Non-Fiction
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The Numerati
Stephen Baker
In this tour de force of original reporting and analysis, journalist
Stephen Baker provides us with a fascinating guide to the world we're
all entering, in which a global math elite is predicting and altering
our behavior -- at work, at the mall, and in bed.
Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewal
Richard Barrios
Captivating, myth-breaking, and funny, Screened Out is for all
film aficionados and for anyone who has sat in a dark movie theater...
All
New Square Foot Gardening
Mel Bartholomew
Newest version of the best-selling gardening book of all time introduces
this 25-year-old method to a new generation of gardeners.

The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules...
John Battelle
"Nobody, and I mean nobody, has thought longer, harder, or smarter about
Google and the search business than John Battelle…" - John Heilemann,
Pride Before the Fall
A
Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah
In A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah tells
his experience as a child soldier from Sierra Leone.
Pathway to Purpose for Women
Katie Brazelton
his how-to guide, filled with personal stories, helps women discover
where their God-given passions align with their God-ordained purposes.
Perfect for those who read The Purpose-Driven Life. With
discussion guide.
Chamberlain Bros. Interntnl Student Film Fest
Kim Brown
"A bona fide smasheroo."
-The Boox Review
Six hot directors offer survival tips for the movie set and classroom.
Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
Howard Bryant
This well written and poignant work contains striking interviews in
which blacks who played for the Red Sox speak for the first time about
their experiences in Boston.

The
Success Principles (US edition)
Jack Canfield
The author of the phenomenal bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul
series- with more than 80 million books sold and 11 #1 bestsellers-
turns to the secrets of success as the cornerstone of his next
franchise.

Anchored
In Love
John Carter Cash
The book and companion tribute CD, Anchored In Love, warmly
depict June Carter Cash through the eyes of her son.
Reach for the Stars
Judy Clark
Years of experience, vocal training by a real maestro, and no-nonsense
information on how to properly develop, train and exercise your voice
are packed into this inspirational master work.
Truckbusters
from Dogpatch
Tracy Connors
Truckbusters From Dogpatch: The Combat Diary of the 18th Fighter-Bomber
Wing in the Korean War, 1950-1953, is the incredible story of the
men--pilots, ground crew and supporting elements--whose achievements and
records during that bloody conflict made U. S. Air Force history.
Swimming to Antarctica
Lynne Cox
With a poet's eye for detail, legendary swimmer Lynne Cox shares the
beauty of her time in the water in this new classic of sports memoir. .
I Feel Great And You Will Too!
Pat Croce with
Bill Lyon
With the same unstoppable character that has made him a favorite
motivational speaker of Fortune 500 executives, Pat Croce recounts the
moments that taught him to strive for and achieve greatness.
Three Hour Diet
Jorge Cruise
America's #1 online weight-loss specialist is shaping up the nation!
Jorge Cruise offers a revolutionary new diet book with proven results -
the key to quick and effective weight loss.
It's a Long Way from Penny Apples
Bill Cullen
No matter what life throws you, life is great! This is the mantra of a heartwarming memoir about overcoming adversity in Dublin’s Summerhill
slums...
The
God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
A preeminent scientist—and the world's most prominent atheist—asserts
the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has
inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.
The Way of the Wild Heart
John Eldredge
In The Way of the Wild Heart, best-selling author John Eldredge
shows men how God longs to complete their growth through the six stages
of manhood and equip them as fathers to initiate their sons into
manhood.
God Factor
Cathleen Falsani
From the Chicago Sun-Times's popular religion writer, a series of
surprising and illuminating conversations with cultural icons on the
meaning of faith.
The Truth (With Jokes)
Al Franken
Al Franken's most powerful and thought-provoking book to date, THE TRUTH
(with jokes) takes dead (and comedic) aim at the defining moments of the
Bush Administration.
Snowstruck
Jill Fredston
Having spent decades trying to keep avalanches and people apart, Fredston brings them together unforgettably in Snowstruck.
