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Amazon.com Editor, Tim Appelo
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PBS star and
O: The Oprah Magazine contributing editor Suze Orman
gives you tips on overcoming emotional and financial obstacles
in her smash bestseller
The Road to Wealth:
A Comprehensive Guide to Your Money--Everything You Need to
Know in Good and Bad Times.
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bestselling titles of the past 24 hours at Amazon.com
Stephen King and Peter Straub Write
Again!
Strange and
troubling dreams beckon Jack Sawyer back to a parallel world
called the Territories in Stephen King and Peter Straub's
Black
House.
Pre-order your
copy, available September 15. It's the sequel to their
classic book about Jack's eerie youth,
The
Talisman, newly reissued.
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Amazon.com's not-yet-published bestseller list
Steals of the
Week
Grab the great deals while they last in our
Bargain Books Outlet,
then come back for the
Amazon.com Friday
Sale on August 3. And check out this steal of the week
from Sue Grafton:
Three Complete
Novels: D Is for Deadbeat, E Is for Evidence, F Is for
Fugitive.
Discover
the bestselling bargain books of the past 24 hours at
Amazon.com
Hot Paperback
Fiction
Browse the 50
bestselling fiction paperbacks of this week
Decoding Harry
Potter
The former
head writer of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
explains the secrets of Harry's mythology in
The Magical Worlds
of Harry Potter. From alchemy to hippogriffs to
veela, David Colbert explores the fascinating meanings between
the lines in all the Harry Potter books. For instance, Hagrid's
pet dog, Fluffy, represents Cerberus, and the wizard school
Durmstrang refers to the Nazi-favored artistic style Sturm und
Drang. Have witches always flown on broomsticks? Why would
chocolate help after escaping a Dementor? Find out! Also,
consider
Harry Potter's
Muggles' Guide to Magic and the Harry Potter
schoolbooks
Quidditch Through
the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find
Them.
Read more about The
Magical Worlds of Harry Potter
Hot Hardcover
Fiction
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Tell No
One by Harlan Coben, a mystery writer who (at
last!) breaks through to the mainstream with this hit
novel
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Up in the
Air by Walter Kirn, a terrific critic whose
first bestselling novel satirizes frequent-flier
culture
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Dead
Sleep by Greg Iles, Amazon.com's Penzler Pick
for July, and according to one customer, "the master of the
intelligent thriller"
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Blue
Diary by Alice Hoffman, a page-turner of a
literary novel in which a dreamboat husband stands accused of a
long-ago rape and murder
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Discover the 50
bestselling fiction hardcovers of this week
Surprise Bestseller of the
Week
The savage,
TV-loathing cultural critic Mark Crispin Miller compiles our
president's most hilarious acts of violence against the English
language (and explains why verbal incompetence actually helped
him get elected) in
The Bush
Dyslexicon. Leftie intellectual Barbara
Ehrenreich, author of
Nickel and
Dimed, says "this is simply the finest, most
comprehensive and masterfully annotated collection of Bushisms
to date." (Sorry,
Jacob
Weisberg.)
Check out the
Amazon.com Movers & Shakers--the fastest-rising bestsellers
of the past 24 hours
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