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The Audacity of Hope
by Barack Obama

My Life as a Furry Red Monster
by Kevin Clash and Gary Brozek

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Rachael Ray 2,4,6,8
by Rachael Ray

Christmas Carol Audio
by Charles Dickens and read by Jim Dale

Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
by Bethesda Softworks

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H.R.H.
by Danielle Steel

Flags of our Fathers
by James Bradley with Ron Powers

Christmas in Camelot
by Mary Pope Osborne

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Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook
by Georgeanne Brennan

Fodor's Hawaii 2007
by Fodor's

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess -- Collector's Edition
by David Hodgson and Stephen Stratton

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Skipping Christmas
by John Grisham

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Change We Can Believe In
Foreword by Barack Obama

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Price: $13.95

At this defining moment in our history, Americans are hungry for change. After years of failed policies and failed politics from Washington, this is our chance to reclaim the American dream. Barack Obama has proven to be a new kind of leader–one who can bring people together, be honest about the... Read more >

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The Nine
Written by Jeffrey Toobin

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Price: $15.95

In The Nine, acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at... Read more >

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The Devil We Know
Written by Robert Baer

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Price: $25.95

Over the past thirty years, while the United States has turned either a blind or dismissive eye, Iran has emerged as a nation every bit as capable of altering America’s destiny as traditional superpowers Russia and China. Indeed, one of this book’s central arguments is that, in some ways, Iran’s grip... Read more >

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The Road of Lost Innocence
Written by Somaly Mam

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Price: $22.95

A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Somaly Mam Foundation.

A riveting, raw, and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hope

Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the...

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The Age of American Unreason
Written by Susan Jacoby

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Price: $26.00

Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought." Disdain... Read more >

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Deer Hunting with Jesus
Written by Joe Bageant

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Price: $13.95

A raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor-and why they hate liberalism.

Deer Hunting with Jesus is web columnist Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, which-like countless American small towns-is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. By turns... Read more >

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Right Is Wrong
Written by Arianna Huffington

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Price: $24.95

With her trademark passion, intelligence, and devastating wit, Huffington Post editor in chief Arianna Huffington tackles the issues that are crucial to this year’s presidential election and, even more so, to the fate of the country.

Huffington makes the case that America has been hijacked from within by a radical element—the “lunatic... Read more >

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Richistan
Written by Robert Frank

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Price: $13.95

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

RICH-I-STAN n. 1. a new country located in the heart of America, populated entirely by millionaires, most of whom acquired their wealth during the new Gilded Age of the past twenty years. 2. a country with a population larger than Belgium and Denmark; typical citizens include “spud... Read more >

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McMafia
Written by Misha Glenny

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Price: $27.95

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No one would foresee that the greatest success story to arise from these events...

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The Failure Factory
Written by Bill Gertz

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Price: $26.95

The U.S. government is in crisis.

With America’s attention fixated on who will step into the Oval Office in 2009, no one has noticed where the real power has shifted—to a vast network of unelected officials whose authority has grown wildly out of control. In his latest blockbuster book, acclaimed defense and... Read more >

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The Terminal Spy
Written by Alan S. Cowell

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Price: $26.95

In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.

On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian president...

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Dangerous Business
Written by Pat Choate

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Price: $25.95

From one of the most respected and vigorous economic thinkers in Washington, a wake-up call about the perils of unfettered globalization. In this impassioned, prescient book, Pat Choate shows us that while increased worldwide economic integration has some benefits for our fiscal efficiency, it also creates dependencies, vulnerabilities, national security risks...

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The Return of History and the End of Dreams
Written by Robert Kagan

Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
Price: $19.95

Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. Nation-states remain as strong as ever, as do the old, explosive forces of ambitious nationalism. The world remains “unipolar,” but international...

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Turkmeniscam
Written by Ken Silverstein

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Price: $24.00

“As I have often said, I would represent the devil himself for the right price–it’s not personal, just business.”
–a Washington, D.C., lobbyist

For nearly as long as there have been politicians in the United States, there have been lobbyists haunting the halls of Congress–shaking hands, bearing gifts, and brandishing agendas. Everyone knows... Read more >

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The Much Too Promised Land
Written by Aaron David Miller

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Price: $26.00

For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace. His position as an advisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national security advisors has given him a unique perspective on a problem that American leaders have wrestled with for more than... Read more >

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