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  • THE GOOD DOCTOR'S GUIDE TO COLDS & FLU
    NEIL SCHACHTER
    From colds to COVID, a top pulmonologist's guide to preventing and treating respiratory infections. From cold and flu to pneumonia and bronchitis; from tonsillitis and sinusitis to SARS and COVID-19: eminent Mount Sinai lung specialist and leading pulmonologist Neil Schacter, M.D., explains how to treat and prevent these illnesses. In  The Good Doctor's Guide to Colds and Flu, ...

    $251.00

  • THE 103RD BALLOT
    ROBERT KEITH MURRAY
    "A cool history of Democratic politics from the fall of Woodrow Wilson in 1920 to the rise of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932." — The New York Times Divided over the contentious issues of Prohibition and the Ku Klux Klan, a fractured Democratic Party met in the summer of 1924 to elect a presidential nominee. With drastically opposing views between front-runners William Gibbs McAd...

    $251.00

  • CANCEL THE WEDDING
    CAROLYN T. DINGMAN
    "A buried town, long-hidden secrets, more than one canceled wedding. . . . This is a book you can't wait to share with your friends." —Cassandra King, New York Times –bestselling author of The Same Sweet Girls and Moonrise On the surface, Olivia has it all: a high-powered career, a loving family, and a handsome fiancé. She even seems to be coming to terms with her mother Jane's...

    $274.00

  • UNTIL I SAY GOOD-BYE
    SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL / BRET WITTER
    Moving and inspirational reflections on life from one woman, diagnosed with ALS, making the most of her final days with family and friends. In June 2011, award–winning journalist Susan Spencer-Wendel was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a disease that systematically destroys nerves that power muscles. Forty-five ye...

    $229.00

  • WENDELL BLACK, M.D.
    GERALD IMBER
    A New York City police surgeon finds himself in the middle of an international drug-smuggling ring—or is it an even more dangerous conspiracy? After a heart-thumping drop in altitude on a flight from London to New York, NYPD police surgeon Wendell Black is called on to try to save a woman who has gone into cardiac arrest. He's just carrying out his duty, but his aid places him ...

    $164.00

  • NATURAL CAUSES
    JAMES OSWALD
    Edinburgh Detective Inspector Tony McLean is drawn into a set of cases separated by six decades, but connected by a macabre and brutal ritual killing in the first entry of the Detective Inspector MacLean mystery series. A young girl's mutilated body is discovered in a room that has lain sealed for the last sixty years. Her remains are carefully arranged in what seems to have be...

    $229.00

  • THE TRAGEDY OF THE TEMPLARS
    MICHAEL HAAG
    The acclaimed medieval historian chronicles the rise of Templar powers in the Levant—and the saga of their destruction. Founded on Christmas Day 1119 in Jerusalem, the Knights Templar was a religious order dedicated to defending the Holy Land and its Christian pilgrims in the decades after the First Crusade. Legendary for their bravery and dedication, the Templars became one of...

    $334.00

  • WHO SHOT YA?
    ERNIE PANICCIOLI
    Nearly thirty years ago, Ernie Paniccioli, considered by many to be the James Van Der Zee of the hiphop generation, began photographing graffiti art throughout New York City as well as the young people creating it. Armed with a 35-millimeter camera, Paniccioli literally recorded the beginning salvos of hiphop, today the most dominant youth culture on the planet. Be it Grandmast...

    $251.00

  • THE GENEVA OPTION
    ADAM LEBOR
    A gripping thriller of international espionage, The Geneva Option by Adam LeBor pits a sexy, young UN staffer against a brutal conspiracy to control Africa's natural resources.   Yael Azoulay does the United Nations' dirty work. Sent by the UN's Secretary General to eastern Congo to negotiate with Jean-Pierre Hakizimani, a Hutu warlord wanted for genocide, she offers a deal: su...

    $119.00

  • SUNDANCING
    JOHN ANDERSON
    Every winter, 8,000 feet above sea level in the Utah snow, the hopes and dreams of young moviemakers are put on display at the Sundance Film Festival--the haven for independent films where you can show up a kid and go home a star. In barely twenty years of existence, the festival--now overseen by Robert Redford's Sundance Institute--has assumed tremendous importance for today's...

