Suck It! Webzine with Amazon.com: Books Bestsellers 8/10/2001

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Books Bestsellers

Amazon.com Editor, Tim Appelo

FEATURED THIS WEEK:

Amazon.com 100 News 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

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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

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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

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Hot Nonfiction

 
Browse the 25 bestselling nonfiction books of the past 24 hours
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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

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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

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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
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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.


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