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New Releases for January 10th, 2012
Submitted by princebooks on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 3:15pm
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Limited First Edition Signed Copies Available Now!
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
Dutton Books
336 pages, Hardcover, $17.99
The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics by Thomas Edsall
A sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years--and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles. In a matter of just three years, a bitter struggle over limited resources has enveloped political discourse at every level in the United States. Fights between haves and have-nots over health care, unemployment benefits, funding for mortgage write-downs, economic stimulus legislation -- and, at the local level, over cuts in police protection, garbage collection, and in the number of teachers -- have dominated the debate. Elected officials are being forced to make zero-sum choices -- or worse, choices with no winners.
Doubleday Books
272 pages, Harcover, $24.95
Vulture Peak by John Burdett
Nobody knows Bangkok like Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and there is no one quite like Sonchai: a police officer who has kept his Buddhist soul intact, more or less, despite the fact that his job shoves him face-to-face with some of the most vile and outrageous crimes and criminals in Bangkok.
He's put in charge of the highest-profile criminal case in Thailand -- an attempt to bring an end to trafficking in human organs. He sets in motion a massive sting operation and stays at its center, traveling to Phuket, Hong Kong, Dubai, Shanghai, and Monte Carlo. He draws in a host of unwitting players that includes an aging rock star wearing out his second liver and the mysterious, diabolical, albeit gorgeous co-queenpins of the international body-parts trade: the Chinese twins known as The Vultures. And yet, it's closer to home that Sonchai will discover things getting really dicey: rumors will reach him suggesting that his ex-prostitute wife, Chanya, is having an affair. Will Sonchai be enlightened enough -- forget Buddha, think jealous husband -- to cope with his very own compromised and compromising world?
All will be revealed here, in John Burdett's most mordantly funny, propulsive, fiendishly entertaining novel yet.
Knopf Publishing
304 pages, Hardcover, $25.95
The Obamas by Jodi Kantor
Kantor takes readers deep inside the White House as they try to grapple with their new roles, change the country, raise children, maintain friendships, and figure out what it means to be the President and First Lady. Filled with riveting detail and insight into their partnership, emotions, and personalities, "The Obamas" is an intimate portrait that will surprise readers.
Little Brown and Company
368 pages, Hardcover, $29.99
Our Annual Thank You SALE!
Submitted by princebooks on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 11:21amSALE!
Welcome to our annual thank you sale!
25% off all books and stock
excluding special orders magazines and nautical charts
40% off select books
From Thursday January 5-January 8
Thank you for supporting your local bookstore!
We look forward to seeing you!
Now Available in Paperback!
Submitted by princebooks on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 11:49amHappy New Year! What better way to start your New Year than to start a great new book. Check out some of these great reads now available in paperback!
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Before Liz Lemon, before Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Fey's story can be told.
The Social Animal by David Brooks
In this #1 "New York Times" bestseller, Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple.
Smut by Alan Bennett
One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories.
New Releases for December 6th, 2011
Submitted by princebooks on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 2:46pm
Red Mist by Patricia Cornwell
The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer!
Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of grisly killings. The murder of an Atlanta family years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of homeless people as far away as California seem unrelated. But Scarpetta discovers connections that compel her to conclude that what she thought ended with Fielding's death and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it.
Putnam Adult
512 pages, Hardcover, $27.95 (Now 20% off!!)
Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
The special Collector's First Edition will include a never-before-seen letter from Will to his family!
In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the street--and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessa's powers for his own dark ends.
With the help of the handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magister's war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mist-shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors, from the slums of London to an enchanted ballroom where Tessa discovers that the truth of her parentage is more sinister than she had imagined. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they realize that the Magister himself knows their every move--and that one of their own has betrayed them.
As their dangerous search for the Magister and the truth leads the friends into peril, Tessa learns that when love and lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the purest heart.
Simon & Schuster
528 pages, Hardcover, $19.99
Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James
A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel "Pride and Prejudice" into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.
It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy's magnificent estate. Their peaceful, orderly world seems almost unassailable. Elizabeth has found her footing as the chatelaine of the great house. They have two fine sons, Fitzwilliam and Charles. Elizabeth's sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; her father visits often; there is optimistic talk about the prospects of marriage for Darcy's sister Georgiana. And preparations are under way for their much-anticipated annual autumn ball.
