S. A. Paolantonio

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

The Last Big Man in Big City America

Here is the tenth-anniversary edition of the first full-scale biography of Frank Rizzo, one of the most beloved and feared public figures in urban American history. Sweeping and finely detailed, this is a work of scholarship that reads like a novel, packed with colorful new details and revealing new stories about a man whose life demonstrated how the force of personality can affect history.

Frank Rizzo

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Creative Crochet in a Day

Better Homes and Gardens Editors

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Over 1,000 Tips and Ideas for Marketing, (Even Giving!) Your Crafts

Features 100 original, new projects to make, with step-by-step photos and detailed instructions. Includes detailed suggestions for displaying and selling each project shown.

Crafts to Make and Sell

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How to create  sophisticated new adornments for your home.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Adorning Homecrafts For Each Room

Your Beahtiful Home

The Lost Symbol

Douglas Adams

Five Novels in One Outrageous Volume

In this collection of novels, Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth's destruction, and embarks on a series of amazing adventures with his new companion.

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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The Obsession

The Doll People

New York Daily News Staff

This book is the follow-up volume to the award-winning, critically acclaimed Daily News series, Big Town Big Time, which was published last year. While Big Town Big Time focused on the events of the past 100 years that have made New York famous, Big Town Biography features the people - some famous, some infamous, and some obscure - who have made New York the greatest city of the century. The book will include features on politicians, entertainers, sports heroes, business leaders, criminals and crime stoppers, philanthropists, high society personalities, and the everyday New Yorker whose life contributes to the fabric of the world's greatest city.

Big Town Biography

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L. M. Elliott

For fans of rich and complex historical novels like Girl with a Pearl Earring or Code Name Verity, Laura Malone Elliott delivers the stunning tale of real-life Renaissance woman Ginevra de' Benci, the inspiration for one of Leonardo da Vinci's earliest masterpieces. The young and beautiful daughter of a wealthy family, Ginevra longs to share her poetry and participate in the artistic ferment of Renaissance Florence but is trapped in an arranged marriage in a society dictated by men. The arrival of the charismatic Venetian ambassador, Bernardo Bembo, introduces Ginevra to a dazzling circle of patrons, artists, and philosophers. Bembo chooses Ginevra as his Platonic muse and commissions a portrait of her by a young Leonardo da Vinci. Posing for the brilliant painter inspires an intimate connection between them, one Ginevra only begins to understand. In a rich and vivid world of exquisite art with a dangerous underbelly of deadly political feuds, Ginevra faces many challenges to discover her voice and artistic companionship—and to find love.

Da Vinci's Tiger

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That Story Of The World

Van Loons Geography

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

365 Beautifully Easy Ideas

Presents handmade gift ideas for each day in the year, with instructions, patterns, tips on materials and techniques, and gift-wrapping suggestions.

Gifts to Make

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

An Essential Guide for Health and Pleasure

SECRETS OF hot stone and aromatherapy massage

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The Good Book for Great Times

Twentysomethings can rejoice. Their prayers have been answered. And the party's on. The Party Bible is the good book that supplies inventive party ideas that'll make staying in on Saturday the cool thing to do. No more $10 drinks. No more dealing with douchebags. No more standing around, sipping from Solo cups, waiting for "Don't Stop Believin" to come on. This book provides debaucherously fun ways for them to get their drink on, like... Tour de Franzi: Spandex-clad partiers chant, "Go, go, go" as their wine-mouthed friends race through boxes of the classy stuff Colombian Drug Lord Party: Rummed-up guests put on the worst Tony Montana accent since Vince tackled Pablo Escobar on Entourage Donkey Punch Dinner Party: Where placing your Cleveland Steamer Meatballs between a bowl of Dirty Sanchez Seven-Layer Dip and a tray of Dutch Oven Biscuits isn't out of place Clearly these aren't their parents' parties. And they aren't their friends' played out themes either. They're the out there and original ideas put together by comedy show producers and screenwriters Connor and Dominic (affectionately known as Con-Dom to friends) in The Party Bible. As entertaining as it is instructive, it's destined to become the gospel for anyone looking for a good time. AUTHOR: Connor Pritchard partied with the Jesuits at Loyola Marymount University and now makes a living writing in LA. He and his co-author Dominic recently sold a television show to Comedy Central based on their popular web series> If Shrek and Van Wilder had a love child, it would be Connor. Dominic Russo is a comedy writer and producer who studied the art of partying during five years at Arizona State University. With his co-author and cohort Connor, he founded The 5th Year brand, which strives to make life fun for everyone. He continues to live like a college student. *

The Party Bible

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Recollection

In this brilliant book of recollection, one of America's finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some fifty years, bringing to life an entire era through one man's sensibility. Scenes of love and desire, friendship, ambition, life in foreign cities and New York, are unforgettably rendered here in the unique style for which James Salter is widely admired. Burning the Days captures a singular life, beginning with a Manhattan boyhood and then, satisfying his father's wishes, graduation from West Point, followed by service in the Air Force as a pilot. In some of the most evocative pages ever written about flying, Salter describes the exhilaration and terror of combat as a fighter pilot in the Korean War, scenes that are balanced by haunting pages of love and a young man's passion for women. After resigning from the Air Force, Salter begins a second life, becoming a writer in the New York of the 1960s. Soon films beckon. There are vivid portraits of actors, directors, and producers--Polanski, Robert Redford, and others. Here also, more important, are writers who were influential, some by their character, like Irwin Shaw, others because of their taste and knowledge. Ultimately Burning the Days is an illumination of what it is to be a man, and what it means to become a writer. Only once in a long while--Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory or Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa--does a memoir of such extraordinary clarity and power appear. Unconventional in form, Burning the Days is a stunning achievement by the writer The Washington Post Book World said "inhabits the same rarefied heights as Flannery O'Connor, Paul Bowles, Tennessee Williams and John Cheever" --a rare and unforgettable book.

