The On-Sale Calendar: October 2007

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1 2 3 4 5 My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir by Clarence Thomas (HarperCollins) Exit Ghost by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) The Cranium Ultimate Book of Fantastic Fun & Games (LB Kids) The Name of This Book Is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch (Little, Brown) Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke (Scholastic/Chicken House) If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans: Ann Coulter at Her Best, Funniest, and Most Outrageous by Ann Coulter (Crown Forum) Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog...and Your Life by Cesar Millan (Harmony) Celebrity Detox by Rosie O'Donnell (Grand Central Publishing) Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope by Jimmy Carter (S&S) 1776: The Illustrated Edition by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster) The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 by Rick Atkinson (Henry Holt) Cook with Jamie: My Guide to Making You a Better Cook by Jamie Oliver (Hyperion) The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons & Recipes from a Delicious Revolution by Alice Waters (Clarkson Potter) Life: Selected Quotations by Paulo Coelho (HarperCollins) The Lies About Money: Achieving Financial Security and True Wealth by Avoiding the Lies Others Tell Us—And the Lies We Tell Ourselves by Ric Edelman (Free Press) The Worst Thing I've Ever Done by Ursula Hegi (Touchstone) A Skating Life by Dorothy Hamill (Hyperion) Thank You Power: Making the Science of Gratitude Work for You by Deborah Norville (Thomas Nelson) Life's a Campaign: What Politics Has Taught Me About Friendship, Rivalry, Reputation, and Success by Chris Matthews (Random) Holly Claus: The Christmas Princess by Brittney Ryan, illus. by Laurel Long (HarperCollins) The Castle Corona by Sharon Creech, illus. by David Diaz (HarperCollins) Olivia Helps with Christmas by Ian Falconer (Atheneum) Gossip Girl: It Had to Be You by Cecily von Ziegesar (Little, Brown/Poppy Extras) Extras by Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse) The Red Queen’s Daughter by Jacqueline Kolosov (Hyperion) Counting Christmas by Karen Katz (Little Simon) Santa’s Reindeer by Rod Green (Atheneum) Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter (Hyperion) The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex (Hyperion) America in Space: NASA’s First Fifty Years published in collaboration with NASA (Abrams) Down River by John Hart (Minotaur) Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins by Tom Perkins (Gotham) The Bond: Three Young Men Learn to Forgive and Reconnect with Their Fathers by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt with Margaret Bernstein (Riverhead) The Kite Runner: Illustrated Edition by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead) Eulalia! by Brian Jacques (Philomel) 8 9 10 11 12 I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert (Grand Central Publishing) The Gift by Richard Paul Evans (Simon & Schuster) Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton (Broadway) Mark's Story by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Putnam) A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book by Frank Warren (William Morrow) The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs (S&S) Heaven and Hell: My Life as an Eagle by Don Felder (Hyperion) Fatal Revenant: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson (Putnam) World Without End by Ken Follett (Dutton) Inside the Helmet: My Life as a Sunday Afternoon Warrior by Michael Strahan with Jay Glazer (Gotham) Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy by Matthew Reinhart (Orchard) Dragonology: Field Guide to Dragons by Dr. Ernest Drake, edited by Dugald A. Steer, illus. by various illustrators (Candlewick) Great Joy by Kate DiCamillo, illus. by Bagram Ibatoulline (Candlewick) Blonde Faith by Walter Mosely (Little, Brown) 15 16 17 18 19 Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life by Joel Osteen (Free Press) The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman (Norton) The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown) Think Big and Kick Ass...in Business and in Life by Donald J. Trump and Bill Zanker (Collins) Kids Are Americans, Too by Bill O'Reilly (Morrow) The Intellectual Devotional™ American History by David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim (Modern Times) Slash by Slash