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Let the Wild Rumpus Begin!

Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are inspires the sort of deep nostalgia familiar to any lifelong reader, and Spike Jonze's new film has inspired a handful of new books that we're discounting along with the classic itself, including:

Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation, by Geoffrey Maguire ($27.50 list price, our price = $22.00) -- The author's other books include the novels Wicked, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and Son of a Witch.

Heads On and We Shoot: The Making of Where the Wild Things Are, by Spike Jonze and the Editors of McSweeney's ($39.99 list price, our price = $31.99)

The Wild Things, by Dave Eggers ($19.95 list price, our price = $15.96) -- A novel based loosely on the storybook by Sendak, Eggers also co-wrote the screenplay for the film and is the author of such noted works as What Is the What and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

Where the Wild Things Are: The Movie Storybook, based on the screenplay by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers and the book by Maurice Sendak ($12.99 list price, our price = $10.39)

Where the Wild Things Are Puzzle Book ($15.99 list price, our price = $12.79) -- A storybook based on the movie that includes six jigsaw puzzles featuring an iconic photo from the new movie.

Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak (hardcover -- $17.95 list price, our price = $14.36; paperback -- $8.95 list price, our price = $7.16)

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Nick Hornby

Autographed copies of the new Nick Hornby novel are available now, and are 20% off the retail price!
Juliet, Naked (autographed by the author), by Nick Hornby ($25.95 list price, our price = $20.76)

Nick Hornby's other books include High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down.

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Discounted New Arrivals

New books on our shelves since our last newsletter, always 20% off:

Superfreakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner ($29.99 list price, our price = $23.99) -- The "freakquel" to the 2006 Appalachian Summer Reading Program selection and bestselling Freakonomics, Dubner is also an Appalachian State alumni, and this book continues to examine the hidden side of everything in bold, hilarious chapters that ask questions like: Did TV cause a rise in crime? Can eating Kangaroo save the planet? Are people hardwired for altruism or selfishness? And, what's the best way to catch a terrorist?

Her Fearful Symmetry, by Audrey Niffenegger ($26.99 list price, our price = $21.59) -- The new novel by the author The Time Traveler's Wife.

The Education of a British-Protected Child, by Chinua Achebe ($24.95 list price, our price = $19.96) -- A new collection of essays by this Man Booker International Prize Winner and the author of Things Fall Apart.

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, by Gail Collins ($27.99 list price, our price = $22.39) -- Picking up where her previous successful book, American Women, left off, this is a comprehensive mix of oral history and research that is the definitive book about five decades of progress.

Half-Broke Horses: A True Life Novel, by Jeanette Walls ($26.00 list price, our price = $20.80) -- Jeanette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was the popular 2008 selection of Appalachian State's Summer Reading Program, and in her new book she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and ultimately triumphant.

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession, by Allison Hoover Bartlett ($24.95 list price, our price = $19.96) -- A fascinating dual story of an unrepentant book thief and bibliophile, and the lifelong rare book collector turned amateur detective who will stop at nothing to catch him, Michael Dirda (author of Classics For Pleasure and An Open Book), writes that "The Man Who Loved Books Too Much is the entralling account of a gently mad con artist . . . but it's also a meditation on the urge to collect, and a terrific introduction to the close-knit, swashbuckling world of antiquarian book dealers."

The Museum of Innocence, by Orhan Pamuk ($28.95 list price, our price = $23.16) -- A new novel by the Nobel Prize winner and author of Snow and My Name Is Red, Istanbul is brought to life in this story that examines a city both half Western and half traditional.

The American Civil War: A Military History, by John Keegan ($35.00 list price, our price = $28.00) -- Library Journal calls this "The single best one-volume assessment of the military character and conduct of America's ordeal by fire."  Keegan, perhaps the preeminent military historian of our time, is also author of  The Face of Battle, The First World War, and A History of Warfare.

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Scary-Good Halloween Sale

A select number of horror, mystery, and other Halloween-related titles are also on sale right now, including:

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith ($12.95 list price, our price = $10.36)

The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurling Tales of Horror and the Macabre ($14.95 list price, our price = $11.96)

Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe ($18.00 list price, our price = $14.40)

Haints of the Hills, by Daniel W. Barefoot ($9.95 list price, our price = $7.96)

Spooky North Carolina, by S.E. Schlosser ($12.95 list price, our price = $10.36)

Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Documentary Journey Into Vampire Country and the Dracula Phenomenon, edited by Elizabeth Miller ($24.95 list price, our price = $19.96)

Books by Stephen King, Stephenie Meyer, Jeff Lindsay, Dennis Lehane, and other popular writers are also included -- check out our display that will be up until November.

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Free Books!

Continuing our free book giveaway program, below are advanced copies or books that arrived damaged that we want to pass on, if you see a title you would like simply e-mail a request for it to me at pillowwp@appstate.edu.  Please do not call the bookstore or ask for more than one book at a time.  You must be able to come to The Scholars Bookshop to pick up the book yourself, and if you do not hear back from me it simply means the book has already been taken.  I regret that I cannot respond to everyone.  The books we are giving away are:

Dark Watch, by Clive Cussler (NY Times Bestselling thriller)

Yalta: The Price of Peace, by S.M. Plokhy (a major new history of 8 days in Feb., 1945, when FDR, Churchill, and Stalin)

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel Pink (author of the bestselling A Whole New Mind)

The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State, by Shane Harris (chronicles the rise of the American surveillance state over the past 25 years)

Star Wars: Death Troopers, by Joe Schreiber (a Star Wars novel)

The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians, by Tobias Churton (a history of one of the world's most mysterious secret societies)

Fodor's Italy 2009 (travel guide)

Fodor's France 2009 (travel guide)

Fodor's Costa Rica 2009 (travel guide)

A Murderous Procession, by Ariana Franklin (historical mystery by the author of Mistress of the Art of Death)

The Heights, by Peter Hedges (contemporary novel by the author of What's Eating Gilbert Grape and the writer-director of Dan In Real Life)

The Kids' Karate Workbook, by Didi Goodman (training guide for young martial artists)


That's it for this time, for more info on any of the books or sales mentioned above please feel free to contact me at your convenience, and thanks so much for continuing to support The Scholars Bookshop and the University Bookstore.

"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves." -- Gilbert Highet