May 2011

May 2011

National Public Radio covers the world of books nearly everyday in their broadcasts, creating buzz about authors and titles. In response to the many inquiries from our customers about what they've heard on NPR, we've created booklists to help find & purchase those books right here at Tattered Cover. To listen again to the NPR podcast about a specific book, scroll down & click the particular link that interests you:

Broken Promises: A Novel of the Civil War (Paperback)

By Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780345524553
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Published: Ballantine Books, 4/2011
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"A very accessible way to learn history...Broken Promises also illuminates the role of women during the period as they were fighting for their own freedoms. -Huntington News -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Ride the Dark Trail: The Sacketts (Mass Market Paperback)

By Louis L'Amour
$5.99
ISBN-13: 9780553276824
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Published: Bantam, 5/1984
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In Ride the Dark Trail, Louis L’Amour tells the story of Logan Sackett, a cynical drifter who changes his ways to help a widow keep her land. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother (Hardcover)

By Janny Scott
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9781594487972
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Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 4/2011
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Award-winning reporter Janny Scott interviewed nearly two hundred of Dunham's friends, colleagues, and relatives (including both her children), and combed through boxes of personal and professional papers, letters to friends, and photo albums, to uncover the full breadth of this woman's inspiring and untraditional life, and to show the remarkable extent to which she shaped the man Obama is today.-> Listen to the NPR story here.

Shrink Rap: Three Psychiatrists Explain Their Work (Paperback)

By Dinah Miller, Annette Hanson, Steven Roy Daviss
$19.95
ISBN-13: 9781421400129
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press, 5/2011
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andid and humorous, Shrink Rap gives a closeup view of psychiatry, peering into technology, treatments, and the business of the field. If you've ever wondered how psychiatry really works, let the Shrink Rappers explain. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Tabloid City (Hardcover)

By Pete Hamill
$26.99
ISBN-13: 9780316020756
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Published: Little, Brown and Company, 5/2011
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In a stately West Village town house, a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered. In the 24 hours that follow, a flurry of activity surrounds their shocking deaths. As much a thriller as it is a gripping portrait of the city of today, Tabloid City is a new fiction classic from the writer who has captured New York perfectly for decades. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Gone with the Wind, 75th Anniversary Edition (Paperback)

By Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy
$18.00
ISBN-13: 9781451635621
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Published: Scribner, 5/2011
The 75th anniversary edition of Margaret Mitchell's timeless classic with a foreword by Pat Conroy. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Fail Up: 20 Lessons on Building Success from Failure (Hardcover)

By Tavis Smiley
$19.95
ISBN-13: 9781401933906
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Published: Smiley Books, 4/2011
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A lesson plan for those confronted by the inevitable letdowns, fall -throughs, and setbacks of life. Realizing his own success, like so many others', was born out of overcoming setbacks and failures, Tavis set about putting his story into words to help others understand the universal truth: There is no success without failure. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

This Is a Book (Hardcover)

By Demetri Martin
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780446539708
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Published: Grand Central Publishing, 4/2011
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"This book embodies the essence of Demetri's comedy to perfection, which is a good thing since he wrote it. Silly but incredibly smart, it's exactly what puts me in awe of his work." -Will Ferrell -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)

By Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
$26.99
ISBN-13: 9781586487980
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Published: PublicAffairs, 4/2011
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“A marvellously insightful book by two outstanding researchers on the real nature of poverty.” -Amartya Sen -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Emily, Alone (Hardcover)

By Stewart O'Nan
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780670022359
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Published: Viking Adult, 3/2011
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A sequel to the bestselling, much-beloved Wish You Were Here, Stewart O'Nan's intimate new novel follows Emily Maxwell, a widow whose grown children have long moved away. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography (Hardcover)

By Rob Lowe
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780805093292
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Published: Henry Holt and Co., 5/2011
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A wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye. Never mean-spirited or salacious, Lowe delivers unexpected glimpses into his successes, disappointments & relationships. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Savvy Auntie: The Ultimate Guide for Cool Aunts, Great-Aunts, Godmothers, and All Women Who Love Kids (Hardcover)

By Melanie Notkin
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780061999970
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Published: William Morrow, 5/2011
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Based on the popular website and written by America's foremost expert on modern Aunthood, Melanie Notkin, the indispensable handbook for Aunties of all ages, and for every single, married or partnered woman navigating the ultimate celebration of life: children. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't) (Hardcover)

By Betty White
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780399157530
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Published: Putnam Adult, 5/2011
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Drawing from a lifetime of lessons learned, seven-time Emmy winner Betty White's wit and wisdom take center stage as she tackles topics like friendship, romantic love, aging, television, fans, love for animals, and the brave new world of celebrity. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie (Hardcover)