Then, on the eve of the ball, the patrician idyll is shattered. A coach careens up the drive carrying Lydia, Elizabeth's disgraced sister, who with her husband, the very dubious Wickham, has been banned from Pemberley. She stumbles out of the carriage, hysterical, shrieking that Wickham has been murdered. With shocking suddenness, Pemberley is plunged into a frightening mystery.
Inspired by a lifelong passion for Austen, P. D. James masterfully re-creates the world of "Pride and Prejudice," electrifying it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly crafted crime story, as only she can write it.
Knopf Publishing
304 pages, Hardcover, $25.95
Signed Copies of Playbook for Success by Nancy Lieberman Available Now
Submitted by princebooks on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 5:45pmMake business success a slam dunk with basketball Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman!
Autographed copies are now available for a limited time at Prince Books!
Nancy "Lady Magic" Lieberman has a passion for winning. One of basketball's all-time greats, she took home Olympic silver at age eighteen, was a two-time national champion in college, led victorious teams in the WBL and WNBA, and was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. After retiring from the court, she became a winning coach in the WNBA, an ESPN analyst, a sought-after public speaker and consultant, a philanthropist, and, most recently, the first female head coach in the NBA's Development League for the Dallas Mavericks affiliate the Texas Legends.
How did Lieberman blaze such a trail and break so many barriers, both in sports and business? By developing and sticking to her own playbook for success. Now, in Playbook for Success, she gives you the tools to create a champion's mind-set, achieve peak performance, and win in the game of business.
Your own personal coaching session with this legendary competitor, Playbook for Success speaks in particular to women who are ready to play in any business arena they choose and push themselves to exceed any limit before them. With this practical guide, you'll get a tough-minded mix of no-nonsense inspiration, real-life examples, and hard-and-fast sports principles you can use to hone your winner's edge each day.
Playbook for Success by Nancy Lieberman
John Wiley & Sons
191 pages, Harcover, $24.95
New Releases for November 15, 2011
Submitted by princebooks on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 10:50amIt's an excitinig week for new releases. Check out some of these new titles and find your next great read!
V Is for Vengeance
by Sue Grafton
A woman with a murky past who kills herself. A dying old man. A lovely woman. A professional shoplifting ring. A brutal and unscrupulous gangster. A wandering husband. A spoiled kid. A lonely widower. An elegant but ruthless businessman whose dealings are definitely outside the law: the spider at the center of the web. And in the middle of it all is Kinsey Millhone, whose 38th-birthday gift is a punch in the face that leaves her with two black eyes and a busted nose.
Kill Alex Cross
by James Patterson
The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark. A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital. As his window for solving both crimes narrows, Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes--one that may alter the fate of the entire country.
Cabin Fever ( Diary of a Wimpy Kid #06 )
by Jeff Kinney
Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged, and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is, he's innocent. Or at least sort of.
The authorities are closing in, but when a surprise blizzard hits, the Heffley family is trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow melts he's going to have to face the music, but could any punishment be worse than being stuck inside with your family for the holidays?
Then Again
by Diane Keaton
To write about herself, Keaton realized she had to write about her mother, too, and how their bond came to define both their lives. And so, in a remarkable act of creation, she not only reveals herself to readers, she also lets them meet in intimate detail her mother. More than just the autobiography of a legendary actress, this a book about a very American family with very American dreams.
***New In Paperback***
Kennedy Detail by Gerald Blaine
Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead
New Releases for November 1st, 2011
Submitted by princebooks on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 4:54pm
Out of Oz: The Final Volume in the Wicked Years by Gregory Maquire
Bestselling author Gregory Maguire’s remarkable series, The Wicked Years, comes full circle with this, his fourth and final excursion across a darker, richer, more complex landscape of “the magical land of Oz.” Out of Oz brilliantly reimagines L. Frank Baum’s world over the rainbow as wracked with social unrest—placing Glinda the good witch under house arrest and having the cowardly Lion on the lam from the law as the Emerald City prepares to make war on Munchkinland. Even Dorothy makes a triumphant return in Maguire’s magnificent Oz finale—tying up every loose green end of the series he began with his classic Wicked, the basis for the smash hit Broadway musical.
