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St. Olaf Bookstore Featured Books

We have selected several books to feature on our website. In addition, be sure to check out our Browser's Dozen selections — twelve hand-picked titles that are 25% off for the current month! We also have information on our Category of the Month, with 20% off all books in that category for the month! Our latest addition includes details on the best-selling books from the St. Olaf Bookstore for last season.

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Free to Be...You and Me
by Marlo Thomas and Friends

This is the book we all know and love by Marlo Thomas and her friends—brought to new life with brand new illustrations to captivate and inspire a new generation of readers on a journey of the heart. Whether you are opening Free to Be . . . You and Me for the first time or the one hundredth time you will be engaged and transformed by this newly beautifully illustrated compilation of inspirational stories, songs, and poems. The sentiments of thirty-five years ago are as relevant today as when this book was published.
Perseus Publishing.
Hardcover. $19.95

Holidays on Ice
by David Sedaris

David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters; the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French; what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm; the puzzling Christmas traditions of other nations; what Halloween at the medical examiner's looks like; and a barnyard secret Santa scheme gone awry.
Little, Brown & Company.
Hardcover. $16.99

Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future
by Iain Carson, Vijay Vaitheeswaran

"Oil is the problem. Cars are the solution." Those two simple sentences by the authors of Zoom define the scope of their illuminating and important book, an examination of a transformation in business and culture that is occurring before our eyes. In Zoom, Iain Carson and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, award-winning correspondents for The Economist, show why and how geopolitical and economic forces are compelling the linked industries of oil and autos to change as never before.
Grand Central Publishing.
Paperback. $14.99

A Lion Among Men
by Gregory Maguire

A Lion Among Men complements the New York Times bestseller Son of a Witch in fleshing out the world of Oz, seen this time through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion-remembered from Wicked as a tiny cub defended by Elphaba. While civil war looms in Oz, an ancient and tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before she can return to dust, however, the Cowardly Lion, an enigmatic figure named Brrr, arrives in search of information about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West. As payment, Yackle, who hovered on the sidelines of Elphaba's life, demands some answers of her own.
William Morrow & Company.
Hardcover. $26.95

The Sweeter Side of Amy's Bread
by Amy Scherber '82 and Toy Kim Dupree
2008. Amy's Bread is a New York institution—a bakery that serves over 55,000 customers a month at its three retail locations in Manhattan and also supplies bread to more than 500 restaurants and stores. While Amy's is famous for its bread, it's also renowned for its sweeter side. Now, in this beautiful cookbook, Amy and her executive pastry chef show home cooks how to re-create 71 of the bakery's trademark goodies, from tasty breakfast fare such as Cherry Cream Scones to delectable sweets like Amy's famous "Pink Cake." Illustrated throughout with gorgeous color photographs, this cookbook is a must for Amy's fans and home bakers everywhere.
$34.95 Hardcover. Buy

A Book of Ages
by Eric Hanson '77
2008. The day we turn any age, we become contemporaries of everyone who has ever been that age, and it becomes our business to know that Bob Dylan wrote “Blowin’ in the Wind” when he was twenty, Winston Churchill was fired from the Admiralty when he was forty and took up painting, and Jane Austen died, unmarried and mostly unknown, when she was forty-one. Knowing who did what when provides the yardstick by which to measure our own progress. A witty, ironic collection of moments from famous lives organized by year of age from infancy to death, A Book of Ages tells you who is doing what, who is on top of the world, who is waiting for his luck to change, who is saying unkind things about whom, who is planning his revenge, and who is meeting for the first time.
$19.95 Hardcover. Buy

Chief Bender's Burden:
The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star

by Tom Swift, Class of '95

"Signal thanks to journalist Swift for this authoritative biography of Charles Albert Bender, the early 20th-century pitcher who managed to shine in both the big leagues and in life while confronting poverty and racism. Swift sets aside the myths about this most famous American Indian player while vividly describing him in the context of the famed Carlisle Indian School, baseball's Golden Age, Connie Mack and his Athletics, and the effects of gambling and alcoholism on sports. For all interested in the First Nations, quite apart from baseball."
Library Journal, starred review
Hardcover. $24.95

What St. Olaf is reading!

