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Cover and interior illustrations from Locomotive by Brian Floca, Illustrations ©2013 Brian Floca. Christmas Books for the Whole Family

The Dogs of Christmas The Christmas Tale of W. Bruce Cameron Peter Rabbit The perfect holiday gift from W. Emma Thompson Bruce Cameron, the New York Peter Rabbit and his cousin Times and USA Today-bestselling Benjamin Bunny must save their author of A Dog’s Purpose and A new friend, William the Turkey, Dog’s Journey. $15.99 from becoming Mr. McGregor’s Christmas supper. $20.00

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Lonely Planet’s The Little Mermaid Beautiful World Robert Sabuda Lonely Planet A beloved under-the-sea tale is A celebration of the world’s most now a pop-up masterpiece, from magnificent spectacles. Forty years expert craftsman Robert Sabuda. of passion and experience has $29.99 been poured into Lonely Planet’s Beautiful World. Inspired by our love of travel and the world in which we live, this spectacular landmark pictorial shares sublime Simon & Schuster, 9781416960805 Lonely Planet Publications, photography of our planet’s most 9781743217177 amazing places. $39.99 The P rf ct Gi t

Guillermo del Toro A Reader’s Book of Days Cabinet of Curiousities Tom Nissley Guillermo del Toro A witty and addictively readable Guillermo del Toro credits the day-by-day literary companion. At well-known thoroughness of his once a love letter to literature and film preparation to his ten-year a charming guide to the books work as a make-up artist. This most worth reading, it features coffee table hardcover includes bite-size accounts of events in the not only notebook entries about lives of great authors for every his film and other projects, but day of the year, including beloved Harper, 9780062082848 reproductions of journal pages, classic authors and contemporary including sketches, illustrations, favorites. The book also notes the and new annotations. In addition, Norton, W. W. & Company, days on which famous authors it contains an extended, strikingly Inc., 9780393239621 were born and died; it includes various interview with him by lists of recommended reading for fellow filmmaker Marc Scott. every month of the year as well $60.00 as snippets from book reviews as they appeared across literary history. $24.95 Rock ‘n’ Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip Robert Landau The Sunset Strip, circa 1967. Author/photographer Robert Landau showcases the signs of the time, a time when rock was the most important music ever recorded, when youth, politics, and art merged to turn counterculture into mainstream culture. A must for every rock lover, pop-art aficionado, and socio-culture freak, Rock ‘n’ Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip is a coffee-table book to read and reread. $50.00

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Knowledge Encyclopedia DK Created in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution and with the latest CGI technology, the Knowledge Encyclopedia is a bold new approach to family reference using 3-D rendered images to explore the wonders of the world in unprecedented detail. $29.99

DK Publishing, 9781465414175 Music: The Definitive Visual History DK Publishing Produced in association with the Smithsonian and including images from The National Music Museum in South Dakota, this book guides readers through the progression of music since its prehistoric beginnings, discussing not just Western classical music but music from all around the world. $50.00

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LEGO® Minifigure Year by Year: A Visual History Daniel Lipkowitz Featuring more than 2,000 of the most significant, popular, and rare minifigures, this engaging reference guide explores minifigures chronologically by theme. Fans will learn little-known facts about their favorite minifigures in this first-ever publishing of the evolution of the famous ® minifigure. $40.00 DK Publishing, 9781465414113 Anything That Moves: Daniel: My French Renegade Chefs, Cuisine Fearless Eaters, and Daniel Boulud, Sylvie Bigar, the Making of a New and Bill Buford American Food Culture One of America’s most respected Dana Goodyear and successful chefs delivers a New Yorker writer Dana Goodyear definitive yet personal cookbook delivers a rollicking narrative look on his love of French food. at the shocking extremes of the Included in the cookbook are Grand Central, contemporary American food 9781455513925 diverse and informative essays world. $27.95 on essential subjects. With more than 120 gorgeous photographs , 9781594488375 capturing the essence of Boulud’s cuisine and the spirit of restaurant Daniel, as well as a glimpse into Boulud’s home kitchen, this is a must-have for sophisticated foodies everywhere. $60.00

The Complete Beer In the Hands of a Baker Course: Boot Camp The Culinary Institute of for Beer Geeks: From America Novice to Expert in In the Hands of a Baker covers Twelve Tasting Classes all the basics of selecting and Joshua M. Bernstein using baking equipment for the Expert Joshua Bernstein demystifies professional kitchen, providing the flavors of beer in simple, fun guidance on purchasing the John Wiley, 9780470587850 correct equipment, organizing a Sterling Epicure, classes on everything from lagers 9781402797675 to sour ales. Includes tastings, food/ workstation, and the proper care beer pairings, and more! $24.95 and cleaning of all types of baking tools. $29.99 Cookb oks for ev yone

