HOLIDAY SAVINGS FOR P&P MEMBERS

We had a busy, busy weekend with our member sale, but we were concerned about the number of members who thought that they had to buy the books in our Politics & Prose 2010 Holiday Newsletter during the member sale to receive a 20% discount. 

These books are on sale for the ENTIRE MONTH.  The big perk of the member sale is to being able to buy any book in the store at a discount.  If there was a book you forgot to buy during the sale, use the coupon you got at the register to purchase it at a sale price. Just remember that all the items included in the 2010 Holiday Newsletter are discounted 15-20% to members all month!

Some of the popular titles that we are discounting are:

AN OBJECT OF BEAUTY (Grand Central, $26.99) is the novel for the art-lover in your life. Steve Martin chronicles the last quartercentury of the New York City art scene with a discerning eye, skewering wit, and insider knowledge of a collector. The reader can decide what the true object of beauty is. It could be the real-life paintings themselves, reproduced beautifully on the page and critiqued thoughtfully by Martin through his narrator’s persona. It could equally be Lacey Yeager, the young, ambitious, bright, scheming, and attractive lover of art, money, and men, in that order. Lacey rises from the basement of Sotheby’s to become a dominant player in the world of taste and profit-making. In this page-turner, Martin combines the true appraisal of great and worthy art with the back-room dealings and the private agendas of collectors and critics that ultimately decide what an object of beauty is worth. The result is surprising. - Bill Leggett

I came late to the party. By the time I started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, most Stieg Larsson fans were already on volume three, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. But once I opened this thriller, I couldn’t put it down. I sailed through the next two. Now I’m one of the millions who hope the feud between Larsson’s family and his girlfriend will be resolved soon so we can get a fourth book. I even made a special order for THE MILLENNIUM TRILOGY DELUXE BOXED SET (Knopf, $99), a slip-cased package of the three novels, each unjacketed, bound in full cloth and uniquely stamped, with maps and individual full-color endpapers. This box set also includes a special exclusive of ON STIEG LARSSON, a previously unpublished collection of essays about and correspondence with the author. And why? Well, I want to have these books forever. I think of them as a memorial to Stieg and to the most original character created by a mystery writer in a very long time, Lisbeth Salander. - Deb Morris

The first Dickensian rock ’n’ roll memoir has arrived! Keith Richards’s LIFE (Little, Brown, $29.99) written with James Fox has the classic rags-to-riches narrative, the epic musical highs and drug-induced lows, dozens and dozens of memorable characters, and a rollicking authorial voice that’s spellbinding. (Each chapter begins with a Victorian summary of astounding events to come.) Over a near-fifty-year career with the Rolling Stones, Richards has co-written some of the greatest songs, and created some of the most memorable guitar riffs in rock history, and he has many tales to tell. From teenaged obsessions with T-Bone Walker and Chuck Berry, to infamous tours, busts, and feuds, Richards remembers it all, and humorously introduces other voices for some corroboration. "Hail, hail, rock 'n' roll!" - Andras Goldinger

Ben MacIntyre, an associate editor at the London Times, follows up his bestselling Agent Zigzag with another World War II spy story, OPERATION MINCEMEAT (Harmony, $25.99), a tale so wild and entertaining that it could be a James Bond caper. Fictional agents and a bogus body are only part of the intricate plot by which MI5 successfully diverted Nazi intelligence from the planned Allied invasion of Sicily. False documents baked in a cake, an undercover removal of a three-month-old dead body from a local morgue to stand in for a drowned corpse—one clad in the thick underwear of an Oxford don—and an imaginary fiancée are only a few of the full complement of espionage tricks-of-the trade that Macintyre colorfully recounts. - Barbara Meade

And don't forget that members also receive discounts on our bestseller list is also discounted. This week our list includes CLEOPATRA by Stacey Schiff (Little, Brown, $29.99), AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN, Vol. 1, edited by Harriet Elinor Smith (Univ. of California, $34.95), APOLLO'S ANGELS by Jennifer Homans (Random House, $35), and National Book Award winner LORD OF MISRULE by Jaimy Gordon (McPherson, $25). These hot new books are all in stock now, but buy soon, because supplies are limited!

Click here to see and download a copy of the holiday newsletter You can also view recommendations from the Children and Teens' Department in their 2010 Favorites online!