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Stocking Stuffers
The Emergency Gift Book

Are you pressed for time or prone to procrastination? Do you hate to shop? Or maybe you simply dislike shopping for other people? Emergency Gift Book to the rescue for the slacker and the stumped alike! This book contains everything you need to acknowledge family, friends, coworkers, cohabitants, and loved ones whenever a special occasion comes out of freaking nowhere.

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The Emergency Gift Book
More Than 100 Instant Gifts to the Rescue!

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Gifts for Animal Lovers
Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves: Featuring Over 150 Suicidal Pets!

People love their pets. Some people love their pets a little too much. After being dressed up for Halloween, married off in elaborate weddings, toted everywhere in baby backpacks, or just plain coddled within an inch of their sanity by obsessively doting owners, these pets are on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Or worse.

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Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves
Featuring Over 150 Suicidal Pets!
by Duncan Birmingham

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Gifts for Foodies
Momofuku

Never before has there been a phenomenon like Momofuku. Chef David Chang has single-handedly revolutionized cooking in America with his use of bold Asian flavors and impeccable ingredients, his mastery of the humble ramen noodle, and his thorough devotion to pork.

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Momofuku
by David Chang & Peter Meehan

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Gifts for Comic and Sci-Fi Fans
The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks

Those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it. From the Stone Age to the information age, the undead have threatened to engulf the human race. They’re coming. They’re hungry. Don’t wait for them to come to you!

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The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
by Max Brooks
Illustrated by Ibraim Roberson

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Gifts for History Buffs
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization

It was Byzantium that preserved for us today the great gifts of the classical world. Of the 55,000 ancient Greek texts in existence today, some 40,000 were transmitted to us by Byzantine scribes. And it was the Byzantine Empire that shielded Western Europe from invasion until it was ready to take its own place at the center of the world stage.

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Lost to the West
The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
by Lars Brownworth

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Gifts for Movie Lovers
American Rebel

As an actor, he seduces us with his tough-guy charm. As a director and producer, he amazes us with his artistry and technical savvy. As a Hollywood icon, Clint Eastwood, one of film’s greatest living legends, represents some of the finest cinematic achievements in the history of American cinema.

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American Rebel
The Life of Clint Eastwood
by Marc Eliot

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Gifts for Readers of Nonfiction
The Billionaire's Vinegar

The Billionaire’s Vinegar tells the true story of a 1787 Château Lafite Bordeaux—supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—that sold for $156,000 at auction and of the eccentrics whose lives intersected with it. Was it truly entombed in a Paris cellar for two hundred years? Or did it come from a secret Nazi bunker? Or from the moldy basement of a devilishly brilliant con artist?

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The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
by Benjamin Wallace

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Gifts for the Hard-to-Buy-for Person
If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People?

A lively, wonderfully enjoyable anthology of hundreds of quotes you probably have never heard before, arranged thematically from A to Z. From laugh-out-loud-funny bon mots to some real headscratchers, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson have gathered a universe of star-studded blurbs.

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If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren’t There More Happy People?
Smart Quotes for Dumb Times
by John Lloyd & John Mitchinson

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Gifts for the Jetsetter
Fodor's Costa Rica 2010

Costa Rica has become one of the most popular destinations for travelers seeking natural beauty, outdoor adventure, and sun. It’s no wonder. Little Costa Rica is endowed with a mosaic of natural landscapes that are packed with an amazing array of flora and fauna. This is also one of the easiest places in the world to experience the beauty and complexity of tropical nature.

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Coffee Table Books as Gifts
Only in New York

In the pre-television era, the editors of Look recognized the great demand for photographs of all kinds—politicians, titans of industry, and unsung heroes, glamorous events and intimate moments, society matrons and showgirls, violent crime and courtroom drama—that provided entertainment and diversion to voyeuristic subscribers to the magazine.

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Only in New York
Photographs From Look Magazine
by Duncan Birmingham

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