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DECEPTION POINT
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Author:Dan Brown
A shocking scientific discovery.
A conspiracy of staggering brilliance.
A thriller unlike any you've ever read....
When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory -- a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery -- a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before she can warn the President, Rachel and Michael are ambushed by a deadly team of assassins. Fleeing for their lives across a desolate and lethal landscape, their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this masterful plot. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.
Retails:$5.00
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ANGELS AND DEMONS
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Author:Dan Brown
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code comes the explosive thriller that started it all.
An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to his first assignment to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the Catholic Church.
Retails:$13.00
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THE POLAR EXPRESS
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Author:Chris Van Allsburg
One couldn't select a more delightful and exciting premise for a children's book than the tale of a young boy lying awake on Christmas Eve only to have Santa Claus sweep by and take him on a trip with other children to the North Pole. And one couldn't ask for a more talented artist and writer to tell the story than Chris Van Allsburg.
"Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me as it does for all who truly believe." --The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
The Polar Express, written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsberg, is a children's book where a magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus. A winner of the Caldecott Medal, this book was released in 1985 and is the basis for the movie featuring Tom Hanks.
Retails:$18.95
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THE BROTHERHOOD TO MANHOOD
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Author:Anderson J. Franklin
In this important book, the foremost African American expert on black male psychology draws on more than twenty-five years of success in counseling black men to expose the invisibility syndrome?the source of indignation, disillusionment, anger, depression, isolation, and substance abuse stemming from lifelong racial tension. Using dozens of stories from his clinical practice to show how mixed messages undermine the black male?s passionate quest for respect and dignity in manhood, Dr. Anderson Franklin lays out simple but effective ways to spot the traps, deal with hidden crises, and encourage authentic personal power.
Retails:$24.99
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FANNIN THE FLAMES
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Author:Ebony Satin Brown
The fire and rescue squad from Los Angeles County's Fire Department Station Twenty-seven's "C-Shift" was a rock-solid team. The camaraderie among them was only made stronger by the fact that they were all minority. But when their unit becomes the prey of a perverse trickster, their loyalties to one another are deepened to the core.
Someone on the inside is trying to sabotage C-Shift, and Jerome White and his longtime mentor, Capt. Lloyd Frederickson, are certain it's racially motivated. When the Fire Department chief balks at an internal investigation, Lloyd and Jerome have no choice but to take matters into their own hands.
Retails:$21.99
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THEY CALL ME MISS DIVINE
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Author:Tri Smith
Vivid and very sexy, They Call Me Miss Divine is the story of Rakim Moet Divine. Unapologetic and seductive, Rakim's honest voice reveals her motivations for licking cream and stacking green from the Street. Dragged into the Life from country roots, Miss Divine excels quickly on the fast track, made to run Game. She's a "Big Girl," a platinum magnet. Her beauty and clever mind keep her cold. Her sizzling passion makes her shameless. Naughty and irresistible, Rakim loves to stroke. But even a street-diamond like Miss Divine can slip up and meet her heart. And his name is Shipell. A flawless brother living a flawless life with "more than one honey dripping money," Shipell knocks Rakim off her feet into love's rushing tide. But emotions flip the script for him too, because Rakim rests on his success. He has to walk away.
Retails:$14.00
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BROTHERHOOD
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Author:Gregory B. Williams
It tells a story of a single parent African American man (Solomon Woods) raising his teen son to know right from wrong. Solomon Woods struggles to balance his business, drug habits, a relationship with God, his son Isaiah, and a few women.
Retails:$15.00
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WHEN LOVED ONES LIE
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Author:Pat Tucker
How far should a man go to prove his love for his wife? As Greg and Rena enter counseling as a last ditch effort to salvage a marriage on the rocks, they discover what happens when an unfulfilled fantasy goes beyond curiosity. Will their marriage survive explosive episodes of scandal and sexual escapades, or will they lose the things that mean the most to them?
Join author Torrian Ferguson as he takes us on a journey onto the erotic, mysterious, and taboo lifestyle of Swingers.
