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In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy

By: Adam Carolla

Crown Archetype

In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks is Adam Carolla's comedic gospel of modern America. In his signature balls-out style, Carolla rips into the absurdity of the culture that made Steve Miller a rock star, demonized the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, turned the nation's bathrooms into a lawless free-for-all of urine and fecal matter, and put its citizens at the mercy of a bunch of minimum wagers with axes to grind. Peppered between complaints Carolla shares candid anecdotes from his day to day life as well as his pastSunday football at Jimmy Kimmel's house, his attempts to raise his kids in a society that he mostly disagrees with, his big showbiz break, and much, much more. Brilliantly showcasing Adam's spot-on sense of humor, this book cements his status as a cultural commentat...

Sh*t My Dad Says

By: Justin Halpern

It Books

This book is ridiculously hilarious, and makes my father look like a normal member of society. Chelsea Handler Read this unless you re allergic to laughing.

Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government

By: Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe

Threshold Editions

It happens to all of us: You're minding your own business, when some idiot informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of taxes.

Just go away! you think to yourself -- but they only become more obnoxious. Your heart rate quickens. You start to sweat. You can't get away. Your only hope is...

Glenn Beck, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers An Inconvenient Book and Glenn Beck's Common Sense, has stumbled upon the secret formula to winning arguments against people with big mouths but small minds: know...

The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

By: Bill Simmons

ESPN

Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009: The Book of Basketball is a 700-page work of hoops genius that would make Dr. James Naismith beam proudly – and probably blush. Author Bill Simmons, best known as ESPN.com's "The Sports Guy," explores the NBA with hilarious insight, brilliant analysis, and a bevy of irreverent footnotes. Simmons is a fan first – a fact best explained in an entertaining foreword by Malcolm Gladwell – and writes from the stands, not the press room. His knowledge and passion for the game provide him with few peers, yet his voice represents those who stick by their teams through thick and thin. As a result, The Book of Basketball is not just a tribute to hardwood heroes, but also a celebration of yelling at TV sets,...

Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel

By: Gary Shteyngart

Random House

The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming yearsand the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.

In a very near futureoh, let’s say next Tuesdaya functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don’t that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant janitor, proud author of what may well be the world’s last diary, and less-proud owner of a bald spot shaped like the great state of Ohio. Despite his job at an outfit called...

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

By: Christopher McDougall

Knopf

Book Description
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the worlds greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.

Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexicos deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marat...

When the Game Was Ours

By: Larry Bird, Earvin Johnson Jr., Jackie MacMullan

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Amazon Exclusive: Bill Walton Reviews When the Game Was Ours

Bill Walton played in the NBA for 13 years, and in 1996, was named one of the top 50 players in NBA history. He's been an analyst for CBS Sports and NBC Sports, and since 2002, he's been a game analyst for ESPN NBA telecasts. Read his guest review of When the Game Was Ours:

Larry Bird and Magic Johnson are transcendent, iconic and timeless standard bearers of excellence who changed "The Game" forever, always bringing out the best in each other and never failing to put a smile on all our faces.

Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang

By: Chelsea Handler

Grand Central Publishing

Gift quality. Unable to ship to APO and FPO at this time.

The Obama Diaries

By: Laura Ingraham

Threshold Editions

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) On May 20, 2010, Laura Ingraham received a package from an anonymous source that will change the history of the United States and the legacy of President Barack Obama. While retrieving her automobile from the underground garage at the Watergate complex (where she had just enjoyed her weekly pedicure), Ingraham discovered a manila envelope on the hood of her car. When she picked it up, a deep baritone voice called out from a nearby stairwell: "Just read it. You’ll know what to do." The shadowy figure then disappeared into the darkness without another word.

The envelope contained copies of what appeared to be diary entries written by President Barack Obama, his family, and high-ranking administration officials. Because the "diaries" are so revealing, Ing...

The Last Lecture

By: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow

Hyperion

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
--Randy Pausch

A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

By: Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith

Quirk Books

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Can...

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

By: Max Brooks

Three Rivers Press

The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.

Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack

1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades dont need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep...

Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity

By: Drew Brees

Tyndale House Publishers

When a potentially career-ending shoulder injury left quarterback Drew Brees without a teamand facing the daunting task of having to learn to throw a football all over againcoaches around the NFL wondered, Will he ever come back? After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, leaving more than 80 percent of the city underwater, many wondered, Will the city ever come back? And with their stadium transformed into a makeshift refugee camp, forcing the Saints to play their entire 2005 season on the road, people questioned, Will the Saints ever come back? It takes a special person to turn adversity into success and despair into hopeyet that is exactly what Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees has doneand with the weight of an entire city on his shoulders. Coming Back Stronger

Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life

By: Sean Payton, Ellis Henican

NAL Hardcover

The Blind Side (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Movie Tie-in Editions)

By: Michael Lewis

W. W. Norton & Company

The book behind the Academy award-winning film starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw. Opening in theaters November 20, 2009, The Blind Side is a feature movie based on Michaels Lewiss New York Times bestseller, produced by Alcon Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The Blind Side tells the inspirational story of Michael Oher, a homeless black teen taken under the wing of the Touhys, a wealthy white Memphis family. Ohers size and speed on the football field bring him accolades. But learning the games strategy and making it as a student take the help of his new family, coaches, and tutor.

