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Ten year-old Sidikiba is about to be initiated into the world
of the kora, a twenty-one stringed West African harp performed
by his family for seventy generations. To become a kora player,
like his father and grandfather before him, Sidikiba must honor
and respect the wisdom of his elders, trust in the mystical secrets
of his community, and, above all else, be patient and practice
hard. Sidikiba's Kora Lesson is the story of a child's
encounter with a rich cultural heritage set in a modern African
city, where learning to balance the new and the old is part of
growing up. This book also includes a CD of kora music by Sidiki
Diabate.
Beaver's Pond Press.
Hardcover with music CD. $25.00 
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As the controversial presidency of George W. Bush draws to
a close, this work provides the first dispassionate, even-handed
assessment of Bush's years in office. Widely respected scholar
and author Steven E. Schier goes beyond the perspective of
contemporary political commentary, and draws on wide-ranging
literature about presidential history and strategy to carefully
identify both the unique and the familiar aspects of George
W. Bush's presidency.
M. E. Sharpe.
Paperback. $24.95
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Marian Wright Edelman is a MacArthur Award recipient, a winner
of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian
Award, and numerous other awards, but she is most proud of her
35 years of day-to-day work at the Children's Defense Fund, which
she founded. In The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small,
this veteran activist for peace and justice offers a passionate
call to action. In several senses, this is a gift for our grandchildren.
Hyperion.
Hardcover. $19.95
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An innovative entrepreneur, outspoken nonconformist, and groundbreaking
philanthropist, Ted Turner is truly a living legend, and now,
for the first time, he reveals his personal story. From his difficult
childhood to the successful launch of his media empire to the
catastrophic AOL/Time Warner deal, Turner spares no details or
feelings and takes the reader along on a wild and sometimes bumpy
ride. Ted doesn't shrink from the darker and more intimate details
of his life. With his usual frankness, he discusses a childhood
of loneliness and the emotional impact of devastating losses.
Grand Central Publishing.
Hardcover. $30.00
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Since Lincoln, no president has written his own words and addressed
his audience with equal and enduring effectiveness. Fred Kaplan
focuses on the elements that shaped Lincoln's mental and imaginative
world; how his writings molded his identity, relationships, and
career; and how they simultaneously generated both the distinctive
political figure he became and the public discourse of the nation.
This unique account of Lincoln's life and career highlights the
shortcomings of the modern presidency, reminding us, through
Lincoln's legacy and appreciation for language, that the careful
and honest use of words is a necessity for successful democracy.
HarperCollins Publishers.
Hardcover. $27.95
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On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home
along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed
forever...
On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie
finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost
in his thoughts, he suddenly hears a shocking sound...
At the end of a long day, 16-year-old Reggie is looking forward
to watching a little TV. Then a terrifying noise shatters her
peaceful evening. Luckily, Reggie makes it a point to be prepared
for an emergency...
These three lives come together in unexpected and deeply thrilling
ways in the latest audiobook from Kate Atkinson, the critically
acclaimed author who Harlan Coben calls "an absolute must
read."
Little, Brown & Company.
Hardcover. $24.95
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Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard
to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia
Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight
in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things
that Camellias don't do (like ride with boys in pickup trucks).
But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that
propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina
for a life in New York City. Girls in Trucks introduces a narrative
voice that is astonishing and irresistible - a true, sweet, and
wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent.
Little, Brown & Company.
Hardcover. $21.95
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This is the story of Abu Ghraib that you haven't heard, told
by the soldier sent by the Army to restore order and ensure that
the abuses that took place there never happen again. A veteran
of deployments to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and a nationally well-known
and respected Army psychologist, Colonel James's expertise made
him the one individual capable of taking on this enormous task.
Through Colonel James's own experience on the ground, readers
will see the tightrope military personnel must walk while fighting
in the still new battlefield of the war on terror, the challenge
of serving as both a doctor/healer and combatant soldier, and
what can-and must-be done to ensure that interrogations are safe,
moral, and effective.
Grand Central Publishing.
Hardcover. $24.99
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It's late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of
Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he is simply trying to tie
up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on
his desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what
looks like a mugging gone wrong.
Rebus discovers that an elite delegation of Russian businessmen
is in town, looking to expand their interests. And as Rebus's
investigation gains ground, someone brutally assaults a local
gangster with whom he has a long history.
