Monday
01Mar2010

March 1st, 2010 - Top Tweeted Cloth Releases for March 2010

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1. Horns: A Novel by Joe Hill William Morrow

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March 2010, Ship Date: February 16, 2010
$25.99/$27.99 Can.
250K Print Run
Hardback
Fiction / Thrillers
9780061147951, 0061147958
Summary: New York Times Bestselling Author

The long-awaited follow-up to Heart-Shaped Box!

The New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box—“a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction” (Washington Post)—returns with a relentless new supernatural thriller that runs like HELL ...
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2. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver HarperCollins

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March 2010, Ship Date: February 10, 2010
$17.99/$21.99 Can.
75K Print Run
Hardback
Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues
9780061726804, 006172680X
Summary: In this incandescent page-turner from twenty-six-year-old debut author Lauren Oliver, high school senior Samantha Kingston must figure out why she is compelled to relive the day of her death seven times.


Samantha Kingston has it all—looks, popularity, the perfect boyfriend. She’s expecting to attend a typical Friday night party with her friends, but instead a terrible accident takes her life.

The catch: Samantha still wakes up the next morning. In fact, she relives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by ...
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3. Jesus Calling: A 365 Day Journaling Devotional by Sarah Young Thomas Nelson Publishers

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March 2010, Ship Date: February 6, 2010
$16.99
Hardback
Religion / Christian Life
9781404187856, 1404187855
Summary: Jesus Calling is a devotional and journal in one, filled with uniquely inspired treasures from heaven for every day of the year.

After many years of writing in her prayer journal, missionary SarahYoung decided to "listen" to God with pen in hand, writing downwhatever she believed He was saying to her. It was awkward at first,but gradually her journaling changed from monologue to dialogue. Sheknew her writings were not inspired as Scripture is, but journalinghelped her grow closer to God. Others were blessed as she shared herwritin ...
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4. Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison Eos

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March 2010, Ship Date: February 3, 2010
$25.99/$33.99 Can.
250K Print Run
Hardback
Fiction / Fantasy
9780061138034, 0061138037
Summary: New York Times Bestselling Author

In New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison’s most complex and emotionally charged adventure yet, bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan faces off against one of her own kind in a battle that will irrevocably change her—if she survives. . . . “I wouldn’t ...
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5. Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt Ecco

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March 2010, Ship Date: January 28, 2010
$21.99/$25.99 Can.
50K Print Run
Hardback
Biography & Autobiography / General
9780061825934, 006182593X
Summary: “A painfully beautiful memoir telling how grandparents are made over into parents, how people die out of order, how time goes backwards. Written with such restraint as to be both heartbreaking and instructive.”—E. L. Doctorow


“How long are you staying, Boppo?”
“Forever.”

When his daughter, Amy—a gifted doctor, mother, a ...
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6. The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting HarperCollins

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March 2010, Ship Date: February 24, 2010
$16.99/$19.99 Can.
50K Print Run
Hardback
Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues
9780061779817, 0061779814
Summary: In this dark, romantic thriller with a paranormal twist, debut author Kimberly Derting introduces a character whose secret talent is about to lead her right to a killer. Will she be able to find him before he finds her?


Violet Ambrose can find dead bodies. Or at least she can sense those that have been murdered. She locates them by the echoes they leave behind…and the imprints they leave on their killers. As if that weren’t enough to deal with during her junior year, she also has a sudden, inexplicable, and consuming crush on her best frien ...
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7. Caught by Harlan Coben Dutton Adult

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March 23, 2010, Street: 3/23
$27.95
Hardback
Fiction / Thrillers
9780525951582, 052595158X
Summary: Wendy is a reporter on a mission: She's chasing down the lowest of the low—sexual predators—and exposing them on national television. Her big break comes when she nails a child advocate who works with abused and underserved children. She's there, cameras ro ...
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8. Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch Viking Adult

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March 18, 2010, Street: 3/18
$45.00
Hardback
Religion / Christianity
9780670021260, 0670021261
Summary: Once in a generation a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read—a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill. Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity is such a book. Breathtaking in ambition, it ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and covers the world, following the three main strands of the Christian faith.
Christianity will teach modern readers things that have been lost in time about how Jesus' message spread and how the New Testament was formed. We follow the Christ ...
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9. Hourglass by Claudia Gray HarperTeen

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March 2010, Ship Date: February 17, 2010
$16.99/$22.50 Can.
100K Print Run
Hardback
Juvenile Fiction / Horror & Ghost Stories
9780061284410, 0061284416
Summary: Star-crossed love and danger abound in the exciting sequel to Claudia Gray’s New York Times bestseller, Stargazer.