The
Big Moo
Seth Godin
33 of the world's best business minds tackle one urgent question: What
does it take to make your organization remarkable?
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Jennifer Gonnerman
Life on the Outside is the first major work of journalism on the
subject of re-entry: the challenge of leaving prison and re-entering the
free world, a journey that...
A Woman's Guide to Manifestation: Creating Your Reality with Conscious
Intent
Bianca Guerra
This book will lead you into a world of self-discovery and
manifestation. It will teach you how to create your life exactly as you
want and...
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The 8 Steps to Manifestation
Bianca Guerra
This book will lead you into a world of unlimited possibilities for
creation, yet allow you to work from within the framework of a
structured and concrete world.
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Live
Through This
Debra Gwartney
Debra Gwartney's harrowing and deeply personal account of two young
girls who are determined to disappear—-any parent's nightmare—-and the
eventual journey back to fierce mother-daughter love.
America Alone: The Neoconservatives and the Global Order
Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke
Used wisely, America's immense military power can preserve freedom but
used unwisely, it can fracture global stability.
God Vs. The Gavel
Marcy Hamilton
This book exposes disturbing injustices, neglect and harm as it shows
why religious organizations do not always merit excessive constitutional
protection.
Open Wide the Freedom Gates
Dr. Dorothy Height
A heroine of the Civil Rights Movement tells the remarkable story of her
life, her work, and what it means to be both black and a woman.
Lost
Cyclist
David Herlihy
In the late 1880s, Frank Lenz of Pittsburgh, a renowned high-wheel racer
and long-distance tourist, dreamed of cycling around the world.
Passionate Pinky and the Evolutionary Experiment
Carol Heywood-Babrauskas
A personal journal that tells of the multidimensional and mythological
adventures of the author since her third eye was suddenly opened in
1987. The many brightly colored illustrations make the stories come to
life.
Madness - A Bipolar Life
Marya Hornbacher
From the author of the bestselling Wasted, an utterly
self-revealing and heart-stopping memoir.
After
9/11
America’s War on Terror (2001- )
Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon
Working from a variety of news sources, Jacobson and Colón, creators of
the bestselling THE 9/11 REPORT: A Graphic Adaptation, have created a
gripping, graphic narrative which depicts not only the critical events,
decision makers, and consequences of America's seven-year-long “war on
terror,” but shows us clearly and forcefully how it began, unfolded, and
unraveled.
The
9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
Sid Jacobson
and Ernie Colón
Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón have used every skill and storytelling
method they learned over the decades to produce the most accessible
version of the final report of the 9/11 Commission.
Hedges
Jerry Jenkins
This book helps you establish protective “hedges” around your marriage
to avoid compromising situations and prevent giving temptation a
foothold.
Lennon Revealed
Larry Kane
This book brings readers closer than ever to John Lennon, who in life
and in death, had a singular impact on humanity.
No Victims Only Survivors
Deborah Scaling Kiley
Kiley not only survived a shipwreck, she has also survived a childhood
of abuse, neglect, bulimia, drugs, rejection, and lovelessness. In this
book, she tells her story and explains how it taught her the ten lessons
she has learned for survival.
To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, A Son, and a Lifelong Obsession
Dan Koeppel
From a well-known nature writer comes a narrative that explores a
life-long obsession with competitive birding, and the love loss between
a father and son.
Inklings
Jeff Koterba
When Jeffrey Koterba was six, he started drawing his first cartoons,
painstakingly copying from the Sunday Omaha World Herald’s funny
papers and making up his own characters. With a pen and a sheet of white
paper, he was able to escape into a world that was clean, expansive, and
comfortable—a refuge from the pandemonium surrounding him.
American Ground, Unbuilding the World Trade Center
William Langewieschel
American Ground is the story-until now untold-of the people who
responded to the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11,
2001.

Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything.
Reinventing
Ourselves after Motherhood
Susan Lewis
Reinventing Ourselves After Motherhood addresses the day-to-day
challenges mothers face balancing child rearing with their personal
desires as they strive to reinvent themselves.
