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New York Times Best Sellers

Some of our partner retailers offer convenient pages for locating and purchasing books from the current New York Times® Best Seller List.

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Oppenheim Children's Book Award Winners

The Oppenheim Toy Portfolio is an independent consumer review of children's media which tries to do the type of thorough screening most parents wish they could do before they buy. Many companies submit their material for consideration all year long. Books are then kid tested and finally selected by experts based on child enthusiasm, appropriateness and many other factors. 

To help with your search for the most appropriate children's books, below are links to some purchasing locations for the most recent Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award winners. You may find these or similar options by searching through one or more of our Partner Book Retailers or other online outlets. 

2007 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Book Award winners for Infants
Amazing Baby Soft Book (Kids Preferred)
    Amazon
Baby Animals - Anne N. Nguyen (Chronicle)
    Amazon  
Baby Love and My Blanket - Sandra Magsaman (Little Brown)
    Amazon (Baby Love)  
     Amazon (My Blanket)  
I'm Not Cute! - Jonathan Allen (Hyperion)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Maisy's Book Tower - Lucy Cousins (Candlewick)
     Amazon    
Nursery Rhyme Books (Sassy)
     Amazon    
Ruff! Ruff! Where's Scruff? - David A. Carter (Harcourt)
     Amazon     Barnes and Noble      
Yes - Jez Alborough (Candlewick)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble      
You and Me, Baby - Lynn Reiser (Knopf)
     Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

2007 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Book Award winners for Toddlers
I'm Not Cute! - Jonathan Allen (Hyperion)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Nursery Rhyme Books (Sassy)
    Amazon        
Ruff! Ruff! Where's Scruff? - David A. Carter (Harcourt)
    Amazon    
Barnes and Noble    
Yes - Jez Alborough (Candlewick)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
You and Me, Baby - Lynn Reiser (Knopf)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

2007 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Book Award winners for Preschool
A Particular Cow - Mem Fox (Harcourt)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Art - Patrick McDonnell (Little Brown)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Boo and Baa Have Company - Lena and Loof Landstrom (Farrar Straus)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Dooby Dooby Moo - Doreen Cronin and Betsey Lewin (Atheneum)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Edwina, The Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct - Mo Willems (Hyperion)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Elusive Moose - Joan Gannij (Barefoot Books)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Fast Food - Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers 
(Scholastic)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
I'm Not Cute! - Jonathan Allen (Hyperion)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Library Lion - Michelle Knudsen (Candlewick)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Mama I'll Give You the World - Roni Schotter (Random House)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Move Over, Rover - Karen Beaumont (Harcourt)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Museum Trip - Barbara Lehman (Houghton Mifflin)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
My Little Yellow Taxi - Stephen T. Johnson (Harcourt)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

Olivia Forms A Band - Ian Falconer (Atheneum)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

Oscar: The Big Adventure - Amy Schwartz and Leonard S. Marcus (HarperCollins)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Pancakes For Supper! - Anne Isaacs (Scholastic)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

Ruff! Ruff! Where's Scruff? - David A. Carter (Harcourt)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Silly Billy - Anthony Browne (Candlewick)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Take Care, Good Knight - Shelley Moore Thomas (Dutton)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
The Gingerbread Girl - Lisa Campbell Ernst (Dutton)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Zelda and Ivy, the Runaways - Laura McGee Kvasnosky (Candlewick)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

2007 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Book Award winners for Early School Years
A Particular Cow - Mem Fox (Harcourt)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Adele and Simon - Barbara McClintock (Farrar Straus)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Alphabet Explosion! Search and Count from Alien to Zebra - John Nickle (Random House)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

Boo and Baa Have Company - Lena and Loof Landstrom (Farrar Straus)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Christmas Alphabet - Robert Sabuda (Orchard)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

Dooby Dooby Moo - Doreen Cronin and Betsey Lewin (Atheneum)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
First Picture Spanish - Felicity Brooks and Mairi Mackinnon (Usborne)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble      
Flotsam - David Weisner (Clarion)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Foam Gliders - (Klutz)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Happy Birthday, Jamela - Niki Daly (Farrar Straus)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

Library Lion - Michelle Knudsen (Candlewick)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The - Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Mommy? - Maurice Sendak (Scholastic)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

Move Over, Rover - Karen Beaumont (Harcourt)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Museum Trip - Barbara Lehman (Houghton Mifflin)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Olivia Forms A Band - Ian Falconer (Atheneum)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

Oscar: The Big Adventure - Amy Schwartz and Leonard S. Marcus (HarperCollins)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Owen and Mzee - Isabella Hatkoff (Scholastic)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

Pancakes For Supper! - Anne Isaacs (Scholastic)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Pandora's Box - Jean Marzollo (Little Brown)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Probuditi! - Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin)

    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Ruff! Ruff! Where's Scruff? - David A. Carter (Harcourt)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Sabuda and Reinhart Present: Castle - Kyle Olman (Scholastic)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Satchel Paige, Don't Look Back- David A. Adler (Harcourt)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Sharks and Other Sea Monsters- Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart (Candlewick)

