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At last...all the Queen of Clean's® famous advice for a clean house, cleaner laundry, and a year of timely tips -- right at your fingertips!

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  • Walker, Jackie: I Don't Have a Thing to Wear: The Psychology of Your Closet
  • Woulfe, James B.: Into the Crucible : Making Marines for the 21st Century
  • Lawler, Jerry "The King": It's Good to Be the King... Sometimes
  • The Joys of Much Too Much: Go for the Big Life--the Great Career, the Perfect Guy, And Everything Else You've Ever Wanted (Even If Your're Afraid You Don't Have What It Takes)
    by Bonnie Fuller
    ISBN 0743459474 (0-7434-5947-4)
    Hardcover, Fireside

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    A manifesto for the woman who wants it all

    written by a woman who already has it all

    Magazine mogul and mother of four, Bonnie Fuller has led some of America's most popular magazines to record successes while also enjoying a fulfilling family life. In The Joys of Much Too Much, Fuller tells women how they too can have everything -- and provides a blueprint for finding the right job, the man of their dreams, and for starting a family -- plus explains how to juggle it all at once. She also gives helpful, unconventional advice for enjoying a packed-to-the-max life:

    • Banish perfection guilt
    • Take every shortcut
    • Experience the positive aspects of denial and envy
    • Above all, never face the facts

    A straight-shooting, inspiring how-to, illustrated with entertaining anecdotes from Fuller's personal and professional lives, The Joys of Much Too Much shows women of all ages how to make multitasking a way of life -- and a surefire way to lifelong happiness.

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  • Greenberg, Keith Elliot: The Legends of Wrestling: "Classy" Freddie Blassie  Listen, You Pencil Neck Geeks
  • Salon.Com: Life As We Know It: A Collection of Personal Essays for from Salon.Com
  • Little Earthquakes: A Novel
    by Jennifer Weiner
    ISBN 0743470109 (0-7434-7010-9)
    Softcover, Washington Square Pr

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    First comes love. Then comes marriage. And then things start to get really interesting...

    In "Good in Bed, " Cannie Shapiro conquered public heartbreak and shaky self-esteem. In "In Her Shoes, " Rose and Maggie Feller learned about family secrets and the ties that bind. Now, in Jennifer Weiner's richest, wittiest, most true-to-life novel yet, this highly acclaimed storyteller brings readers a tale of romance, friendship, forgiveness, and extreme sleep deprivation, as three very different women navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journey of new motherhood.

    Rebecca Rothstein-Rabinowitz is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderful husband, supportive friends, a restaurant that's received citywide acclaim, a beautiful baby girl...and the mother-in-law from hell.

    Kelly Day's life looks picture-perfect. But behind the doors of her largely empty apartment, she's struggling to balance work and motherhood and marriage, while entering Oliver's every move (and movement) on a spreadsheet, and dealing with an unemployed husband who seems content to channel-surf for eight hours a day.

    And Ayinde Towne is already on shaky ground, trying to live her life to the letter of a how-to guide called "Baby Success, " when her basketball superstar husband breaks her trust at the most vulnerable moment in her life, putting their marriage in peril -- and their new family even more in the public eye.

    Then there's Lia Frederick, a Philadelphia native who has just come home, leaving Los Angeles behind, along with her glamorous Hollywood career, her husband, and a tragic secret, to start her life all over again.

    With her trademark warmth and humor, Weiner tells the story of what happens after happily ever after...and how an eight-pound bundle of joy can shake up every woman's sense of herself in the world around her.

    From prenatal yoga to postbirth sex, from sisters and husbands to mothers and mothers-in-law, "Little Earthquakes" is a frank, funny, fiercely perceptive Diaper Genie-eye view of the comedies and tragedies of love and marriage. [via]

  • Wallace, Max: Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain
  • Macbeth
    by William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. Mowat
    ISBN 0743477103 (0-7434-7710-3)
    Softcover, Washington Square Pr

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    Each edition includes:

    " Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play

    " Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play

    " Scene-by-scene plot summaries

    " A key to famous lines and phrases

    " An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language

    " An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play

    " Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books

    Essay by Susan Snyder

    The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu. [via]

  • Thomashauer, Regena: Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts: Using the Power of Pleasure to Have Your Way With the World
  • Manhunt
    by Peter Maas
    ISBN 0743452682 (0-7434-5268-2)
    Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated

