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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
John Grisham
Hardcover, $28.95
Grisham’s first work of nonfiction is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. Ron Williamson was the first player chosen from Oklahoma in the 1971 major league draft. When he signed with the Oakland As, he left his hometown of Ada to pursue his dream of big-league glory. In 1982, Debra Sue Carter, a 21-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada, was raped and murdered. Five years later, Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz were arrested and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution’s case was built on the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Williamson was sent to death row. This is his story.

Paula Deen Celebrates!
Best Dishes and Best Wishes for the Best Times of Your Life
Paula Deen
Hardcover, $26
Popular Food Network personality, restaurateur and author Paula Deen loves a party, and in her latest book she describes how she celebrates a year’s worth of holidays and special occasions. Now anyone can re-create the down-home celebrations she and her family enjoy at their beautiful home in Savannah, Georgia.

Everyday Greatness: Inspiration for a Meaningful Life
Stephen R. Covey
Hardcover, 24.99
Everyday Greatness equips you to live up to your highest potential. Packed with a wealth of wisdom from the pages of Reader’s Digest, it will inspire you with moving and timeless stories of lives lived to the fullest, often through adversity and challenge. Maya Angelou, Jack Benny, Henry David Thoreau, Joe Paterno and a host of other notables represent shining examples of character-driven living. Covey’s insights and commentary help readers apply these principles to their own lives.

The Little Book of Value Investing
Christopher H. Browne
Hardcover, $19.95
This follow-up to the national best seller The Little Book That Beats the Market introduces you to the fundamentals of value investing—from the philosophy to the process—and demonstrates how to use this methodology to achieve exceptional returns in today’s turbulent market. Written in a straightforward and engaging manner, it will help you understand and implement one of the most effective investment strategies ever created.

Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families
Edited by
Andrew Carroll
Hardcover, $26.95
The first book of its kind, Operation Homecoming is the result of a major initiative launched by the National Endowment for the Arts to bring distinguished writers to military bases and inspire U.S. soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen and their families to record their wartime experiences. Encouraged by acclaimed authors such as Tom Clancy and Bobbie Ann Mason, American military personnel and their loved ones wrote candidly about their experiences while in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as on the home front. What they have chronicled is without question some of the greatest wartime literature ever published.

Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers
Elizabeth Edwards
Hardcover, $24.95
She charmed America with her likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, 2004 vice presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days before the election. She touched hundreds of families, grieving after a similar loss, when her son Wade died tragically in 1996 at age 16. Now Edwards shares her experiences in a stirring memoir of her trials, tragedies and triumphs.

I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
Nora Ephron
Hardcover, $19.95
With her disarming, dry sense of humor, Ephron presents a candid look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests and life itself. Utterly hilarious and unexpectedly moving in its truth telling, this is a book of wisdom, advice and laugh-out-loud moments.

How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
Mark Victor Hansen
and Art Linkletter
Hardcover, $24.99
Baby boomers, get ready for the next prime of your life! How do we keep our bodies fit, our minds alert and creative, our finances stable—even growing—throughout our senior years? TV icon Art Linkletter (incredibly active in several enterprises at the age of 94) and Chicken Soup for the Soul co-creater Mark Victor Hansen offer answers.

The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew: Three Women Search for Understanding
Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver and Priscilla Warner
Hardcover, $25
A ground-breaking book about Americans searching for faith and mutual respect, it interweaves the stories of three women, their religions and their urgent quest to understand each another. The authors write about their families, their losses and grief, and their fears and hopes for themselves and their loved ones. As they reveal their deepest beliefs, readers watch the blossoming of a profound interfaith friendship and the birth of a new way of understanding.

For One More Day
Mitch Albom
Hardcover, $21.95
Here’s the latest novel from the author of The New York Times best sellers Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Through his inspiring characters and masterful storytelling, readers will gain new appreciation for those they love—and may have thought they’d lost. This is the story of a mother and son whose relationship lasts a lifetime and beyond. It explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one?

Healthy at 100: How You Can—At Any Age—Dramatically Increase Your Life Span and Your Health Span
John Robbins
Hardcover, $25.95
Why do some people age in failing health and sadness while others grow old with vitality and joy? In this revolutionary book, Robbins presents a bold new paradigm of aging, explaining how we can increase not only our life span, but our health span. He challenges readers to give up bad habits and adopt smarter routines concerning food, exercise and work.

Secrets of Greatness: Advice From the World’s Top CEOs and Entrepreneurs
Editors of Fortune
Hardcover, $19.95
From the editors of Fortune magazine comes this compendium of advice, wisdom and guiding principles that today’s top CEOs and entrepreneurs live by in their careers and personal lives. This revealing collection of articles from Fortune suggests that superior leaders are, above all else, students. With refreshing candor, leaders from the most innovative and successful companies in the U.S. confide what they’ve learned and how they’ve learned. The result is a penetrating view of how effective leaders evolve.

Saving Fish from Drowning
Amy Tan
Paperback, $14.95
On an ill-fated art expedition into Burma, 11 Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas morning tour—and disappear. Through twists of fate, they encounter a tribe awaiting the return of a leader and a mythical book of wisdom that will protect them from the ravages of the Myanmar military regime. Bibi Chen is the observant eye of human nature—the witness of good intentions and bad outcomes, of desperate souls and those who wish to save them. Tan’s imagery is mesmerizing.

Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
Donald L. Miller
Hardcover, $35
This is the story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler’s doorstep. Miller takes readers on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover and Dresden, and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people. Drawn from recent interviews; oral histories; and American, British, German and other archives, Masters of the Air is an authoritative, deeply moving account of the world’s first and only bomber war.

Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn
Donald Spoto
Hardcover, $25.95
Her name is synonymous with elegance, grace and style. Over the course of her extraordinary life and career, Audrey Hepburn captured hearts around the world, but despite her international fame and her tireless efforts on behalf of UNICEF, she also was known for her privacy. Thanks to unprecedented access to studio archives and friends and colleagues who knew and loved her, Spoto provides an intimate, moving account of this beautiful, elusive and talented woman.

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