Has Rebus overstepped his bounds for the last time? Only a few
days shy of the end to his long, inglorious career, will Rebus
even make it that far?
Little, Brown & Company.
Hardcover. $24.99
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President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having
a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme
Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating
To Kill A Mockingbird, the president chooses someone
so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the guts to
reject her -- Judge Pepper Cartwright, the star of the nation's
most popular reality show, Courtroom Six. Will Pepper, a straight-talking
Texan, survive a confirmation battle in the Senate? Will becoming
one of the most powerful women in the world ruin her love life?
Twelve.
Hardcover. $24.99
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Gatty is a field girl on a manor. She has never seen busy
London or the bright Channel, the snowy Alps of France or the
boats in the Venetian sea. She has not sung in the Holy Sepulchre
in Jerusalem or prayed at the manger in Bethlehem -- or been
kidnapped, or abandoned, or kissed, or heartbroken. But all these
things will change. As Gatty journeys with Lady Gwyneth and a
prickly new family of pilgrims across Europe to the Holy Land,
Kevin Crossley-Holland reveals a medieval world as rich and compelling
as the world of today it foresees -- and, in Gatty, a character
readers will never forget.
Arthur A. Levine Books.
Hardcover. $17.99
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BIG words, BIG laughs, BIG fun from the #1 national bestselling
team of Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell. The hilarious, boisterous,
and zany family of Big Words for Little People learns that whether
they're all shopping for shoes (COOPERATE) or walking the dog
(RESPONSIBLE) or waiting on a verrrrry long line (PATIENCE),
these BIG words will help them COMMUNICATE with the bigger world
around them. Curtis and Cornell give kids the LANGUAGE of good
values so that they'll UNDERSTAND what it means to do the right
(APPROPRIATE) thing and live their best lives. And once kids
learn what these words mean, they'll start to be EMPOWERED in
a whole new and fun way.
Joanna Cotler Books.
Hardcover. $16.99
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We've all had days when hope feels far away, when the world
seems cold and dark. Thankfully, comfort can come to us in
many ways, as it does in this very special book. Lauren Thompson's
luminous text, paired with breathtaking photographs from around
the world, provides an uplifting introduction to the meaning of
hope. Speaking to people of all ages, across all cultures, these
words and images celebrate loving families, caring friends, small
kindnesses, and great inner strength. Through this book, we can
see hope reach around the world, and feel its power to change us
all.
Scholastic Press.
Hardcover. $16.99
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The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first
time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation
is on the rise. Should such an assault occur, there is a strong
likelihood that the trail of devastation will lead back to Abdul
Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani father of the Islamic bomb and the
mastermind behind a vast clandestine enterprise that has sold
nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea, and Libya. Khan's loose-knit
organization was and still may be a nuclear Wal-Mart, selling
weapons blueprints, parts, and the expertise to assemble the
works into a do-it-yourself bomb kit. Journalists Douglas Frantz
and Catherine Collins tell this alarming tale of international
intrigue through the eyes of the European and American officials
who suspected Khan, tracked him, and ultimately shut him down,
but only after the nuclear genie was long out of the bottle.
Twelve.
Paperback. $14.99
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The development of the modern world has brought with it rampant
light pollution, destroying the ancient mystery of night and
exacting a terrible price—wasted energy, damage to human health,
and the sometimes fatal interruption of the life patterns of
many species of wildlife. In Let There Be Night, twenty-nine
writers, scientists, poets, and scholars share their personal
experiences of night and help us to understand what we miss when
dark skies and nocturnal wildness vanish. Let There Be Night is
an engaging examination, both intimate and enlightening, of a
precious aspect of the natural world.
Trade Paper. $21.95
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2008. As a 1950’s housewife and League of Women Voters
volunteer who spearheaded the city of Lincoln's switch to a strong
mayor form of government, Helen Boosalis never anticipated that
she herself would one day be the chief executive of Nebraska's
capital city. Told by her daughter, this is the story of a true
pioneer of women in politics.