William Morrow & Company
Hardcover, 592 pages, $26.99
A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
The history of humanity is a history of invention and innovation, as we have continually created new items to use, to admire, or to leave our mark on the world. In this original and thought-provoking book, Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, has selected one hundred man-made artifacts, each of which gives us an intimate glimpse of an unexpected turning point in human civilization. A History of the World in 100 Objects stretches back two million years and covers the globe. From the very first hand axe to the ubiquitous credit card, each item has a story to tell; together they relate the larger history of mankind-revealing who we are by looking at what we have made. Handsomely designed, with more than 150 color photographs throughout the text. Makes a great gift!
Viking Books
Hardcover, 707 pages, $45
Zero Day by David Baldacci
John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth.
Now, Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost. Someone has stumbled onto a brutal crime scene, a family slaughtered. The local homicide detective, a headstrong woman with personal demons of her own, joins forces with Puller in the investigation. As Puller digs through deception after deception, he realizes that absolutely nothing he's seen in this small town, and no one in it, are what they seem. Facing a potential conspiracy that reaches far beyond the hills of West Virginia, he is one man on the hunt for justice against an overwhelming force.
Grand Central Publishing
Hardcover, 488 pages, $27.99
Special! 20% off retail price!
Crossed by Ally Condie
The hotly awaited second book in the dystopian Matched trilogy.
Separated by the dictatorial Society that rules them, Cassia has been searching for Ky while suffering the harsh conditions of labor camps far from home. About to be sent to the Societys biggest city for her permanent work assignment, Cassia instead grabs an opportunity to reach the war-torn Outer Provinces, where she finally gets a lead in tracking Ky. Ky has survived being used as a pawn in the Societys war against a nameless and faceless enemy; he and two companions have escaped into a no mans land, and Cassia follows. As Cassia and Ky hike through dangerous territory in search of a rumored rebellion and the freedom to be together, the specter of Cassias betrothed, Xander, hangs over them.
Dutton Books
Hardcover, 367 pages, $17.99
Now in Paperback:
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
True Prep: It's a Whole New Old World by Lisa Birnbach
The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics by James Kakalios
A Million Shades of Gray by Cynthia Kadohata
New Releases for October 18th, 2011
Submitted by princebooks on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 5:13pm
Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
"Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison," declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a mari-juana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she's in Hell. Madison shares her cell with a motley crew of young sinners: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, united by fate to form the six-feet-under version of everyone's favorite detention movie. Madison and her pals trek across the Dandruff Desert and climb the treacherous Mountain of Toenail Clippings to confront Satan in his citadel. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno where The English Patient plays on end-less repeat, roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb, and the damned interrupt your dinner from their sweltering call center to hard-sell you Hell. He makes eternal torment, well, simply divine.
Doubleday Books
226 pages, Hardcover, $24.95
Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: What You Should and Shouldn't Cook from Scratch -- Over 120 Recipes for the Best Homemade Foods by Jennifer Reese
When Jennifer Reese lost her job, she was overcome by an impulse common among the recently unemployed: to economize by doing for herself what she had previously paid for. She had never before considered making her own peanut butter and pita bread, let alone curing her own prosciutto or raising turkeys. And though it sounded logical that "doing it yourself" would cost less, she had her doubts. So Reese began a series of kitchen-related experiments, taking into account the competing demands of everyday contemporary American family life. With its fresh voice and delightful humor, Make the Bread, Buy the Butter gives 120 recipes with eminently practical yet deliciously fun "Make or Buy" recommendations. Reese is relentlessly entertaining as she relates her food and animal husbandry adventures, which amuse and perplex as well as nourish and sustain her family. Here's the full picture of what is involved in a truly homemade life--with the good news that you shouldn't try to make everything yourself--and how to get the most out of your time in the kitchen.