Bestselling author Claudia Gray’s Evernight series continues. In Hourglass, Bianca and Lucas have found a way to be together. But it means lying to the people who care about them the most.

After escaping from Evernight Academy, the vampire boarding school, Bianca and Lucas seek refuge with Black Cross, the elite group of vampire hunters led by Lucas’s stepfather. When Bianca’s close frie ...
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10. The Line by Teri Hall Dial

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March 4, 2010, Street: 3/4
$16.99
Hardback
Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
9780803734661, 0803734662
Summary: An invisible, uncrossable physical barrier encloses the Unified States. The Line is the part of the border that lopped off part of the country, dooming the inhabitants to an unknown fate when the enemy used a banned weapon. It's said that bizarre creatures and superhumans live on the other side, in Away. Nobody except tough old Ms. Moore would ever live n ...
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Monday
01Mar2010

March 1st, 2010 - Top Blogged Cloth Releases for March 2010

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1. Jesus: A Biography, from a Believer by Paul Johnson Viking Adult

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March 4, 2010, Street: 3/4
$24.95
Hardback
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
9780670021598, 0670021598
Summary: Is Jesus relevant to us today? Few figures have had such an influence on history as Jesus of Nazareth. His teachings have inspired discussion, arguments, even war, and yet few have ever held forth as movingly on the need for peace, forgiveness, and mercy. Paul Johnson's brilliant reading offers readers a lively biography of the man who inspired one of the world's great religions and whose lessons still guide us in current times.
Johnson's magisterial and revered book A History of Christianity is a masterpiece of historical writing on religi ...
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2. Lee : Goodness in Action by John Perry Thomas Nelson Publishers

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March 2010, Ship Date: March 6, 2010
$19.99
Hardback
History / Military
9781595550286, 1595550283
Summary: A powerful, compact biography of Robert E. Lee, focusing on how his intrinsic goodness shaped everything from his battle tactics to his treatment of his troops.

It's no surprise that Robert E. Lee graduated second in his class from West Point. His four years there were marked by exemplary conduct and nary a demerit. He went on to become one of the most successful generals of the Confederate army during the American Civil War, inspiring his troops with his unselfish character and devotion to duty. Lee's string of victories earned him prai ...
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3. Solar by Ian McEwan Nan A. Talese

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March 30, 2010, Street: 3/30
$26.95
Hardback
Fiction / Literary
9780385533416, 0385533411
Summary: The literary event of the summer: a new novel from Ian McEwan, as surprising as it is masterful.

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize–winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. While he coasts along in his professional life, Michael’s personal life is another matter entirely. His fifth marriage is crumbling under the weight of his i ...
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4. Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel by James Patterson Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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March 15, 2010, Street: 3/15
$17.99/$21.99 Can.
Hardback
Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure
9780316036191, 0316036196
 
Summary: Being a kid with wings--constantly on the run--has never been easy, and Max and her flock are getting tenser than ever. First, on a trip to Africa, they meet a mysterious billionaire whose intense scrutiny of the flock makes her fear the worst. Then, a cryptic message from a young girl arrives, warning them "The sky will fall." And as if an impending apocalypse weren't bad enough, canny birdkid Angel makes a dire prophecy about Max's soul mate: Fang will be the first to die.

Max's desperate desire to protect Fang brings the two closer ...
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5. The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting HarperCollins

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March 2010, Ship Date: February 24, 2010
$16.99/$19.99 Can.
50K Print Run
Hardback
Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues
9780061779817, 0061779814
 
Summary: In this dark, romantic thriller with a paranormal twist, debut author Kimberly Derting introduces a character whose secret talent is about to lead her right to a killer. Will she be able to find him before he finds her?