Retails:$14.95
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EXCLUSIVE
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Author:Yasmin Shiraz
Tisha is on her way to interview Shout and has decided that she's gonna make him love her. But, with Shout's lust for groupie companionship and easy sex, does he have other plans? Vindictive music executive Jordan Ellis can't keep her mind off Shout and is willing to hurt anyone who comes near him. Add high-powered, short-fused publicist Boom Tillman to the mix and a lesbian prostitute and this book delivers more excitement on every page. By the end of this drama someone's on life support but who will it be?
Retails:$13.95
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THE NY TIMES GUIDE FOR IMMIGRANTS TO NYC
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The New York Times Guide for Immigrants to New York City: in English, Spanish & Chinese
Author:Joan Nassivera
Introducing a vital resource to help with the sometimes bewildering experience of settling in America's biggest city: The New York Times Guide for Immigrants in New York City. Filled with insights and advice from experts as well as inspirational stories from earlier immigrants, it answers common questions about health care, housing, employment and education, providing helpful referrals to the city's leading immigration support groups. Produced in collaboration with the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, The New York Times Guide for Immigrants in New York City has advice for English, Spanish and Chinese-speaking people, all in one street-savvy, user-friendly volume
Retails:$14.95
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HOUR GAME
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Author:David Baldacci
As a series of brutal murders darkens the Wrightsburg, Virginia countryside, the killer taunts police by leaving watches on the victims set to the hour corresponding with their position on his hit list. What's more, he strives to replicate notorious murders of the past, improving on them through savage attention to detail. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are already investigating a crime involving an aristocratic and dysfunctional Southern family, but when they're deputized to help in the serial killer hunt they realize the two cases may be connected. Adding to the tension is the appearance of a second killer, this one imitating the murders of the first. Soon, the two killers are playing a game of cat and mouse, with King and Maxwell racing to solve the intricate puzzle of their identities-before the body count escalates.
Retails:$26.95
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AMERICA
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
Author:writers of the Daily Show
Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots, deliver a hilarious look at American government.
American-style democracy is the world's most beloved form of government, which explains why so many other nations are eager for us to impose it on them. But what is American democracy? In AMERICA (THE BOOK), Jon Stewart and The Daily Show writing staff offer their insights into our unique system of government, dissecting its institutions, explaining its history and processes, and exploring the reasons why concepts like one man, one vote, government by the people, and every vote counts have become such popular urban myths. Topics include: Ancient Rome: The First Republicans; The Founding Fathers: Young, Gifted, and White; The Media: Can it Be Stopped?; and more!
Retails:$24.95
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THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN
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Author:Mitch Albom
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"
Retails:$19.95
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TEARS FOR WATER
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Author:Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys shares the joys and sorrows that inspired her hit songs. Includes lyrics for 28 songs and poetry from her personal writings.
Retails:$19.95
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THE WENDY WILLIAMS EXPERIENCE
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Author:Wendy Williams
Wendy Williams reveals the scandals, the drama and the feuds, involving the entertainment industry's hottest stars.
Retails:$23.95
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THE COLDEST WINTER EVER GIFT EDITION
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Author:Sister Souljah
This special gift edition of Sister Souljah's gritty urban classic includes the author's new foreword, character analysis, a Q&A; and more.
Retails:$21.95
October 2004
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YOUR BODY'S CALLING ME
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Author:Jake Brown
The unauthorized biography on R. Kelly! From his childhood abuse and poverty to the charges of child pornography, Jake Brown covers it all.
Retails:$13.95
October 2004
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YEAH, I SAID IT
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Author:Wanda Sykes
In this hilarious collection of brief essays, Sykes offers her outlandish insight on everything from Michael Jackson to McDonald's to gay marriage.
Retails:$23.00
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LUTHER
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Author:Craig Seymour
This first-ever authorized biography of four-time Grammy, Award-winning crooner Luther Vandross covers his life, his work, his feuds and his legacy.
