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In appreciation of your continued support, and to celebrate the holiday season, we have once again hand-picked more than 100 titles to satisfy a wide variety of tastes and needs - which makes them ideal for gift giving. All 100+ titles are discounted 20% through the month of December. We've included a sampling below of the many excellent titles to choose from.
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A beautifully expanded volume in honor of the 200th birthday of the Brothers Grimm tales. Includes annotations that explore the historical origins, cultural context and psychological effects of the stories, and a biographical essay on Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Both children and adults will be drawn into the enchanting world of fairy tales in this perennial favorite.
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Only The New Yorker could amass such an unbelievable roster of talent on the subject of man's best friend. This beautifully illustrated collection features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine's archives.
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LAPD Detective Harry Bosch connects the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots - a case that was never solved. Now the detective's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Bosch, called "one of the greats of crime fiction" by New York Daily News, faces one of his most fraught and perilous cases yet.
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We have a limited number of autographed copies of this beautiful book by one of America's premier chefs, featuring recipes for all the French classics that Keller fell in love with as a young chef apprenticing in Paris. A blend of American and French baked goods, the recipes range from simple to complex and are easy to follow. "Keller has something for anyone interested in putting something in the oven."- Publishers Weekly
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In Nielsen's thrilling first book in a brand-new trilogy filled with danger, deceit and hidden identities, an orphaned thief named Sage is one of four boys chosen to participate in a lethal contest. After being plucked from the streets by a nobleman named Connor, Sage learns that Connor plans to choose one of the orphans to impersonate a long-lost prince in the hopes of averting a civil war.
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When we travel, it is often love at first bite. This guide presents a lifetime of eating experiences that will lead you from one end of the globe to the other. Includes celebrity food-lover contributions, best places to find local dishes in cities worldwide, cultural tips and how-to-eat etiquette, and more than 50 recipes to try at home.
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Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter Thompson ("Pride & Prejudice") celebrates 110 years of Peter Rabbit with a new, original story based on the tales by Beatrix Potter. Includes an audio CD of the story narrated by the author.
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Celebrated entertainer Michael Feinstein (“Ambassador of the Great American Songbook”) was just 20 years old when he got a job with his hero, Ira Gerswhin - a six-year partnership during which the two became close friends. This beautifully illustrated account of the lives and legacies of the Gershwins is told through stories of 12 of their greatest songs, and accompanied by an original CD of those songs, performed by the author.
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The precocious pig finds herself suffering from an identity crisis. It seems that every other piggy girl (and some of the boys) all like to dress as fairy princesses. Olivia, however, prefers a French sailor shirt, matador pants, red bag, pearls, and a gardening hat. But wherever she turns, there are princesses: ballets, books, bedtime stories. After she spends the night pondering what she can be other than a princess, the last page shows her glorious answer.
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The celebrated historian who wrote biographies of Andrew Carnegie and William Randolph Hearst takes on Joseph P. Kennedy - businessman, Hollywood mogul, founding chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. ambassador to Britain, and, of course, father to our 35th President. The only biographer granted unrestricted access to the Joseph P. Kennedy papers in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Nasaw tracks Kennedy's astonishing passage from East Boston outsider to supreme Washington insider.
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This National Book Award winning novel, written by a brilliant chronicler of Native American life and one of the most revered novelists of our time, returns to the territory of Erdrich's bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with a story that takes readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. A woman living on the reservation is attacked, but is unable to reveal details of what happened. Her 13-year-old son, frustrated with the official investigation, sets out with his friends to get some answers. Their quest takes them first to the Round House, a sacred space for the Ojibwe. And this is only the beginning.
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Prize-winning writer Egan tells the riveting story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history - and the driven, brilliant man who made them. Edward Curtis was a charismatic, passionate mountaineer, and a famous photographer. He was 32 years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. Here is the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs, as he traveled throughout Indian country in his struggle to document the stories and rituals of more than 80 tribes - one of America's most stunning cultural achievements.
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also stock a great selection of gifts, including boxed holiday cards,
calendars and datebooks, Envirosax shoppers, several handbags including Baggallini and Lug, wooden toys, kid's science kits - and a
huge inventory of puzzles and games. We have about 30 different types
of small-sized games for under $10 that would make great
stocking-stuffers! 
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