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The books people are talking about right now, ordered by new links to Amazon in the last 48 hours.
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How to Succeed as a Small Business Owner ... and Still Have a Life
Bill Collier
63 new linksFinally - an "Owner's Manual" for your small business!
Put your business on "auto-pilot." Learn how to ...
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The Big Book of Small Business: You Don't Have to Run Your Business by the Seat of Your Pants
Tom Gegax
63 new linksYour shoes are charred from stomping out brush fires. You have nightmares about UFOs--Unreachable Financial Objectives. All-star interviewees turn into duds. Meetings cause more problems than they solve. The office is a ghost town at 5:01 p.m....
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Before the Season Ends (A Regency Inspirational Romance)
Linore Rose Burkard
13 new linksIn her debut novel of what she calls “spirited romance for the Jane Austen soul,†author Linore Rose Burkard tells the intriguing story of Miss Ariana Forsythe, a young woman caught between her love for a man who doesn’t share her faith and her re...
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The House in Grosvenor Square (A Regency Inspirational Romance)
Linore Rose Burkard
12 new linksReaders who loved the author’s first book, Before the Season Ends, will delight in this charming sequel set in Regency London.
As Ariana Forsythe plans her wedding to Philip Mornay, she must adjust to the realization that she is soo...
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BestCredit: How to Win the Credit Game, 2nd Edition
Dana Neal
9 new linksWritten by a former debt collector, this credit repair book covers many aspects of credit restoration, including how to legally remove any adverse credit from a consumer credit report, how to negotiate debt, how to prevent and recover from identity t...
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Nothing but Trouble (PJ Sugar Series #1)
Susan May Warren
8 new linksIt's not fair to say that trouble happens every time PJ Sugar is around, but it feels that way when she returns to her home town, looking for a fresh start. Within a week, her former teacher is murdered and her best friend's husband is arrested as th...
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Walking Taylor Home: A Fatal Disease, a Father's Love, and a Son's Courageous Journey
Brian Schrauger
8 new linksTaylor was an energetic nine-year-old when doctors traced a nagging pain in his leg to a huge tumor hidden in his pelvis. So began his journey of anguish, hope, anger, joy, grief, life, and death. Despite the pain, Taylor's enthusiasm for life grows...
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Ireland (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
DK Publishing
7 new linksYou'd be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive, engrossing and just plain fun-to-read guidebook than the Eyewitness Travel Guide: Ireland. Spilling over with all sorts of useful information for the traveler, you'll find three-dimensional d...
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Talk Your Way Out of Credit Card Debt!: Phone Calls to Banks That Saved More Than $43,000 in Inte...
Scott Bilker
6 new linksLearning how to talk your way out of credit card debt is the quickest, easiest, and most efficient way to start saving money!
It's true! You can call your credit card banks to negotiate a better interest rate and have fees waived!...
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Rich Dad's Guide to Becoming Rich...Without Cutting Up Your Credit Cards
Robert T. Kiyosaki
6 new linksThe real trick to building personal wealth is learning how to transform 'bad debt' into 'good debt.' This quick-hitting book explains how-without having to cut up credit cards. This is the eighth book in the phenomenally successful Rich Dad series. T...
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As They See 'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires
Bruce Weber
6 new linksockquote>Millions of American baseball fans know, with absolute certainty, that umpires are simply overpaid galoots who are doing an easy job badly. Millions of American baseball fans are wrong.
As They See 'Em is an i...
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Can I Pay My Credit Card Bill with a Credit Card?: And Other Financial Questions We're Too Embarr...
Mary Hunt
6 new linksConsumers are overwhelmed with the amount of resources available on any given financial topic. They dont know where to go for answers, since most financial books specialize in certain topics, or are not written for a general audience. Mary Hunt's bee...
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Shame: A Novel
Greg Garrett
6 new linksJohn Tilden's glory days are far behind him.. He certainly thought there'd be more to it than his ramshackle Oklahoma farm and a mundane job coaching basketball. He loves his wife, but the marriage has settled into complacency.
Now his twent...
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New York Debut (Carter House Girls)
Melody Carlson
5 new linksThe girls return from the holidays in time for a New Year’s party, and Mrs. Carter announces that it’s time to get ready for Spring Fashion Week. A designer friend has invited the girls to participate in the big New York event and they have one month...
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The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
Thomas E. Ricks
5 new linksFiasco, Thomas E. Ricks’s #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq—The Gamble is the next news breaking installment
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Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned (Blue Jacket Bks)
Rufus Phillips
5 new linksIn The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam described Rufus Phillips as a man one could trust telling President Kennedy during the Vietnam War about the failures of the Strategic Hamlet Program, 'in itself a remarkable moment in the Americ...
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Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
Donovan Campbell
5 new linksAfter graduating from Princeton, Donovan Campbell, motivated by his unwavering patriotism and commitment, decided to join the service, realizing that becoming a Marine officer would allow him to give back to his country, engage in the world, and lear...
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The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose
Tony Zinni
5 new linksv>Now a New York Times Bestseller! Tony Zinni has served on the frontlines of war and peace--as a Marine in Vietnam, commander of troops in the Middle East, and diplomatic envoy. His wealth of experience provides fascinating insight
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Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy
Steven Metz
5 new linksToday the U.S. military is more nimble, mobile, and focused on rapid responses against smaller powers than ever before. One could argue that the Gulf War and the postwar standoff with Saddam Hussein hastened needed military transformation and stra...
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Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq (Yale Library of Military History)
Peter R. Mansoor
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This compelling book presents an unparalleled record of what happened after U.S. forces seized Baghdad in the spring of 2003. Army Colonel Peter R. Mansoor, the on-the-ground commander of the 1st Brigade, 1st Armor
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The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008
Bob Woodward
5 new linksAs violence in Iraq reaches unnerving levels in 2006, a second front in the war rages at the highest levels of the Bush administration. In his fourth book on President George W. Bush, Bob Woodward takes readers deep inside the tensions, secret deb...
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The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education (Penguin USA)
Craig M. Mullaney
5 new linksA West Point grad, Rhodes Scholar, and Army Ranger recounts his unique education and struggles with the hard lessons that only war can teach.
One haunting afternoon on Losano Ridge in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Captain Craig Mullaney and... -
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Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq
Linda Robinson
5 new linksv>After a series of disastrous missteps in its conduct of the war, the White House in 2006 appointed General David Petraeus as the Commanding General of the coalition forces. Tell Me How This Ends is an inside account of his attempt to turn
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The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
David Kilcullen
5 new linksDavid Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war dramatically influenced America's decision to rethink its...
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In a Time of War: The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point's Class of 2002
Bill Murphy
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The dramatic story of West Point’s class of 2002, the first in a generation to graduate during wartime
They came to West Point in a time of peace, but soon after the start of their senior year, their lives were transformed by Sep
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Great Powers: America and the World After Bush
Thomas P.M. Barnett
5 new linksThe author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Pentagon’s New Map brings us a remarkable analysis of the post-Bush world, and America’s leadership role in it.
In civilian and military circles alike, The... -
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The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq
Bing West
5 new linksFrom a universally respected combat journalist, a gripping history based on five years of front-line reporting about how the war was turned around–and the choice now facing America
During the fierce battle for Fallujah, Bing West asked an Ira... -
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Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Jonathan I. Israel
5 new linksIn the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, including Voltaire,...
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The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
Rodney Stark
5 new linksMany books have been written about the success of the West, analyzing why Europe was able to pull ahead of the rest of the world by the end of the Middle Ages. The most common explanations cite the West’s superior geography, commerce, and technology....
