The Reader (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Written by Bernhard Schlink
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $13.95
Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.
When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna...
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The Duchess
Written by Amanda Foreman
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $15.95
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Now a major motion picture starring Keira Knightley and Ralph FiennesLady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England’s...
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Also available as an
eBook.
Choke (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $14.95
Victor Mancini's a medical school dropout with a problem. He needs to pay for elder care for his mother, who's got Alzheimer's. So he comes up with the perfect scam: pretending to choke in upscale restaurants and getting “saved” by fellow diners who, feeling responsible for Victor's life, offer him financial...
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unabridged
audio CD.
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Written by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $7.99
NOW A MAJOR motion picture starring Michael Cera (
Juno and
Superbad) and Kat Dennings (
The 40 Year-Old Virgin)!
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist is a comedy about two teens thrust together for one hilarious, sleepless night of adventure in a world of mix tapes, late-night living, and, live, loud music. Nick...
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The Essential Batman Encyclopedia
Written by Robert Greenberger
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $29.95
The ultimate guide to the man behind the mask . . . and the mythology behind the man.
“Criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot. So my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible. . . . I shall become...
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Written by Ann Brashares
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $9.99
With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their 16th summer.
Bridget: Impulsively sets off for Alabama, wanting to both confront her demons about her family and avoid them all at once.
Lena: Spends a blissful week with Kostos, making...
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Nights in Rodanthe
Written by Nicholas Sparks
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $18.95
Adrienne Willis is forty-five and has been divorced for three years, abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. The trials of raising her teenage children and caring for her sick father have worn her down, but at the request of a friend and in hopes of a respite, she’s gone...
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Brideshead Revisited (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Written by Evelyn Waugh
Introduction by Frank Kermode
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $18.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Soon to be a major motion picture from Miramax Films, starring Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Ben Whishaw, and Matthew Good, and directed by Julian Jarrold. Opens July 2008.
Evelyn Waugh’s most celebrated novel is a memory drama of extraordinary richness and depth. The novel Waugh thought of as his...
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Fugitive Pieces
A Novel
Written by Anne Michaels
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 26, 1998
Price: $14.95
A
New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award
In 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer...
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Iron Man
Written by Peter David
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2008
Price: $7.99
THE ORIGINAL HEAVY METAL HERO
Millionaire industrialist Tony Stark’s genius for designing and building high-tech, ultradestructive weapons for America’s armed forces has inspired critics to dub him the modern-day Leonardo da Vinci–as well as “merchant of death,” a moniker he embraces with cool arrogance. But when he’s ambushed and kidnapped in the...
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Written by James Rollins
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $26.00
“The name is Jones. Indiana Jones.”
He’s back. Everyone’s favorite globe-trotting, tomb-raiding, wisecracking archaeologist is finally at it again–hurtling headfirst into high adventure and relying on his wits, his fists, and his trusty bullwhip to get him out of deep trouble. But the man in the jaunty brown fedora and battered leather...
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