Burning the Days

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This dazzling novel from a fiercely talented young writer -- winner of the 2001 National Magazine Award for Fiction -- follows a woman whose indelible crime of passion leaves no one and nothing unscathed. The City Is a Rising Tideunfolds against a stunning backdrop of history, culture, and landscape -- from the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze to the refined vistas of Central Park, from the Cultural Revolution to the surreal world of moviemaking. In New York City, Justine Laxness works as a money manager at a nonprofit, the Aquinas Foundation. Justine's love for her boss, Peter, is unrequited, despite their deep friendship and extensive history: they first met in the early 1970s, when Justine was a child living in Beijing with her Christian family. Peter, then twenty-eight and stationed in China while working for Richard Nixon, had fallen in love with Justine's nanny, Su Chen -- a Communist revolutionary under Mao -- and still feels guilt for his part in her disappearance and death. Justine's obsession with Peter spurs her to embezzle funds from Aquinas and lend the money to James Nutter, a screenwriter and old college flame who has resurfaced in Justine's life after ten years. But every action she takes will have unforeseen ramifications, creating a tidal wave of betrayal and destruction. Lyrical and suspenseful by turns, The City Is a Rising Tideis an enchanting work of luminous prose and uncommon imagination.

The City Is a Rising Tide

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A Novella

With more than 340,000 copies in print, Steve Martins Shopgirl has landed on bestseller lists nationwide including: New York Times, Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. Filled with the kind of witty, discerning observations that have brought Steve Martin incredible critical success, this story of modern day love and romance is a work of disarming tenderness.

Shopgirl

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The Ultimate Bathroom Reader

A compendium of 1,001 facts about food, human behavior, health, drug use, the weather, animals, and more.

1,001 Facts That Will Scare the S#*t Out of You

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A Collection of Facts about the Most-Used Room in the House

It's the most used room in the house--but how much do you know about it? Here's the first book about the bathroom written exclusively for the bathroom! Set it on the back of the tank and learn something new on every visit--amazing facts and figures from history, science, pop-culture, and more. Don't let you time in the bathroom be a waste!

The Bathroom Companion

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WhenNew York Timesbestselling author and comedian Jim Norton isn't paying for massages with happy endings, or pretending to be fooled by transsexuals he picks up, he spends his time wondering what certain people would look like on fire...What do Heather Mills, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and Dr. Phil have in common? Jim Norton hates their guts. And he probably hates yours, too, especially if you're a New York Yankee, Starbucks employee, or Steve Martin.In thirty-five hilarious essays,New York Timesbestselling author and comedian Jim Norton spews bile on the people he loathes. Enjoy his blistering attacks on Derek Jeter, Hillary Clinton, fatso Al Roker, and mush-mouthed Jesse Jackson. It's utterly hilarious -- and utterly relatable if you've ever bitten a stranger's face or thrown a bottle through the TV screen while watching the news.But don't think Jim just dishes loads of shit on his self-proclaimed enemies; he is equally atrocious to himself. He savages himself for his humiliating days as a white homeboy, his balletlike spins in the outfield during a little league game, and his embarrassingly botched attempt at a celebrity shout-out while taping his new HBO stand-up series.Uncomfortably honest,I Hate Your Gutsis probably the best example of emotional vomiting you'll ever read. But there is hope; at the end of each essay, Jim generously offers helpful suggestions as to how the offender can make things right again: Eliot Spitzer: If you run for re-election, instead of shaking hands with voters, let them smell your fingers.Reverend Al Sharpton: The next time you feel the need to protest, do so dressed as an elk in Ted Nugent's backyard.Hillary Clinton: When you absolutely must make a point of laughing publicly, don't fake it. Just think of something that genuinely makes you laugh, like lowering taxes or any random male having his penis cut off.For the legions of devoted fans who know Jim Norton for his raw, sometimes brutal comedy,I Hate Your Gutsis what you've been waiting for. But even more important -- it's a great book to read while taking a shit.

I Hate Your Guts

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The Social Structure of an Italian Slum

Street Corner Society

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These much-studied and frequently performed comedies by the great Elizabethan playwright satirize the greed, mendacity, gullibility, and pretension that Jonson saw rampant in 17h-century London society. Both plays feature colorful characters, ingenious plotting, biting wit, and sharp insight into human nature. This is the only edition to include both plays in one, inexpensive volume.

Volpone and the Alchemist

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A Modern Guide

Sake is hot, hot, hot (though the best are actually served cold). It's the hippest sip at the cocktail hour and, as the sommeliers will tell you, can be a delicious accompaniment to food. This fun and informative guide demystifies an age-old wine and explains the many types of sake and how to properly taste their complex flavors. Beau Timken's foolproof TasteMatch system profiles 50 suggested sakes and provides their beer and wine flavor equivalents, creating a simple-yet-effective resource for finding a perfect match. Plus, recipes for 30 sake cocktails and 15 sake-friendly dishes make sake appropriate for any occasion (try a refreshing glass of Sake Sangria, or surprise guests by pairing sake with Fettuccine with Shiitake Mushrooms and Pancetta). There's even a section on planning and hosting a sake-tasting party to share your newfound sake expertise. A contemporary look at a traditional drink, Sake captures 1,000 years of culture and updates it for the modern lifestyle. Kanpai!

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1,001 Facts That Will Scare the S#*t Out of You

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