Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Official English Leagues' Football Records 2011

Product Description

The Official English Football League Records 2011 is a must-have addition to the bookshelf of any serious football fan. It covers every aspect of the English game (the oldest domestic league in the world): an in-depth review of the 2009-10 season; facts and unusual facts for every one of English football's 92 league clubs (appearance and goal records, assists, clean sheets, half-time league tables); historical records and statistics for each of England's four divisions and both domestic cups (the FA Cup and League Cup); additional trivia on stadiums, transfer records, managers, mascots and television and media coverage; and a thorough examination of how English clubs have fared in Europe. In short, this official companion will leave no stone unturned in a fan's quest for absolute football knowledge.
 
 

Thursday, February 17, 2011

FIFA World Football Records 2011

Product Description

The world's most watched sport, live and on television, football's profile has never been higher. And, in England especially, World Cup fever will soon grip the land as one of the favourites to lift the trophy prepares for the finals in South Africa. "FIFA World Football Records 2010" was a worldwide best-seller and the fully updated and revised 2011 edition follows the same successful formula. NEW for 2011 edition are: an all new secton on FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010; major updates of the FIFA World Cup all-time records section; updates of all featured countries including the 32 FIFA World Cup 2010 finalists, with new entries on Uruguay, Greece and NZ; expanded coverage of the African nations, including new section on the Africa Cup of Nations and the 2010 finals in Angola; and, updates for all other sections including: FIFA Club World Cup; FIFA Confederations Cup; FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup; FIFA U-20 World Cup; FIFA U-20 World Cup; Blue Stars/FIFA Youth Cup; FIFA Interactive World Cup final; FIFA Player of the Year; FIFA Women's Player of the Year; and FIFA/Coca-Cola World Rankings.
 

Saturday, February 12, 2011

TOP 10 EVERYTHING: Discover More Than Just the No. 1!

TOP 10 EVERYTHING: Discover More Than Just the No. 1!

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There are lots of books on the market that can tell you who's number 1, but that never gives you the whole picture: How big is the margin between 1st and 2nd place? How does the 5th best compare? Was number 10 really that far off the pace? "Top 10 of Everything 2011" answers these questions and many, many more, with brand new and updated lists and over 7,000 of the most intriguing facts about history, science, sports, music, movies, nature, people and places. And as if that wasn't enough to quench your thirst for knowledge, this fascinating full-color book also includes feature spreads that are packed with insightful information and additional lists that really give you the low-down on your favorite records.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition

Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition

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The ultimate Guinness World Records book for gamers – now in its fourth edition Pick up the completely updated Guinness World Records, Gamer’s Edition 2011 and learn all about amazing computer and video-game record breakers from around the world. You’ll find out the highest scores, biggest tournaments, largest cash prizes and most successful games ever. Packed with thousands of high scores and records, a round-up of key events of the video-gaming year – including reviews of new releases, new consoles and the major tournaments – along with detailed game strategies, interviews with professionals, tips and cheats to improve your play, league tables, bizarre facts and incredible video game trivia!

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

THIS WEEK BEST SELLER BOOK 01-02-2011

This week best seller on Guardian

WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy

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It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. Was he an internet messiah or a cyber-terrorist? Information freedom fighter or sex criminal? The debate would echo around the globe as US politicians called for his assassination.
Award-winning Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding have been at the centre of a unique publishing drama that involved the release of some 250,000 secret diplomatic cables and classified files from the Afghan and Iraq wars. At one point the platinum-haired hacker was hiding from the CIA in David Leigh's London house. Now, together with the paper's investigative reporting team, Leigh and Harding reveal the startling inside story of the man and the leak.
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

HOT NEW BOOK

Hot New Book on Amazon
Breaking Night

Product Description
Liz Murray never really had a chance in life. Born to a drug-addicted father who was in and out of prison, and an equally dependent mother who was in and out of mental institutions, she seemed destined to become just another tragic statistic. Another life wasted on the brutal streets of New York.
By the age of 15, Liz found herself homeless with nowhere to turn but the tough streets, riding subways all night for a warm place to sleep and foraging through dumpsters for food. But when her mother died of AIDS a year later, Liz’s life changed for ever. With no education, with no chance at a job or a home, she realised that only the most astonishing of turnarounds could stop her heading all the way down the same path her parents took. And so she set her mind to overcoming what seemed like impossible odds – and in the process, achieved something extraordinary.
Told with astounding sincerity, Breaking Night is the breathtaking and inspirational story of how a young women, born into a world without hope, used every ounce of strength and determination to steer herself towards a brighter future. Beautifully written, it is a poignant, evocative and stirring portrait of struggle, desperation, forgiveness and survival.
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Monday, January 24, 2011