These are the recent top ten bestselling titles at the St. Olaf Bookstore.

1. Listening for God, Volume 3: Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith
edited by Paula Carlson

Fairy tales are fairy tales, fish stories are fish stories and the truth is the truth. It was not once upon a time, but in the summer of 1955 that I was introduced to Norway, the Oslo Summer School and Ulvik in Hardanger....Thus began a week of visiting my relatives in Ulvik, a beginning to my own Norwegian saga and a life-time adventure with the people, the language and the folk tales of Norway. That week also brought into focus a recognition of my own Norwegian heritage, both in Norway and America. All of these stories began with stories I told my children, and retold to adults and other children.
Paperback. $16.95
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2. Evangelical Lutheran Worship: Pew Edition Hymnal
Evangelical Lutheran Worship is designed to welcome people to worship together. This book will help newcomers and long-time members worship with all of their hearts and minds. Although filled with content for use throughout the year, Evangelical Lutheran Worship is easy to use at any time. Through word and song this resource will help us tell the good news of Jesus Christ in a new day.
Hardcover. $22.00
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3. Einstein's Dreams
by Alan Lightman
A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar.
Paperback. $12.95

4. The Baseball Brothers
by Anne Fredrickson

The Baseball Brothers is a children's book that tells the true story of twelve brothers who played baseball together in the 1920s. Through working together on the farm and playing together as a team, the brothers developed lifelong friendships. The book is a tribute to baseball and a celebration of family. The story recounts the brothers' most famous feats, including a game-saving tackle at home plate and an unlikely victory over a tough opponent. But the most important part of the tale is the enduring friendship and familial bond that the brothers shared.
Hardcover. $12.95
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5. Love, Love, Love: And Other Essays
by Charles Taliaferro, Professor of Philosophy

In forty-three brief essays from the life of a philosopher, Charles Taliaferro guides us toward the heart of human being in all of its absurdity and joy. Electrocuted by his coffee maker during class, battling dragons on his rooftop, and accompanying his father to the border between life and death, Taliaferro recommends to us a life vulnerable to silliness, pain, and the depths of love they create in us. Hilarious and sobering, Love, Love, Love investigates what we need most to live humanely, humorously, faithfully, and well.
Paperback. $14.95
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6. Recipes for Change: A St. Olaf Community Cookbook
by Katie Godfrey and Danielle Stoermer

This cookbook serves to express the need for our generation to work together on creating a better future. Conservative or liberal, rich or poor, we all deserve access to healthy food. We hope that this book will push people to make change in their own communities, and reduce the amount of confusion that surrounds eating well. We hope for a future where our children will not only know where their food comes from, but will know how to grow food for themselves and others. This future is not only possible but it is already in the works. People all over the country are working to create healthy food cultures, including right here in Northfield.
Paperback. $15.00
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7. Notes on Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
by Joseph Mbele

This is a study guide on Chinua Achebe's famous novel, Things Fall Apart. I decided to publish it after noting that an earlier and shorter online version was popular among students and teachers across the world.
Paperback. $7.50

8. Dancer with Good Sow
by Diane LeBlanc

"LeBlanc’s second poetry chapbook, written as part of Finishing Line Press’ New Women’s voices series, is all about navigating. Navigating through shifting family relationships, through reality and dream, myth and parable and finally, through love. According to LeBlanc, the chapbook came together while she was working on a longer project — a full-length, 60-page poetry anthology."
- Northfield News
Paperback. $14.00

9. Paving Block Stories
by Edna Hong

Paperback. $5.00

10. Dear Old Hill: The Story of Manitou Heights, The Campus of St. Olaf College
by Joseph M. Shaw, Professor Emeritus of Religion and College Historian

Joe Shaw '49, author of Dear Old Hill, joined the St. Olaf faculty in 1957 and taught in the Department of Religion until his retirement in the spring of 1991. Joe's interest in St. Olaf history has continued from the writing of the Centennial volume, History of St. Olaf College 1874-1974, to the present.
Paperback. $8.95
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