June 3, 2008 What's happening with What Happened, has been a persistent question the last few days. The demand for former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's memoir has shot well beyond the initial print run for this book, primarily because it's critical nature was not revealed until just prior to its June 2nd release. We have copies of the second print run scheduled to arrive here no later than Friday of this week. Here's a link which provides more information on this elusive book. What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception If you'd like us to hold you a copy just let us know. Once each month we'll be offering our Weekly Top 2 subscribers a highly desirable coupon. Just hit this link and print out your copy of our first one! Weekly Top 2 Coupon Here they are! Our weekly picks for the two best: two hardcover, two paperback, and two children's books. The very best new arrivals to leap out of the box and onto our shelves this week. Call or email us if you want more information on any of these titles, or to have us hold you a copy. Or stop in and check them out in person. We'd love to see you. Thanks as always for sharing your reading with us!   When You Are Engulfed in Flames By Sedaris, David 2008/06 - Little Brown and Company 9780316143479 - Hardcover List Price $25.99 - Your Price: $20.79 Availability: Available   Preorder Title Back Order A new essay collection by David Sedaris is always welcome, but somehow, given the current economic and political climate, When You Are Engulfed in Flames feels more like a glass of cool pink lemonade on a humid afternoon than anything else. We have ten signed copies in! Let us know if you want one held. ps. The cool cover art is Van Gogh's Skull With Cigarette...More   The Other By Guterson, David 2008/06 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307263155 - Hardcover List Price $24.95 - Your Price: $19.96 Availability: Available   Preorder Title Back Order It was a real Darwinian struggle to pick our second hardcover this week. Before turning the mic over to David Guterson's The Other, let's give two honorable mentions. First, Alan Furst, that marvelous, addictive, historical espionage author, has a new book out,The Spies of Warsaw. Second, check out this exceptional new non fiction effort by Brendan J. Koerner, Now The Hell Will Start. Returning to our victor, The Other is being broadly promoted as Guterson's finest book since Snow Falling On Cedars. Does it deliver the goods? Time to find out! ...More   The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions That Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815 By Blanning, Tim Cannadine, David 2008/06 - Penguin Books 9780143113898 - Trade Paper List Price $20.00 - Your Price: $16.00 Availability: Available   Preorder Title Back Order The Pursuit of Glory shows us yet again that few things are more congenial than a well written and well reasoned history. This satisfying account by Blanning examines the transformative influence of revolutions, namely the scientific, industrial, American, French, and romantic, over the period extending from the conclusion of The Thirty Years' War to Napolean's final defeat in 1815. ...More   Ghostwalk By Stott, Rebecca 2008/06 - Spiegel & Grau 9780385521079 - Trade Paper List Price $14.95 - Your Price: $11.96 Availability: Available   Preorder Title Back Order Rebecca Stott's Ghostwalk is sort of a Possession with a scientific rather than a poetic theme. Modern researchers delving into Isaac Newton's past, murders past and present, doomed lovers across the centuries, and cool science, makes for a great early summer read. ...More   New Moon By Meyer, Stephenie 2008/05 - Little, Brown Young Readers 9780316024969 - Trade Paper List Price $10.99 - Your Price: $8.79 Availability: Available   Preorder Title Back Order After two years in hardcover the second book in Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series finally crosses over into paperback!...More   The Magic Thief By Prineas, Sarah Caparo, Antonio Javier 2008/06 - HarperCollins 9780061375873 - Hardcover List Price $16.99 - Your Price: $13.59 Availability: Available   Preorder Title Back Order The Magic Thief is a 4th though 8th grade fantasy book which is loaded with appeal for young readers. Here are two reviews, one from the store, and one from a sixth grader in Ms. Perry's class at Cape Cod Hill School. A Review From A Young Reader: This book is about Conn, a gutter boy and thief of Twilight town which is one of the three islands in the Magicus Peninsulas. Thinking he will pickpocket enough for upper, Conn steals a wizards locus stone. Then as the wizard offers him dinner and the stone nearly kills Conn, he is entered into apprentice ship by the wizard because the stone almost killed him, and didn't do it automatically. Conn is soon thrown into disaster as the three islands have a magical decay. The wizards ruling the first island are cowering. The under lord Crowe is sitting back laughing. Then there's the Duchess, but no one knows about her. Conn must turn into a cat, avoid misery eels, find his locus stone in 30 days, and fine out what's up before the cities are destroyed... along with everyone else. This book is fantasy, which can be told by the magic and powers. There is also the use of magic to heat and light houses and run factories. Like magic is a power source. I couldn't put the book down, it was action packed. Full of sorrow and surprise with just the right amount of magic. I give it a two thumbs up and hope anybody would also do the same. Much appreciation's for Sarah Prineas and can't wait for book two. Rating-10!! And From The Store: In the 1934 version of The Scarlet Pimpernel The prince of Wales tells Sir Percy that "Percy, you're brainless, spineless, and useless, but you do know clothes." To which Percy replies, "Gads sir, that is something." What Percy brought to the Prince's sleeves, "a certain something, so that when the Prince takes his snuff twill be a swallows flight," Sarah Prineas brings to 10 -14 year old fantasy in The Magic Thief. The Magic Thief has a somewhat Dickensian setting. There is the Twilight in which commoners live....More