THIS WEEK BEST SELLER BOOK 24-01-2011

This Week Best Seller Book on Gaurdian

How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism

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In the 144 years since Karl Marx's Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace with the retreat of communism from the western world. But as the free market reaches its extreme limits in the economic and environmental fallout, a reassessment of capitalism's most vigorous and eloquent enemy has never been more timely. Eric Hobsbawm provides a fascinating and insightful overview of Marxism. He investigates its influences and analyses the spectacular reversal of Marxism's fortunes over the past thirty years.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

READ AT HOME: LEVEL 1 TO 5 (For your Kids)

Read at Home: Level 1 : Pack of 6

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This Read At Home pack contains 6 storybooks at Level 1 of the UK's best-selling home reading series: Funny Fish, The Snowman, Silly Races, Picnic Time, Dad's Birthday and Mum's New Hat. Read at Home is a fun, innovative series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in 30 exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 5 levels, and contain vocabulary repetition and gradual progression within each level, from Book A to Book C. There are 6 storybooks available at Level 1. Flashcards and activity books at this level are also available to reinforce and practise key reading and writing skills. Approx ORT level: Stage 1 - 1+ This Read at Home pack contains: 9780198384083 ORT:READ AT HOME LEVEL 1A FUNNY FISH Biff, Chip, Kipper, Floppy and Friends go fishing, but who gets the funny fish? 9780198385059 ORT:READ AT HOME MORE LEVEL 1A THE SNOWMAN The children build a snowman, but then the snowman's hat falls on Floppy. 9780198384090 ORT: READ AT HOME LEVEL 1B SILLY RACES Biff, Chip, Kipper, Mum and Dad have silly races at home and win silly prizes. 9780198385066 ORT:READ AT HOME MORE LEVEL 1B PICNIC TIME The family tries to enjoy a picnic, but there are lots of unexpected guests to share in the food! 9780198384106 ORT: READ AT HOME LEVEL 1C DAD'S BIRTHDAY Dad gets a birthday surprise! 9780198385073 ORT:READ AT HOME MORE LEVEL 1C MUM'S NEW HAT The wind blows Mum's hat off and a chase ensues.

Read at Home: Level 2 : Pack of 6

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This Read At Home pack contains 6 storybooks at Level 2 of the UK's best-selling home reading series: Poor Old Rabbit!, Super Dad, I Can Trick a Tiger, The Monster Hunt, Ouch, Floppy and the Bone. Read at Home is a fun, innovative series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in 30 exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 5 levels, and contain vocabulary repetition and gradual progression within each level, from Book A to Book C. There are 6 storybooks available at Level 2. Flashcards and activity books at this level are also available to reinforce and practise key reading and writing skills. Approx ORT level: Stage 2-3 This Read at Home Level 2 Pack contains: 9780198384113 ORT:READ AT HOME LEVEL 2A POOR OLD RABBIT! Kipper finds an old toy rabbit and soon everyone wants it. 9780198384984 ORT:READ AT HOME MORE LEVEL 2A SUPER DAD Wilma is embarrassed by her Dad dressing up as Super Dad, but maybe he is a Super Dad after all! 9780198384120 ORT:READ AT HOME LEVEL 2B I CAN TRICK A TIGER Floppy dreams he is in the jungle and can trick a tiger. 9780198385004 ORT:READ AT HOME MORE 2B THE MONSTER HUNT Can the children catch the monster? 9780198384991 ORT:READ AT HOME MORE LEVEL 2C OUCH! Floppy dreams he is in the desert and has an unfortunate experience with a cactus, amongst other things! 9780198384137 ORT:READ AT HOME L2C FLOPPY AND THE BONE Floppy has a big bone, but then he wants one even bigger.
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Read at Home: Level 3 : Pack of 6

