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Shadow Country_ A New Rendering - Peter Matthiessen
2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Peter Matthiessen's great American epic-Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River, and Bone by Bone-was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but be... -
Seven Dirty Words_ The Life and - James Sullivan
From Publishers WeeklyA recipient of the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, stand-up comedian Carlin (1937–2008) wrote three bestselling humor books and looked bac... -
Pinheads and Patriots_ Where Yo - Bill O'Reilly
SUMMARY: When Bill O'Reilly interviewed then-Senator Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential elections, the two had a lively debate about the nation's future. Since that time, Am... -
Matchless_ A Christmas Story - Gregory Maguire
SUMMARY: Every year, NPR asks a writer to compose an original story with a Christmas theme. In 2008, Gregory Maguire reinvented the Hans Christian Andersen classic "The Little Matc... -
Lost on Planet China_ One Man's - J. Maarten Troost
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best of the Month, July 2008: Maarten Troost is a laowai (foreigner) in the Middle Kingdom, ill-equipped with a sliver of Mandarin, q... -
Liberating Atlantis - Harry Turtledove
FromStarred Review Followers of Turtledove’s Atlantis trilogy (Opening Atlantis, 2007; The United States of Atlantis, 2008; and this book) won’t be surprised that it concludes wit.... -
Inside Steve's Brain, Expanded - Leander Kahney
One of USA Today's Best Business Books of 2008—now updated with a new chapter It's hard to believe that one man revolutionized computers in the 1970s and '80s (with the Apple II an... -
Ice Trilogy - Vladimir Sorokin; Jamey Gambrel
From Publishers WeeklySorokin's epic trilogy, originally published between 2002 and 2005, expands the enigma of the 1908 Tunguska meteorite blast into an impressive merger of metap... -
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorce - Nujood Ali;Delphine Minoui;Lind
From BooklistChosen by Glamour magazine as a Woman of the Year in 2008, Nujood of Yemen has become an international hero for her astonishingly brave resistance to child marriage. S... -
Flight Into Darkness - Sarah Ash
From Publishers WeeklySinger and spy Celestine de Joyeuse must finally come to terms with her father's legacy in this complex sequel to 2008's Tracing the Shadow. While serving Fr....