Violet Ambrose can find dead bodies. Or at least she can sense those that have been murdered. She locates them by the echoes they leave behind…and the imprints they leave on their killers. As if that weren’t enough to deal with during her junior year, she also has a sudden, inexplicable, and consuming crush on her best frien ...
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6. The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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March 9, 2010, Street: 3/9
$17.99/$22.99 Can.
Hardback
Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues
9780385736848, 0385736843
 
Summary: Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. She’s content on her side of the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. But there are threats the Barrier cannot hold back. Threats like the secrets Gabry’s mother thought she left behind when she escaped from the Sisterhood and the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Like the cult of religious zea ...
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7. A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks Doubleday

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March 9, 2010, Street: 3/9
$27.95
Hardback
Fiction / General
9780385532914, 0385532911
 
Summary: From the author of the bestselling Birdsong comes a powerful novel that melds the moral heft of Dickens and the scrupulous realism of Trollope with the satirical spirit of Tom Wolfe.

London: the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; ...
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8. Christ by W. E. Vine Thomas Nelson Publishers

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March 2010, Ship Date: March 6, 2010
$29.99
Hardback
Religion / Biblical Studies
9781418543099, 1418543098
 
Summary: W. E. Vine's profound commentaries on the person and work of Christ in one volume.

William Edwy Vine, author of the celebrated Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, was one of the great evangelical Bible scholars of the twentieth century. He brought to all his writings a level of exegetical care and precision that is rare in any age, ensuring his writings still speak to this generation and future ones.

This volume of Vine's Topical Commentaries presents Vine's writings on the life and teachings of Christ.

...
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9. Caught by Harlan Coben Dutton Adult

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March 23, 2010, Street: 3/23
$27.95
Hardback
Fiction / Thrillers
9780525951582, 052595158X
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Summary: Wendy is a reporter on a mission: She's chasing down the lowest of the low—sexual predators—and exposing them on national television. Her big break comes when she nails a child advocate who works with abused and underserved children. She's there, cameras ro ...
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10. Hourglass by Claudia Gray HarperTeen

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March 2010, Ship Date: February 17, 2010
$16.99/$22.50 Can.
100K Print Run
Hardback
Juvenile Fiction / Horror & Ghost Stories
9780061284410, 0061284416
 
Summary: Star-crossed love and danger abound in the exciting sequel to Claudia Gray’s New York Times bestseller, Stargazer.


Bestselling author Claudia Gray’s Evernight series continues. In Hourglass, Bianca and Lucas have found a way to be together. But it means lying to the people who care about them the most.

After escaping from Evernight Academy, the vampire boarding school, Bianca and Lucas seek refuge with Black Cross, the elite group of vampire hunters led by Lucas’s stepfather. When Bianca’s close frie ...
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Wednesday
16Dec2009

December 16, 2009: Edelweiss Top 10 Tweeted Hardovers of 2009

Includes all hardcover titles listed in Edelweiss and published in 2009. Results are weighted to back half of year due to additional Edelweiss publisher coming on board and improvements in tracking implemented at mid-year.


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Juliet, Naked : a novel
Nick Hornby
September 2009
$25.95
Hardback
Fiction / Literary
9781594488870, 1594488878
 
Summary: Annie loves Duncan—or thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn't. Duncan really loves Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter who stopped making music ten years ago. Annie stops loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life
In doing so, she initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they've got. Tucker's been l ...
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End the Fed
Ron Paul
September 2009
$21.99/$26.99 Can.
Hardback
Political Science / Public Policy
9780446549196, 0446549193
 
Summary: In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve.

Most people think of the Fed as an indispensable institution without which the country's economy could not properly function. But in END THE FED, Ron Paul draw ...
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Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer
November 2009
$25.99/$31.99 Can.
Hardback
Nature / Animal Rights
9780316069908, 0316069906
 
Summary:
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal i ...
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The Magicians : A Novel
Lev Grossman
August 2009
$26.95
Hardback
Fiction / Fantasy
9780670020553, 0670020559
 
Summary:
Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the craft of modern sorcery.