and Saul Hudson (HarperEntertainment) Moasic: Pieces of My Life So Far by Amy Grant (Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press) Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis (HarperCollins) Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill Cookbook: Explosive Flavors from the Southwestern Kitchen by Bobby Flay (Clarkson Potter) Blue Christmas: Now with More Holiday Cheer (And Recipes Too!) ) by Mary Kay Andrews (HarperCollins The Phoenix Unchained by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory (Tor) Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks (Knopf) Dirty Diplomacy: The Rough and Tumble Adventures of a Scotch-Drinking, Skirt-Chasing, Dictator-Busting and Thoroughly Unrepentant Ambassador Stuck on the Frontline of the War by Craig Murray (Scribner) Star Wars: Death Star by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry (Del Rey) (Scribner) Disney High School Musical: All Access (Disney Press) Slam by Nick Hornby (Putnam) I Love You More by Laura Duksta, illus. by Karen Keesler (Sourcebooks/ Jabberwocky) Freckleface Strawberry by Julianne Moore, illus. by Leuyen Pham (Bloomsbury) Pandora's Daughter by Iris Johansen (St. Martin's) The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta (St. Martin's) Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! Author Ignores Helpful Advice by Scott Adams (Portfolio) A Life Decoded: My Genome, My Life by J. Craig Venter (Viking) How to Find Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker (Frederick Warne)   22 23 24 25 26 Fair Game by Valerie Plame Wilson (S&S) Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam) Where Angels Go by Debbie Macomber Now and Then by Robert B. Parker (Putnam) The Ghost by Robert Harris (Simon & Schuster) The Alphabet from A to Y: With Bonus Letter Z! by Steve Martin and Roz Chast (Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press) Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life) by Cathie Black (Crown Business) The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America by Beth S. Wenger (Doubleday) Lyrics by Sting by Sting (Dial) Life: Selected Quotations by Paulo Coelho (HarperCollins) Extreme Dinosaurs by Robert Mash (Atheneum) Follow the Reader: Dora’s Enchanted Adventure; Hello, Dora!; Diego in Action!; Diego’s Rescue Game; Thomas on Track; and Games with James all by Harriet Murphy (Simon Scribbles) Peter and the Secret of Rundoon by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry (Disney Editions) Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Storybook and CD (Disney Press) George's Secret Key to the Universe by Stephen Hawking and Lucy Hawking (S&S) I Live for This!: Baseball's Last True Believer by Bill Plaschke with Tommy Lasorda (Houghton Mifflin)   29 30 31   Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full by Conrad Black (PublicAffairs) YOU: Staying Young by Michael F. Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. (Free Press) Amazing Grace by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon (Viking) American Creations: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis (Knopf) Protect and Defend by Vince Flynn (Atria) The Christmas Promise by Donna VanLiere (St. Martin's) A Family Christmas by Caroline Kennedy (Hyperion) Everlasting by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss (William Morrow) The Race by Richard North Patterson (Henry Holt) The Onion: Our Dumb World; Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition by The Onion (Little, Brown) Christmas with Paula Deen by Paula Deen (Simon & Schuster) The Star Wars Vault by Stephen Sansweet and Peter Vilmur (Harper Entertainment) Incredible Journey by Ron Wood (St. Martin's) A War of Gifts: An Ender Story by Orson Scott Card (Tor) No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach by Anthony Bourdain (Bloomsbury) Write It When I'm Gone by Thomas DeFrank (Putnam) The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi (Metropolitan) All Through the Night: A Troubleshooter Christmas by Suzanne Brockmann (Ballantine) Schott’s Miscellany 2008: An Almanac by Ben Schott (Bloomsbury) The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg (FSG) Dreamsongs: Volume 1 by George R.R. Martin (Spectra) A Christmas Beginning by Anne Perry (Ballantine) Redneck Dictionary III: Learning to Talk More Gooder Fastly by Jeff Foxworthy (Villard) Shrek the Halls by Catherine Hapka (HarperCollins) If You See a Fairy Ring by Susanna Lockheart (Barron’s)       "  September 2007 November 2007 "