Sandra Bullock stars as Leigh Anne Touhy, the sharp-witted and compassionate matriarch. Tim McGraw stars as her sports-enth...

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes) (v. 1, 2, 3)

By: Bill Watterson

Andrews McMeel Publishing

An Excerpt from Bill Watterson's Introduction:

"Ive loved comic strips as long as I can remember. As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I dont even like riding in elevators. I kept my options open until seventh grade, but when I stopped understanding math and science, my choice was made. There is great personal satisfaction in attending to detail and quality, and I remain very proud of the standards the strip met day after day. I also liked the responsibility of knowing that, succeed or fail, it was all my own doing. This approach kept the strip very honest and personal--ev...

You'll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again: One Woman's Painfully Funny Quest to Give It Up

By: Heather McDonald

Touchstone

"Can’t a girl dress like a hooker, dance like a stripper, and kiss like a porn star and still be a nineteen-year-old virgin?"

You’ll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again is the laugh-out-loud story of an attractive Los Angeles woman who found herself in the predicament of being an unwilling virgin. As an actress, writer, and stand-up comedienne, Heather McDonald passed up ample opportunities to have her V-card revoked by handsome, rich, and sometimes even fabulously famous men, but she could not bring herself to do "it" until well after her friends had been deflowered.

As Chelsea Handler so lovingly puts it, "Thank God Heather waited twenty-seven years to lose her virginity or she wouldn't have any material for this book." Whether in a backseat, a community...

The Dangerous Book for Boys

By: Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden

William Morrow

The bestselling book for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is. In this digital age there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal have put together a wonderful collection of all things that make being young or young at heart fun 151 building go-carts and electromagnets, identifying insects and spiders, and flying the world s best paper airplanes. Publisher: HarperCollins Author: Conn Iggulden, Hal IgguldenAges: 18 and up Format: 288 pages, hardcove...

In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving

By: Leigh Anne Tuohy, Sean Tuohy, Sally Jenkins

Henry Holt and Co.

For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring story

First came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie—the story of Michael Oher and the family who adopted him has become one of the most talked-about true stories of our time. But until now, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy have never told this astonishing tale in their own way and with their own words.

For Leigh Anne and Sean, it all begins with family. Leigh Anne, the daughter of a tough-as-nails U.S. Marshal, decided early on that her mission was to raise children who would become "cheerful givers." Sean, who grew up poor, believed that one day he could provide a home that would be "a place of miracles." Together, they raised two remarkabl...

Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share

By: Ken Denmead

Gotham

The ultimate DIY project guide for techie dads raising kids in their own geeky image, in the spirit of The Dangerous Book for Boys

Today's generation of dads grew up more tech-savvy than ever. Rather than joining the Little League team, many grew up playing computer games, Dungeons and Dragons, and watching Star Wars. Now with kids of their own, these digital-age dads are looking for fresh ways to share their love of science and technology, and help their kids develop a passion for learning and discovery.

Enter supergeek, and father of two, Ken Denmead. An engineer and editor of the incredibly popular GeekDad blog on wired.com, Ken has created the ultimate, idea-packed guide guaranteed to help dads and kids alike enjoy the magic of playtime togeth...

Easily Amused

By: Karen McQuestion

Twenty-nine year-old Lola Watson has two best friends, a dream job editing a parenting magazine, and a charming old house inherited from a great-aunt she barely knew. Life would be perfect if only she could avoid her intrusive neighbors. And for that matter, she also wouldn't mind being happily married like her friend Piper, or even engaged like her younger sister Mindy.

Lola's peaceful existence is shattered when high school buddy Hubert moves in with her after a break-up, her sister changes her wedding date to Lola's thirtieth birthday, and the nosy neighbors take Hubert under their wing. Life gets more complicated when Piper sets Lola up with a good-looking stranger who turns out to be the talk of her neighborhood--the mystery man from across the street.

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

By: Chelsea Handler

Gallery

When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power -- vodka. You would too if you found out that your boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo or if you had to pretend to be honeymooning with your father in order to upgrade to first class. Welcome to Chelsea's world -- a place where absurdity reigns supreme and a quick wit is the best line of defense.

In this hilarious, deliciously skewed collection, Chelsea mines her past for stories about her family, relationships, and career that are at once singular and ridiculous. Whether she's convincing her third-grade class that she has been tapped to play Goldie Hawn's daughter ...

Halo Encyclopedia

By: DK Publishing

DK Publishing

A must-have guide to the Halo universe Humanity teeters on the brink of extinction, as hostile forces and ancient mysteries threaten to snuff out our first fiery foray into the universe!

Take a trip into the world of Halo and discover everything you ever wanted to know about the characters, weapons, vehicles, equipment and locations from Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo WARS and Halo 3 ODST.

From the Colonial Administration Authority to the UNSC, you'll find an overview of Halo's human history and structure and gain insight into key organizations. Discover all about the Covenant its history and religion as well as the Forerunners, Flood and much more.