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This Read At Home pack contains 6 storybooks at Level 3 of the UK's best-selling home reading series: The Old Tree Stump, Missing!, The Real Floppy, The Raft Race, The Spaceship, Dragon Danger. Read at Home is a fun, innovative series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in 30 exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 5 levels, and contain vocabulary repetition and gradual progression within each level, from Book A to Book C. There are 6 storybooks available at Level 3. Flashcards and activity books are also available to reinforce and practise key reading and writing skills. Approx ORT level: Stage 3-4 This Read at Home Level 3 Pack contains: 9780198384144 ORT:READ AT HOME L3A THE OLD TREE STUMP Biff, Chip, Kipper, Mum and Dad all try to pull up the old stump but Floppy saves the day. 9780198386193 ORT:READ AT HOME MORE L3A MISSING! Nadim's hamster, Jaws, goes missing, but Floppy - sniffer dog extraordinaire - comes to the rescue 9780198384151 ORT:READ AT HOME L3B THE REAL FLOPPY Floppy isn't allowed on the beach, so Dad, Biff, Chip and Kipper make Mum a surprise. 9780198386209 ORT:READ AT HOME MORE L3B THE RAFT RACE Wilf and Wilma's Mum and Dad join a Raft Race and struggle as their rafts disintegrate but who will win the race? 9780198384168 ORT:READ AT HOME L3C THE SPACESHIP Floppy dreams he is on a spaceship where he has to avoid the fireballs and a terrible accident. 9780198386216 ORT:READ AT HOME MORE L3C DRAGON DANGER Floppy dreams about dragons and then comes face to face with a mother and baby dragon...but are they friendly?
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Read at Home: Level 4 : Pack of 6

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This Read At Home pack contains 6 storybooks at Level 4 of the UK's best-selling home reading series: Looking After Gran, Arctic Adventure, Hungry Floppy, Shrinking Powder, Husky Adventure, Trapped! Read at Home is a fun, innovative series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in 30 exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 5 levels, and contain vocabulary repetition and gradual progression within each level, from Book A to Book C. There are 6 storybooks available at Level 4. Flashcards and activity books are also available to reinforce and practise key reading and writing skills. Approx ORT level: Stage 3-4 This Read at Home Level 4 Pack contains: 9780198384175 ORT:READ AT HOME L4A LOOKING AFTER GRAN Gran is meant to look after Floppy, but Floppy ends up looking after Gran. 9780198386223 ORT:READ HOME MORE L4A ARCTIC ADVENTURE Chip and Wilf have a magic key adventure in the Arctic where they meet Oona, an inuit girl, and a polar bear! 9780198384182 ORT:READ AT HOME L4B HUNGRY FLOPPY Hungry Floppy looks for food. 9780198386230 ORT:READ AT HOME MORE L4B SHRINKING POWDER The children go on a magic adventure and meet trainee wizard Jake who has a can of shrinking powder! 9780198384199 ORT:READ AT HOME L4C HUSKY ADVENTURE Floppy dreams he is in a team of husky dogs - but can he run fast enough? 9780198386247 ORT:READ AT HOME MORE L4C TRAPPED! Gran, the children and Floppy visit an old castle ... but who is trapped?
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Read at Home: Level 5 : Pack of 6

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This Read At Home pack contains 6 storybooks at Level 5 of the UK's best-selling home reading series: The Hairy-Scary Monster, The Golden Touch, The Lost Voice, The Palace Statues, The Secret of the Sands, Mountain Rescue. Read at Home is a fun, innovative series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in 30 exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 5 levels, and contain vocabulary repetition and gradual progression within each level, from Book A to Book C. There are 6 storybooks available at Level 5. Approx ORT level: Stage 5-7 This Read at Home Level 5 Pack contains: 9780198385011 ORT:READ AT HOME LEVEL 5A THE HAIRY-SCARY MONSTER A hairy-scary monster is preventing Kipper from going to sleep - but does it really exist? 9780198387022 ORT:RAH MORE L5A THE GOLDEN TOUCH The magic key takes the children back in time, where they meet the daughter of King Midas. 9780198385028 ORT:READ AT HOME LEVEL 5B THE LOST VOICE Chip has a sore throat and has lost his voice EL so Floppy sets about finding it. 9780198387039 ORT:RAH MORE L5B THE PALACE STATUES The magic key takes the children to a palace, where they help a girl and her brother to catch some jewel thieves. 9780198385035 ORT:READ AT HOME LEVEL 5C THE SECRET OF THE SANDS The magic key takes the children to the desert where after bumpy camel rides they find the Secret of the Sand. 9780198387046 ORT:RAH MORE L5C MOUNTAIN RESCUE The magic key takes Biff and Wilma to a Swiss mountain, where they help rescue a stolen eagle's egg.
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THIS WEEK BEST SELLER BOOK