Retails:$25.95
July 2004
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WHEN THE ENEMY STRIKES
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Author:Charles F. Stanley
With uplifting insight and sound biblical teaching, this book will help you recognize the devil and call on the power of God to strengthen you.
Retails:$19.99
September 2004
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MOTHER ETERNAL ANN EVERLASTIN'S DEAD
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Author:Pat G'Orge-Walker
After Mother Eternal dies, Sister Betty must deliver three $1 million checks to three different pastors. But others have plans for the money first?.
Retails:$24.00
July 2004
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THE DAVINCI CODE-SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED EDITION
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Author:Dan Brown
One of the bestselling novels of all time, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has intrigued and thrilled millions of readers around the world. Now all the artwork, symbols, architecture, and historic locations?over 160 images,are beautifully compiled in this full-color collector's edition.
Retails:$30.00
ISBN: 0385513755
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THE PAT CONROY COOKBOOK
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Author:Pat Conroy, Suzanne Williamson Pollak
This book is the story of my life as it relates to the subject of food. It is my autobiography in food and meals and restaurants and countries far and near. Let me take you to a restaurant on the Left Bank of Paris that I found when writing The Lords of Discipline. There are meals I ate in Rome while writing The Prince of Tides that ache in my memory when I resurrect them. There is a shrimp dish I ate in an elegant English restaurant, where Cuban cigars were passed out to all the gentlemen in the room after dinner, that I can taste on my palate as I write this. There is barbecue and its variations in the South, and the subject is a holy one to me. I write of truffles in the Dordogne Valley in France, cilantro in Bangkok, catfish in Alabama, scuppernong in South Carolina, Chinese food from my years in San Francisco, and white asparagus from the first meal my agent took me to in New York City. Let me tell you about the fabulous things I have eaten in my life, the story of the food I have encountered along the way. . .
Retails:$26.00
ISBN: 0385514131
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THE PAT CONROY COOKBOOK
Large Print
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Author:Pat Conroy, Suzanne Williamson Pollak
An accomplished cook in addition to being a successful author, Conroy shares more than 100 memorable recipes and memories from his life.
Retails:$26.00
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THE PAT CONROY COOKBOOK
Abridged-Audio Cassette
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Author:Pat Conroy, Suzanne Williamson Pollak
An accomplished cook in addition to being a successful author, Conroy shares more than 100 memorable recipes and memories from his life.
Retails:$26.00
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THE PAT CONROY COOKBOOK
Abridged Audio CD
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Author:Pat Conroy, Suzanne Williamson Pollak
An accomplished cook in addition to being a successful author, Conroy shares more than 100 memorable recipes and memories from his life.
Retails:$26.00
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THE FAMILY
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The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
Author:Kitty Kelley
They have wielded enormous financial power and dominated world politics for more than half a century. They have been appointed to positions of great power and have been elected as governors, congressmen, senators and presidents. They have shaped our past and, with our country at war under the leadership of their number one son, they are, more critically than ever, shaping our future.
Retails:$29.95
ISBN: 0385503245
September 2004
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CRITICAL CONDITION
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Author:Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
Exposing the most controversial, little-known practices of America's most flawed system, Time magazine's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team pulls back the curtain on the health care industry to explain exactly how things grew so out of control.
Dirty examination and operating rooms in doctor's offices and hospitals . . . Health care executives pulling in millions in bonuses for denying treatment to the sick . . . More than 100 million people with inadequate or no medical coverage . . . This may sound like the predicament of a third-world nation, but this is America's health care reality today. The U.S. spends more on health care than any other nation, yet our benefits are shrinking and life expectancy is shorter here than in countries that spend significantly less per capita. Meanwhile, HMOs, pharmaceutical companies, and hospital chains reap tremendous profits, while politicians, beholden to insurers and drug companies, enact legislation for the benefit of the few rather than the many, while the entire system is on the verge of collapse.
Retails:$24.95
ISBN: 0385504543
October 2004
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THE KING AND I
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Author:Herbert Breslin and Anne Midgette
Luciano Pavarotti's longtime manager and friend tells all.