351 pages

Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court

By: John Wooden

McGraw-Hill

Coach Wooden's remarkable 10 national basketball championships in 12 years at UCLA speak for themselves. In Wooden, the coach--quiet, thoughtful, and introspective throughout his distinguished career--finally speaks forhimself, and he's well worth hearing. Wooden is a modern chapbook of inspiration and good sense that reveals the hard-court philosopher behind it as a man of character, conviction, decency, and straightforwardness. There are no complex ideas, just little beams of light filtered through anecdotes that project the kinds of simple, immutable truths that in the end touch nothing but net.

How Did You Get This Number

By: Sloane Crosley

Riverhead Hardcover

A brand-new book of hilarious and insightful personal essays by the iconic, irresistible Sloane Crosley.

From the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There'd Be Cake comes a new book of personal essays brimming with all the charm and wit that have earned Sloane Crosley widespread acclaim, award nominations, and an ever-growing cadre of loyal fans. In Cake readers were introduced to the foibles of Crosley's life in New York City-always teetering between the glamour of Manhattan parties, the indignity of entry-level work, and the special joy of suburban nostalgia-and to a literary voice that mixed Dorothy Parker with David Sedaris and became something all its own.

Crosley still lives and works in New York City, but she's no longer the ne...

Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun (Lab Series)

By: Carla Sonheim

Quarry Books

I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell (movie tie-in): with 16 page photo insert

By: Tucker Max

Citadel

My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead. But, I do contribute to humanity in one very important way: I share my adventures with the world. from the Introduction Actual reader feedback:

"I am completely baffled as to how you can congratulate yourself for being a womanizer and a raging drunk, or think anyone cares about an idiot like you. Do you really think that exploiting the insecurities of others while getting wasted is a legitimate thing to offer?"

"Thank you, thank you, thank youfor sharing with us your wonderful tal...

LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary

By: Simon Beecroft

DK Publishing

In true DK style, LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary elucidates, illuminates, and excites even the most discerning LEGO Group, Star Wars, and minifigure fans around the world. Darth Vader, Boba Fett, Yoda, Luke Skywalker, and more are brought to life with dozens of little-known facts and hundreds of photos, as are accessories, vehicles, weapons, and even the Death Star! Learn about the history, manufacture, and construction of the minifigures of the Star Wars galaxy, and come away a LEGO Jedi Master.

Lost Balls: Great Holes, Tough Shots, and Bad Lies

By: Charles Lindsay

Bulfinch

Charles Lindsay's photographs offer a humorous and inquisitive foray into the hazards where golf balls are lost--rough, woods, bunkers, and wetlands--as well as unexpected encounters with wildlife on and off the green. An avid golfer with plenty of experience losing balls, Lindsay photographs his way to the heart of the game with a light touch and an eye for telling details. In the process, he discovers balls ravaged by golfers, gators, and foxes--and lost for over a century.

Lindsay even encounters what is believed to be the world's oldest golf ball--unearthed in a cellar in the Netherlands alongside a primitive club.

The photographs were taken at celebrated courses in North America, England, Scotland, and Ireland: Pebble Beach, Bandon Dunes, Bethpage, Fossil Trace, Troon, St...

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)

By: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp

Harper Perennial

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural lifevowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

By: Michael Lewis

W. W. Norton & Company

Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage and pitchers who get lots of ground outs. Given this information and a tight budget, Beane defied tradition and his own scouting department to build winning teams of young affordable players and inexpensive castoff veterans.

Lewis ...

Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Childbirth

By: Jenny McCarthy

Perseus Books Group

Brimming with the author's signature frankness and humor, a no-holds-barred account of what you can really expect when you're expecting.

Oh, the joys of pregnancy! There's the gasiness, constipation, queasiness, and exhaustion; the forgetfulness, crankiness, and the constant worry. Of course, no woman is spared these discomforts and humiliations, but most are too polite to complain or too embarrassed to talk about them. Not Jenny McCarthy!

In Belly Laughs, the actress and new mother reveals the naked truth about the tremendous mood swings, the excruciating pains, and the unseemly disfigurement that go along with pregnancy. Never shy, frequently crude, and always laugh-out-loud funny, McCarthy covers it all in the grittiest of girlfriend detail. With tips and hilarious musings ...

Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball

By: Bill Madden

Harper

BRAND NEW 2010 HARDBACK EDITION. SOME SHELFWEAR MARKS. OVERSTOCK MARK.

The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance

By: David Herlihy

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2010: Frank Lenz was a man driven by his passions. As an accomplished "wheelman" during the late 19th century, Lenzs dreams were dominated by the emerging sport of cycling and an intense desire to make a name for himself. In May of 1892, he attempted to fuse both by embarking on a quest to circumscribe the globe by bicycle. The journey had already been accomplished in tandem, but Lenz upped the ante--and raised eyebrows--by announcing he would ride his dangerous route alone. The Lost Cyclist is a riveting tale of tragedy, pride, and naivete that is both brilliantly told and meticulously researched. Opinions may differ as to whether Lenz was unaware or unconcerned by the inherent dangers he faced, but the story of his fateful journe...

Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth

By: James M. Tabor

Random House

Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2010: Set in impenetrable darkness, James M. Tabor's Blind Descent is as awe-inspiring as any adventure story above ground. Tabor's claustrophobic and pulse-pounding narrative follows two of the world's premier cavers--American Bill Stone and Ukrainian Alexander Klimchouk--as they race to explore Earth's deepest caves, swimming through steering wheel-sized tunnels and scaling rock walls slick with spring runoff. Caving is dirty and dangerous work, and Tabor pulls no punches in describing the many terrifying hazards that cavers face underground, including falling rocks, hypothermia, starvation, nitrogen narcosis, hallucinations, hypoxia, and deadly anxiety attacks. He captures the eerie mixture of excitement and horror that acc...

Awkward Family Photos

By: Mike Bender, Doug Chernack

Three Rivers Press

Jennifer Weiner Reviews Awkward Family Photos

Jennifer Weiner was born in 1970 on an army base in Louisiana. She grew up in Connecticut and graduated with a degree in English literature from Princeton University. She is the author of the novels Good In Bed (2001), In Her Shoes (2002), which was turned into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine; Little Earthquakes (2004), Goodnight Nobody (2005), the short story collection The Guy Not Taken (2006), Certain Girls (2008), the sequel to Good in Bed, and her most recent, Best Friends Forever (2009). Her next book, Fly Away Home, will be published by Atria Books on...

Take Your Eye Off the Ball: How to Watch Football by Knowing Where to Look

By: Pat Kirwan, David Seigerman

Triumph Books

Today's NFL fans have more viewing options than ever before. Each and every week, football addicts plant themselves in front of big-screen, high-definition TVs and watch the game they love unfold via slow-motion replays and multiple camera angles, pausing and fast-forwarding the action on their DVRs as they please.







Yet while more and more football fans are watching the NFL each week, many of them don't know exactly what they should be watching. What does the offense's formation tell you about the play that's about to be run? When a quarterback throws a pass toward the sideline and the wide receiver cuts inside, which player is to blame? Why does a defensive end look like a Hall of Famer one week and a candidate for the practice squad the next?

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The Daring Book for Girls

By: Andrea J. Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz

William Morrow

By Andrea J. Buchanan & Miriam Peskowitz. The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know & that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes! This book has a great guide to sleep-outs, a section on how to paddle a canoe, a knot-typing chapter, a how to for frying eggs on the sidewalk, directions for designing a friendship bracelet or making a lemon-powered clock and more. This book has it all! But it's not just a guide to giggling at sleep-overs, although that's included. Whether the readers consider themselves tom-boys or girly-girls - or a little of both - this book is every girl's invitation to adventure.

Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin

By: Kathy Griffin

Ballantine Books

Book Description
Official Book Club Selection is Kathy Griffin unplugged, uncensored, and unafraid to dish about what really happens on the road, away from the cameras, and at the star party after the show. (Its also her big chance to score that coveted book club endorsement shes always wanted. Are you there, Oprah? Its me, Kathy.)

Kathy Griffin has won Emmys for her reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, been nominated for a Grammy, worked and walked every red carpet known to man, and rung in the New Year with Anderson Cooper. But the legions of fans who pack Kathys sold-out comedy shows have heard only part of he...

Racing Weight: How to Get Lean for Peak Performance

By: Matt Fitzgerald

VeloPress

TRANSCENDENT SUMMITS

Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, ...

By: Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski

Nation Books

The Bro Code

By: Barney Stinson

Fireside

Everyone's life is governed by an internal code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. But Bros in the know call this holy grail the Bro Code.

Historically a spoken tradition passed from one generation to the next, the official code of conduct for Bros appears here in its published form for the first time ever. By upholding the tenets of this sacred and legendary document, any dude can learn to achieve Bro-dom.

The LEGO Book

By: Daniel Lipkowitz

DK ADULT

Reveal, explore, and celebrate the fascinating LEGO story in The LEGO Book. From its beginnings in a carpenter's workshop and the development of the first plastic brick, to the group's current position as an international brand, a timeline highlights key moments in LEGO history.

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

By: Jon Krakauer

Anchor

A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more--including Krakauer's--in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for Into Thin Air, Krakauer's epic account of the May 1996 disaster. With more than 250 black-and-white photographs taken by various expedition members and an enlightening new postscript by the author, the Illustrated Edition shows readers what this tragic climb looked like and potentially provides closure for Krakauer and his detractors.

"I have no doubt that Boukreev's intentions were good on sum...

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

By: Tom Bissell

Pantheon

Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent untold hours in front of his various video game consoles, playing titles such as Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, BioShock, and Oblivion for, literally, days. If you are reading this flap copy, the same thing can probably be said of you, or of someone you know.

Until recently, Bissell was somewhat reluctant to admit to his passion for games. In this, he is not alone. Millions of adults spend hours every week playing video games, and the industry itself now reliably outearns Hollywood. But the wider culture seems to regard video games as, at best, well designed if mindless entertainment.

Extra Lives is an impa...

No Way Down: Life and Death on K2

By: Graham Bowley

Harper

In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most dramatic tales of death and survival in mountaineering history, vividly taking readers through the tragic 2008 K2 ascent that claimed the lives of eleven climbers, severely injured two others, and made headlines around the world.