This Week Best Seller Book by GUARDIAN

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home

Review
'Wonderfully intelligent and frank... I loved this book, and Rhoda Janzen. She is a terrific, pithy, beautiful writer, a reliable, sympathetic narrator and a fantastically good sport.' New York Times 'This book is not just beautiful and intelligent, but also painfully - even wincingly - funny. It is rare that I literally laugh out loud while I'm reading, but Rhoda Janzen's voice - singular, deadpan, sharp-witted and honest - slayed me, with audible results. I have a list already of about fourteen friends who need to read this book. I will insist that they read it. Because simply put, this is the most delightful memoir I've read in ages.' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
Product Description
Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her world turned upside down. It was bad enough that her husband of fifteen years left her for Bob, a guy he met on Gay.com, but that same week a car accident left her injured. Needing a place to rest and pick up the pieces of her life, Rhoda packed her bags, crossed the country, and returned to her Mennonite family's home, where she was welcomed back with open arms and weird advice. (Rhoda's good-natured mother suggested she get over her heartbreak by dating her first cousin he owned a tractor, see.) Written with wry humour and huge personality - and tackling faith, love, family, and aging - Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is an immensely moving and funny memoir, certain to touch anyone who has ever had to look homeward in order to move ahead.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

THE BEST BUSINESS BOOKS

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Product Description
Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people - at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and the world. Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation, and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward.

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

If you like Seth Godin's other books, you will like this one. The main riff throughout the book is about the new world of work - one based on intellect and ideas rather than an ability to move stuff from one place to another. While not necessarily a new idea (see Dan Pink's "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future"), it is well presented and compelling. Seth develops his argument for how to succeed in this new world and how to make yourself indispensible. Actually, I think "indispensible" might be a little overstated, I think it would be more correct to say "achieving your full potential to a point where you if you are dispensed with, then someone else will always want you!". Either way, a great message.

It does read a little like a self help book in places. I am not entirely convinced that this was unintentional or necessarily a bad thing. It depends on what you were looking for.

On the downside, some readers might find his "in your face" style a bit evangelical in places, particularly some of us Brits. Undoubtedly, this style has been developed through his blog writing where space is limited to get the point over. However, when the same style is used throughout a book, it can be a bit over powering at times. That said, I read the book cover to cover. Every 2-3 pages I would find a nugget of an idea that would make me carrying on reading. Before long, the book was finished.


Flip the Funnel: How to Use Existing Customers to Gain New Ones

Product Description
Why customer retention is the new acquisition
If there′s anything the recession of 2009 taught us, it was the importance of investing in our customers, but when was this any different? So says Joseph Jaffe, bestselling author of Life After the 30–Second Spot and Join the Conversation, and a leading expert and thought leader on new media and social media. In most businesses, it costs roughly five–to–ten times more to acquire a new customer than it does to retain an existing one, and yet companies continue to disproportionately spend their budgets into the "wrong" end of the funnel – the mass media or awareness side.
What we haven′t paid enough attention to is the "right" end of the funnel–the word–of–mouth component that essentially acts as a multiplier for future business. The economic impact of an active, engaged and loyal customer is tremendous.
And the same is true of the opposite scenario, namely the impact of angry customers and negative word–of–mouth or referrals. It is this thinking that Jaffe has channeled to challenge marketers to "flip the funnel" once and for all. With a renewed focus and energy on customer experience, it is possible to grow your sales, while decreasing your budget – in other words, getting more from less. Engaging a few customers to spread the word to many.
Using this new "flipped funnel" model, together with a set of new rules of customer service and a revolutionary customer referral and activation process, you′ll learn how to transform your existing customers into your best salespeople. In addition, Jaffe will explain how to best introduce and combine both digital and social media tools to boost your loyalty arsenal, deploy "influencer marketing" and implement word–of–mouth strategies that inspire your loyal, opinionated, and most vocal customers to become credible, persuasive, and influential endorsers of your products and services.
  • Explains how to cut your marketing budget AND grow sales!
  • Illustrates practical ways to use existing customers to reach out to new prospects
  • Outlines the authentic role of social media
  • Demonstrates key ideas with rich, real life examples including Comcast, Apple, The Obama Campaign, Dell, Panasonic, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Johnson & Johnson, Coca–Cola and many, many more

