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signed by Nouriel Roubini
(Penguin, $27.95)
Hardcover - May 2010
First editions, first printings.
This myth shattering book reveals the methods Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics at NYU’s Stern School of Business and co-author Mihm, an associate professor of economic history at the University of Georgia, used to foretell the current crisis before other economists saw it coming and shows how those methods can help us make sense of the present and prepare for the future.
signed by Kai Bird
(Scribner, $30)
Hardcover - April 2010
First editions, first printings.
Bird grew up in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, and spent much of the
1960s in India. His memoir of the years between 1956 and 1978 is a
skillful weaving of personal narrative, history, and scholarship,
affording an illuminating look at the man (co-author of the acclaimed American
Prometheus) and the events he has experienced in a politically
turbulent region.
signed by Susan Coll
(Sarah Crichton/FSG,$25)
May 2010 - Hardcover
First edition, first printing.
signed by William Powers
(HarperCollins, $24.99)
Hardcover - July 2010
First editions, second printings.
As technology plays an ever-greater role in our lives, Powers, former Washington Post writer and fellow of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, argues that we need to balance the benefits of being connected with deliberate awareness of being disconnected. To manage the distractions of the age of Digital Maximalism, Powers looks back to the great thinkers, finding in Plato, Shakespeare, Emerson, and others ideas that cut through today’s incessant buzz.
Hardcover - April 2010
First editions,
first printings.
Signed by both authors.
Will Grayson’s personal motto is that it’s best to fade into the background.
After his gay, flamboyant best friend Tiny gets his heart broken one too
many times, Tiny decides it’s time to focus his energy on finding some
romance for Will instead. This leads to the entrance of a second Will
Grayson into the two friends’ lives. While very different in
personality, the two teens share the same name, WILL GRAYSON, WILL
GRAYSON (Penguin, $17.99), and find that their lives intersect in a
strangely serendipitous way. John Green and David Levithan's
alternating voices capture each Will Grayson as he struggles to find
his place in the world. Ages 14-18 - JEH
INNOCENT
signed by Scott Turow
(Grand Central, $27.99)
Hardcover - May 2010
First editions, first printings
With his new release, Scott Turow revisits the life of Rusty Sabich twenty five years later. Jonathan Yardley reviewed this sequel to Presumed Innocent last Sunday, and he let us know that that there are:
enough surprises ... to keep the reader's attention fixed. . . [A]s usual in his fiction there's more than skillful legal drama. Turow is a serious man who has thought long and carefully about the law. He understands that in the end it is not really much better than any other mechanism at uncovering absolute truth; that the courtroom is a roll of the dice "where the million daily details of a life suddenly get elevated to evidence of murder"; that life itself is a crapshoot -- "The joke was thinking you were ever really in charge of your life. You pressed your oar down into the water to direct the canoe, but it was the current that shot you through the rapids. You just hung on and hoped not to hit a rock or a whirlpool." All of which makes for an intelligent, thoughtful novel: a grownup book for grownup readers.
Pick up a copy for yourself or for your favorite fan of legal thrillers.