With its near-perfect pyramid shape, the 28,251-foot K2—the world's second-highest mountain, some 800 feet shorter than the legendary Everest hundreds of miles to the south—has lured serious climbers for decades. In 2008, near the end of a brief climbing season cut even shorter by bad weather, no fewer than ten international teams—some experienced, others less prepared—crowded the mountain's dangerous slopes with their Sherpas and ...

The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from The New Yorker

Random House

For more than eighty years, The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. Featuring brilliant reportage and analysis, profound profiles of pros, and tributes to the amateur in all of us, The Only Game in Town is a classic collection from a magazine with a deep bench.

Including such authors as Roger Angell and John Updike, both of them synonymous with New Yorker sportswriting, The Only Game in Town also features greats like John McPhee and Don DeLillo. Hall of Famer Ring Lardner is here, bemoaning the lowering of standards for baseball achievementin 1930. A. J. Liebling inimitably portrays the 1955 Rocky Marciano–Archie Moore bout as “Ahab and Nemesis . . . man against history,&...

Stamped Metal Jewelry: Creative Techniques and Designs for Making Custom Jewelry

By: Lisa Niven Kelly

Interweave Press

Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance

By: Tony Dungy, Nathan Whitaker

Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Super Bowl-winning coach and best selling author Tony Dungy has had an unusual opportunity to reflect on what it takesto achieve significance. He is looked to by many as the epitome of thesuccess and significance that is highly valued in our culture. He alsoworks every day with young men who are trying to achieve significancethrough football and all that goes with a professional athleticcareer-such as money, power, and celebrity. Coach Dungy has had allthat, but he passionately believes that there is a different path tosignificance, a path characterized by attitudes, ambitions, andallegiances that are all too rare but uncommonly rewarding. Uncommonreveals lessons on achieving significance that the coach has learnedfrom his remarkable parents, his athletic and coaching career, hismentors...

Mass Effect: Retribution

By: Drew Karpyshyn

Del Rey

Humanity has reached the stars, joining the vast galactic community of alien species. But beyond the fringes of explored space lurk the Reapers, a race of sentient starships bent on “harvesting” the galaxy’s organic species for their own dark purpose.

The Illusive Man, leader of the pro-human black ops group Cerberus, is one of the few who know the truth about the Reapers. To ensure humanity’s survival, he launches a desperate plan to uncover the enemy’s strengthsand weaknessesby studying someone implanted with modified Reaper technology. He knows the perfect subject for his horrific experiments: former Cerberus operative Paul Grayson, who wrested his daughter from the cabal’s control with the help of Ascension project director Kahlee Sanders.<...

Baseball - A Film by Ken Burns [VHS]

Pbs Home Video

TURNER HOME ENTERTAINMENT

The Godfather (Coppola Restoration) [Blu-ray]

Paramount Home Entertainment

Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 02/02/2010 Run time: 177 minutes Rating: R

NBA Championship 2009-2010

Team Marketing

In the 2010 season, one challenger after another tried to knock the Los Angeles Lakers off their NBA throne. But in the end, the Lakers reigned supreme once again, winning their 16th NBA championship in a drive that culminated with an NBA Finals triumph over the arch-rival Boston Celtics, led by Finals MVP Kobe Bryant. Relive the Lakers stirring run to glory on this action-packed DVD. You'll get the inside story of the NBA champs with exclusive behind the scenes footage and interviews, along with fantastic highlights of their championship season and also exciting bonus features. Enjoy the ride as the Lakers complete the road to a repeat. Please remember that this DVD is not the actual Championship Game, but a hi-light compilation of the team, season and playoffs through the Champio...

Phil Mickelson: Secrets of the Short Game (2009)

Paramount

Phil Mickelson, winner of 34 PGA Tour events, teams with Emmy Award-winning producer-director Terry Jastrow for Secrets of the Short Game, a two-disc DVD focusing on all shots played from 50 yards. "The goal here," says Mickelson, "is to help golfers build a foundation so that their practice time directly correlates to improved scoring on the golf course." The DVD set includes sections on putting, chipping, sand shots, and the flop shot Mickelson popularized soon after he joined the PGA Tour in 1992. Two discs focusing on the short game of golf: Features interactive menus and scene selection. Running Time: 105 minutes.

The Bucket List

Warner Home Video

In THE BUCKET LIST, cancer doesn't discriminate in its choice of victims. It's equally eager in its attacks on kindly sage of a mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) and mean-spirited millionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson). When the unlikely pair shares a room at a hospital, they learn that they both have less than a year to live as a result of the deadly disease. Inspired by the words of a college professor, Carter begins to make a "bucket list" of things he wants to accomplish before he dies. With Edward's limitless funds at their disposal, the men embark on an adventure that takes them from Egypt to France to Hong Kong, crossing items off their list as death grows closer. Fans of the leading actors will be glad to see them in familiar territory: Freeman plays a narrator who's ...

Major League (Wild Thing Edition) [Blu-ray]

Paramount

Genre: Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 12-MAY-2009
Media Type: Blu-Ray

Jack Nicklaus Golf My Way I: Hitting the Shots [VHS]

Worldvision Home Video Inc.