The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence at Work

Product Description
There is little doubt that no one, with the exception of Peter Drucker, has had more influence in shaping the idea of modern management than Tom Peters. Peters still has the same vigor and enthusiasm he had when the classic "In Search of Excellence" was published in 1982. Unlike so many dry, boring books on business, Tom Peters has a compelling, in-your-face style that makes this book as fun to read as it is insightful. An enemy of conformist 'suits', mindless mega-mergers, and the status quo, Peters urges readers to embrace diversity, cherish weirdness, and manage by turning off the computer and hitting the streets. This is one of those rare business books that is as essential for the small business owner or freelancer as it is for the head of a major corporation. Beginning with a fiery call-to-arms to companies and businesspeople to get 'back to basics', this book is the guidebook on how to excel at the people side of business and a reminder to 'never forget why you're here'. Some examples of Tom's timeless wisdom include: Love Your Competitors; Leave Your Wallet at Home; Appoint an Ombudsman for Common Sense; and, Cut Red Tape. Now more than ever, businesspeople need a voice of experience and wisdom to guide us through this time of financial uncertainty. Tom Peters is - as he always has been - just that voice.

Switch: How to change things when change is hard

Product Description
We all know that change is hard. It’s unsettling, it’s time-consuming, and all too often we give up at the first sign of a setback.
But why do we insist on seeing the obstacles rather than the goal? This is the question that bestselling authors Chip and Dan Heath tackle in their compelling and insightful new book. They argue that we need only understand how our minds function in order to unlock shortcuts to switches in behaviour. Illustrating their ideas with scientific studies and remarkable real-life turnarounds – from the secrets of successful marriage counselling to the pile of gloves that transformed one company’s finances – the brothers Heath prove that deceptively simple methods can yield truly extraordinary results.
 

Friday, January 14, 2011

2010 NATIONAL AWARD WINNING BOOKS

The National Book Award 2010 (USA)


Lord of Misrule [Fiction]
Review
"A novel of luck, pluck, farce and above all horse racing... The writing about the races is a tour de force of energy and esprit.... Exceptional writing and idiosyncratic characters make this an engaging read." (starred review) --Kirkus Reviews
Product Description
At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters -- scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain -- through a year and four races at Indian Mound Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia.

Horseman Tommy Hansel has a scheme to rescue his failing stable: He'll ship four unknown but ready horses to Indian Mound Downs, run them in cheap claiming races at long odds, and then get out fast before anyone notices. The problem is, at this rundown riverfront half-mile racetrack in the Northern Panhandle, everyone notices--veteran groom Medicine Ed, Kidstuff the blacksmith, old lady "gyp" Deucey Gifford, stall superintendent Suitcase Smithers, eventually even the rulled-off "racetrack financier" Two-Twi and the ominous leading trainer, Joe Dale Bigg. But no one bothers to factor in Tommy Hansel's go-fer girlfriend, Maggie Koderer. Like the beautiful, used-up, tragic horses she comes to love, Maggie has just enough heart to wire everyone's flagging hopes back to the source of all luck.

 Just Kids [Non Fiction]
Review
“One of the best books ever written on becoming an artist...Jesus may have died for somebody’s sins, but Patti Smith lives and writes and sings for all of us.” (Washington Post )

“A moving portrait of the artist as a young woman, and a vibrant profile of Smith’s onetime boyfriend and lifelong muse, Robert Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS in 1989...JUST KIDS is ultimately a wonderful portal into the dawn of Smith’s art.” (Los Angeles Times )

“The most compelling memoir by a rock artist since Bob Dylan’s ‘Chronicles: Volume One,’ written with intimacy and grace....” (Chicago Tribune )
” A story of art, identity, devotion, discovery, and love, the book is [Smith’s] first prose work...[it] conjures up the passionate collaboration--as lovers, friends, soul mates, and creators--that she and Mapplethorpe embarked on from the summer they met in Brooklyn in 1967.” (Elle )
“[JUST KIDS] is funny and sad but always exhilarating.” (Tampa Tribune )

Product Description
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.
Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years.
Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame.

Lighthead [Poetry]
Product Description

From an award-winning poet, a new collection in which the political and the personal converge in innovative and beautiful ways.
In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presenta­tion format. This innovative collection presents the light- headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Fueled by an imagination that enlightens, delights, and ignites, Lighthead leaves us illuminated and scorched.

Mockingbird (Deckle Edge) [Young People's Literature]
Review
"[A] fine addition to the recent group of books with autistic narrators." –Booklist
"A strong and complex character study." --Horn Book
"This heartbreaking story is delivered in the straightforward, often funny voice of a fifth-grade girl with Asperger's Syndrome." --Kirkus, starred review
"This is...a valuable book." --School Library Journal
"Erskine works in powerful imagery throughout." --Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Fascinating characters." --Los Angeles Times
Product Description

In Caitlin's world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That's the stuff Caitlin's older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devon's dead and Dad is no help at all. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an eleven-year-old girl with Asperger's, she doesn't know how. When she reads the definition of closure, she realizes that is what she needs. In her search for it, Caitlin discovers that not everything is black and white--the world is full of colors--messy and beautiful.
Kathryn Erskine has written a must-read gem, one of the most moving novels of the year.

