Archive for January, 2008

The Middle Place (Voice) (Hardcover)

Cynthia Kaplan, author of Why I’m Like This and Leave the Building Quickly“Kelly Corrigan’s utterly absorbing memoir, The Middle Place, is wry, smart, and often heart-wrenching. Corrigan takes us down memory lane and then, at the same time, down some other, darker road most of us hope never to travel. Yet we follow her […]

January 30th, 2008 - Posted in Books

Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (Hardcover)

Bookseller (UK), October 8, 2007“The influential economist and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of of free markets with the quest for a more humane world. Includes stories of companies that are already doing social business.”
Publishers Weekly, November 26, 2007“Infused with entrepreneurial […]

January 30th, 2008 - Posted in Books

Vampires Are Forever (Argeneau Vampires, Book 8) (Mass Market Paperback)

Inez Urso is beginning to have her doubts. Her business associate Thomas Argeneau has some interesting traits, like an allergic reaction to the sun, excellent night vision, and not much of an appetite for food. And to top it all off, he just tried to bite her neck . . . but maybe that […]

January 30th, 2008 - Posted in Books

Fasting (Hardcover)

In one of the best available books on the topic, Franklin explains the spiritual power of fasting and offers a deeper understanding of God’s plan for fasting and the benefits available to those who participate. Those who seek God through fasting can expect tremendous rewards both for their personal lives and the church. They will […]

January 30th, 2008 - Posted in Books

Beautiful Children: A Novel (Hardcover)

One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn’t come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son’s room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy’s father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he […]

January 30th, 2008 - Posted in Books

Strangers in Death (In Death) (Hardcover)

Technology may be different in 2060 New York, yet the city is still a place of many cultures and great divides. But as ever, some murders receive more attention than others-especially those in which the victim is a prominent businessman, found in his Park Avenue apartment, tied to the bed-and strangled-with cords of black velvet.
It […]

January 30th, 2008 - Posted in Books

Life Class: A Novel (Hardcover)

Esquire“Pat Barker understands the dynamics of psychic trauma and shutdown as well as any living writer.” –This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Review
Advance Praise for Life Class:
“This is a story about hopeful ambitions and relationships redirected and reshaped by a climate of catastrophic change.…[It] render[s] the horrors of combat with (Barker’s trademark) meticulously researched […]

January 30th, 2008 - Posted in Books

T is for Trespass (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries) (Hardcover)

tres¥pass \’trespes\ n: a transgression of law involving one’s obligations to God or to one’s neighbor; a violation of moral law; an offense; a sin-Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition, Unabridged
In what may be her most unsettling novel to date, Sue Grafton’s T is for Trespass is also her most direct confrontation with the forces […]

January 30th, 2008 - Posted in Books

Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking (Hardcover)

There’s nothing like the smell of freshly baked bread to fill a kitchen with warmth, eager appetites, and endless praise for the baker who took on such a time-consuming task. Now, you can fill your kitchen with the irresistible aromas of a French bakery every day with just five minutes of active preparation time, and […]

January 30th, 2008 - Posted in Books

Her Last Death: A Memoir (Hardcover)

Her Last Death begins as the phone rings early one morning in the Montana house where Susanna Sonnenberg lives with her husband and two young sons. Her aunt is calling to tell Susanna her mother is in a coma after a car accident. She might not live. Any daughter would rush the thousands of miles […]

January 30th, 2008 - Posted in Books

The Bush Tragedy (Hardcover)

This is the book that cracks the code of the Bush presidency. Unstintingly yet compassionately, and with no political ax to grind, Slate editor in chief Jacob Weisberg methodically and objectively examines the family and circle of advisers who played crucial parts in George W. Bush’s historic downfall.
In this revealing and defining portrait, Weisberg uncovers […]

January 30th, 2008 - Posted in Books

Clique #9, The: Bratfest at Tiffany’s (Clique Series) (Paperback)

The Clique tells the story of an elite group of thirteen-year-old girls from the wealthy suburbs north of New York City, the likes of whom the world has never before seen. Through the coolly observant eyes of their leader, Massie Block, we enter a sophisticated suburban world of ferocious put-downs, fabulous gossip, and fantastic Frederic […]

January 30th, 2008 - Posted in Books