    $251.00

  • EVER AFTER
    WILLIAM WHARTON
    In August of 1988, heavy black smoke engulfed an Oregon highway, causing a massive 23-car pileup that claimed the lives of novelist William Wharton's 36-year-old daughter, her husband, and their two infant daughters. They'd been victims of field burning, a routine agricultural practice, and were burned alive in their van. How could such a thing happen? And how could a father co...

    $119.00

  • YESTERDAY'S SUN
    AMANDA BROOKE
    Yesterday's Sun, a poignant debut novel from British author Amanda Brooke, finds a young woman having to choose between her own life and the life of her future child. When newly married Holly and her husband Tom move into a charming old manor house in the English countryside, she couldn't have predicted that a mystical moondial would change her life—and her destiny. In the styl...

    $119.00

  • THE SEVENTEEN SOLUTIONS
    RALPH NADER
    Consumer advocate, activist, humanitarian, and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader is arguably the most provocative and important progressive voice in America today—a fearless reformer whom The Atlantic named one of the 100 most influential figures in American history. In these troubling times of intractable fiscal and social distress, Nader offers a new program to help r...

    $274.00

  • THE THREAD
    VICTORIA HISLOP
    From the international bestselling author of The Island , a sweeping saga of love & friendship and the choices to be made when loyalties are challenged. "A brilliant page turner and destined to become a reading group staple, The Thread is rich with drama and historical detail." — Glamour (UK) Thessaloniki, Greece, 1917: As Dimitri Komninos is born, a fire sweeps through the thr...

    $249.00

  • PEACE, LOVE AND HEALING
    BERNIE S. SIEGEL
    A classic of patient empowerment, Peace, Love & Healing offered the revolutionary message that we have an innate ability to heal ourselves. Now proven by numerous scientific studies, the connection between our minds and our bodies has been increasingly accepted as fact throughout the mainstream medical community. In a new introduction, Dr. Bernie Siegel highligths current resea...

    $229.00

  • THE KILL BILL DIARY
    DAVID CARRADINE
    David Carradine is Bill—the complex, charismatic master assassin from the critically acclaimed, monstrously successful Kill Bill films. Throughout the filming of Quentin Tarantino's brilliant, violent epic, Carradine kept a daily diary—capturing all the action, the genius, the madness, and the magic that combined to make a masterpiece. More than simply an insider's close-up loo...

    $119.00

  • PROTECTING YOUR PARENTS' MONEY
    JEFF D. OPDYKE
    Wall Street Journal "Love and Money" columnist Jeff D. Opdyke offers a compassionate and highly effective handbook designed to help elderly parents manage their money. Protecting Your Parents' Money is the essential guide to helping Mom and Dad navigate the finances of retirement, covering such topics as understanding Medicare, preventing elder fraud, and the hunt for a quality...

    $251.00

  • CUBICLE WARFARE
    JOHN AUSTIN
    A guide to the best ways to lighten the mood at the office, from fun pranks to strategies for getting revenge on annoying coworkers Perfect for every cubicle drone whose eyes are beginning to glaze over from fluorescent lighting and too many burned cups of coffee, Cubicle Warfare is a guide to having fun during the daily grind. Readers will learn how to make their coworkers jum...

    $200.00

  • THE HAPPY HOOKER
    XAVIERA HOLLANDER / ROBIN MOORE / YVONNE DUNLEAVY
    The thirtieth anniversary edition of one of the modern classics of the sexual revolution—with a new Afterword by the author. How did  you first learn about sex? If you grew up in the 1970s, it may have been from a gleefully lusty tour guide named Xaviera Hollander. In the late 1960s—that era of sexual chaos, when Playboy Clubs and love-ins were competing for national attention—...

    $274.00

  • THE NINTH WIFE
    AMY STOLLS
    "A vibrant, nuanced novel about marriage . . . and the moment when we realize that the shimmer of fantasy pales next to the tumultuous reality of . . . happiness." — Carolyn Parkhurst, national bestselling author of The Dogs of Babel What sane woman would consider becoming any man's ninth wife? Bess Gray is a thirty-five-year-old folklorist and amateur martial artist living in ...

