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2008 Gift Guide

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Page One

The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age Neil Harris
The Oxford Project Photographs by Peter Feldstein, Text by Stephen Bloom

Page Two

The Irish Pub James Fennell and Turtle Bunbury
Pete Dye Golf Course: Fift Years of Visionary Design Joel Zuckerman
Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients Ina Garten
How to Cook Everything: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food Mark Bittman
Bakewise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking Shirley O. Corriher

Page Three

Anti-Monopoly: The Real Estate Trading Game for the 21st Century
Merriam-Webster Official Scrabble Players Dictionary: Illustrated Edition
The New York Times The Complete Front Pages: 1851-2008 Introduction by Bill Kellar
Scrapbooks: An American History Jessica Helfand

Page Four

State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America Edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey
More Information Than You Require John Hodgman
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir Donald Worster
The Best American Short Stories Salman Rushdie

Page Five

Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler Brad Matsen
Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason Russell Shorto
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer
Black Baroque Pocket Calendar by Letts of London
Brown Baroque Pocket Calendar by Letts of London
Red Baroque Pocket Calendar by Letts of London

Page Six

X-Ray: See Through the World Around You Nick Veasey
Egg & Nest Rosamond Purcell
Charlie Harper Puzzle
Cast Iron Bird Bookends

Page Seven

Art: The Definitive Visual Guide Forward by Ross King
21 Nights Prince Photographs by Randee St. Nicholas
Jazz from A-Z Carlo Verri

Page Eight

The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery
Don't Look Now Daphne DuMaurier, Selected and with an introduction by Patrick McGrath
Peace Richard Bausch
Black Chair Bookends

Page Nine

Serena Ron Rash
Mudbound Hillary Jordan
Fault Lines Nancy Huston
The Girl on the Fridge Etgar Keret
Anathem Neal Stephenson

Page Ten

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Annie Barros and Mary Ann Shaffer
City of Thieves David Benioff
A Fraction of the Whole Steve Toltz
The Story of a Marriage Andrew Sean Greer
Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout

Page Eleven

Brava, Strega Nona! Tomie dePaola, Paper engineering by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart
Old Bear Kevin Henkes
Nobody Here But Me Judith Viorst, Illustrated by Christine Davenier
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes Mem Fox, Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury

Page Twelve

Fancy Nancy 3-D Deluxe Colorforms Playset
Fancy Nancy: Let's Get Fancy Together! Jane O'Connor, Illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser
Gund Snowball Snowman: Small
Gund Snowball Snowman: Medium
The Twelve Days of Christmas in Wisconsin Erin Eitter Kono

Page Thirteen

Bee and Me Elle J. Mcguinness, Illustrated by Heather Brown
Buzz Honeybee Plush Toy
African Critters Robert B. Haas Foreword by Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO, The Humane Society of the United States
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories: 50th Anniversary Edition Dr. Seuss

Page Fourteen

The Lump of Coal Lemony Snicket, Illustrated by Brett Helquist
Reindeer Christmas Mark Kimball Moulton, Illustrated by Karen Hillard Good
Amazing Peace Maya Angelou, Illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher
Melissa & Doug Wooden Railway Set

Page Fifteen

Gully's Travels Tor Seidler, Illustrated by Brock Cole
Our White House Looking In, Looking Out The National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance
ABC3D Marion Bataille
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
Graceling Kristine Cashore

Page Sixteen

Drummer Timberkit
Dragon Timberkit
Kissing Couple Timberkit
The Harley Davidson Motor Co. Archive Collection Randy Leffingwell and Darwin Holmstrom, Foreword by Bill Davidson
Basic Spirit Global Giving Ornament: Tree
Basic Spirit Global Giving Ornament: Planet Kids
Basic Spirit Global Giving Ornament: Dog and Cat

Page Seventeen

Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners Laura Claridge
Wisconsin Poet's Calendar
I See You Everywhere Julia Glass
The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career
and Revived our Holiday Spirits
Les Standiford