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Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
By Phillips, Kevin
2008/04 - Viking Books
0670019070 Check Our Catalog | Blog

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The bestselling author of "American Theocracy" reveals how the U.S. financial sector has hijacked the economy and put America's global future at risk. ...More

Snoop: What Your Stuff Says about You
By Gosling, Sam
2008/05 - Basic Books
0465027814 Check Our Catalog  | Blog

For the last 10 years, psychologist Gosling has been studying how people project, and protect, their inner selves. Now he looks at what can be learned about people simply from looking at their stuff; what he has discovered is astonishing. ...More

How to Raise Kids You Want to Keep: The Proven Discipline Program Your Kids Will Love (and That Really Works!)
By Day, Jerry
2006/10 - Sourcebooks
140220745X Check Our Catalog | Blog

Over 12,000 families have used these proven discipline builders. ...More

Anybody Any Minute
By Mars, Julie
2008/06 - St. Martin's Press
0312378696 Check Our Catalog | Blog

Ellen Kenny has a big mouth and a penchant for telling the truth, which is why she's just been fired from yet another high-profile NYC job. Determined to make the most of this unexpected free time, she heads to Montreal to visit her sister. On the way, she spots a tumbledown upstate farmhouse---one she's seen in her dreams for years---and impulsively buys it on a hefty credit card advance. Over her husband's protests, Ellen decides to drop out of the rat race and spend the summer living out her woman-who-runs-with-the wolves fantasy, communing with nature---her own included---in an effort to confront middle age and figure out how on earth she got there. Rather than peacefully tend her garden and puzzle things out, however, Ellen soon becomes embroiled in the exceedingly unique problems of two redneck, social misfit neighbors---an ex-biker ...More

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By Barrows, Annie Fiery
Shaffer, Mary Ann Fiery
2008/07 - Dial Press
0385340990 Check Our Catalog

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London, 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of Guernsey during the German occupation, and about a society as extraordinary as its name. ...More

The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts
By Colby, Tanner
Farley, Tom, M.D.
Farley, Jr.
2008/05 - Viking Books
0670019232 Check Our Catalog

A biography of the Saturday Night Live star as told by his friends and family, The Chris Farley Show is an evocative and harrowing portrait of a family trapped by addiction and a gifted man torn apart by his demons. ...More

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