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Amazon.com Editor, Tim Appelo
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Flash
In
Next: The Future
Just Happened, the snarky new book (and A&E
TV series) by The New New Thing author Michael Lewis, a
teenager turns $8,000 into $800,000 by hoodwinking day traders
and defies the SEC, a 15-year-old becomes the
third-most-popular law adviser on AskMe.com, and outsider kids
perpetrate a social revolution that could make you the outsider
tomorrow. Ignore Next at your
peril!
Check out the
bestselling titles of the past 24 hours at Amazon.com
Lance Armstrong Makes a
Comeback
Pre-order your copy
of the paperback (with a new chapter about Tour de France 2000
and the Olympics) of Lance Armstrong's
It's Not About the
Bike, available September 4. Can't wait? Buy the
hardcover edition,
published in 2000.
Browse
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 10. And check out this steal of the week
from the recently deceased Douglas Adams:
The Ultimate
Hitchhiker's Guide, comprising five novels plus
a bonus story, "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe." So long, Douglas,
and thanks for all the fish!
Discover
the bestselling bargain books of the past 24 hours at
Amazon.com
Hot
Nonfiction
Browse the
25 bestselling nonfiction books of the past 24 hours
New on the Bestseller
List
You know
that famous U.S. Department of Agriculture food pyramid you
learned about in school, the one that urged you to eat lots of
cheese, milk, and grains? That diet was invented to make money
off you, and it could kill you. What you need is the sound
advice in
Eat, Drink, and Be
Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy
Eating. And while you're at it, consider another
scientific eye-opener and life-lengthener,
The RealAge Diet:
Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat.
Check out the
Amazon.com Movers & Shakers--the fastest-rising bestsellers
of the past 24 hours
National Public Radio's Best
Books
Thanks in
part to National Public Radio publicity, Michael Pollan's
The Botany of
Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World keeps
sprouting up on the Amazon.com bestseller list. Did humans tame
the plant kingdom, or was it the other way around? Read Pollan
and decide.
Check out the best books
discussed on National Public Radio
Hot Hardcover
Fiction
American
Gods, the ambitious literary novel by sci-fi
giant Neil Gaiman of
Sandman
fame
Cane
River, Lalita Tademy's fact-based family saga of
slavery, pride, and upwardly mobile illegitimacy
Back When We Were
Grownups, Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Tyler's
utterly charming midlife-crisis-in-Baltimore novel
Discover the 50
bestselling fiction hardcovers of this week
Surprise Bestseller of the
Week
NPR
contributor and Wall Street Journal reporter
Stefan Fatsis was curious at first when he stepped into the
weird world of Scrabble fanatics. Soon, he was obsessed, as
reflected in his eccentric-filled book
Word Freak:
Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of
Competitive Scrabble.
You'll find more great books, articles, and
excerpts in Amazon.com
Bestsellers.
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