Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: success, story, outliers
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-11-18
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0316017922
ISBN-13: 9780316017923

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians

Author: Joseph Wambaugh
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: novel, crows, hollywood
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-03-25
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0316025283
ISBN-13: 9780316025287

When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they’re just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems. To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from the nefarious nightclub-owner Ali Aziz. What Nate and Bix don’t know is that Margot’s no helpless victim: the femme fatale is setting them both up. But Ms. Aziz isn’t the only one with a deadly plan. In HOLLYWOOD CROWS, Wambaugh returns once again to the beat he knows best, taking readers on a tight

Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: difference, things, little, point, tipping
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-02
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0316316962
ISBN-13: 9780316316965

The Tipping Point is that magical moment when an idea, trend, or social behaviour crosses a threshhold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a sick individual in a crowded store can start can epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend or the popularity of a new restaurant to take off overnightor crime or drug use to taper off. Gladwell has explored this theory to great acclaim in several articles in The New Yorker. Here, he shows how very minor adjustments in products and ideas can make them more likely to become hugely popular. He reveals how

Author: Uwem Akpan
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: one
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-06-09
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 0316113786
ISBN-13: 9780316113786

Uwem Akpan’s stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they’ve ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can’t be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord. In the second

Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: novel, host
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2008-05-06
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0316068047
ISBN-13: 9780316068048

The author of the Twilight series of # 1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie’s body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didnR

Author: Taylor Clark
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: commerce, culture, caffeine, tale, double, starbucked
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-11-05
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 031601348X
ISBN-13: 9780316013482

STARBUCKED will be the first book to explore the incredible rise of the Starbucks Corporation and the caffeine-crazy culture that fueled its success. Part Fast Food Nation, part Bobos in Paradise, STARBUCKED combines investigative heft with witty cultural observation in telling the story of how the coffeehouse movement changed our everyday lives, from our evolving neighborhoods and workplaces to the ways we shop, socialize, and self-medicate. In STARBUCKED, Taylor Clark provides an objective, meticulously reported look at the volatile issues like gentrification and fair trade that distress a

Author: J.D. Salinger
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: stories, nine
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1991-05-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0316769509
ISBN-13: 9780316769501

A collection of nine classic Salinger short stories.