Thanks of the Memories
Pat Lovely
In 2002, after six hurricanes and a city remodeling project, P. J.’s
Restaurant in North Carolina closed. This cookbook contains the
restaurants "secret" recipes as a way for the owner, Pat Lovely, to
thank her customers for 16 years of memories.
Cyber Lies
John Lucich
Examine your spouse's computer or cell phone to find out if they are
cheating. Written by one of the foremost computer forensic experts in the country
and he now shares his secrets with you.
The
Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body
David Macaulay
The MacArthur "genius" and Caldecott medalist David Macaulay explains
the most complicated machine of all: the human body.
Lifting Depression - The Chromium Connection
Malcolm Noell McLeod, M.D.
The story of a psychiatrist's search to help his patients overcome
depression, and the medical discovery that is changing people's lives.
How to be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood
William Mann
How Elizabeth Taylor ignited the sexual revolution with her on-and
off-screen passions, helped kick down the studio system by taking
control of her own career, and practically invented the big business of
celebrity star-making.
Positively Fifth Street
James McManus
Rough sex, black magic, murder, and the science - and eros - of gambling
meet in the ultimate book about Las Vegas. A New York Times
Bestseller.
It's
Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business
Christopher Meyer and Stan Davis
The startling developments in information, biological, and molecular
technologies will shift our economy as rapidly as PCs...
With Liberty and Justice For All
Kate Michelman
An urgent, personal, and politically impassioned memoir about the right
a woman has to shape her own life and assume her equal place in American
society.
Reinventing Gravity: A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein
John W. Moffat
A bold revision of one of the most successful theories of all time:
Einstein's general theory of relativity.
So Help Me God
Chief Justice Roy Moore
Chief Justice Roy Moore believes government officials have the right and
obligation to acknowledge God as the foundation of government and law.
Borderline Personalities
Michelle Herrera Mulligan & Robyn Moreno
A sassy collection of essays from some of the most exciting writers in
America about what it means to be a fully functional 21st century
Latina.
Doctors in Peril: How They Cope
Dr. George Nicklin
Thirteen autobiographical accounts of individuals (11 physicians) who
contended with death and/or life threatening situations or illnesses.
Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
Oxford University Press
This brand new thesaurus from Oxford, the most trusted name in
reference, is the first to be developed by writers, for writers.
Confessions
of an Economic Hitman
John Perkins
Fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex,
murder. John Perkins shares the insider details of international
corporate skullduggery in this gripping tell-all book.
BUSINESS: The Ultimate Resource
Perseus Publishing
With original essays from more than 150 world-renowned business
thinkers, leaders, academics, and practitioners, BUSINESS will be the
gold standard of business information for the twenty-first century.
Gaming
the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It)
William Poundstone
William Poundstone's Gaming the Vote is a wry exposé of how the
political system really works, and a call to action.
Eating for Beginners
Melanie Rehak
With grace, humor, and irresistible recipes, the author of Girl Sleuth takes us on her journey as an amateur chef, amateur farmer, and amateur parent.
Gourmet Today
Ruth Reichl
Featuring more than 1,000 recipes, menus for holidays and other seasonal
occasions, an authoritative glossary of ingredients, and hundreds of
sidebars, "Gourmet Today" is the indispensable book for today's cook.
Lessons for Dylan
Susan Richards
A memoir about the restorative gifts from taking care of an animal—the
importance of constancy, the beauty of quiet, steadfast love, the way
loving a good (and sometimes bad!) animal can keep you going.
Turn Off the Hunger Switch
Dr. Paul Rivas
The revolutionary new program that changes brain chemistry, so you can
lose weight permanently, without ever feeling hungry.
Picture Perfect Prescription
Dr. Howard Shapiro
Bestselling author Dr. Howard Shapiro offers an easy-to-use guide to
better health and a more active life. Includes CD and DVD with helpful
demos.
Lighting
Up
Susan Shapiro
Acclaimed memoirist Susan Shapiro returns with LIGHTING UP, her
hilarious tale about giving up smoking and other addictions ...
including therapy!