Mr Baseball [VHS]

Universal Studios

Baseball - A Film By Ken Burns

PBS Paramount

Inning One, Our Game, looks at the origins of baseball in the 1840s and takes the story up to 1900. Burns refutes the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown and traces its roots instead to the earliest days of the nation ? there are records of a game called "Base" played at Valley Forge.Inning Two, Something Like a War, takes viewers through 1910 and introduces some of the game's most celebrated and colorful characters, including Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson.Inning Three, The Faith of Fifty Million People, examines the century's second decade, which was dominated by the Black Sox scandal. George Herman "Babe" Ruth makes his first major league appearance (as a member of the Boston Red Sox) and a wave of immigration helps fill the stands ...

The Sandlot

20th Century Fox

It's the early 1960s and fifth-grader Scotty Smalls (Tom Guiry) has just moved into town with his folks (Karen Allen and Denis Leary). Kids call him a dorkhe can't even throw a baseball! But that changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded Beast and its owner (James Earl Jones) who live behind the left field fence. Soon nine boys have become best friends, Scotty is part of a team, and their leader has become a local legend in this hilarious and warmhearted comedy.

61*

Hbo Home Video

Summer, 1961: Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle are on pace to break the most hallowed record in U.S. sports, Babe Ruth's single-season 60 home runs. It's a big story, and the intense, plain-spoken Maris is the bad guy: sports writers bait him and minimize hi

NBA - Larry Bird, A Basketball Legend (25th Anniversary Edition)

Warner Home Video

The complete DVD guide to Bird watching. Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Larry Bird stepping foot on the parquet floors of Boston Garden with this 2-disc special edition DVD set that chronicles the "Cinderella" journey of one of sport's greatest heroes. Amazing bonus features include Larry Bird's top 3 greatest game performances in their entirety.

2009 New York Yankees: The Official World Series Film

Shout! Factory

VIDBBWS09 Features: -MLB collection. -Manufacturer / Brand: Virgil Films and Entertainment. -Product category: DVDs. -Sport: baseball. -2009 World Series. -One's team's players earn the right to call themselves champions. -Highlights the blood, sweat and tears that it took to get the title. -All of the excitement and drama of the championship series. -All the key moments of the winning team's journey plus bonus features and more. -Appox running time TBA.

Love and Basketball (New Line Platinum Series)

New Line Home Video

Gina Prince-Bythewood, a former college athlete, puts a spin on this one-on-one tale of Love and Basketball. Sanaa Lathan (The Best Man) is the fiercely driven, hot-tempered Monica, a tomboy who gives her all for basketball. Omar Epps (The Mod Squad) is Quincy, an NBA player's son who has pro dreams of his own. Next-door neighbors since first grade, they start as rivals (she flabbergasts the boy by outplaying him in a game of driveway pickup) and age into best friends and lovers. The romantic complications follow a familiar game plan, but the film throws a fascinating spotlight onto the contrast between men's and women's basketball. While Quincy plays college ball on huge courts to cheering, sold-out crowds, we see Monica's sweat, tears, and sheer physical dedicatio...

NHL Stanley Cup Champions 2009-2010: Chicago Blackhawks

Warner Home Video

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/20/2010 Rating: Nr

Jack Nicklaus Golf My Way

Semi-Pro [Blu-ray]

New Line Home Video

Ailing ABA franchise makes last-ditch effort to join NBA.

Casino Royale [Blu-ray]

Columbia Pictures

The most successful invigoration of a cinematic franchise since Batman Begins, Casino Royale offers a new Bond identity. Based on the Ian Fleming novel that introduced Agent 007 into a Cold War world, Casino Royale is the most brutal and viscerally exciting James Bond film since Sean Connery left Her Majesty's Secret Service. Meet the new Bond; not the same as the old Bond. Daniel Craig gives a galvanizing performance as the freshly minted double-0 agent. Suave, yes, but also a "blunt instrument," reckless, and possessed with an ego that compromises his judgment during his first mission to root out the mastermind behind an operation that funds international terrorists. In classic Bond film tradition, his global itinerary takes him to far-flung locales, including Uganda, Ma...

Casino Royale (2-Disc Widescreen Edition)

Sony Pictures

IN HIS FIRST MISSION, JAMES BOND MUST STOP LE CHIFFRE, A BANKER TO THE WORLD'S TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS, FROM WINNING A HIGH-STAKES POKER GAME AT CASINO ROYALE IN MONTENEGRO.

Nicklaus, Jack / Golf My Way (3pc) [VHS]

Republic Pictures

Dalton McCrary's How to Hit the Golf Ball as Straight as you Can Point... Guaranteed

SyberVision International Inc.

In this game-transforming program, you'll discover the secrets of: - "The 40 Inch Zone of Squareness," the powerful missing link to the perfect swing - How to hit straight, crisp golf shots and improve your game instantly - Breaking old habits and programming your mind - Why you don't improve and why you will improve NOW! - The myth of the backswing - Why your shots hook and slice - How to self-diagnose your swing and fix it immediately - Simplifying your game - "One and Roll," the rhythm that's the soul of golf. You are about to experience golf's only proven "straight-shot" system. This unique, revolutionary program has been designed to instantly improve your swing and to turn you into a straight-shootin' master of the game. Dalton McCrary, the straightest-shootin', straightest-talking...

