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Spam Kings

Brian McWilliams

The mounting onslaught of email pitches for porn, pills, and penis enlargement has some techno-pundits declaring that spam is on the verge of destroying the Internet. In Spam Kings, author and veteran investigative journalist Brian S. McWilliams delivers a compelling account of the cat-and-mouse game played by spam entrepreneurs (including the notorious Davis Wolfgang Hawke, "Dr. Fatburn," and Scott Richter) in search of easy fortunes and the cyber-vigilantes who are trying to stop them.

$ 18.99

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The Song is You

Arthur Phillips

Julian Donahue is in love with his iPod. Each song that shuffles through “that greatest of all human inventions” triggers a memory. There are songs for the girls from when he was single; there’s the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, and another for the day his son was born. But when his family falls apart, even music loses its hold on him, and he has nothing. Until one snowy night in Brooklyn, when his life’s soundtrack–and life itself–starts to play again. He stumbles into a bar and sees Cait O’Dwyer, a flame-haired Irish rock singer, performing with her band, and a strange and unlikely love affair is ignited. Over the next few months, Julian and Cait’s passion for music and each other is played out, though they never meet. In cryptic emails, text messages, cell-phone videos, and lyrics posted on Cait’s website, they find something in their bizarre friendship that they cannot find anywhere else. Cait’s star is on the rise, and Julian gently guides her along her path to fame–but always from a distance–and she responds to the one voice who understands her, more than a fan but still less than a lover. As their feelings grow more feverish, keeping a safe distance becomes impossible. What follows is a love story and a uniquely heartbreaking dark comedy about obsession and loss. Called “one of the best writers in America” by The Washington Post, the bestselling author of Prague delivers his finest work yet in The Song Is You. It is a closely observed tale of love in the digital age that blurs the line between the longing for intimacy and the longing for oblivion.

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Alaskan Healing

Voynich, Lana

Fans of the television show "Deadliest Catch" will recognize the setting of this novel. Drake Richards is a commercial fisherman who doesn't trust women. Shawn Nilsen is a strong-willed woman who has just been jilted by her fiance. Shawn flees to Alaska and is hired by Drake's father to work on a crab fishing boat. There's plenty of tension as Drake and Shawn come to terms with their preconceived notions of one another.

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Your Brain: The Missing Manual

Matthew MacDonald

Your Brain: The Missing Manual is a practical look at how to get the most out of your brain -- not just how the brain works, but how you can use it more effectively. What makes this book different than the average self-help guide is that it's grounded in current neuroscience. You get a quick tour of several aspects of the brain, complete with useful advice you can apply to everyday situations.

$ 19.99

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Morsels of Horror: A Gluttonous Anthology of Terrible Tales

BookGlutton Books

A compendium of some of the most spine-tingling stories of the strange and supernatural. From Poe to Lovecraft, this sampling should satisfy an appetite for tales of deserted places, forlorn locales, strange apparitions and dark forces.

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Ambient Findability

Peter Morville

A thought-provoking book that describes the future of information and connectivity, examining how the melding of innovations like GIS and the Internet will impact the global marketplace and society at large in the 21st century. Research, stories, examples, and illustrations add depth and color to this important subject. Written by best-selling author Peter Morville.

$ 23.99

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Radium Halos

Shelley Stout

Radium Halos is historical fiction based on the true events of the Radium Dial Painters, a group of female factory workers who, in the early 1920s, contracted radiation poisoning from painting luminous watch dials with radium paint. Our narrator is Helen Waterman, a 65-year-old mental patient who worked at the factory when she was 16. She tells us her story through flashbacks, slowly revealing her past, the loved ones she's lost, and the dangerous secrets she's kept all these years. Includes a Foreword by Leonard Grossman, son of the attorney for the Radium Dial painters.

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Shanghai Girls: A Novel

Lisa See

In 1937 Shanghai—the Paris of Asia—twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree—until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth. To repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from Los Angeles to find Chinese brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, from the Chinese countryside to the shores of America. Though inseparable best friends, the sisters also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. Along the way they make terrible sacrifices, face impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel hold fast to who they are—Shanghai girls.

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Steal Stuff From Work

Jasper Pierce

A novel about bad waiters who take things too far. Compulsive vocational kleptomania leads to a conspiracy of the powerless, redistribution, and sweeping social disruption.

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Am I the Only Sane One Working Here

Albert J. Bernstein

101 Solutions for Surviving Office Insanity

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   No Time to Wave Goodbye: A Novel

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   Before the Fall: Listening to Beth and her son together, the reader see 2 people, who, through Beth's late-blooming maturity and Vincent's newfound ability to empathize, might really bring them the closeness both have yearned for -- for almost 20 years. Small details of the lost years, when Ben was gone, and Beth was missing-in-action as a mother, emerge here in a poignancy that still breaks my heart (and I made them up!). Unlike Ben, Vincent is single and a loner. Ben has a wife and newborn child. His success is what he offers to his family. And then, that success if ramped up hugely. At the moment of a sweet, private family ritual, Vincent finds himself an overnight wonder. And in this moment, when they finally feel the most complete as a family, fate takes aim once more at the Cappdoras.

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   The Coral Thief: A Novel

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   "traveling bag, which set between us on the seat, open.": How can this be so when only a couple of chapters ago her thighs and shoulder were pressed against his and she could feel the heat from her body?

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   The Castle of Otranto

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   Knights of NI!: I feel like this is the Monty Python Holy Grail scene where the nights only go "Ni" or whatever it is that they say.

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   Designing Gestural Interfaces

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   William Gibson Quote: How true - not to mention how we spent over a century inputing with an unergonomic qwerty interface...

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