Got Books? Got Gifts!

by Brandi Herrera Pfrehm
December 3, 2008

Who doesn’t love a fresh read full of pristine pages begging to get all dirty and dog-eared? Whether to satisfy your mass-market junkie of a brother or cannon-faithful auntie, there are books to satisfy everyone on your list. There are even books for the people in your family who claim they don’t like books. So get over to the bookstore and pick up one of these fabulous book finds.

From the Fiction Best Seller List
“The Widows of Eastwick” by John Updike, $24.95
“Edgar Sawtell” by David Wroblewski, $25.95

From the [Non-Fiction] Best Seller List
“The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch, $21.95
“Little Heathens: Hard Times & High Spirits On An Iowa Farm During the Great Depression” by Mildred Armstrong, $12

Humorous Holiday Reads
“The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible” by A.J. Jacobs, $15
“Holidays On Ice” (updated edition with six new short stories) by David Sedaris, $16.99

For the Creative and Crafty
“Mason Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines” by Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne, $29.95
“The Gentle Art of Domesticity (Stitching, Baking, Nature, Art & the Comforts of Home)” by Jane Brocket, $35

For the Biography Buff
“The Duchess” by Amanda Foreman, $15.95
“Michelle” by Liza Mundy, $25

For the Eco-Minded Family Member
“The World Without Us” by Alan Weisman, $15
“The Sustainable Home” by Cathy Strongman, $34.95

For the Style Savvy
“The Lucky Guide to Mastering Style” by Kim France and Andrea Linett, $30
“How to Have Style” by Isaac Mizrahi, $30

For the Foodie
“Spain, A Culinary Road Trip” by Mario Batali with Gwyneth Paltrow, $24.95
“Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table” edited by Amanda Hesser, $29.95

For the Poetic
“Ballistics” by Billy Collins, $24
“Good Poems” edited and selected by Garrison Keiller, $16

For Tweens and Teens
Artemeis Fowl Box Set (Books 1-5) by Eoin Colfer, $35
Twilight Series Saga Collection (Books 1-4) by Stephenie Meyer, $83

For Wee Lil’ Ones
“A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams” by Jennifer Bryant and Melissa Sweet, $17
“Charlie Harper 123’s & ABC’s Board Books” published by AMMO, $9.50 (available only at Old Navy stores and online)

For Those with Wanderlust
“Lost on Planet China” by J. Maarten Troost, $22.95
Bill Bryson Collectors’ Edition (includes “Neither Here, Nor There,” “Notes from a Small Island” and “I’m a Stranger Here Myself”) by Bill Bryson, $50

 
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