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October 2009

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Our auspcious autumn continues with new books from literary luminaries A.S. Byatt and Kurt Vonnegut, maestros of mysteries Jonathan Kellerman and Robert Parker, and celebrated sidesplitters Tracy Morgan and Paul Shafffer.

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Moonwalk

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Oct. 13th
$25.00

Moonwalk
Written by Michael Jackson

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Michael Jackson’s one and only autobiography – his life, in his words. This new edition includes the original Foreword by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a new Introduction by Motown founder Berry Gordy, and an Afterword by Michael Jackson’s editor and publisher, Shaye Areheart.

Look at the Birdie
Written by Kurt Vonnegut

Category: Fiction

This collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories were written just as Kurt Vonnegut was starting to find his comic voice. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post—World War II America–a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence.

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Look at the Birdie

Available
Oct. 20th
$27.00

The Children's Book

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The Children's Book
Written by A.S. Byatt

Category: Fiction

A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize–winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers upon a famous children’s book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves.

Also available as an unabridged audio CD, eBook and an unabridged audiobook download.

I Am the New Black
Written by Tracy Morgan and Anthony Bozza

Category: Biography & Autobiography

The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and suprising story of Tracy Morgan’s rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.

With brutal honesty and his trademark take-no-prisoners humor, Tracy tells the story of his rise to fame, with all its highs and its many lows–from the very public battles with alcohol and diabetes that threatened both his career and his life to the private and poignant end of his twenty-year marriage. In his singularly warped and brilliant way he muses on family, love, sex, race, politics, ambition, and what it takes to bring the funny.

Also available as an abridged audio CD and an eBook.

I Am the New Black

Available
Oct. 20th
$25.00

The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks

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The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
Written by Max Brooks and Ibraim Roberson

Category: Comics & Graphic Novels

This is the graphic novel the fans demanded: major zombie attacks from the dawn of humanity. Scripted by the world’s leading zombie authority, Max Brooks, Recorded Attacks reveals how other eras and cultures have dealt with–and survived–the ancient viral plague. By immersing ourselves in past horror we may yet prevail over the coming outbreak in our time.

We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives
Written by Paul Shaffer and David Ritz

Category: Biography & Autobiography

From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in--and love of--show business. Shaffer dishes on everyone from John Belushi and Jerry Lewis to Mel Gibson and Britney Spears--giving us the full behind-the-scenes story of his life.

Also available as an unabridged audio CD, eBook and an unabridged audiobook download.

We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives

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Evidence

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$28.00

Evidence
Written by Jonathan Kellerman

Category: Fiction

Psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware is back in this blazing new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman. Two lovers murdered in the most intimate of circumstances propel psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis toward a fiery conspiracy forged years before.

Also available as an abridged audiobook download, abridged audio CD, unabridged audio CD, eBook, paperback, unabridged audiobook download and in large print.

Nothing to Be Frightened Of
Written by Julian Barnes

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Two years after the best-selling Arthur & George, Julian Barnes gives us a memoir on mortality that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction.

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Nothing to Be Frightened Of

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K2

Available
Oct. 13th
$26.00

K2
Written by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts

Category: Sports & Recreation

A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world’s most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top. Focusing on seven of the mountain’s most dramatic campaigns, Viesturs crafts an edge-of-your-seat narrative that climbers and armchair travelers alike will find unforgettably compelling.

Also available as an unabridged audio CD, eBook and an unabridged audiobook download.

The Professional
Written by Robert B. Parker
Read by Joe Mantegna

Category: Fiction

A knock on Spenser's office door can mean only one thing: a new case. With its eloquently spare prose and some of the best supporting characters to grace the printed page, The Professional is further proof that "[t]here's hardly an author in the crime novel business like Parker" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).

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The Professional

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$30.00

Building Up and Tearing Down

Available
Oct. 13th
$35.00

Building Up and Tearing Down
Written by Paul Goldberger

Category: Architecture

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic of The New Yorker comes a wide-ranging collection of insightful and informative pieces written over the past ten years, from The New Yorker, The New York Times and other publications.

Extraordinary
Written by John Bevere

Category: Religion

Best-selling author John Bevere reveals how all of us were "meant for more", extraordinarily created and intended for a life that is anything but ordinary. Here is the roadmap for your journey of transformation. You are marked for a life that far surpasses the usual definitions of success or fulfillment.

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Extraordinary

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$22.99

Paying for College Without Going Broke, 2010 Edition

Available
Oct. 20th
$20.00

Paying for College Without Going Broke, 2010 Edition
Written by Princeton Review

Category: Study Aids

The only book with the latest financial aid forms and changes in tax laws, this 2010 edition takes the confusion and guess-work out of applying for financial aid. The guide shows students and parents how to improve their chances of receiving aid and educational tax breaks.

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Century #1: Ring of Fire

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Century #1: Ring of Fire
Written by Pierdomenico Baccalario
Translated by Leah D. Janeczko

Every hundred years, four kids from four cities must save the world.

In the first book of the Century quartet, Italian author P. D. Baccalario begins a mystery that will take four cities and four extraordinary kids to solve.

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