobby Flay
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
Hometown boy turned superstar, Michael Symon is one of the hottest food personalities in America. Hailing from Cleveland, Ohio, he is counted among the nation’s greatest chefs, having joined the ranks of Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, and Masaharu Morimoto as one of America’s Iron Chefs. At his core, though, he’s a... Read more >
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Woodrow Wilson
A Biography
Written by John Milton Cooper, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 720 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
The first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America’s foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars.
A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative president—he helped create the regulatory bodies and legislation that prefigured FDR’s New Deal and would... Read more >
A Biography
Written by John Milton Cooper, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 720 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
The first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America’s foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars.
A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative president—he helped create the regulatory bodies and legislation that prefigured FDR’s New Deal and would... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Secret Ingredients
The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
Edited by David Remnick
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $18.00
A sample of the menu: Woody Allen on dieting the Dostoevski way • Roger Angell on the art of the martini • Don DeLillo on Jell-O • Malcolm Gladwell on building a better ketchup • Jane Kramer on the writer’s kitchen • Chang-rae Lee on eating sea urchin • Steve Martin... Read more >
The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
Edited by David Remnick
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $18.00
A sample of the menu: Woody Allen on dieting the Dostoevski way • Roger Angell on the art of the martini • Don DeLillo on Jell-O • Malcolm Gladwell on building a better ketchup • Jane Kramer on the writer’s kitchen • Chang-rae Lee on eating sea urchin • Steve Martin... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
hardcover.
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The Vampire Archives
The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published
Preface by Neil Gaiman
Edited by Otto Penzler
Foreword by Kim Newman
Format: Trade Paperback, 1056 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $25.00
The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape.
Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the... Read more >
The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published
Preface by Neil Gaiman
Edited by Otto Penzler
Foreword by Kim Newman
Format: Trade Paperback, 1056 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $25.00
The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape.
Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the... Read more >
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The Black Book
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >
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Majestic Metropolitan Living
Visionary Homes in the Heart of Cities
Written by Sue Hostetler
Format: Hardcover, 252 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $65.00
Forget the sprawling suburban mansion with tennis court and swimming pool–from New York to Los Angeles, Miami to Chicago, the visionary home owners featured within these pages have created legendary, livable residences right in the heart of the city.
From an artist’s warren of studios in New York City–crowned by a... Read more >
Visionary Homes in the Heart of Cities
Written by Sue Hostetler
Format: Hardcover, 252 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $65.00
Forget the sprawling suburban mansion with tennis court and swimming pool–from New York to Los Angeles, Miami to Chicago, the visionary home owners featured within these pages have created legendary, livable residences right in the heart of the city.
From an artist’s warren of studios in New York City–crowned by a... Read more >
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Living with Wine
Passionate Collectors, Sophisticated Cellars, and Other Rooms for Entertaining, Enjoying, and Imbibing
Written by Samantha Nestor and Alice Feiring
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $75.00
America’s love of wine has spurred a collecting and entertaining phenomenon.
Some of America’s most passionate oenophiles have re-invented the wine cellar as an inviting and beautiful part of the home.
True collectors love to share their passion, and this book offers a tour of their distinctive cellars. Created with the help... Read more >
Passionate Collectors, Sophisticated Cellars, and Other Rooms for Entertaining, Enjoying, and Imbibing
Written by Samantha Nestor and Alice Feiring
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $75.00
America’s love of wine has spurred a collecting and entertaining phenomenon.
Some of America’s most passionate oenophiles have re-invented the wine cellar as an inviting and beautiful part of the home.
True collectors love to share their passion, and this book offers a tour of their distinctive cellars. Created with the help... Read more >
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Lincoln, Life-Size
Written by Philip B. Kunhardt, III, Peter W. Kunhardt and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $50.00
An essential collection of photographic portraits of Abraham Lincoln, in a striking format, from “the foremost family of Lincoln pictorial scholarship” (Harold Holzer).
This unique and beautiful book captures an overlooked but vital aspect of Lincoln: his face. While he was known as an ugly man, and he even joked about that... Read more >
Written by Philip B. Kunhardt, III, Peter W. Kunhardt and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $50.00
An essential collection of photographic portraits of Abraham Lincoln, in a striking format, from “the foremost family of Lincoln pictorial scholarship” (Harold Holzer).
This unique and beautiful book captures an overlooked but vital aspect of Lincoln: his face. While he was known as an ugly man, and he even joked about that... Read more >
