Acclaimed New York Times columnist Randall Stross discusses his new book Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know. Based on unprecedented access he received to the highly secretive “Googleplex,” this book takes readers deep inside Google, the most important, most innovative, and most ambitious company of the Internet Age. Stross’s access to those who have spearheaded so many of Google’s new initiatives, his penetrating research into the company’s strategy, and his gift for lively storytelling produce an entertaining, deeply informed, and provocative examination of the company’s audacious vision for the future and the consequences not only for the business world, but for our culture at large.

($26.00) Free Press ISBN # 1-41654-691-x. You can visit Randall Stross’s official web site as well.

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William Least Heat-Moon’s first book Blue Highways was acclaimed as a classic–a travel book like no other. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, Heat-Moon had embarked on a journey off the beaten path. Sticking to the small places via the small roads-those colored blue on maps-he uncovered a nation deep in character, story, and charm. Heat-Moon reads from and discusses his new book Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey, his newest adventure on the back roads-a lyrical, funny, and touching account of a series of American journeys into small-town America.

($27.99) Little, Brown ISBN #0-316-11025-6.

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Sandra Lee, the host of the Food Network’s Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee, is a popular television personality and internationally-acclaimed home and style expert who has revolutionized the way people think about homemade. Lee, whose new books include Semi-Homemade Desserts 2, Semi-Homemade Fast Fix Family Favorites, and Semi-Homemade Money Saving Meals discusses her books.

($19.95) Meredith ISBN #0-696-24181-1. You can visit Sandra Lee’s official web site as well.

John Grogan, author of the international bestseller Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog, reads from and discusses his new book The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir, a book about mortality and grace, spirit and faith, and the powerful love of family. With his trademark blend of humor and pathos that made Marley & Me beloved by millions, Grogan traces the universal journey each of us must take to find our unique place in the world.

($25.95) Morrow ISBN #0-06-171324-4. You can visit John Grogan’s official web site as well.

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Newbery Award-winning author Louis Sachar is the creator of the entertaining Marvin Redpost books as well as the much-loved There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, winner of 17 child-voted state awards. His book Holes, winner of the 1999 Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, is also an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Quick Pick, an ALA Notable Book, and was made into a major motion picture. Sachar reads from and discusses the 10th anniversary edition of Holes.

($18.00) Farrar, Straus, and Giroux ISBN #978-0-374-33266-2. You can visit Louis Sachar’s official web site as well.

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Alice Schroeder was a noted insurance industry analyst and writer who was a managing director at Morgan Stanley when she first met Warren Buffett. Schroeder discusses her new biography of her friend The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. This is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as “The Oracle of Omaha.”

($30.00) Bantam Dell ISBN #0-553-80509-6. You can visit Alice Schroeder’s official web site as well.

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Julia Glass is the critically acclaimed author of Three Junes, which won the National Book Award for Fiction, and The Whole World Over. Glass reads from and discusses her new novel I See You Everywhere. Alive with all the sensual detail and riveting characterization that mark Glass’s previous work, I See You Everywhere is a piercingly candid story of life and death, companionship and sorrow, and the nature of sisterhood itself.

($24.00) Random House ISBN #0-375-42275-7.

Nikki Giovanni is a world-renowned poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. She is the author of Rosa, which won a Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Award, as well many other books for children and adults. Giovanni reads from and discusses her two new books Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship, which offers a glimpse into the unusual friendship between two great American leaders, and Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat.

Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship
($16.95) Henry Holt ISBN #0-8050-8264-6.

Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat
($19.99) Sourcebooks ISBN #978-1-4022-1048-8.

You can visit Nikki Giovanni’s official web site as well.

Neal Stephenson, the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, reads from and discusses his new novel Anathem, a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable-yet strangely inverted-world.

($29.95) William Morrow ISBN #978-0-06-147409-5. You can visit Neal Stephenson’s official web site as well.

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Author and journalist Candace Bushnell, creator of Sex and the City, and one of the most consistently astute and engaging social commentators of our day, reads from and discusses her new novel One Fifth Avenue. Acutely observed and mercilessly witty, One Fifth Avenue is a modern-day story of old and new money, that same combustible mix that Edith Wharton mastered in her novels about New York’s Gilded Age and F. Scott Fitzgerald illuminated in his Jazz Age tales. Many decades later, Bushnell’s New Yorkers suffer the same passions as those fictional Manhattanites from eras past. But Bushnell is an original, and her novel is so fresh that it reads as if sexual politics, real estate theft, and fortunes lost in a day have never happened before.

($24.95) Hyperion ISBN #1-40130-161-4. You can visit Candace Bushnell’s official web site as well.