    $200.00

  • YOUR BABY IS SPEAKING TO YOU
    KEVIN NUGENT
    From an international expert on infant-parent communication, a rich and accessible gift book on baby "language," gorgeously illustrated with forty black-and-white photographs. Through intimate access to babies and their families, Dr. Kevin Nugent and acclaimed photographer Abelardo Morell capture the amazingly precocious communications strategies babies demonstrate from the mom...

    $338.00

  • THE TEMPLARS
    MICHAEL HAAG
    Arguably one of the most provocative, puzzling, and misunderstood organizations of medieval times, the legendary Knights Templar have always been shrouded in a veil of mystery, while inspiring popular culture from Indiana Jones to Dan Brown. In The Templars, author Michael Haag offers a definitive history of these loyal Christian soldiers of the Crusades—sworn to defend the Hol...

    $369.00

  • 500 GREAT BOOKS FOR TEENS
    ANITA SILVEY
    If you are looking for a book to give to a teenage reader, here's the reference you've been waiting for. Until now, there's been no accepted guide to what's good, bad, or indifferent in the flood of books coming off the presses in the hot new category of young-adult publishing. If it's true that you can't judge a book by its cover, it is especially true for teen books, as publi...

    $251.00

  • SHEBA
    NICHOLAS CLAPP
    Three thousand years ago, a dusky queen swept into the court of King Solomon, and from that time to the present day, her tale has been told and retold. Who was this queen? Did she really exist? In a quixotic odyssey that takes him to Ethiopia, Arabia, Israel, and even a village in France, Nicholas Clapp seeks the underlying truth behind the multifaceted myth of the queen of She...

    $274.00

  • THE CITY BELOW
    JAMES CARROLL
    A New York Times Notable Book "A rich, seductive meld of characters real and fictive, of history and fancy."  —  New York Times Book Review In this compelling family saga set during a tumultuous era in Boston history, 1960-1984, acclaimed author James Carroll chronicles the lives of two brothers, Nick and Terry Doyle, as they strive to move beyond the strictures of their workin...

    $251.00

  • BLOOD RELATIONS
    JONATHAN MOORE
    An Edgar Award Finalist from a writer who’s been compared to Michael Crichton, Alfred Hitchcock, and Raymond Chandler takes us to the most menacing core of California’s upper crust, a class of billionaires with more money than they could spend in eternity. Who is Claire Gravesend? So wonders PI Lee Crowe when he finds her dead, in a fine cocktail dress, on top of a Rolls Royce,...

    $273.49

  • THE DETECTIVE & THE PIPE GIRL
    MICHAEL CRAVEN
    "[A] suspenseful, well-plotted neo-noir set in L.A. . . .[features] a quirky, thoughtful detective with a wry sense of humor and a philosophical bent." — Publishers Weekly, starred review Los Angeles Private Detective John Darvelle is a man of specific tastes—simple design, smart women, cheap American beer. He's a man of specific opinions—drive a car nobody can remember, avoid ...

    $119.00

  • THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
    ALEXANDRA MARSHALL
    "Marshall has the essential novelist's gift, the creation of vivid characters," said the New York Times. In her new novel, she has again created a cast both real and vibrant. At sixty-three, Judge Gregory Brennan is on the brink of retirement. With his youngest daughter headed for college, he envisions traveling abroad, basking in a repose that his demanding career has not allo...

    $327.49

  • SOMETHING BORROWED
    ALEXANDRA MARSHALL
    "Finally, a book about grown-ups," said Ellen Goodman of Something Borrowed, a sparkling love story of unresolved relationships and unexpected second chances. Gale and Gary are a divorced couple reunited, after fifteen years, at their son's wedding - where, to their own astonishment, old passions are rekindled. It's a novel "full of wise observation, mordant wit, and a fine com...

    $272.99

  • ANGRY WIND
    JEFFREY TAYLER
    Hailed by Bill Bryson and the New York Times Book Review as a rising star among travel writers, Jeffrey Tayler penetrates one of the most isolated, forbidding regions on earth--the Sahel. This lower expanse of the Sahara, which marks the southern limit of Islam’s reach in West and Central Africa, boasts such mythologized places as Mopti and Timbuktu, as well as Africa’s poorest...

    $273.49


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