Wednesday, April 1, 2009

• The Tantor Media half-off sale is here! Choose from 200 audiobooks, all 50% off! The sale starts TODAY, April 1st and ends April 30th. Don't miss out on this great deal while it's here.
• See which new Children's and Young Adult books are creating spring book buzz.
• From Thomas to Poe these titles promise your collection will grow! Celebrate National Poetry Month with a great selection of classic and contemporary titles.
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Runner
By Thomas Perry

After a nine-year absence, the fiercely resourceful Native American guide Jane Whitefield is back, in the latest superb thriller by award-winning author Thomas Perry. She promised her husband she would never work again and settled in to live a happy, quiet life as Jane McKinnon, the wife of a surgeon in Amherst, New York.

But when a bomb goes off in the middle of a hospital fundraiser, Jane finds herself face to face with the cause of the explosion: a young pregnant girl who has been tracked across the country by a team of hired hunters.That night, regardless of what she wants or the vow that she's made to her husband, Jane must come back to transform one more victim into a runner. And her quest for safety sets in motion a mission that will be a rescue operation---or a chance for revenge.

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A Slobbering Love Affair
By Bernard Goldberg

Do the mainstream media have a liberal bias? Sure they do, says CBS veteran and New York Times bestselling author Bernard Goldberg. But the media crossed an important line in the 2008 presidential race, moving from their usual unthinking liberal bias to crass partisanship of the crudest kind, practically acting as spin doctors for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. In A Slobbering Love Affair, his most provocative book yet, Goldberg demonstrates how the media launched an unparalleled effort to ensure the election of the man they regarded as the One. From the thrill Obama sent up Chris Matthews's leg to the outrageously slanted "news" reports of the New York Times, Goldberg shows in exacting detail how the media, abandoning even the pretense of objectivity, moved from media bias to media activism.

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Books
By Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry is known to be reclusive and extremely private, rarely giving interviews or making public appearances. Audiences are therefore sure to be eager to read this intimate and surprisingly personal memoir of the brilliant writer's love affair with books. McMurtry writes about his life as a boy growing up in a largely bookless world; as a young man devouring the world of literature; as a fledgling writer and family man; and as one of America's most prominent "bookmen," becoming the astute and adventurous collector who would eventually open stores of rare and collectible books in Georgetown, Houston, and his hometown of Archer, Texas.

In Books: A Memoir, McMurtry gives us a lively look at the eccentrics who collect, sell, or simply lust after rare books. Books is like the best kind of diary - full of wonderful anecdotes, amazing characters, great gossip, and shrewd observations about authors, book people, literature, and himself.

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Lowboy
By John Wray

Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, gets on a New York City uptown B train on a fantastic and terrifying quest to save the world. Violet Heller, his desperate mother, is joined by Ali Lateef, a missing persons specialist, in a desperate attempt to locate her son before psychosis claims him completely. As the stakes grow higher, Lateef gradually comes to realize that this is more than a case of a runaway teen: Will Heller has a chilling case history, and Violet-beautiful and enigmatic, harbors a secret that Lateef will discover at his own peril.

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If I Stay
By Gayle Forman

In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck. A sophisticated, layered, and heart achingly beautiful story about the power of family and friends, the choices we all make-and the ultimate choice Mia commands.

An emotionally arresting novel sure to captivate teen listeners and Award Committees.

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Just When I Thought I'd Dropped My Last Egg
By Kathie Lee Gifford

From Kathie Lee Gifford, beloved television host and bestselling author of I Can't Believe I Said That, comes a funny, candid, and personal collection of essays.

This smart and witty collection of opinions, observations, and anecdotes covers a broad range of personal topics. Kathie Lee Gifford's stories are often funny, sometimes heartfelt, and always compelling-think Nora Ephron's I Feel Bad About My Neck meets Carol Burnett.

No subject is off-limits: talking to her kids about sex, being married to Frank Gifford, embarrassing professional gaffes, run-ins with celebrities (of which there are many), the harsh and funny realities of aging. It's all here, told with intelligence, grace, and comedic wit. Written by Gifford's own hand, this highly original and readable volume will make you laugh out loud as you reach for the phone to share one of these charming, quirky, and colorful observations.

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The Classic Hundred Poems
By William Harmon

Imagine if Billboard compiled a list of the top 100 poems, chosen not by critics or professors but by the people themselves. That's the concept behind The Classic Hundred, and it works brilliantly. William Harmon found the 100 most anthologized poems in English, based on the ninth edition of The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry-the most objective measurement of greatness available, representing consensus among the editors of some 400 anthologies. Then he put them in order and prefaced each one with concise, erudite, often humorous commentary. The range of poets, subjects, and forms-from Shakespeare to Frost, from love and death to crime and punishment, from sonnets to odes-makes this an entertaining, enlightening, and indispensable aural guide to the finest verse in the English language.