Damages: The Complete Third Season

Sony

Field of Dreams (Widescreen Collector's Edition)

Universal Studios

UPC: 25192016622

Field of Dreams - Baseball

NHL Stanley Cup Champions 2010: Chicago Blackhawks [Blu-ray]

Warner Home Video

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/20/2010 Rating: Nr

Rudy (Special Edition)

Sony Pictures

All his life, people have told Rudy he's not good enough, not smart enough, not big enough. But nothing can stop his impossible dream of playing football for Notre Dame. From the time he's a young boy, Rudy (Sean Astin) is determined to join the Fighting

FIFA World Cup DVD Collection: 1930 -2006

Topics Entertainment

Studio: Topics Entertainment Release Date: 07/13/2010

The Harvey Girls

Turner Home Ent

The Harvey restaurant chain hires beautiful young girls to go west to work as waitresses along the Santa Fe railroad.
Genre: Musicals
Rating: NR
Release Date: 30-APR-2002
Media Type: DVD

Funny Girl

Sony Pictures

Ah, Barbra. Of all her onscreen personas, she sparkles in none as she does in her role as 1930s comedian Fanny Brice in the musical Funny Girl. Portraying the life of this star of stage and radio, Brice preens and prances and sings, captivating her audience both onscreen and off. Fanny Brice started life on the Lower East Side of New York, the daughter of a Jewish saloon owner. Not the prettiest girl around, Brice still managed to quickly rise to stardom as a performer in the Ziegfield Follies. A shrewd, obstinate woman, Brice dictated her own success story on stage; things were a different matter in romance. Falling hard for the stunning Nick Arnstein (suavely played by Omar Sharif), Brice must navigate a difficult marriage. While kids may love the tunes (which include the now-i...

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Dreamworks Video

A disillusioned war veteran, Capt. Rannulph Junah (Matt Damon), reluctantly agrees to play a game of golf. He finds the game futile until his caddy, Bagger Vance (Will Smith), teaches him the secret of the authentic golf stroke which turns out also to be the secret to mastering any challenge and finding meaning in life.

The Greatest Game Ever Played

Buena Vista Home Entertainment

AN AMATEUR PLAYER FROM A WORKING CLASS FAMILY, FRANCIS OUIMET SHOCKED THE GOLF WORLD WHEN AT THE 1913 US OPEN, FLANKED BY HIS 10-YEAR-OLD CADDIE: HE DEFEATED HIS IDOL, THE DEFENDING BRITISH CHAMPION HARRY VARDON. AN UNLIKELY MATCHUP, THEIRS WAS THE GREATEST MATCH THE SPORT HAD EVER KNOWN.

The Sons of Katie Elder

Paramount

FOUR SONS ATTEND THEIR MOTHER'S TEXAS FUNERAL AND AVENGE THEIR SLAIN FATHER.

Anne Of Green Gables - The Sequel

Sullivan

This video is the sequel to the beloved children's book and video Anne of Green Gables. It continues the story of Anne Shirley, an imaginative and headstrong young orphan in 1890s Canada, whose hot temper matches her red hair. Anne of Green Gables told of Anne's adoption by an elderly brother and sister, Marilla (Colleen Dewhurst) and Matthew Cuthbert, and her childhood adventures in the idyllic village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. Anne of Avonlea takes up the story soon after Matthew's death, when Anne has graduated from college. It follows her struggles and adventures as an aspiring writer and English teacher in a private school on the mainland. Girls seven and older, as well as adults, will enjoy this intelligent and beautifully made film, first shown on P...

Love and Basketball [VHS]

New Line Home Video

Gina Prince-Bythewood, a former college athlete, puts a spin on this one-on-one tale of Love and Basketball. Sanaa Lathan (The Best Man) is the fiercely driven, hot-tempered Monica, a tomboy who gives her all for basketball. Omar Epps (The Mod Squad) is Quincy, an NBA player's son who has pro dreams of his own. Next-door neighbors since first grade, they start as rivals (she flabbergasts the boy by outplaying him in a game of driveway pickup) and age into best friends and lovers. The romantic complications follow a familiar game plan, but the film throws a fascinating spotlight onto the contrast between men's and women's basketball. While Quincy plays college ball on huge courts to cheering, sold-out crowds, we see Monica's sweat, tears, and sheer physical dedicatio...

Casino Royale (Collector's Edition + BD Live) [Blu-ray]

Sony Pictures

Genre: Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 21-OCT-2008
Media Type: Blu-Ray

Basketball Diaries [VHS]

Polygram Video

The pre-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jim Carroll, the poet and musician who spent much of his adolescence addicted to heroin and shooting hoops with fellow Catholic high school kids. As a biography, the film doesn't amount to more than the sum of its gritty scenes of smack use, violence, perversions (poor Bruno Kirby plays a lecherous coach who comes on to young Jim), and the usual scream-and-puke dramas that go along with a cold-turkey session. Director Scott Kalvert doesn't seem to realize that most people don't know who Carroll is and therefore can't possibly understand why they should care about his gutterball youth. DiCaprio, having nowhere to go with his performance but maintain Carroll's tailspin, is boring and redundant. Some kind of allusion to the literary and roc...

