Wednesday, January 21, 2009

• Beat the winter blues by grabbing a hot winter title.
• Check out Josh Bazell's critically acclaimed debut novel, Beat the Reaper.
• Browse new titles from Tantor, Penguin, Vanguard Cinema and more!

Heading to ALA Midwinter? Come visit the OverDrive Team at Booth #2042 for a briefing on new features for 2009! Not attending? Contact Shannon (shannon@overdrive.com) to set up a conference call to brief you and your team on the new services.

Winter World
By Bernd Heinrich

From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter their environment to accommodate our physical limitations, animals are adaptable to an amazing range of conditions--i.e., radical changes in a creature's physiology take place to match the demands of the environment. Winter provides an especially remarkable situation, because of how drastically it affects the most elemental component of all life: water.

Examining everything from food sources in the extremely barren winter landscape to the chemical composition that allows certain creatures to survive, Heinrich's Winter World awakens the largely undiscovered mysteries by which nature sustains herself through the harsh, cruel exigencies of winters.

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Beat the Reaper
By Josh Bazell

Meet Peter Brown, a young Manhattan emergency room doctor with an unusual past that is just about to catch up with him. His morning begins with the quick disarming of a would-be mugger, followed by a steamy elevator encounter with a sexy young pharmaceutical rep, topped off by a visit with a new patient - and from there Peter's day is going to get a whole lot worse and a whole lot weirder. Because that patient knows Peter from his other life, when he had a different name and a very different job. The only reason he's a doctor now is thanks to the Witness Protection Program-and even they can't protect him from the long reach of the New Jersey mob.

Now he's got to do whatever it takes to keep his patient alive so he can buy some time...and beat the reaper. Beat the Reaper is not just the only novel that will be compared to Quentin Tarantino's films, Grey's Anatomy, and Chuck Palahniuk-it's also the most original and entertaining debut thriller you'll read this year.

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The Smart Cookies Guide to Making More Dough
By The Smart Cookies

They were five dynamic young women: smart, successful---and secretly drowning in debt. Inspired by an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show on personal finance, Andrea, Angela, Katie, Robyn, and Sandra formed a money club, together developing strategies for turning their finances around. Just one year later, they had dramatically improved their financial situations---and had made major developments in their careers, relationships, and life goals to boot. Their proven recipe for success has since been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and MSNBC, and in the New York Daily News.

How did they do it? These five women---with varied careers in marketing, public relations, social work, and TV production---joined forces to create a fun, simple, effective strategy for achieving financial success, forming a money club, and supporting each other every step of the way. Now, in this extraordinary hands-on guide, the women, who dubbed themselves the Smart Cookies, share the secrets of their success.

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Shadow of Legends
By Stephen Bly

Life in the shadows. It happens to all of us. We stand so close to a dominant personality that our reflection can hardly be noticed. Someone more famous. More skilled. More powerful. Sometimes they are people we hardly know. Sometimes they are members of our own family.

Brazos Fortune has left a towering legacy. His son Todd now struggles to prove himself and find his own identity in the Shadow of Legends.Todd Fortune must follow his father as he takes over the family business with his wife, a fast-paced city girl who's not willing to settle into a small town lifestyle. A tale of daily hardships and hard-earned victories, Todd struggles to prove himself a committed husband and a courageous frontiersman in the wake of his father's legacy. Cross-country chases, deadly showdowns, and budding romances weave the story of this second powerful novel in the Fortunes of the Black Hills series.

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Eat This!
By Ian Jackman

Ian Jackman believes that life is too short to deny yourself our nation's true culinary treasures. Guided by food experts throughout the land, he travels from east to west - from small town to big city - uncovering local treats, guilty pleasures, and some oddities that no true food lover should miss. From lobster rolls and buffalo meat to banana cream pies and clam stuffies, Jackman finds the sinful temptations your taste buds crave - and he writes about them in a way that's certain to get any confirmed foodie salivating!

• Where you can find the very best burgers in America
• 21 varieties of apples you must try
• Lamb fries - eat or avoid?
• The country's primo pizza parlors
• And more!

Escape the guilt and anxiety propagated by our puritanical, diet-obsessed society and indulge yourself with Eat This!

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the World of Harry Potter
By Tere Stouffer

For fans of all ages .

Here is an entertaining and easily referenced presentation of insider information to the world that J.K. Rowling has created in her spellbinding series of novels. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the World of Harry Potter explores all aspects of the wizarding world and explains factually in terms of their relationship to historical, literary, religious, scientific, or mythological roots.

• In-depth information on the facts behind all seven books in the Harry Potter series
• Covers all the relevant influences for the Harry Potter series, from religion and mythology to science and literature.
• Can be read from cover to cover or used as a quick-reference guide

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Wash and Die
By Barbara Colley

As the saying goes, "No good deed goes unpunished." Charlotte LaRue knows she should take a broom and chase Joyce Thibodeaux off her front porch. Once married to Charlotte's tenant Louis Thibodeaux, Joyce is fresh out of detox and has no place to go. She pulls on Charlotte's heartstrings...and soon she's staying in Charlotte's guest room.

Charlotte survived Hurricane Katrina, but Joyce proves to be an ill wind of a different kind. Charlotte knows she has to show Joyce the door, but she never gets the chance. Instead her beloved parakeet Sweety Boy vanishes, her living room gets trashed, and Joyce ends up in the middle of the mess...stone cold dead.

Now Charlotte is on the list of murder suspects along with Louis, who's been out of town on business...or has he? Finding the answers means doing a little snooping herself.

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Roswell
By Various Artists

1. Here With Me

2. Save Yourself

3. Edge Of The Ocean

4. Brothers And Sisters

5. Shining Light

6. Fear (Hybrid's Super Collider Mix - Edit)

7. Destiny

8. More Than Us

9. I Shall Believe

10. Blackbird

11. Have A Nice Day

12. Here With Me (Chillin' With The Family Mix)

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You Tell Me

Ever think that your best friend's girlfriend isn't the most attractive of people? Ever suspect that your own girlfriend could be cheating on you? Ever wonder if the voice in your head might just be lying to you? Meet Jeff, Flint and Gray, three friends living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan who manage to mess up each others relationships with girls because they listen to the advice of each other. What happens when they stop listening to the advice and have no desire to listen to our own? You tell me. The consequences are often hilarious, but also speak universal truths about love, relationships, trust and commitment.

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