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    The incredible pursuit of a CIA agent turned terrorist by New York Times best-selling author Peter Maas. Edwin P. Wilson was the Great Gatsby of the spook world, the rogue CIA agent who had already begun to amass a fortune while still in U.S intelligence. His lavish estate outside Washington, D.C. was a favoured gathering place for senators and congressmen, admirals and generals, for key intelligence officers. In addition, Wilson was also raking in millions in the service of the godfather of world-wide terrorism - Libya's Colonel Muamar el-Qaddafi. Wilson seemed above the law. Then, US attorney Larry Barcella discovered Wilson's sinister machinations, and in a chase that would go on for nearly four years and over three continents, Barcella began a manhunt that would not end until Wilson was brought to justice. In MANHUNT, Peter Maas went behind the headlines, gaining access to the secret documentation of Wilson's intelligence career, classified federal investigative reports and sealed court records. And in the course of his exhaustive research into the murky bypaths of espionage and deception, he turned over rocks that official Washington would have much preferred remained in place. [via]

  • Robinson, Anne: Memoirs of an Unfit Mother
  • The Merck Manual of Medical Information
    by Robert Berkow, Robert Porter, Douglas A. Drossman, Andrew J. Fletcher, Marjorie A. Bowman, Thomas V. Jones, Michael Berkwits, Justin L. Kaplan, Sarah L. Berga
    ISBN 0743477332 (0-7434-7733-2)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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    For more than 100 years doctors have been coming to us for advice. Now you can, too.

    The Merck Manual has traditionally provided exclusive, up-to-the-minute information to doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Now, with this special Home Edition, the general public can access virtually the same critical data contained in the physician's version -- but in everyday language and a reader-friendly format.

    With contributions from nearly 200 internationally respected medical experts, this fully revised edition offers vital, easy-to-understand information about almost every known medical issue, including:

    " AIDS " cancer " eating, digestive, and nutrition disorders " heart disease " mental illness " pediatric care -- including a new chapter on early-childhood development " sexual dysfunction " terminal illness " viruses and infections

    ...and much more. Featuring original illustrations and diagrams, an A-Z listing of brand-name and generic drugs, and an appendix of medical resources, The Merck Manual -- Home Edition is published as a not-for-profit service by Merck, a world leader in breakthrough medical discoveries with a long commitment to making the world a healthier place. [via]

  • Miracle Worker
    by William Gibson
    ISBN 0743457587 (0-7434-5758-7)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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    NO ONE COULD REACH HER Twelve-year-old Helen Keller lived in a prison of silence and darkness. Born deaf, blind, and mute, with no way to express herself or comprehend those around her, she flew into primal rages against anyone who tried to help her, fighting tooth and nail with a strength born of furious, unknowing desperation. Then Annie Sullivan came. Half-blind herself, but possessing an almost fanatical determination, she would begin a frightening and incredibly moving struggle to tame the wild girl no one could reach, and bring Helen into the world at last.... [via]

  • More Than a Game
    by Charles Rosen, Phil Jackson
    ISBN 0743444116 (0-7434-4411-6)
    Softcover, Atria Books

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    AS THE GAME REVEALS THE PLAYER, SO DOES THIS BOOK REVEAL THE COACH

    Phil Jackson is the most celebrated coach in basketball today, earning that respect by guiding his teams in Chicago and Los Angeles to an astounding eight NBA championships. The key to his success, he thinks is his ability to understand the complexities of the players as well as the intricacies of the game. With this memorable book, Phil joins his friend Charley Rosen, a former player and coach who knows success at the game's highest levels, to bring new insight to the challenge of coaching and to honor the innate grace of basketball and its players.

    Jackson and Rosen take you from the cracked blacktop courts of the inner city to the polished hardwood of the country's finest arenas, exposing the demanding reality of professional basketball: a world of glamour, glitter, and greed, in which nobility can still be found in the single-minded pursuit of athletic perfection.

    From his playing days in college and with the world champion Knicks of the 1970's to his victories courtside with the Bulls and the Lakers, Jackson relates his philosophy of coaching, fondly talks about the memorable players and plays of the past, and candidly expresses his feelings about today's rules and referees. Simply a must for any fan, this book reveals the very heart of the sport, reminding us that basketball is much more than just a game. [via]

  • Walsch, Neale Donald: The New Revelations: A Conversation With God
  • Rule, Ann: No Regrets: And Other True Cases
  • Dalla, Nolan: One of a Kind : The Rise and Fall of Stuey the Kid Ungar, the World's Greatest Poker Player
  • Alson, Peter: One of a Kind: The Rise And Fall of Stuey "The Kid" Ungar, the World's Greatest Poker Player
  • Cascone, Gina: Pagan Babies
    Pagan Babies
    by Gina Cascone
    ISBN 0743453271 (0-7434-5327-1)
    Softcover, Washington Square Pr