Saving the Season: A Who Wants Seconds? Cook’s Guide to Home Jennie Cook Canning, Pickling, and Caterer, artist, permaculturist, Preserving and master food preserver Jennie Kevin West Cook shares a lifetime of favorite A stylish, richly illustrated, recipes in this gorgeous hand- practical guide for home cooks illustrated and photographed and preserving enthusiasts— book. Emphasizing the joy of the first cookbook from Kevin sharing simple but delicious meals West, author of the popular blog at home with family and friends, Knopf , Who Wants Seconds? is rich with 9780307599483 Savingtheseason.com. $35.00 Prospect Park Books, personality, advice, color, and 9781938849138 updated classic American recipes, with equal appeal to omnivores and vegans. $24.95 Southern California Restaurant Cookbooks

The Lemonade Cookbook: Southern California Comfort Food from L.A.’s Favorite Modern Cafeteria Alan Jackson and JoAnn Cianciulli The Lemonade Cookbook takes the bold flavors, imaginative dishes, and southern California lifestyle that have made the restaurant an instant hit and captures them in a fresh, beautifully- designed, full-color book. $30.00

St. Martin’s Press, 9781250023667 The A.O.C. Cookbook

Suzanne Goin everyone for ks o ok c Suzanne Goin invites us into her kitchen and divulges the secrets about what makes her food so irresistibly delicious. Here is something for everyone, every food mood, every time of year. $35.00 Knopf Doubleday, 9780307958235

Little Flower: Recipes from the Café Christine Moore A kitchen-friendly hardcover showcasing the best breakfast, lunch, supper, and dessert recipes from Little Flower’s kitchen, each illustrated with a full-page photo. One of Food52’s best cookbooks of the year! $25.00

Prospect Park Books, Sweet 9780983459484 Valerie Gordon Since 2003, Valerie Gordon has provided Angelenos with award-winning sweets and baked goods. She recreates desserts from Los Angeles’s lost restaurants such as Chasen’s and the Brown Derby. Filled with helpful tricks, recipes for a range of tastes, and gorgeous full-color photographs, Sweet is destined to become every baker’s favorite cookbook. $35.00 Workman, 9781579654689 Elizabeth the The Longest Ride First Wife Nicholas Sparks Lian Dolan New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lancaster, an English Nicholas Sparks returns with the professor at a city college, finds remarkable story of two couples her perfectly dull but perfectly whose lives intersect in profound orchestrated life upended one and surprising ways. Two couples summer by three men: her movie- have little in common and are star ex-husband, a charming separated by years and experience. political operative, and William Yet their lives will converge with Shakespeare. The new novel by unexpected poignancy, reminding Helen of Pasadena author Lian us all that even the most difficult Prospect Park Books, Grand Central, 9781938849053 Dolan is lively, smart, and very 9781455520657 decisions can yield extraordinary funny. $15.95 journeys: beyond despair, beyond death, to the farthest reaches of the human heart. $27.00

The Rosie Project Burial Rites Graeme Simsion Hannah Kent An international sensation, The Set against Iceland’s stark Rosie Project is a charming, big- landscape, Hannah Kent brings to hearted romantic comedy about vivid life the story of Agnes, who, a socially challenged genetics charged with the brutal murder professor relying on scientific of her former master, is sent to an methods to find true love and isolated farm to await execution. the totally unsuitable, completely Horrified at the prospect of incompatible, gloriously winning housing a convicted murderer, woman who captures his heart.. the family at first avoids Agnes. $24.00 Only a priest Agnes has chosen Simon & Schuster, Little, Brown, to be her spiritual guardian seeks 9781476729084 9780316243919 to understand her. But as Agnes’s death looms, the farmer’s wife and daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story The best in fict n they’ve heard. $26.00

The Signature of All Things Elizabeth Gilbert Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family. Exquisitely researched Viking, 9780670024858 and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globe—from to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam and beyond. $28.95 And The Mountains Echoed Mary Coin Khaled Hosseini Marisa Silver The unforgettable New York Critically acclaimed Times-bestselling novel about author Marisa Silver takes finding a lost piece of yourself in Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant someone else, from the author of Mother” photograph as The Kite Runner and A Thousand inspiration for a breathtaking Splendid Suns. $28.95 reinvention—a story of two women, one famous and one forgotten, and of the remarkable legacy of their Riverhead Books, chance encounter. Silver 9781594631764 creates an extraordinary Blue Press, 9780399160707 tale from a brief moment in history, and reminds us that The Death of Bees although a great photograph Lisa O’Donnell can capture the essence of Only Marnie and her little sister, a moment, it only scratches Nelly, know what happened to their the surface of a life. $26.95 h et ion c f n est the parents, and they aren’t telling. While life in Glasgow’s Maryhill “Gorgeous … This narrative of mid- housing estate isn’t grand, the girls do have each other. Lennie, the century hope, loss, and disenchantment is old man next door, realizes that both universal and deeply personal. With his young neighbors are alone and takes them in—feeds them, writing that is sensual and rich, [Silver] clothes them, protects them. But Harper, 9780062209856 soon the authorities start asking shines a light on the parts of personal tougher questions. As one lie leads history not shared and stops time without to another, dark secrets about the girls’ family surface, creating destroying the moment.”—Publisher’s complications that threaten to tear Weekly, Starred Review them apart. $14.99