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Thursday, January 13, 2011

TOP 10 BEST BOOKS OF YEAR 2010.

Top 10 Best Books of of Year 2010 on Amazon.

(1) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest


Product Description

A young girl lies in a hospital room, her tattooed body very close to death -- there is a bullet lodged in her brain. Several rooms away is the man who tried to kill her, his own body grievously wounded from axe blows inflicted by the girl he has tried to kill. She is Lisbeth Salander, computer hacker and investigator, and the man is her father, a murderous Russian gangster. If Salander recovers from her injuries, she is more than likely to be put on trial for three murders -- the authorities regard her as a dangerous individual. But she won't see the inside of a courtroom if her father manages to kill her first.
This is the high-tension opening premise of the third book in Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful trilogy of crime novels which the late author (a crusading journalist) delivered to his publisher just before his death. But does it match up to its two electrifying predecessors, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire? The success of Larsson’s remarkable sequence of books is, to some degree, unprecedented. Crime fiction in translation has, of course, made a mark before (notably with Peter Hoeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, published, in fact, by Larsson's British publisher, Christopher MacLehose). But even the success of that book gave no hint of the juggernauts that the Salander books would be (the late author's secondary hero is the journalist Blomqvist -- who bears more than a passing resemblance to Stieg Larsson himself).
There are two overriding reasons for the hold that this massive trilogy has attained on the public: machine-tooled plotting which juggles the various narrative elements with a master's touch and (above all) the vividly realised character of Lisbeth Salander herself. She is something of a unique creation in the field of crime and thriller fiction: emotionally damaged, vulnerable and sociopathic (all of this concealed behind a forbidding Goth appearance), but she is also the ultimate survivor, somehow managing to stay alive despite the machinations of some deeply unpleasant villains (and the new book has a slew of those) as well as the hostility of often stupid establishment figures, who want her out of the picture quite as passionately as the bad guys. She is, of course, aided by the protective journalist Blomqvist, despite the fact that she had dumped him as a lover. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest brings together all the elements that have made the previous books of the sequence so successful. Its relentless pace may be a bit exhausting for some readers, but most will be happy to strap themselves in for the ride. It's just a shame that this will be the final book in the sequence (though conspiracy theorists are hinting that Larsson began another manuscript before his untimely death…)
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(2) One Day


Review
'It's rare to find a novel which ranges over the recent past with such authority, and even rarer to find one in which the two leading characters are drawn with such solidity, such painful fidelity, to real life that you really do put the book down with the hallucinatory feeling that they've become as well known to you as your closest friends. Hard to imagine anyone encountering characters as well drawn as this and not recognizing the extraordinary talent of the writer who has created them.' (Jonathan Coe Guardian Books of the Year 20090403)

'I finished it last night and I'm still quite wobbly and affected by it. It was BRILLIANT. . . the jealously nearly made me puke. I wish I'd written this book' (Marian Keyes 20090129)

'The ultimate zeitgeist love story for anyone who ever wanted someone they couldn't have' (Adele Parks 20090129)

'Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable . . . brilliant on the details of the last couple of decades of British cultural and political life' (Nick Hornby 20081202)

'The novel of the year - a brilliantly funny and moving will-they, won't-they romance tracing a relationship on the same day each day for two decades' (Heat 20090621)

'It is a cleverly and astutely constructed book - but that is worthy of a mere footnote compared with its emotional impact. I am not ashamed to say that upon finishing it I pressed it to my chest as a big fat tear splashed onto its upturned spine' (The Times Book Club 20090621)

'You'd be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic comedy this year than the story of Dex and Em' (Independent 20090621)

'Nicholls' book is the sort of thing you can't put down, and I read it over a weekend, creeping upstairs to gulp down another chapter when I should have been downstairs preparing dinner of helping with homework' (Dylan Jones 20090621)

'I felt that I had been emotionally taken apart by the very best. This perfectly executed novel is a reminder that reading can be the finest entertainment there is' (Guardian 20090621)

'If you measure your love for a book by the number of times you buy it for people, then my favourite is ONE DAY by David Nicholls. I read it about a year ago and must have bought it for at least 20 people since' (The Times Book Club 20090621)