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  • Nyala, Hannah: Point Last Seen: A Woman Tracker's Story
  • John Paul: The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II: An Invitation to Prayer
  • Bhishop-Hurley, Gregory J.: Project Beta: The Story Of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, And The Creation Of A Modern UFO Myth
  • May, Steven W.: Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works
  • Bradley, Richard R.: Quick Fit : The Complete 15-Minute No-Sweat Workout
  • Hendrix, Harville: Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship By Letting Yourself Be Loved
  • Rossant, Colette: Return to Paris: A Memoir
  • The Right Words at the Right Time
    by Marlo Thomas
    ISBN 074344650X (0-7434-4650-X)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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    For those of us in need of hope, a hero, or a healthy dose of inspiration, here is a heartwarming collection of personal revelations from some of today's greatest luminaries whose lives were changed by hearing the right words at the right time.

    Marlo Thomas and Friends have contributed their stories and all royalties from The Right Words at the Right Time to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, founded by Ms. Thomas's father, Danny Thomas, in 1962. [via]

  • Cussler, Clive: The Sea Hunters: True Life Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks
  • [???]: A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage
    A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage
    ISBN 0743474546 (0-7434-7454-6)
    Hardcover, Pocket Books

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  • Lauck, Jennifer: Show Me The Way: A Memoir In Stories
  • Morgan, Robin: Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for the New Millennium
  • HBO Staff: Six Feet Under : Better Living Through Death
    Six Feet Under : Better Living Through Death
    by HBO Staff, Alan Ball, Alan Poul
    ISBN 0743480651 (0-7434-8065-1)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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  • Manfredi, Valerio Massimo: Spartan: A Novel
    Spartan: A Novel
    by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Christine Feddersen
    ISBN 0743475429 (0-7434-7542-9)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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  • The Star Trek the Next Generation Companion
    by Larry Nemecek
    ISBN 0743457986 (0-7434-5798-6)
    Softcover, Star Trek

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    First published in 1992 and last revised in 1995, this is a fitting record of a show that changed the rules by which television was made. The first adventure drama series ever to run to seven seasons and more than 170 episodes, Star Trek: The Next Generation broke audience records wherever it was shown and remains the most widely viewed and consistently popular of all the Star Trek series. This new edition of the series companion has been brought bang up to date to include not only all seven years of the TV series but also all four films which have featured the Next Generation crew. In addition to Generations (1994), we now have full details of First Contact (1997), Insurrection (1998) and the very latest incarnation, Nemesis (2002). A positive feast of information, the Companion includes complete plot summaries and credits for each invidiual episode and film. There are fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpses into how each one was made, and in-depth analysis really brings The Next Generation universe to life. Illustrated throughout with more than 150 black and white photographs, this is a truly invaluable reference guide. [via]

  • Austin, Steve: The Stone Cold Truth
    The Stone Cold Truth
    by Steve Austin, Jim "J.R." Ross, Dennis A. Bryant, Vince McMahon
    ISBN 0743482670 (0-7434-8267-0)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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    On 14 January 2003 Steve Austin was voted the best professional wrestler of the last ten years in a WWE fan poll. In addition to the WWE he has wrestled in the ECW, the WCW and WWF. He has been known as The Ring Master, Superstar Steve Austin, Stunning Steve Austin and now Stone Cold Steve Austin. He has held the tag team belt in WCW and WWF, the Million Dollar Belt and the Intercontinental Championship in WWF. He won the 1996 King of the Ring, the 1997 Royal Rumble and the Larry Flynt Freedom of Speech Slammy. Steve Austin is by far the best and most exciting wrestler today. A notoriously private man, this is the book his fans have been waiting for: his story, in his own words, told in full for the first time. [via]

  • The Taming of the Shrew
    by William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. Mowat
    ISBN 074347757X (0-7434-7757-X)
    Softcover, Washington Square Pr

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    Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young men -- the hopeful Lucentio and the worldly Petruchio -- and the two sisters they meet in Padua. Lucentio falls in love with Bianca, the apparently ideal younger daughter of the wealthy Baptista Minola. But before they can marry, Bianca's formidable elder sister, Katherine, must be wed. Petruchio, interested only in the huge dowry, arranges to marry Katherine -- against her will -- and enters into a battle of the sexes that has endured as one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable works. [via]