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Nationally bestselling author and syndicated columnist Gustavo Arellano reads from and discusses his new book Orange County: A Personal History, the hilarious and poignant follow-up to ¡Ask a Mexican!, his critically acclaimed debut. Part personal narrative, part cultural history, Orange County is the outrageous and true story of the man behind the wildly popular and controversial column ¡Ask a Mexican! and the locale that spawned him. It is a tale of growing up in an immigrant enclave in a crime-ridden neighborhood, but also in a promised land, a place that has nourished America’s soul and Gustavo’s family, both in this country and back in Mexico, for a century.

($24.00) Scribner ISBN #1-41654-004-0.

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Cartoonist, novelist and playwright Jules Feiffer’s Pulitzer-winning comic strip has been influencing and entertaining readers for decades. His internationally syndicated cartoon ran for 42 years in the Village Voice, weaving the social, political, and personal into a perceptive, challenging, often hilarious mix. Feiffer discusses his work, including the new book Explainers: The Complete Village Voice Strips 1956-1966, the first of four volumes collecting Feiffer’s entire run of weekly strips from the Village Voice.

($28.99) Fantagraphics Books ISBN #978-1-56097-835-0. You can visit Jules Feiffer’s official web site as well.

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Chuck Klosterman, the author of Fargo Rock City; Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs; and Killing Yourself To Live, is a columnist for Esquire and has written for GQ, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and others. Klosterman reads from and discusses his debut novel Downtown Owl. Like a colder, Reagan-era version of The Last Picture Show fused with Friday Night Lights, Klosterman’s Downtown Owl is the unpretentious, darkly comedic story of how it feels to exist in a community where rural mythology and violent reality are pretty much the same thing. Loaded with detail and unified by a (very real) blizzard, it’s technically about certain people in a certain place at a certain time, but it’s really about a problem: What does it mean to be a normal person? There is no answer, but in Downtown Owl, what matters more is how you ask the question.

($24.00) Scribner ISBN #1-41654-418-6.

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Doug Brown, a feature writer for The Denver Post, reads from and discusses his memoir Just Do It: How One Couple Turned Off the TV and Turned On Their Sex Lives for 101 Days (No Excuses!). Creeping into middle-age and saddled with work deadlines, child-rearing, homemaking, and fourteen years of togetherness, an ordinary, happy but harried couple set an outlandish goal: to have sex for 101 consecutive days-no excuses (not even the flu, late-night child wanderings, or flat-out exhaustion). The jolt that every marriage needs and longs for, Just Do It proves that even when it feels like there’s never enough time or energy, trust Doug and his wife, there is!

($21.95) Crown ISBN #0-307-40697-0.

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Brad Meltzer, author of the New York Times bestseller The Book of Fate, reads from and discusses his new novel The Book of Lies, his most thrilling and emotionally powerful novel to date. What does Cain, history’s greatest villain, have to do with Superman, the world’s greatest hero? And what do two murders, committed thousands of years apart, have in common? This is the mystery at the heart of Meltzer’s riveting and utterly intriguing new thriller.

($25.99) Grand Central ISBN #978-0-446-57788-5. You can visit Brad Meltzer’s official web site as well.

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Bestselling author Stephen Coonts discusses his new thriller The Assassin. Abu Qasim, the ruthless and cunning Al Qaeda leader who nearly succeeded in blowing up a meeting of the G-8 in Paris, has escaped from the grasp of the Americans and is plotting his next move. A small band of powerful men, highly placed leaders of industry and politics in the West, have decided they need to target and destroy the terrorist and his inner circle before he can strike again. When a prominent Russian dissident is poisoned in London, however, it’s clear that there’s a very dangerous leak within the ranks of the Westerners, and that Abu Qasim has turned the tables on his rivals–it is now he who is pursuing, and his aim is to kill!

($26.95) St. Martin’s ISBN #0-312-32357-3. You can visit Stephen Coonts’s official web site as well.

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Former Tattered Cover staff member William Dewey reads from and discusses his new novel Without a Soul to Move. In Denver, Colorado, three men are trying, with strange elegance, to extract meaning from their wilting lives: Howie struggles with the demise of a love that was never quite whole to begin with; Wayne attempts to create a world defined by his absence; and Adam plots a quixotic war against suffering itself. Their wonderful, relatively sane efforts all coalesce as the winter confines of a snowbound Denver close in around them. With graceful writing and an easy understanding of the humor and sadness of the everyday, Without a Soul to Move reveals the brilliant and complex shadows cast by the seemingly ordinary.

($16.05) Lawrence and Gibson ISBN # 978-0-473-13451-8. You can visit William Dewey’s official web site as well.

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