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The DaVinci Code
by Dan Brown
price: $24.95
In an exhilarating blend of scholarly intelligence, relentless adventure, and cutting wit, Robert Langdon (first introduced in "Angels Demons") and his new adventure combines the punch of Robert Ludlum, the intriguing historical touch of Umberto Eco, and the nonstop suspense of Michael Crichton. |  |
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The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
price: $24.00
Expanding on her signature themes of the immigrant experience, the clash of culture, and the tangled ties of generations, Lahiri brings to her terrifically poignant first novel the remarkable powers of emotion and insight that have drawn more than half a million readers to her debut story collection. |  |
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After Theory
by Terry Eagleton
price: $25.00
Eagleton challenges contemporary intellectuals to engage with a range of vital topics--love, evil, death, morality, religion, and revolution--that they've ignored over the past thirty years. |  |
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The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
by Jerome Groopman
price: $24.95
Why do some people facing difficult circumstances find and sustain hope, while others do not? And what can we learn from those individuals who held on to hope? How is their example applicable to our own lives? |  |
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The American Dynasty: Family, Politics, and Fortune in the Bush Era
by Kevin Phillips
price: $25.95
A former Nixon White House strategist, Phillips details the making of the Bush family dynasty across four generations, documenting how it has exemplified many of the growing trends in American political life and how it has touched all the major "Establishment" bases. |  |
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
by Al Franken
price: $24.95
The author of Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations trains his subversive wit directly on the contemporary political scene, leaving the powers-that-be in tatters and his audience in hysterics. |  |
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder
price: $25.95
At the center of this wonderful book stands Paul Farmer, a Harvard professor, a renowned infectious-disease expert and anthropologist, a man who refuses to accept conventional wisdom about what is possible and who practices more than he preaches. Moving from Harvard to Haiti, to Peru, Cuba, and Russia, Mountains Beyond Mountains reveals how change can be fostered through the story of one man doing all he can to heal the world. |  |
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The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems
by Charles Bukowski
price: $27.50
The second of five new books of unpublished poems from the late, great, Charles Bukowski -- 143 never-before-seen works of gritty, amusing, and inspiring verse. |  |
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes and Edith Grossman
price: $29.95
The 17th-century Spanish masterpiece, recently voted the world's best work of fiction by a poll of the world's leading authors--in the definitive English translation by Edith Grossman, translator of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. |  |
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The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
by Alice Flaherty
price: $24.00
What underlies the human ability, desire, and even compulsion to write? Flaherty explores the manic state resulting in an overwhelming desire to write--called hypergraphia--and the science behind its antithesis, writer's block. |  |
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A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury
by Aaron McGruder
price: $16.95
Featuring more than 700 strips (more than 400 never collected in book form) and including the much-debated and often-banned post-9/11 strips, this must-have Boondocks comics collection will delight hardcore fans. |  |
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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
price: $15.00
Spanning eight decades, Eugenides's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. Eugenides was named one of America's best young novelists by both Granta and The New Yorker. |  |
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The Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
price: $14.00
The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. |  |
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You Are Not A Stranger Here
by Adam Haslett
price: $13.00
In the most acclaimed literary debut of the year, Adam Haslett explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. “Extraordinary. . . . Frighteningly tender. . . . Displays an order as natural as a tree branch in winter—lithe and achingly austere.” —The Boston Globe |  |
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan
price: $14.00
McEwan has created a symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative combined with the provocation readers have come to expect from this master of English prose. |  |
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What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
by Po Bronson
price: $14.95
It’s a question many of us have pondered with frequency. Author Po Bronson was asking himself that very question when he decided to write this book—an inspiring exploration of how people transform their lives and a template for how we can answer this question for ourselves. |  |
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
by Gavin Menzies
price: $15.95
In a landmark historical journey, Gavin Menzies, who spent 15 years tracing the astonishing voyages of the Chinese fleet, shares the remarkable account of his discoveries and the incontrovertible evidence to support them.
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Warrior-King: George W. Bush and the Looming Irrelevancy of Our Courts, Congress, and Constitution
by John Bonifaz
price: $10.95
John Bonifaz passionately argues that George W. Bush committed an impeachable offense when he launched a first-strike invasion of Iraq without a congressional declaration of war. |  |
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Any Human Heart
by William Boyd
price: $14.95
A novel that evokes the tumult, events and iconic faces of our time, as it tells the story of Logan Mountstuart--writer, lover and man of the world--through his intimate journals. |  |
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Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
by Pema Chodron
price: $10.95
A collection of essential teachings and practices for cultivating mindfulness and compassion. |  |
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* This list reflects overall sales for the week January 5 - January 11, 2004.
Last Week's Bestseller List: December 29, 2003 - January 4, 2004
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