By Wendy McClure
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9781594487804
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Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 4/2011
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Here is a pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Song of Slaves in the Desert (Hardcover)

By Alan Cheuse
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9781402242991
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Published: Sourcebooks Landmark, 3/2011
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"Cheuse shows that in one way or another, we all experience slavery, and that freedom is never given but must be taken at all cost. The book's epic vision is deeply human and humane." -Helon Habila -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy (Hardcover)

By Seth Fletcher
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780809030538
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Published: Hill and Wang, 5/2011
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Lithium is the thread that ties together many key stories of our time: the environmental movement; the American auto industry, betting it all on the electrification of cars and trucks; the struggle between first-world countries in need of natural resources and the countries where those resources are found; and, finally, a foundering American economy, desperately searching for a green-tech boom to revive it. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Perfect Nazi: Uncovering My Grandfather's Secret Past (Hardcover)

By Martin Davidson
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780399157011
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Published: Putnam Adult, 3/2011
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Using the skills he honed as a documentary producer for the BBC, the author Martin Davidson unravels the truth behind a dark family secret, that his grandfather was in many ways the "perfect Nazi," his individual experiences emblematic of the generation of Germans who would plunge the world into such darkness. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Dick Van Dyke
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780307592231
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Published: Crown Archetype, 5/2011
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A colorful, loving, richly detailed look at the decades of the multilayered life of a performer who still thinks of himself as a “simple song-and-dance man,” but who is, in every sense of the word, a classic entertainer.-> Listen to the NPR story here.

Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man (Hardcover)

By Chaz Bono
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780525952145
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Published: Dutton Adult, 5/2011
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Chaz Bono's groundbreaking and candid account of a forty-year struggle to match his gender identity with his physical body and his transformation from female to male.-> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son (Hardcover)

By Ian Brown
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780312671839
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Published: St. Martin's Press, 4/2011
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“[A]n intimate glimpse into the life of a family that cares around the clock for a disabled child, that gets so close to the love and despair, and the complex questions the life of such a child raises...It is a beautiful book, heartfelt and profound, warm and wise.” —Jane Bernstein -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Big Girl Small (Hardcover)

By Rachel DeWoskin
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780374112578
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 3/2011
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It’s a rare author who is willing to subject her protagonist to the extreme ranges of degradation and redemption to which DeWoskin subjects Judy; thankfully, she manages it beautifully.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music (Paperback)

By Ellen Willis, Nona Willis Aronowitz, Sasha Frere-Jones
$22.95
ISBN-13: 9780816672837
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Published: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 5/2011
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Out of the Vinyl Deeps collects for the first time the author’s Rock, Etc. columns and her other writings about popular music from this period and reasserts her rightful place in rock music criticism. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Druggist of Auschwitz: A Documentary Novel (Hardcover)

By Dieter Schlesak, John Hargraves
$27.00
ISBN-13: 9780374144067
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 4/2011
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Dieter Schlesak’s haunting novel The Druggist of Auschwitz—beautifully translated from the German by John Hargraves—is a frighteningly vivid portrayal of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of criminal and victim alike. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence (Hardcover)

By Bill James
$30.00
ISBN-13: 9781416552734
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Published: Scribner, 5/2011
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The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball now examines our cultural obsession with murder—delivering a unique, engrossing, brilliant history of tabloid crime in America. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Mad Bomber of New York: The Extraordinary True Story of the Manhunt That Paralyzed a City (Hardcover)

By Michael M. Greenburg
$22.95
ISBN-13: 9781402774348
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Published: Union Square Press, 4/2011
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Compelling historical true crime, The Mad Bomber of New York is the gripping tale of two individuals engaged in a deadly game of hide-and-seek, with the city of New York caught in the crosshairs. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Badass: The Birth of a Legend: Spine-Crushing Tales of the Most Merciless Gods, Monsters, Heroes, Villains, and Mythical Creatur (Paperback)

By Ben Thompson
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9780062001351
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Published: Harper Perennial, 3/2011
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From sex-crazed gods to ravenous monsters, Ben Thompson brings legendary titans to life in tales of adventure, bloodlust, and unrelenting badassitude. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics (Hardcover)

By John Pollack
$22.50
ISBN-13: 9781592406234
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Published: Gotham, 4/2011
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A former word pun champion's funny, erudite, and provocative exploration of puns, the people who make them, and this derided wordplay's remarkable impact on history. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels (Hardcover)