Beautiful
Boy
David Sheff
Sheff's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point
of view—a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance
abuse and the gradual emergence into hope.
Lessons for Dylan
Joel Siegel
Good Morning America's beloved movie critic shares with his son - and
readers - what he's learned in fifty-four years of an extraordinary life
in a poignant, funny, wise, and entertaining memoir.
Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary
Anne Soukhanov (ed.)
Designed to both describe and prescribe, the Microsoft® Encarta®
College Dictionary reveals what exists in today's language, and
gives concrete information on what is correct and incorrect regarding
words and does so with the authority students expect from a traditional
dictionary.
The Essential Stephen King
Stephen Spignesi
The Essential Stephen King is a must for both serious and casual
Stephen King fans as well as lovers of superb contemporary literature.
The Turk
Tom Standage
Part historical detective story, part biography, The Turk relates
the saga of the machine's remarkable and checkered career against the
backdrop of the industrial revolution.
I've Seen a Lot of Famous People Naked, and They've Got Nothing on You!
Jake Steinfeld
"Body by Jake" founder Jake Steinfeld has helped millions of people pump
up their bodies, their health, and their self-confidence. But their
businesses? You bet!
Tinsel:
A Search for America's Christmas Present
Hank Stuever
In TINSEL, Hank Stuever turns his unerring eye for the idiosyncrasies of
modern life to Frisco, Texas, a suburb at once all-American and
completely itself, to tell the story of the nation’s most over-the-top
celebration: Christmas
An
American Hedge Fund: How I Made $2 Million as a Stock Operator & Created
a Hedge Fund
Timothy Sykes
$2 trillion is invested in the hedge fund industry, and yet, due to
regulations, the general public knows little about them. This is the
story of a hedge fund created from scratch, it will educate and inspire
everyone.
Surf Diva
Izzy and Coco Tihanyi
From the founders of the original surf school for women, SURF DIVA is a
witty, irreverent lifestyle book and an informative how-to guide.
What's New, Cupcake?
Karen Tack and Alan Richardson
The endlessly imaginative duo who turned cupcaking into a national
pastime is back, with utterly new, eye-popping creations anyone can
make.
Hello Cupcake!
Karen Tack and Alan Richardson
America's favorite food photography team, responsible for the covers of
America's top magazines, shows how to create funny, scary, and
sophisticated masterpieces, using a zipper lock bag and common candies
and snack items.
Talk to the Hand
Lynne Truss
In the spirit of her international #1 bestseller Eats, Shoots &
Leaves, Lynne Truss takes on the sorry state of modern manners.
The Good, the Bad, and Me
Eli Wallach
The sparkling memoir of a movie icon's life in the footlights and on
camera.
Integral Numerology
Suzanne Wagner
Numerology is fun, easy to learn, and profoundly helpful in
understanding yourself as well as those in your life. In Integral
Numerology, you will explore the meaning of numbers and how those
numbers can be associated with astrological signs and planets.
Integral Tarot
Suzanne Wagner
Anyone curious about Tarot will enjoy the ease and depth of Integral
Tarot. This book uncovers the mysteries surrounding this ancient form of
divination in a way that the modern mind can understand and integrate.
The World of Caffeine
Bennett Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K. Bealer
Here is the first natural, cultural and artistic history of our favorite
mood enhancer -- its discovery; its early uses; and its unexpected
importance in medicine, religion, painting, poetry, learning and love.
Blood in the Cage
L. Jon Wertheim
Based on unlimited access to the Ultimate Fighting Championship and its
rival leagues, Blood in the Cage peers through the chain-link Octagon
into the frighteningly seductive world of mixed martial arts, which is
exploding in popularity despite resistance from every corner.
Fly Fishing: The Lifetime Sport
David & Cheryl Young
Fly fishing worshippers seeking a new "bible" will benefit greatly from
the wealth of information found in "Fly Fishing: the Lifetime Sport", a
comprehensive yet highly readable reference tool for fly fishermen of
any skill level.