For Love of the Game

Universal Studios

Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner) is having a bad day. His girlfriend Jane (Kelly Preston, stunning as ever) says she's leaving, and his boss (Brian Cox) says he's selling the business and ace employee Billy may be out of job. Sounds like business as usual for an old-fashioned veteran. However, the business is baseball and for Billy Chapel, the 40-year old former all-star for the Detroit Tigers, it means his career--and his life--is at a crossroads.

Although it is no Bull Durham, For Love of the Game finds a solid and very believable role for Costner. The film is based on Michael Shaara's (The Killer Angels) stream-of-consciousness novel (the rough manuscript was found after his death 1988). The entire film takes place on Billy's day on the mound against the Yankees, ...

More Than a Game

Lions Gate

This documentary follows nba superstar lebron james and four of his talented teammates through the trials and tribulations of high school basketball in ohio and james journey to fame. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/02/2010 Starring: Lebron James Run time: 100 minutes Rating: Pg

Jack Nicklaus: Golf My Way: The Full Swing [VHS]

Republic Pictures

A River Runs Through It

Sony Pictures

AN ENGROSSING STORY OF TWO BROTHER LIVING IN MONTANA UNDER THE STERN HAND OF A MINISTER FATHER. SPECIAL FEATURES: FULL SCREEN AND WIDESCREEN VERSIONS, SUBTITLES: ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE, TALENT FILES, AND THEATRICAL TRAILERS.

Rain Man (Special Edition)

MGM (Video & DVD)

Rain Man is the kind of touching drama that Oscars are made for--and, sure enough, the film took Academy honors for best picture, director, screenplay, and actor (Dustin Hoffman) in 1988. Hoffman plays Raymond, an autistic savant whose late father has left him $3 million in a trust. This gets the attention of his materialistic younger brother, a hot-shot LA car dealer named Charlie (Tom Cruise) who wasn't even aware of Raymond's existence until he read his estranged father's will. Charlie picks up Raymond and takes him on a cross-country journey that becomes a voyage of discovery for Charlie, and, perhaps, for Raymond, too. Rain Man will either captivate you or irritate you (Raymond's sputtering of repetitious phrases is enough to drive anyone crazy), but it is obviously ...

Bull Durham (20th Anniversary Edition)

MGM (Video & DVD)

Movie DVD

Casino [Blu-ray]

Universal Studios

CONTAINTS MIAMI VIC, END OF DAYS, U-571

Shell's Wonderful World Of Golf: Hogan Vs. Snead [VHS]

PGA Tour Productions

Hogan vs. Snead: Shell's Wonderful World of Golf features:

Happy Gilmore (Widescreen Special Edition)

Universal Studios

A REJECTED HOCKEY PLAYER PUTS HIS SKILLS TO THE GOLF COURSE TOSAVE HIS GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE.

Guys and Dolls

MGM (Video & DVD)

Movie DVD

Casino

MCA/Universal Pictures

Martin Scorsese, one of America's most influential filmmakers, returns to the world of mobsters, greed, and excess that he explored so compellingly in 1990's GOODFELLAS. Set in the 1970s and reveling in the minute details of how Las Vegas casinos operate, the film chronicles the rise and fall of casino manager Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro). As the king of his domain, Ace efficiently runs the business and regularly sends lots of cold cash to his bosses. Helping him keep the casino's employees and customers honest is his best friend, Nicky (Joe Pesci), a violent sociopath. Although Ace aims to run a relatively respectable casino, the volatile Nicky wants to take over the entire gambling mecca, and when Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), a seasoned Vegas hustler, enters the picture, Ace and N...

Rounders (Collector's Edition)

Miramax

A little drunk on its own arcane exotica as a gambling movie, Rounders is a film that takes us inside a world of high-stakes card players but falls short on such essentials as character development, relationships, that sort of thing. Still, it is a real curiosity, written by a couple of guys (David Levien and Brian Koppelman) who appear to know something about the dark underbelly of card hustling for fun and profit. Matt Damon stars as a reluctant law student who can't put aside his subterranean career of playing poker and blackjack for big money. After he loses his post-grad nest egg to a weird Russian kingpin (John Malkovich)--and also loses his disgusted girlfriend (Gretchen Mol) in the process--Damon's character turns to an unreliable old buddy (Edward Norton) for a dangerous...

Major League (Wild Thing Edition)

Paramount

She's beautiful, smart, goal-oriented, and she just inherited the Cleveland Indians. Unfortunately, she wants to move the franchise to Miami, and a losing season is her only ticket to Florida. So she signs the wildest gang of screwballs that ever spit tobacco. They're handsome, but they're hopeless! Her catcher (Tom Berenger) is a washed-up womanizer who struck out in life. Her ace pitcher (Charlie Sheen) is a punked-out crazy who struck out with the law. And her third baseman (L.A. Law's Corbin Bernsen) is more concerned about fielding endorsements than grounders. Throw in a busload of other misfits and you've hot yourself a hilarious line-up that's destined for disaster. Or is it? Widescreen VersionEnglish 5.1 SurroundEnglish 2.0 SurroundFrench MonoCommentary by Writer/Director David ...

Caddyshack

Warner Home Video

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/04/2007

Mandingo

Legend Films

Studio: Legend Films Inc. Release Date: 06/03/2008 Run time: 127 minutes Rating: R