  • Redfern, Nick: Three Men Seeking Monsters : Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monsters, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs, and Ape-Men
  • Walsch, Neale Donald: Tomorrow's God Bk. 1, Vol. 2 & 3 : Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge
  • Walsch, Neale Donald: Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge
  • Hoye, Jacob: Tupac : Resurrection
    Tupac : Resurrection
    by Jacob Hoye, Karolyn Ali
    ISBN 0743474341 (0-7434-7434-1)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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  • Shakur, Tupac: Tupac: Resurrection 1971-1996
    Tupac: Resurrection 1971-1996
    by Tupac Shakur, Karolyn Ali, Afeni Shakur, Jacob Hoye
    ISBN 074347435X (0-7434-7435-X)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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  • Neff, James: Unfinished Murder: The Capture of a Serial Rapist
  • War Letters Armed Forces Edition
    by Andrew Carroll
    ISBN 0743453115 (0-7434-5311-5)
    Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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    In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project with the goal of remembering Americans who have served this nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, more than 50,000 war letters discovered in basements, attics, scrapbooks, and old trunks have poured in from around the country. The best of these letters are assembled in this extraordinary collection, offering unprecedented insight into the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Vietnam, Korea, the Cold War, the Persian Gulf, and even the fighting in Somalia and the Balkans.

    Featured here are dramatic accounts of combat written immediately after the most ferocious battles American troops have ever faced; poignant expressions of love by homesick husbands and sweethearts; humorous anecdotes and gripes about insufferable conditions; thoughtful reflections on the nature of warfare; and perhaps most devastating, a startling number of last letters, heartfelt messages penned just hours before the sender was killed.

    War Letters is a testament to the heroic contributions and astonishing literary voices of common soldiers, marines, airmen, and sailors, as well as war nurses, journalists, spies, and chaplains. There are also previously unpublished letters by such legendary figures as William T. Sherman, Clara Barton, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernie Pyle, Helen Keller, Douglas MacArthur, Julia Child, Dwight Eisenhower, Norman Schwarzkopf, and America's first black general, Benjamin O. Davis Sr.

    "Individually, the war letters collected here are distinct, finely cut works of art, some more polished, some rougher around the edges, but each one exquisite in its own right. Together, they create a larger narrative: the story of Americans at war against themselves and other nations," observes Carroll in his introduction. These historic letters capture the full fury and intensity of warfare, and they reveal in vivid detail what the servicemen and -women of this nation have experienced and sacrificed on the front lines. War Letters is a lasting tribute to those who have fought for this country, and a celebration of the enduring power and lyricism of personal letters. [via]

  • Cosby, Camille O.: A Wealth of Wisdom : Legendary African American Elders Speak
    A Wealth of Wisdom : Legendary African American Elders Speak
    by Camille O. Cosby, Renee Pouissant, Howard L. Bingham
    ISBN 0743478924 (0-7434-7892-4)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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  • Women's Entertainment Network: When I Was a Girl
    When I Was a Girl
    by Women's Entertainment Network, Linda Ellerbee
    ISBN 0743480643 (0-7434-8064-3)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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  • White Doves at Morning
    by James Lee Burke
    ISBN 0743466624 (0-7434-6662-4)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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    A riveting evocation of the Civil War, drawn from the true family history of "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post), JAMES LEE BURKE

    1861. Two young Southerners, friends despite their differing political views and backgrounds, enlist in the 18th Louisiana regiment of the Confederate Army: Robert Perry, wealthy and privileged, and irreverent Willie Burke, the son of Irish immigrants, face the trials of battle and find redemption in the love of a passionate and committed abolitionist, Abigail Downing, and in the courageous struggle of Flower Jamison, a beautiful slave. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters, and penetrating a landscape of shattering Civil War bloodshed as few novels have, this epic from an American literary giant endows readers with the gift of experiencing the past through new eyes, while its timeless prose style -- at once luminous and brutal -- ensures the legacy of this bloodiest of conflicts will never be lost. [via]

  • Weinberg, George: Why Men Won't Commit: Getting What You Both Want Without Playing Games
  • Hooks, Bell: The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
    The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
    by Bell Hooks
    ISBN 0743456084 (0-7434-5608-4)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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    With the courage, honesty, and compassion that have made her one of America's most provocative authorities on modern culture, bell hooks takes on the interior lives of men and answers their most intimate questions about love.

    Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. In this groundbreaking book, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are -- whatever their age, ethnicity, or cultural persuasion.

    Written in response to the author's in-depth discussions with men who were inspired by her trilogy, All About Love, Salvation, and Communion, bell hooks's The Will to Change addresses maleness and masculinity in new and challenging ways. With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks answers the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society. She believes men can find the way to spiritual unity by getting back in touch with the emotionally open part of themselves. Only through this liberation will they lay claim to the rich and rewarding inner lives that have historically been the exclusive province of women. Men can access these feelings by giving themselves permission to be vulnerable. As they grow more comfortable and start believing that it's okay to feel, to need, and to desire, they will thrive as equal partners in their intimate relationships.

    Whether they are straight or gay, black or white, The Will to Change helps men to reclaim the best part of themselves. [via]