By Robert Penn
$20.00
ISBN-13: 9781608195381
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Published: Bloomsbury USA, 4/2011
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These pages are a delight, packed with facts, informative illustrations and two-wheeled tales, they map a path into the heart of cycling culture.”—Publishers Weekly -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me (Hardcover)

By Chelsea Handler, Friends Chelsea's Family, and Other Victims
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780446584715
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Published: Grand Central Publishing, 5/2011
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Chelsea Handler loves to smoke out "dumbassness," the condition people suffer from that allows them to fall prey to her brand of complete and utter nonsense. Friends, family, co-workers--they've all been tricked by Chelsea into believing stories of total foolishness and into behaving like total fools. Luckily, they've lived to tell the tales and, for the very first time, write about them. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us (Hardcover)

By Joe Palca, Flora Lichtman
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780470638699
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Published: Wiley (TP), 4/2011
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"A scientific look at something that affects us all--annoying spouses, car alarms, fingernails on a chalkboard, coworkers, missed planes, bad dreams, dropped calls, bed bugs, even the sounds coming out of everyone else's iPod--while still being humorous, surprising, and helpful" -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Delicious Memories: Recipes and Stories from the Chef Boyardee Family (Hardcover)

By Anna Boiardi
$27.50
ISBN-13: 9781584799061
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Published: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 5/2011
"If you've never been excited by Chef Boyardee's spaghetti and ravioli dinners, fear not-there's much more to the Boiardi family's recipes than what you've seen in the supermarket." -Library Journal -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base (Hardcover)

By Annie Jacobsen
$27.99
ISBN-13: 9780316132947
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Published: Little, Brown and Company, 5/2011
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This is the first book based on interviews with eye witnesses to Area 51 history, which makes it the seminal work on the subject. Filled with formerly classified information that has never been accurately decoded for the public, Area 51 weaves the mysterious activities of the top-secret base into a gripping narrative. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us (Hardcover)

By David Desteno, Piercarlo Valdesolo
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780307717757
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Published: Harmony, 5/2011
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Our character, argue psychologists DeSteno and Valdesolo, isn’t a stable set of traits, but rather a shifting state that is subject to the constant push and pull of hidden mechanisms in our mind. And it's the battle between these dueling psychological forces that determine how we act at any given point in time. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy (Hardcover)

By Priscilla Gilman
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780061690273
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Published: Harper, 5/2011
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In The Anti-Romantic Child, a memoir full of lyricism and light, Gilman explores the complexity of our hopes for our children, our families, and ourselves, and the way in which experience can alter and lead us to reimagine those hopes and expectations. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Normal Gets You Nowhere (Hardcover)

By Kelly Cutrone, Meredith Bryan
$23.99
ISBN-13: 9780062059796
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Published: HarperOne, 5/2011
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Another no-holds-barred memoir to awaken our souls and kick our asses into gear. With this book, the author invites us to get our freak on. History is full of successful, world-changing people who did not fit in. Think Nelson Mandela, Joan of Arc, Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, John Lennon, and Rosa Parks. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Silver Sparrow (Hardcover)

By Tayari Jones
$19.95
ISBN-13: 9781565129900
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 5/2011
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Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle, set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Bloodmoney (Hardcover)

By David Ignatius
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780393078114
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 6/2011
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From the author of the bestselling "Body of Lies" and "The Increment" comes an engaging thriller in which the CIA falls victim to its own daring operation in the Middle East. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media (Hardcover)

By Brooke Gladstone, Josh Neufeld, Randy Jones
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ISBN-13: 9780393077797
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 5/2011
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Brooke Gladstone pens a visionary and opinionated work of graphic nonfiction on the media and its discontents. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Hardcover)

By Jon Ronson
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9781594488016
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Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 5/2011
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A fascinating journey through the minds of madness, Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School (Hardcover)

By Alexandra Robbins
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9781401302023
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Published: Hyperion, 5/2011
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The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Pledged" and "The Overachievers" returns to the world of high school in a riveting examination of--and experiment with--outcasts and outsiders. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (Hardcover)

By Tim Harford
$27.00
ISBN-13: 9780374100964
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 5/2011
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Taking us from corporate boardrooms to the deserts of Iraq, Adapt clearly explains the necessary ingredients for turning failure into success. It is a breakthrough handbook for surviving—and prospering— in our complex and ever-shifting world. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Fall Higher (Hardcover)

By Dean Young
$22.00
ISBN-13: 9781556593116
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Published: Copper Canyon Press, 4/2011
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Dean Young has published ten books of poetry, including finalists for a Pulitzer Prize and the Griffin Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, as well as an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is currently the William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Thank You Notes (Paperback)