Hardcover. $34.95
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As the wife of Carleton's President Rob Oden, Theresa Johnston
Oden is well qualified to write about being the spouse of an
academic leader. Oden discusses the ways in which supporting
a leader-partner differs from traditional helpmate roles. She
examines the reasons for lingering expectations—why female
spouses in particular are still expected to volunteer their time
to the leaders’ careers—as well as the special concerns
of male spouses. A self-described introvert who needs a lot of
privacy, Oden admits that her adjustment to life as the leader’s
spouse was difficult. “Today I can honestly say that there
are parts of my role that I treasure. I found my way, but I felt
the lack of a book that spoke to my experience.”
Paperback. $11.95
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Read the new book about one of Carleton's most beloved
coaches and alums!
"Jack and Jinny Thurnblad are a great Carleton story spanning
remarkably different eras in the College's history from the 1940s
to the present day. Campus leaders as students, 'glue' in the
alumni body for fifty-five years, respected and effective coach
from 1960 to 1984, ambassadors to Northfield, to collegiate athletics,
and to young athletes outside the U.S. — what joy they
have given to all who have known them. This thoroughly researched
and well written account of their lives by Dave Lavender is a
welcome addition to Carleton's historical record."
— Stephen R. Lewis, Jr., Carleton's ninth president
$21.95
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Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of
John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer
Prize–winning novel. Home is an entirely independent,
deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the same
locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton,
Ames’s closest friend. Home is a moving and healing
book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations,
about love and death
and faith. It is Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable
embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Hardcover. $25.00
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With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores
the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the
human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what
he calls “musical misalignments.” Among them: a man
struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist
at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams
syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with “amusia,” to
whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans;
and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds-for everything
but music.
Vintage Books. Paperback. $14.95
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Following the colossal battle against the Empire’s warriors
on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have
narrowly escaped with their lives. Still there is more at hand
for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound
by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep. Eragon
is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once-simple
farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers. Hardcover.
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In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families
made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded
refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America, but their history
remains largely unknown. Driven to share her family’s story
after her grandmother’s death, Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir
is a tribute to the remarkable woman whose spirit held them all
together.
Coffee House Press. Paperback. $14.95
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The enthralling international bestseller! We are
in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited
by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge,
is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous
employers. Then there’s Paloma, a twelve-year-old genius.
She is the daughter of a tedious parliamentarian, a talented
and startlingly lucid child who has decided to end her life
on the sixteenth of June, her thirteenth birthday. Paloma and
Renée hide both their true talents and their
finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will not
appreciate them. They discover their kindred souls when a wealthy
Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building.
Europa Editions. Paperback. $15.00
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At this defining moment in our history, Americans are hungry
for change. After years of failed policies and a failed politics
from Washington, this is our chance to reclaim the American dream.
President-elect Barack Obama has proven to be a new kind of leader—one
who can bring people together, be honest about the challenges
we face, and move this nation forward. Change We Can Believe
In outlines his vision for America.
Three Rivers Press. Paperback. $13.95
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Paris, July 1942 - Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested
with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup,
but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in
the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within
a few hours.
Paris, May 2002 - On Vel’ d’Hiv’s 60th anniversary,
journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this
black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation,
she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that
connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace
the girl's ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d'Hiv',
to the camps, and beyond.
St. Martin's Griffin. Paperback. $13.95
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The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable
reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through
his own experiences working in the command room of the global
economy longer and with greater effect than any other single
living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life’s
journey through his more than eighteen-year tenure as chairman
of the Federal Reserve Board to the present, in the second half
of The Age of Turbulence Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent
tour d’horizon of the global economy.
Penguin Books. Paperback. $17.00
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Winner of the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award and
the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Oscar is a sweet but
disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who dreams
of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding
love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a
curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations,
following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the
USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous
Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of
the contemporary American experience and explores the endless
human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the
name of love.
Riverhead Books. Paperback. $14.00 |
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Thomas L. Friedman’s phenomenal number-one bestseller
The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the
world in a new way. In his brilliant, essential new book, Friedman
takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges
we face today: America’s surprising loss of focus and
national purpose since 9/11; and the global environmental crisis,
which is affecting everything from food to fuel to forests.
In this groundbreaking account of where we stand now, he shows
us how the solutions to these two big problems are linked--how
we can restore the world and revive America at the same time.
Farra, Straus and Giroux. Hardcover. $27.95 |
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