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Dark Summit

By: Nick Heil

Henry Holt & Co.

$ 26.00

The inside story of the deadly 2006 climbing season on Everest

On May 15, 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was left for dead near the same spot. Hall’s death was reported around the world, but the next day he was found alive after spending the night on the upper mountain with no food and no shelter…

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Written today at 03:04PM by Weber's Books Manager

Out Stealing Horses

By: Per Petterson

Graywolf Press

$ 14.00

From Publishers Weekly

Award-winning Norwegian novelist Petterson renders the meditations of Trond Sander, a man nearing 70, dwelling in self-imposed exile at the eastern edge of Norway in a primitive cabin. Trond's peaceful existence is interrupted by a meeting with his only neighbor, who seems familiar. The meeting pries loose a memory from a summer day in 1948 when Trond's friend Jon suggests they go out and steal horses. That distant summer is transformative for Trond as he reflects on the fragility of life while discovering secrets about his father's wartime activities. But the past also looms in the present…

The SouthBeach Diet: Supercharged

By: Arthur Agatston & Joseph Signorile

Rodale Books

$ 25.95

Five years ago, with the publication of The South Beach Diet, renowned Miami cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston set out to change the way America eats. Now he has an even more ambitious goal: to change the way America lives by helping Americans become fitter as well as thinner and healthier...for life.

A Wolf at the Table

By: Augusten Burroughs

St. Martin’s Press

$ 24.95

The author of the best-selling memoir Running with Scissors returns to his fateful childhood with this release. Focusing on his dramatic relationship with his father Burroughs captures intense experience with an inexplicably cool remove, imparting a stillness and purity to emotions that would likely run amok in anyone else's hands.

Quiver: UAB CD

By: Peter Leonard

Macmillan Audio

$ 29.95

When her teenage son, Luke, kills her husband in a tragic bow-hunting accident, Kate McCall suddenly becomes caught up in a dangerous confrontation with a gang of killers that includes Kate's old flame, an ex-con desperately trying to convince his formercolleagues that he lost the heist money.

Austenland

By: Shannon Hale

Bloomsbury U.S.A.

$ 12.99

Because her obsession with Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is ruining her love life, Jane Hayes is delighted when she gets the chance to take a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women, where she hopes to meet a perfect Regency-era gentleman of her own.

The Writing Class

By: Jincy Willet

Thomas Dunne Books

$ 24.95

Living for the writing class she teaches at the university extension, reclusive widow Amy Gallup senses something different about her latest group of students when she begins to receive scary phone calls and obscene threats that culminate in a murder. By the author of Winner of the National Book Award.

Aviary Gate

By: Katie Hickman

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

$ 25.99

In the wake of royal turbulence in turn-of-the-seventeenth-century Constantinople, merchant Paul Pindar, secretary to the English ambassador, brings a precious gift to the sultan and learns that a woman he once loved may be hidden among the ranks of the sultan's concubines.

Fearless Fourteen UAB CD

By: Janet Evanovich

Macmillan Audio

$ 34.95

A latest installment in the popular Stephanie Plum series places the irrepressible bounty hunter and her motley companions--including Grandma Mazur, vice captain Joe Morelli, and Bob the Dog--in a new adventure involving the Burg's premier funeral home and a family pot roast.

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