By Jimmy Fallon
$12.00
ISBN-13: 9780892967414
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Published: Grand Central Publishing, 5/2011
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Jimmy Fallon is very thankful. And in this first book to come from his TV show, he expresses his gratitude for everything from the light bulb he's too lazy to replace to the F12 button on his computer's keyboard. He's thankful to you, the person reading this right now. It means you're considering buying this book. You should do it. You will be thankful that you did. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues (Hardcover)

By Bill Moyers
$29.95
ISBN-13: 9781595586247
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Published: New Press, The, 5/2011
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The PBS series Bill Moyers Journal aired weekly from 2007 to 2010, capturing discussions of pivotal issues at the close of the Bush administration and the start of the Obama era. This companion book recaptures those compelling discussions on issues that matter, covering politics, economics, race, foreign policy, and the environment. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Long Journey Home: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Margaret Robison
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781400068692
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Published: Spiegel & Grau, 5/2011
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Robison writes movingly and honestly about her mental illness, her shortcomings as a parent, her difficult marriage, her traumatic relationship with Dr. Turcotte, and her two now-famous children, Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison, who have each written bestselling memoirs about their family. She also writes inspiringly about her hard-earned journey to sanity and clarity. An astonishing and enduring story, The Long Journey Home is a remarkable and ultimately uplifting account of a complicated, afflicted twentieth-century family. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Life (eBook)

By Keith Richards
$9.99
ISBN-13: 9780316128568
Published: Little, Brown and Company, 10/26/2010
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With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of life as a rock star, unfettered, fearless, and true. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Crows of Pearblossom (Hardcover)

By Aldous Huxley, Sophie Blackall
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9780810997301
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Published: Harry N. Abrams, 3/2011
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Written in 1944 by Aldous Huxley as a Christmas gift for his niece, The Crows of Pearblossom tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Crow, who live in a cottonwood tree. The hungry Rattlesnake that lives at the bottom of the tree has a nasty habit of stealing Mrs. Crow's eggs before they can hatch, so Mr. Crow and his wise friend, Old Man Owl, devise a sneaky plan to trick him. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You A Better Friend to Your Pet (Hardcover)

By John Bradshaw
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780465019441
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Published: Basic Books, 5/2011
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From explaining why positive reinforcement is a more effective (and less damaging) way to control dogs' behavior than punishment to demonstrating the importance of weighing a dog's unique personality against stereotypes about its breed, Bradshaw offers extraordinary insight into the question of how we really ought to treat our dogs. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Last Journey: A Father and Son in Wartime (Paperback)

By Darrell Griffin, Sr., Darrell Griffin, Jr.
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781934633922
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Published: Atlas Books, 9/2010
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Staff Sergeant Darrell "Skip" Griffin Jr. was killed in action on March 21, 2007, during his second tour of duty in Iraq. Prior to his death, Skip was writing a book tentatively titled The Great Conversation, an attempt to rationalize the destruction he had seen in Iraq. His father, Darrell Griffin Sr., was going to help him finish writing it when Skip returned home in July.After losing his son, Darrell Sr. vowed to finish the book himself and now he has. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Evel: The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil, and Legend (Hardcover)

By Leigh Montville
$27.50
ISBN-13: 9780385527453
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Published: Doubleday, 2/2011
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From New York Times bestselling author Leigh Montville, this riveting and definitive new biography pulls back the red, white, and blue cape on a cultural icon—and reveals the unknown, complex, and controversial man known to millions around the world as Evel Knievel. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Great Night (Hardcover)

By Chris Adrian
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780374166410
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 4/2011
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Selected by The New Yorker as one the best young writers in America, Chris Adrian has created a singularly playful, heartbreaking, and humorous novel—a story that charts the borders between reality and dreams, love and magic, and mortality and immortality. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Ada Poems (Hardcover)

By Cynthia Zarin
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780307272478
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Published: Knopf, 9/2010
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A dazzling story of obsessive love emerges in Cynthia Zarin’s luminous new book inspired and inhabited by the title character of Nabokov’s novel Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, who was the lifelong love of her half brother, Van. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Family Fang (Hardcover)

By Kevin Wilson
$23.99
ISBN-13: 9780061579035
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Published: Ecco, 8/2011
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“The Family Fang is a comedy, a tragedy, and a tour-de-force examination of what it means to make art and survive your family….The best single word description would be brilliant.”~Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)

By Patrick deWitt
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780062041265
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Published: Ecco, 5/2011
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With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters–losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all stripes of life–and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

A Moment in the Sun (Hardcover)