'We could fill a page with descriptive proclamations of its brilliance, but we'll stick with intoxicating, engrossing and verging on genius. If this has never graced your bedside table, then go directly to the nearest bookshop, purchase one copy and start 2010 with a read that has taken the literary world by storm' (Daily Record 20090621)

'It made me laugh and sob, and the characters just walk off the page into your head, where they remain. How I wish I'd written it, as does every novelist I know' (Polly Williams 20090621)

'A totally brilliant book about the heartbreaking gap between the way we were and the way we are...the best weird love story since THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE. Every reader will fall in love with it. And every writer will wish they had written it.' (Tony Parsons 20090621)

'A wonderful, wonderful book: wise, funny, perceptive, compassionate and often unbearably sad . . . the best British social novel since Jonathan Coe's WHAT A CARVE UP! . . . Nicholls's witty prose has a transparency that brings Nick Hornby to mind: it melts as you read it so that you don't notice all the hard work that it's doing' (The Times 20090621)

'The funniest, loveliest book I've read in ages. Most of all it is horribly, cringingly, absolutely 100% honest and true to life: I lived every page.' (Jenny Colgan 20090621)

'I really loved it . . . it's absolutely wonderful . . . just so moving and engaging' (Kate Mosse 20090621)

'With its beautifully rounded, real characters and deeply poignant storytelling, this is one of the year's best novels.' (Heat 20090621)
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(3) The Help


Review
The other side of Gone with the Wind – and just as unputdownable (The Sunday Times )

A big, warm girlfriend of a book (The Times )

Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird has changed lives. It’s direct descendent The Help has the same potential…an astonishing feat of accomplishment (Daily Express )

Outstanding, immensely funny, very compelling, brilliant (Daily Telegraph )

Immensely readable (Observer )

Daring, vitally important and very courageous, I loved and admired The Help. Fantastic (Marian Keyes )

A laugh-out-loud, vociferously angry must-read (Marie Claire )

Touching, disgraceful, funny. Highly recommended (Daily Mail )

Utterly brilliant (She )

Remarkable, shocking, brave, brilliant (Easy Living )

Wonderfully engaging dialogue (Good Housekeeping )

A compelling, great first novel, with soaring highs, poignant side stories and laugh-out-loud anecdotes. You’ll be sorry to finish it (Psychologies )

A winning story of courage and truth (Woman & Home )

A brisk, involving read (Metro )

An exciting and atmospheric story (Rachel Cooke Observer Books of the Year )

A wise, poignant novel. You’ll catch yourself cheering out loud (People )
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(4) Wolf Hall


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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.' England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages. From one of our finest living writers, 'Wolf Hall' is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion, suffering and courage.
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(5) The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

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Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by the riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabits. In another irresistible combination of danger, mystery and romance, Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of Bree and the newborn army as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusion. 'I'm as surprised as anyone about this novella,' said Stephenie Meyer. 'When I began working on it in 2005, it was simply an exercise to help me examine the other side of Eclipse, which I was editing at the time. I thought it might end up as a short story that I could include on my website. Then, when work started on The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide, I thought the Guide would be a good fit for my Bree story. However, the story grew longer than I anticipated, until it was too long to fit into the Guide.'
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(6) Mums Know Best: The Hairy Bikers' Family Cookbook

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Si and Dave undertake a nationwide search for Britain's lost recipes - those forgotten gems or secret scribbles handed down through the generations - for a landmark TV series. The Bikers send out a call-to-arms for mums, daughters and their grandmothers to unlock their private recipe archives and share with, and learn from, other mums of all races and backgrounds. This is a heart-warming and down-to-earth recipe book that takes place against beautiful British backdrops throughout the summer. Here yummy mummies, Northern matriarchs, West Indian foster mums and ladies of the manor all come together with recipes to share, tips to swap and techniques to learn, in a book that contains 112 different recipes.
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(7) The Dukan Diet



Product Description
The Dukan Diet is a unique 4-step programme, combining two steps to lose your unwanted weight and two steps to keep it off for good:

Step 1: Attack
For 2-7 days eat as much as you want of 72 protein-rich foods.

Step 2: Cruise
Continue eating the protein-rich foods with the addition of 28 vegetables.

Step 3: Consolidation
Add fruit, bread, cheese and starchy foods, and 2 celebration meals a week, allowing 5 days for every pound lost.

Step 4: Stabilisation
Eat what you like without regaining weight by following 3 simple rules, including the famous ‘protein Thursdays’.