He also discovers all the ot ...
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The Help
Kathryn Stockett
February 2009
$24.95
Hardback
Fiction / Literary
9780399155345, 0399155341
 
Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman ...
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What the Dog Saw : And Other Adventures
Malcolm Gladwell
October 2009
$27.99/$34.99 Can.
Hardback
Literary Collections / Essays
9780316075848, 0316075841
 
Summary: What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?
In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tippi ...
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Infinite Possibilities : The Art of Living Your Dreams
Mike Dooley
September 2009
$25.00/$32.99 Can.
125K Print Run
Hardback
Self-Help / Spiritual
9781582702261, 1582702268
 
Summary:

Understanding is the elixir that reveals your place in eternity, and with it your beliefs can be aligned and your imagination ignited to achieve anything you can dream of.

We are spiritual beings filled with infinite potential -- adventuring through a field of possibilities, creating our own reality, our own fate, and our own luck.

Infinite Possibilities is a fresh and inspiring look at how each of us can turn within ...
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Twitterville : How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods
Shel Israel
September 2009
$23.95
Hardback
Business & Economics / Marketing
9781591842798, 1591842794
 
Summary: Twitter is the most rapidly adopted communication tool in history, going from zero to ten million users in just over two years. On Twitter, word can spread faster than wildfire. Companies no longer have the option of ignoring the conversation.

Unlike other hot social media spaces, Twitterville is dominated by professionals, not students. And despite its size, it still feels like a small town. Twitter allows people to interact much the ...
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Bicycle Diaries
David Byrne
September 2009
$25.95
Hardback
Sports & Recreation / Cycling
9780670021147, 0670021148
 
Summary: Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them on tour. Byrne's choice was made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and the sense of liberation it provided. Convinced that urban biking opens one's eyes to ...
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Fearless : Imagine Your Life Without Fear
Max Lucado
September 2009, Ship Date: August 15, 2009
$24.99
Hardback / With dust jacket
Religion / Christian Life
9780849921391, 0849921392
 
Summary: Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

They're talking layoffs at work, slowdowns in the economy, flare-ups in the Middle East, turnovers at headquarters, downturns in the housing market, upswings in global warming. The plague of our day, terrorism, begins with the word terror. Fear, it seems, has taken up a hundred-year lease on the building next door and set up shop. Oversized and rude, fear herds us into a prison of u ...
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Friday
04Dec2009

December 4, 2009: Edelweiss Top 10 Tweeted December Hardcovers

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HarperCollins Adult Fall 2009 Additions Harper

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Pirate Latitudes : A Novel
Michael Crichton
$27.99/$35.99 Can.
Fiction / General
9780061929373, 0061929379
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Random House Children's Books Spring 2010 Page 190 Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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Fallen
Lauren Kate
$17.99/$22.99 Can.
Juvenile Fiction / Love & Romance
9780385738934, 0385738935
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Hachette Children's Fall 09/Winter 10 Page 89 Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Beautiful Creatures
Margaret Stohl, Kami Garcia
$17.99/$21.99 Can.
Juvenile Fiction / Love & Romance
9780316042673, 0316042676
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Drop-Ins: Fall 09 / Winter 10 Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Witch & Wizard
James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonn...
$17.99/$21.99 Can.
Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure
9780316036245, 0316036242
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Little Brown Spring/Summer 2009 Page 34 Little, Brown and Company

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Cleaving : A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession
Julie Powell
$24.99/$29.99 Can.
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
9780316003360, 0316003360
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Viking Winter 2010 Page 4 Viking Adult

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Shades of Grey : A Novel
Jasper Fforde
$25.95
Fiction / Literary
9780670019632, 0670019631
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Viking Winter 2010 Page 6 Viking Adult

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Summertime : Fiction
J. M. Coetzee
$25.95
Fiction / Literary
9780670021383, 0670021385
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HarperCollins Adult Fall 2009 Page 326 Collins Design

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The Visual Miscellaneum : A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia
David Mccandless
$26.99/$29.99 Can.
Reference / General
9780061748363, 0061748366
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Putnam Fall 2009 Page 34 Putnam Adult

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U is for Undertow
Sue Grafton
$27.95
Fiction / Mystery & Detective
9780399155970, 039915597X
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Viking Fall 2009 Page 43 Viking Adult

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Stones into Schools : Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Greg Mortenson
$26.95
Education / Educational Policy & Reform
9780670021154, 0670021156
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