The First Phone Call The Goldfinch from Heaven Donna Tartt Mitch Albom When Theo Decker survives an In the small town of Coldwater, accident that kills his mother he Michigan, the phones start ringing, is taken in by wealthy friends. But and the callers say they are calling he is tormented by his longing from heaven. As of these for his mother. He clings to one strange calls spreads, outsiders thing that reminds him of her: a flock to Coldwater to be a part of small, mysteriously captivating it. When Sully returns to Coldwater painting that ultimately draws to discover his hometown gripped Theo into the underworld of art. Harper, 9780062294371 by “miracle fever,” he digs into As an adult, Theo moves between the phenomenon, determined Little, Brown, the drawing rooms of the rich to disprove it. Moving seamlessly 9780316055437 and the labyrinth of an antiques between the invention of the store where he works. Alienated telephone in 1876 and a world and in love, he becomes the obsessed with the next level of center of dangerous circle. This is communication, Albom takes a beautiful, old-fashioned story of readers on a breathtaking ride of loss and obsession, survival and frenzied hope. $24.99 self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate. $30.00 What the Heart Remembers Debra Ginsberg When young Eden receives a heart transplant from an unknown donor, she becomes haunted by dreams of people and places she doesn’t remember. Convinced that her new heart carries old memories, Eden is mysteriously drawn to San Diego. There, she becomes fast friends with Darcy, a young woman with mysteries of her own. As the tension around them escalates, Eden’s mysterious dreams become more frequent. Can Eden listen to what her heart is trying to tell her before it is silenced forever? $15.00

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The Devil’s Interval Deadline Linda Lee Peterson Sandra Brown Maggie Fiori uses her powers as a When veteran journalist, Dawson journalist to dig into the world of Scott gets a call from a source San Francisco’s elite after a limo about a new development in a driver is convicted of murdering a story that began 40 years ago, socialite. Between managing her he knows that it could be the sons’ soccer practices, saving her BIG story of Dawson’s career. As damaged marriage, and handling Dawson delves into the mystery, her maddening staff, Maggie he becomes emotionally involved, fights to prove that the “Limousine but when the story takes a twist, Lothario” was guilty of no more Dawson himself becomes a than seduction. $15.00 Grand Central, suspect. Haunted by his demons, Prospect Park Books, 9781455501519 9781938849114 Dawson takes up the chase for the secret, startling truth about

s lve he m stery himself. $26.00

S. The October List Doug Dorst Jeffery Deaver S., conceived by filmmaker J. J. Two days ago, Gabriela’s life was Abrams and written by award- normal. Then, out of the blue, winning novelist Doug Dorst, she gets word that her six-year- is the chronicle of two readers old daughter has been taken. finding each other in the margins She’s given an ultimatum: pay of a book and enmeshing half a million dollars and find a themselves in a deadly struggle mysterious document known as between forces they don’t the “October List” within 30 hours, understand; it is also Abrams and or she’ll never see her child again. Dorst’s love letter to the written A mind-bending novel that unfolds Little, Brown, word. $35.00 Grand Central, from its dramatic climax back to its 9780316201643 9781455576647 surprising beginning. $26.00 King and Maxwell The Gods of Guilt David Baldacci Michael Connelly David Baldacci brings back Sean Defense attorney Mickey Haller King and Michelle Maxwell--former returns with a haunting case in Secret Service agents turned the gripping new thriller from #1 private investigators--in their New York Times-bestselling author most surprising, personal, and Michael Connelly. Haunted by the dangerous case ever. $28.00 ghosts of his past, Mickey must work tirelessly and bring all his skill to bear on a case that could mean his ultimate redemption or proof of his ultimate guilt. $28.00 Grand Central, 9781455521319 Little, Brown, 9780316069519

W is for Wasted Sycamore Row Sue Grafton John Grisham Sue Grafton delivers the twenty- In this electrifying sequel to A

third thriller in her #1 bestselling Time to Kill, Jake Brigance returns y myst the v s Kinsey Millhone series: a multi- to the courtroom in a dramatic layered tale full of betrayals, showdown as Ford County, misunderstandings and outright Mississippi, again confronts its murderous fraud. $28.95 tortured history. $28.95

