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by Brandi Herrera Pfrehm
December 3, 2008
Who doesnt 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 dont 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 Mans 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 123s & ABCs 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 Im a Stranger Here Myself) by Bill Bryson, $50
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