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The Missing
By Tim Gautreaux

Sam Simoneaux's troopship docked in France just as World War I came to an end. Still, what he saw of the devastation there sent him back to New Orleans eager for a normal life and a job as a floorwalker in the city's biggest department store, and to start anew with his wife years after losing a son to illness. But when a little girl disappears from the store on his shift, he loses his job and soon joins her parents working on a steamboat plying the Mississippi and providing musical entertainment en route.

Sam comes to suspect that on the downriver journey someone had seen this magical child and arranged to steal her away, and this quest leads him not only into this raucous new life on the river and in the towns along its banks but also on a journey deep into the Arkansas wilderness. Here he begins to piece together what had happened to the girl--a discovery that endangers everyone involved and sheds new light on the massacre of his own family decades before.

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Build an eBay Business QuickSteps
By Carole Matthews

Get your eBay business started right away--the QuickSteps way. Color screenshots and clear instructions show you how to establish and run a profitable eBay business in no time. Follow along and learn how to create a business plan, build inventory, set up processing centers, create appealing listings, set up an eBay store, and market your business. You'll also find out how to become an eBay Trading Assistant, use eBay sales outlets, and even raise money for your nonprofit on eBay. Use these handy guideposts:

• Shortcuts for accomplishing common tasks
• Need-to-know facts in concise narrative
• Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
• Bonus information related to the topic being covered
• Errors and pitfalls to avoid

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Always Looking Up
By Michael J. Fox

Always Looking Up is a memoir of this last decade, told through the critical themes of Michael's life: work, politics, faith, and family. The book is a journey of self-discovery and reinvention, and a testament to the consolations that protect him from the ravages of Parkinson's.

There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around himself, he developed a personal policy of engagement and discovery: an emotional, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual outlook that has served him throughout his struggle with Parkinson's disease.

Michael's exit from a very demanding, very public arena offered him the time-and the inspiration-to open up new doors leading to unexpected places. One door even led him to the center of his own family, the greatest destination of all.

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Counting in the City

Math in Our World presents the complete range of math concepts and skills students are expected to master during the first grade. The series moves sequentially, each book covering a different math topic. The first volume reviews the math concepts students should have learned in kindergarten. The next six books cover counting, adding and subtracting, tables and graphs, money, patterns, and measuring. The eighth volume is a summary of the math concepts students have studied throughout the year. The text in each book has been carefully leveled to match students' reading levels as they progress from the beginning of first grade to the end. In addition, each book presents situations that show the relevance of math to children's daily lives.

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Hotel For Dogs

1.) A Beautiful World

2.) Get Lucky

3.) Into Action

4.) It Had to be You

5.) Who Who Who

6.) Born to be Wild

7.) Ruff Ruff Ruff

8.) Say So

9.) Reason Why

10.) Best Days

11.) My New Best Friend

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Easy Fishing

Fishing today has taken on a level of complexity that belies its very simple goal. After all, you might think, how difficult can it be to hook a fish with a piece of bait? The truth is, there are as many different live baits, rods, lines, sinkers, reels, lures and casting techniques as there are fish. But now you can learn the sport quickly from the experts with Easy Fishing. Easy to follow instructions with video. Everything you need to know about fundamentals, equipment and techniques. Tips on choosing the right equipment. Techniques that professionals use.

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The Tantor Media Audiobook 50% Off Sale is here! Choose from 200 of Tantor's best-selling titles, all marked 50% off! These high circulating titles are on sale from April 1st through April 30th - don't miss out on this great deal. To take advantage of these great savings, orders must be placed no later than 11pm EST on April 30th.

The sale includes best-selling titles such as: Three Cups of Tea, A Slobbering Love Affair, My Horizontal Life, Little Bee, Lords of Finance, The Hemingses of Monticello, and much more!

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Tantor Media started in San Clemente,CA, and moved to its current Old Saybrook, CT, location in 2004, where it's grown from five to 60 employees in three years. The company has evolved into a leading publisher of unabridged audiobooks in multiple formats including digital download.

Tantor's audiobook recording software enables approximately 45 narrators, including Audie Award winners Simon Vance and Alan Sklar to record books offsite, ostensibly in their very own living rooms, then send them to Tantor's offices for editing.

Today Tantor produces as many as 50 titles per month. Of the approximately 1000 books on its list, two-thirds are popular nonfiction and one-third is fiction, though in the last year Tantor has been filling out its fiction stores. Michael Stanley's A Carrion Death, and Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet's Fidel Castro: My Life, were both 2008 LJ Best Audio picks, and this year, nine of Tantor's titles were nominated for the Audio Publishers Association's Audie Awards; among them The White Tiger, and The Hemingses of Monticello.

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