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November 21, 2009

Book cover of Shop Smart, Save More: Learn the Grocery Game and Save Hundreds of Dollars a Month by Teri Gault and Sheryl Berk

Shop Smart, Save More:
Learn the Grocery Game and Save Hundreds of Dollars a Month
by Teri Gault and Sheryl Berk

These days the cost of food and other basic necessities is going through the roof. Teri Gault's website, TheGroceryGame.com, has already helped millions save serious money. Now she shares the secrets to sensible shopping in one essential volume, so you can feed your family and take care of their needs for hundreds of dollars less a year.

Bookcover for Kanzashi in Bloom: 20 Simple fold-and-sew Projects to Wear and Give by Diane Gilleland

Kanzashi in Bloom:
20 Simple fold-and-sew Projects to Wear and Give
by Diane Gilleland

Kanzashi tsumami is the Japanese art of folding delicate squares of silk into three-dimensional flower petals. This book takes the American interpretation of Kanzashi a step further, presenting modern, simplified flower designs as elements in a variety of fun, hip craft projects. The book offers instructions for four simple Kanzashi components, and demonstrates how these elements can be mixed and matched to create 20 diverse projects.

Bookcover of You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas by Augusten Burroughs

You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
by Augusten Burroughs

Augusten Burroughs has, and in this caustically funny, nostalgic, poignant, and moving collection he recounts Christmases past and present as only he could. With gimlet-eyed wit and illuminated prose, Augusten shows how the holidays bring out the worst in us and sometimes, just sometimes, the very, very best.