Devised by Dr Pierre Dukan, a French medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight permanently, The Dukan Diet is the culmination of thirty-five years’ clinical experience. Without any of the usual marketing hype, The Dukan Diet swept across France, championed by the people who had successfully lost weight following the diet. It is now estimated that the Dukan community numbers over 5 million people in France. Easy to follow with no calorie counting, The Dukan Diet offers clear simple guidelines, menu planners and delicious recipes for long term success.
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(8) Jamie's 30-Minute Meals: A Revolutionary Approach to Cooking  Good Food Fast

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In his new book, Jamie's 30-Minute Meals, Jamie proves that, by mastering a few tricks and being organized and focused in the kitchen, it is absolutely possible, and easy, to get a complete meal on the table in the same amount of time you’d normally spend making one dish! The 50 brand-new meal ideas in this book are exciting, varied and seasonal. They include main course recipes with side dishes as well as puddings and drinks, and are all meals you’ll be proud to serve your family and friends. Jamie has written the recipes in a way that will help you make the most of every single minute in the kitchen. This book is as practical as it is beautiful, showing that with a bit of preparation, the right equipment and some organization, hearty, delicious, quick meals are less than half an hour away. You’ll be amazed by what you’re able to achieve.
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(9) A Journey


Review
Written in a congenial style peppered with slang and gossipy asides. At one moment he is the bloke in the pub. The next, he is Churchill. --Ben MacIntyre, The Times

This is a more honest political memoir than most and more open in many respects than I had anticipated. He is compellingly candid about how scared he was when he first became prime minister . . . He is unusually direct about his calculations, even when they don't reflect well on him . . . He admits to stretching the truth beyond `breaking point' to secure a settlement in Northern Ireland. Even when the lies are told in a noble cause, few politicians are honest enough to admit that they sometimes feel compelled to be deceivers. --Andrew Rawnsley, Observer

He is by turns outspoken, provocative, unrepentant, often serious, sometimes funny. --David Frost, Al Jazeera

Tony Blair's memoir is part psychodrama, part treatise on the frustrations of leadership in a modern democracy . . . The book's broader purpose is to preserve his legacy, settling scores, justifying the war against Iraq, and mounting a defiant plea to his party to keep faith with New Labour . . . Blair comes across as likable, if manipulative; capable of dissembling while wonderfully fluent; in short, a brilliant modern politician. --Lionel Barber, Financial Times

Will certainly become a bestseller.
--Robert McCrum, Observer

This is substantial, thoughtful book and on the whole well written . . . My judgment is that he has for the most part set down honestly his version of events and attempted seriously to engage with his critics --Chris Mullin, Times

The fascination of the British public with Tony Blair is almost on the scale of his fascination with his own relationship to them --Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times

Really rather splendid --Jan Moir, Daily Mail

Prime Ministerial memoirs are traditionally stuffy, formal and guarded, as though written under police caution. Tony Blair's are nothing of the sort . . . his memoirs are chummy, colloquial, impulsive and rash . . . it is this candour that makes the book so readable --(4 out of 5 star review) Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

As this book immodestly reveals, Tony Blair was, and remains, a remarkable influence on politics, both domestically and internationally
--Menzies Campbell, Scotland on Sunday

What makes his memoir so absorbing as it swings from clever phrase-making and thoughtful contemporary history to wince-inducing self-analysis, is that he is the first of a generation of politicians to conduct their craft as if observing themselves from an amused an admiring distance - and then to write about it. No recent politician has examines his own motives and psychology quite so candidly -- John Rentoul, Independent

It is the small revelations about the character of Blair that make this book worthwhile --Ross Clark, Express

It's a gripping insight into the ex-PM's ten years of power . . . It will take a lot for many people to read his own take on the rise and fall of New Labour, but those that do might be reminded of the charm and vision that swept him to power --News of the World

I have read many a prime ministerial memoir and none of the other authors has been as self-deprecating, as willing to admit mistakes and to tell jokes against themselves --Mary Ann Sieghart, Independent

Paints a candid picture of his friend and rival, Gordon Brown, and of their relationship
--Patrick Hennessy, Sunday Telegraph
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(10) Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga)

Review
'The sexiest vampire tale for years arrived in Stephenie Meyer's TWILIGHT, about teenage Bella's chaste romance with a beautiful vampire boy. Their intensely erotic feelings are endangered by more predatory types. Guaranteed to suck in sulky 13+ girls for hours.' The Times "Will keep readers madly flipping the pages of Meyer's tantalizing debut." Publishers Weekly
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