The King and I is the story of the thirty-six-year-old business relationship between Luciano Pavarotti and his manager, Herbert Breslin, during which Breslin guided what he calls, justifiably, "the greatest career in classical music." During that career, Breslin moved Pavarotti out of the opera house and onto the concert (and the world) stage and into the arms of a huge mass public. How he and Pavarotti changed the landscape of opera is one of the most significant and entertaining stories in the history of classical music, and Herbert Breslin relates the tale in a brash, candid, witty fashion that is often bitingly frank and profane. He also provides a portrait of his friend and client, a beautiful, simple, lovely guy who turned into a very determined, aggressive, and somewhat unhappy superstar, that is by turns affectionate and satirical and full of hilarious details and tales out of school, with Pavarotti emerging as something like the ultimate Italian male. The book is also enlivened by the voices of other players in the soap opera drama that was Pavarotti's career, and they are no less uncensored than Herbert Breslin. The last word, in fact, comes from none other than Luciano Pavarotti himself!
The King and I is the ultimate backstage book about the greatest opera star of the past century, and it's a delight to read as well.
Retails:$25.95
ISBN: 0385509723
October 2004
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THE GOD GENE
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Author:Dean H. Hamer
LEADING GENETICIST DEAN HAMER CRACKS THE "CODE" BEHIND WHY WE ARE PREDISPOSED TO BELIEVE IN GOD. IN A BOOK THAT BRIDGES THE GAP BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE, HAMER BRILLIANTLY ILLUMINATES HOW OUR INCLINATION TOWARD FAITH IS INFLUENCED BY OUR GENES.
Retails:$24.95
ISBN: 0385500580
September 2004
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DARKER THAN NIGHT
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Author:John Lutz
A killer dubbed �The Night Prowler� has turned the city that doesn�t sleep into a town kept awake by terror. Unseen, he enters couples� homes. Unsuspected, he lingers until the perfect moment arrives. He leaves �gifts� for his victims�before taking their lives.
Enter ex-homicide cop Frank Quinn, still reeling in the wake of an elaborate setup that ended his career. For Quinn, this isn�t just any job�it�s a last chance to salvage his reputation. As the investigation proceeds, the murderer loses no time stalking new prey: a loan officer and her high-earning husband; a couple who made a killing in the stock market; a pretty actress and her prosperous lover.
With the body count rising, it�s up to Quinn to unlock the mystery of a madman�s past and end his bloody reign. Quinn�s got his work cut out�because in a city the size of New York, any one of 8 million faces could be that of a killer�or his next target
Retails:$6.99
ISBN: 0786016337
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MY SPIRITUAL INHERITANCE
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Author:Juanita Bynum
This guidebook will show you how to let the Spirit within you connect to Heaven and unlock the door of your destiny.
Retails:$19.99
September 2004
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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE
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Author:Susan Altman
A treasury of information on African-American heritage and culture that highlights key contributions of blacks to American society. Illustrations.
Retails:$37.95
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MIRROR, MIRROR
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Author:Laurel Handfield
Retails:$13.00
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MY DIET STARTS TOMORROW
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Author:Laurel Handfield
Monica is a girl whose standards have hit rock bottom. Having dated so many loosers, she doesn't even care that her latest, Mark, has some baggage -- baggage that has a name and face and harnesses her every chance she gets. But hey, everyone has a skeleton in the closet, right? Could he be the one, imperfections aside? Will she bother to press the issue? Should she just bolt for the door and forget the whole thing? Before she can decide, things get complicated when she meets a guy who encompasses everything she looks for in a man. There's just one problem: he lives in another country.
In this exciting first novel, Laurel Laurel Handfield deftly captures the moments of humor, frustration, hope, and uncertainty that are inevitable parts of every new relationship. Sarcastic, heartwarming, and always entertaining, My Diet Starts Tomorrow will appeal to anyone who's been knocked down by the dating scene -- only to get right back up and into it again.
Retails:$15.00
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