Free Press Publishing
304 pages, Hardcover, $24
The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
Her third offering in the Cousins' War series (after The White Queen and The Red Queen) is the story of Jacquetta, mother of the White Queen, Elizabeth Woodville. Descended from Melusina, the river goddess, Jacquetta always has had the gift of second sight. As a child visiting her uncle, she met his prisoner, Joan of Arc, and saw her own power reflected in the young woman accused of witchcraft. They share the mystery of the tarot card of the wheel of fortune before Joan is taken to a horrific death at the hands of the English rulers of France. Jacquetta understands the danger for a woman who dares to dream. Given first to a husband who desires only the magical powers she might possess, Jacquetta marries second for love, much below her station. Jacquetta fights for her king, her queen, and for her daughter Elizabeth for whom Jacquetta can sense an extraordinary and unexpected future: a change of fortune, the throne of England, and the white rose of York. A sweeping, powerful story rich in passion and legend and drawing on years of research, The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of the real-life mother of the white queen.
Touchstone Books
464 pages, Harcover, $27.99
Virtuosity by Jessica Martinez
Now is not the time for Carmen to fall in love. And Jeremy is hands-down the wrong guy for her to fall for. He is infuriating, arrogant, and the only person who can stand in the way of Carmen getting the one thing she wants most: to win the prestigious Guarneri competition. Carmen's whole life is violin, and until she met Jeremy, her whole focus was winning. Carmen knows that kissing Jeremy can't end well, but she just can't stay away. Nobody else understands her --and riles her up --like he does. Still, she can't trust him with her biggest secret: She is so desperate to win she takes anti-anxiety drugs to perform, and what started as an easy fix has become a hungry addiction. Carmen is sick of not feeling anything on stage and even more sick of always doing what she's told, doing what's expected. Sometimes, being on top just means you have a long way to fall....
Simon Pulse
304 pages, Hardcover, $16.99
Now in Paperback:
Djibouti by Leonard Elmore
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving by Jeffrey Masson
New Releases for October 11th, 2011
Submitted by princebooks on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 2:35pm
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
It's the early 1980s--the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. But real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes.
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
416 pages, Hardcover, $28
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins
Ten years after the worldwide bestseller "Good to Great, " Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving times.
HarperBusiness
320 pages, Hardcover, $29.99
The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
Sparks' latest is the heart-rending story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they've taken wildly divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined--and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever altered their world. When they are both called back to their hometown for the funeral of their mentor, they will be forced to confront the choices each has made, and ask whether love can truly rewrite the past.
Grand Central Publishing
304 pages, Hardcover, $25.99
Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President by Eli Saslow
Every day, 20,000 Americans write the president. Every night, President Obama sits down with a folder containing 10 of the most compelling messages, reading every one and responding to several with a handwritten note of acknowledgment and encouragement. Washington Post reporter Saslow tells the stories of 10 of the president's correspondents during those three years, revealing their motivations for writing and examining their letters' repercussions on their writers and the country.
Doubleday Books
304 pages, Hardcover, $25.95
Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible: The New Classic Guide to Delicious Dishes with More Than 300 Recipes by Paula Deen with Melissa Clark
An encyclopedic tour of Southern cuisine that leaves no doubt about Deen's latest bountiful and delicious contributions to the contemporary American kitchen. This omnibus is celebrity Deen's answer to The Joy of Cooking, covering the wide swath of regional favorites from Creole jambalaya to Memphis dry-rub ribs, from Charleston shrimp and grits to the grilled turkey sandwich known as the Kentucky Hot Brown. Simplified illustrations throughout demonstrate techniques such as dropping cookies onto a baking sheet, arranging coals on a grill and scoring a ham. Over 200 brand new, regionally diverse recipes appear alongside classics from Deen's The Lady & Sons restaurant in Savannah.
Simon & Schuster
480 pages, Hardcover, $29.99
Autographed Copies of Lee Child's "The Affair" Now Available!
Submitted by princebooks on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 5:38pm
From the popular author
Lee Child
comes his new Reacher novel
The Affair
What turned career army cop Jack Reacher into the wandering and deadly version of a knight in rusted armor? In this 16th novel in the highly successful Reacher franchise, Child goes back to small-town Mississippi in 1997 where women have been murdered near a secret Ranger base. The Rangers are suspected, and the official investigation is a mess. Reacher is sent to town disguised as a bum to keep one eye on what might be a flawed army investigation, the other on a series of similar killings in the town, and if he had a third eye, he would use it to cover his back.
The Affair is a novel of unrelenting suspense.
Now available:
Signed first editions 20% off retail price!
Get your copy today, while supplies last.
