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The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy

The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy

by Bill Simmons, Malcolm Gladwell (Foreword by)

ESPN's The Sports Guy returns with the best book ever written about the NBA (or so he promises)--a wildly opinionated and entertaining tour of the history, present, and future of pro basketball.

The Battle of the Labyrinth

The Battle of the Labyrinth

by Rick Riordan

As this fourth installment of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series unfolds, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Camp Half-Blood grows more... read more

The Case for God

The Case for God

by Karen Armstrong

Focusing especially on Christianity but including other religions, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion during a time when a significant number of people either want nothing to... read more

The Weight of Silence

The Weight of Silence

by Heather Gudenkauf

Masterfully written and beautifully told, Gudenkauf's debut is a stunning novel of family devotion, honesty, and regret that's sure to linger long after the last page is turned--a story of two... read more

Peek-A-Who?

Peek-A-Who?

by Nina Laden

Familiar toddler phrases are combined with interactive rhyming phrases to provide visual clues to the surprises in this BOARD BOOK.

Say You're One of Them

Say You're One of Them

by Uwem Akpan

From a portrait of a family living together in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya to a Rwandan girl's account of her family's struggles to maintain normalcy amid unspeakable horrors, each of the short... read more

Black Holes and Revelations

Black Holes and Revelations (2006)

by Muse

Naysayers listen up: Muse refuses to be the "next" Radiohead. Since forming in 1997, the alternative rock trio has continuously battled comparisons to the famed Oxford group while ambitiously... read more

Hot Rocks, 1964-1971

Hot Rocks, 1964-1971 (1972)

by The Rolling Stones

This two-LP/two-CD set is both a lot more and a bit less than what it seems. It is seven years' worth of mostly very high-charting -- and all influential and important -- songs, leaving out some... read more

Astral Weeks

Astral Weeks (1968)

by Van Morrison

Astral Weeks is generally considered one of the best albums in pop music history. For all that renown, Astral Weeks is anything but an archetypal rock & roll album: in fact, it isn't a rock & roll... read more

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