By John Sayles
$29.00
ISBN-13: 9781936365180
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Published: McSweeney's, 5/2011
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panning five years and half a dozen countries, Sayles's latest novel takes the late 1890s in its sights--from the white coup in Wilmington, North Carolina, to the bloody dawn of U.S. interventionism in Cuba and the Philippines. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Sorcerer's Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adri's elBulli (Hardcover)

By Lisa Abend
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781439175552
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Published: Free Press, 3/2011
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Elected best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine an unprecedented five times, elBulli is where chef Ferran Adri's remarkable cuisine comes to life—with dragon cocktails that make the drinker breathe smoke and caviar made from tiny spheres of olive oil. elBulli is also the object of culinary pilgrimage—millions clamor every year for a reservation at one of its tables. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

My Korean Deli (eBook)

By Ben Ryder Howe
$9.99
ISBN-13: 9781429991377
Published: Henry Holt and Co., 02/28/2011
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“Poking fun at everything from his stereotypically WASP upbringing to his “tank” (he said it) of a mother-in law…Howe has created a smartly measured and propulsive read.”--Booklist "Howe's portrait of the septaugenarian [George] Plimpton is priceless...Howe's combining of the Upper East Side's old world with immigrant survival skills conveys what is absolutely the best of New York. Delightful."~Los Angeles Times -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Ex Libris: The Art of Bookplates (Paperback)

By Martin Hopkinson
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780300171631
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Published: Yale University Press, 6/2011
In the early 1500s, Albrecht Dürer and other German engravers and printmakers began to create highly decorative bookplates, often featuring armorial devices and coats of arms for wealthy individuals and institutions. As the fashion for ornamental bookplates spread, distinctive national styles evolved. Nearly every conceivable design element—from cupids to scientific instruments, portraits, and landscapes—served to decorate personal bookplates. This volume explores the various sources of ex libris inspiration -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Solitude of Prime Numbers (Paperback)

By Paolo Giordano
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780143118596
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Published: Penguin Books, 3/2011
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A brilliantly conceived and elegantly written debut novel, The Solitude of Prime Numbers is a stunning meditation on loneliness, love, and what it means to be human. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Wingshooters (Paperback)

By Nina Revoyr
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9781936070718
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Published: Akashic Books, 3/2011
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Revoyr's new novel examines the effects of change on a small, isolated town, the strengths and limits of community, and the sometimes conflicting loyalties of family and justice. Set in the expansive countryside of Central Wisconsin, against the backdrop of Vietnam and the post-civil rights era, Wingshooters explores both connection and loss as well as the complex but enduring bonds of family. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

My American Unhappiness (Hardcover)

By Dean Bakopoulos
$24.00
ISBN-13: 9780151013449
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 6/2011
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My American Unhappiness "shimmers with mischief and offbeat charm. A dark entertainment infused by a bluesy yearning for a better America." ~Kirkus Reviews -> Listen to the NPR story here.

You Know When the Men Are Gone (Hardcover)

By Siobhan Fallon
$23.95
ISBN-13: 9780399157202
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Published: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 1/2011
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Reminiscent of Raymond Carver and Tim O'Brien, an unforgettable collection of intercollected short stories that microscopically examine the lives of women left behind at Fort Hood when the men deploy. While these women are not technically "real", their stories, which reflect what life is like on a military base when the men leave and the women and children are left to fend for themselves, certainly feel genuine. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

22 Britannia Road (Hardcover)

By Amanda Hodgkinson
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780670022632
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Published: Pamela Dorman Books, 5/2011
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"Hodgkinson's debut is an eloquent, heart-wrenching account of one couple's struggle to reunite as a family after devastating wartime experiences. A stellar example of literary WWII fiction." ~Booklist -> Listen to the NPR story here.

World Without Fish (Hardcover)

By Mark Kurlansky, Frank Stockton
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9780761156079
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Published: Workman Publishing, 4/2011
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Kurlansky, beloved author of the award-winning bestseller "Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World," offers a riveting new book for kids about what's happening to fish, the oceans, and our environment. Interwoven with the book is a 12-page, full-color graphic novel. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

Swamplandia! (Hardcover)

By Karen Russell
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780307263995
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Published: Knopf, 2/2011
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Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, Karen Russell has written an utterly singular novel about a family’s struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking. An arrestingly beautiful and inventive work from a vibrant new voice in fiction. -> Listen to the NPR story here.

The Poison Tree (Hardcover)

By Erin Kelly
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780670022403
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Published: Pamela Dorman Books, 1/2011
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From an incredible new voice in psychological suspense, a novel about the secrets that remain after a final bohemian summer of excess turns deadly. -> Listen to the NPR story here.
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