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Spider Woman’s Daughter Anne Hillerman The talented daughter of New York Times-bestselling author Tony Hillerman continues his popular series with this fresh, new mystery filled with startling suspense, bold new characters, and rich atmosphere. Officer Bernadette Manuelito and her husband, Officer Jim Chee, discover that Harper, 9780062270481 a cold case involving retired lieutenant Joe Leaphorn may hold the key to a crime. $25.99 Last Night at the Viper Room Gavin Edwards Author and journalist Gavin Edwards toggles between the tragic events at the Viper Room in West Hollywood on Halloween 1993 and the story of an extraordinary life. Last Night at the Viper Room is part biography, part cultural history of the 1990s, and part celebration of River Phoenix, Harper, 9780062273154 a Hollywood icon gone too soon. Full of interviews from his fellow actors, directors, friends, and Johnny Cash: The Life family, the book shows the role he played in creating the place of Robert Hilburn the actor in our modern culture. People don’t just listen to Johnny $24.99 Cash--they believe in him. Robert Hilburn tells the unvarnished truth about a musical icon whose personal life was far more Duke: A Life of Duke troubled and his artistry much Ellington more profound than even his Terry Teachout most devoted fans have realized. As the biographer of Louis As music critic for the Los Angeles Armstrong, Terry Teachout is Times, Hilburn knew Cash well uniquely qualified to tell the story Little, Brown, throughout his life. Drawing upon 9780316194754 of the public and private lives of his personal experience and never- Duke Ellington. Teachout peels before seen material from the away countless layers of Ellington’s singer’s inner circle, Hilburn gives us a compelling, human portrait iography evasion and public deception to tell the unvarnished truth of one of the most iconic figures in about the creative genius who modern popular culture--not only Gotham Books, inspired Miles Davis to say, “All the a towering figure in country music, 9781592407491 musicians should get together one but also a seminal influence in certain day and get down on their rock. $32.00 knees and thank Duke.” $30.00

I Am Malala: The Girl Wilson Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot A. Scott Berg by the Taliban From Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times–bestselling Malala Yousafzai author A. Scott Berg comes the When the Taliban took control definitive—and revelatory— of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke biography of one of the great out. Malala Yousafzai refused to American figures of modern times. be silenced and fought for her $40.00 right to an education. She almost paid the ultimate price when she was shot in the head while riding Little, Brown, the bus home from school; few Putnam, 9780399159213 9780316322409 expected her to survive. Instead, Malala’s miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in Northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations. $26.00 David and Goliath The Smithsonian’s Malcolm Gladwell History of the World in In David and Goliath, Malcolm 100 Objects Gladwell challenges how we Richard Kurin think about obstacles and Undersecretary for Art, History, disadvantages, offering a new and Culture Richard Kurin, aided interpretation of what it means to by a team of top Smithsonian be discriminated against, or cope curators and scholars, has with a disability, or lose a parent, assembled a literary exhibition or attend a mediocre school, or of 101 objects from across the suffer from any number of other The Penguin Press, Smithsonian’s museums that 9781594205293 Little, Brown, apparent setbacks. $29.00 together offer a marvelous new 9780316204361 perspective on the history of the . Beautifully designed and illustrated with Shakespeare’s Restless color photographs throughout, World this book is a rich and fascinating Neil MacGreger journey through America’s In this brilliant work of historical collective memory and a beautiful reconstruction Neil MacGregor object in its own right. $50.00 and his team at the British Museum, working together in

a landmark collaboration with non-fiction the Royal Shakespeare Company Trees in Paradise and the BBC, bring us twenty Jared Farmer objects that capture the essence California now has more trees of Shakespeare’s universe. This than at any time since the late Viking, 9780670026340 magnificent book, illustrated Pleistocene. This green landscape, throughout with more than however, is not the work of one hundred vibrant color nature. It’s the work of history. photographs, invites you to travel Rich in character and story, Trees back in history and to touch, smell, in Paradise is a dazzling narrative and feel what life was like at that that offers an insightful, new pivotal moment when humankind perspective on the history of the leaped into the modern age. $36.00 Golden State and the American Norton, 9780393078022 West. $35.00

BREAK OUT! Joel Osteen Filled with faith and inspiration, BREAK OUT! challenges readers to have a new perspective, to let nothing hold them back, and to reject any labels that might limit them. Osteen inspires and encourages with the message that our first break outs must occur within our own minds: “When you break though in your mind, believing you can rise higher and overcome obstacles, then God will unleash the power within that will enable you to go beyond the ordinary into the extraordinary life you were designed to live.” $26.00

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