    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Silly Billy - Anthony Browne (Candlewick)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Snow Globe Family - Jane O'Connor (Putnam)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
The Gingerbread Girl - Lisa Campbell Ernst (Dutton)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Toys Go Out - Emily Jenkins (Random House)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Usborne Book of Art - Rosie Dickins (Usborne)
    Amazon    
Why Are The Ice Caps Melting? and Who Lives In the Alligator Hole? - Anne Rockwell (HarperCollins)

    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Yoon and the Christmas Mitten - Helen Recorvits (Farrar Straus)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

Zelda and Ivy - Laura McGee Kvasnosky (Candlewick)

    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

2007 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Book Award winners for Later School Years
John, Paul, George and Ben - Lane Smith (Hyperion)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The - Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Adele and Simon - Barbara McClintock (Farrar Straus)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Peter and the Shadow Thieves - Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson (Hyperion)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Rainforest - Thomas Marent (Farrar Straus)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Sabuda and Reinhart Present: Castle - Kyle Olman (Scholastic)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Satchel Paige, Don't Look Back- David A. Adler (Harcourt)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Sharks and Other Sea Monsters- Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart (Candlewick)

    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars: The Fall of the Amazing Zalinda - Tracy Mack and Michael Citrin (Orchard)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
The Looking Glass Wars - Frank Beddor (Dial)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Usborne Book of Art - Rosie Dickins (Usborne)
    Amazon    
Water Street - Patricia Reilly Giff (Random House)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Weedflower - Cynthia Kadohata (Simon and Schuster)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    
Why Are The Ice Caps Melting? and Who Lives In the Alligator Hole? - Anne Rockwell (HarperCollins)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

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Oprah's Book Club Selections

Some of our partner book retailers offer convenient pages for finding and purchasing books from Oprah's Book Club selections and more.

    Oprah's Book Club at Abebooks

    Oprah's Top Five Book Picks at Abebooks

    What is Oprah Reading This Summer? at Abebooks

   
Oprah's Book Club selections at Amazon

    Oprah's Book Club at Barnes and Noble
   

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Quill Book Award Winners

The Quill Book Awards, backed by the Quills/Publishers Weekly Selection Committee, are designed to "reflect the tastes of all the groups that matter most in publishing--- readers, booksellers and librarians". The voting board is comprised of over 6,000 invited booksellers and librarians. There is also a process for consumer voting for Book of the Year. 

To help with your search, Net Shop Assistant has listed the 2007 award winners. You may find these or similar options by searching in one or more of the  Partner Retailers or other online outlets. To save you search time, where possible we have provided a link which can be clicked to go directly to the product at a recommended retailer's web site.

Book of the Year 
Angels Fall
 - Nora Roberts G.P. Putnam's Sons)
   
Amazon      Barnes and Noble     

Debut Author of the Year
The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel - Diane Setterfield (Atria)
   
Amazon     Barnes and Noble     

Audio Book
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee, Read by Sissy Spacek (Caedmon Audio)
   
Amazon     Barnes and Noble     

Children's Illustrated Book 
Flotsam - David Wiesner (Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin)
   
Amazon     Barnes and Noble     

Children's Chapter Book/Middle Grade:
The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press)
   
Amazon     Barnes and Noble     

Young Adult/Teen
Sold - Patricia McCormick (Hyperion Books for Children)
   
Amazon     Barnes and Noble     

General Fiction
The Road- Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)
    
Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

Graphic Novel
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels - Scott McCloud (Harper Paperbacks)
   
Amazon     Barnes and Noble      

Mystery/Suspense/Thriller
What the Dead Know - Laura Lippman (William Morrow)
   
Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

Poetry 
For the Confederate Dead - Kevin Young (Alfred A. Knopf)
    
Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

Romance
Angels Fall - Nora Roberts (G.P. Putnam's Sons)

   
Amazon      Barnes and Noble     

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One) - Patrick Rothfuss (DAW Books)
    Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

Religion/Spirituality
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know - And Doesn't - Stephen Prothero (Harper One)
   
Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

Biography/Memoir
Einstein: His Life and Universe - Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)

   
Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

Business
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't - Robert I. Sutton, PhD (Business Plus, Grand Central Publishing)
   
Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

Cooking
Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker
(Scribner)
   
Amazon    Barnes and Noble    

Health/Self Improvement
How Doctors Think - Jerome Groopman, M.D. (Houghton Mifflin)
   
Amazon     Barnes and Noble    

History/Current Events/Politics
The Assault on Reason - Al Gore (The Penguin Press)
   
Amazon    Barnes and Noble    

Humor
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence - Amy Sedaris (Warner Books)

   
Amazon     Barnes and Noble     

Sports
The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Geniuses Who Make Up America's Top High School Chess Team - Michael Weinreb (Gotham Books)
   
Amazon     Barnes and Noble        

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Textbooks

Some of our partner retailers offer convenient sections for locating and purchasing textbooks. Most offer free shipping on orders of $25 or more.

Abebooks has a search method which can show the lowest price they offer for any textbook. They also have a textbook buyback site. 

     New & used textbooks at Abebooks  

Amazon applies its well known resources to test prep guides, reference books and study guides as well as textbooks.

     New & used textbooks at Amazon  

Known for new books, Barnes and Noble also offers used textbooks and has a buyback service. 

     New & used textbooks at Barnes and Noble  

Textbooks offers a guaranteed buyback price on thousands of books. 

     New & used textbooks at Textbooks  

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Partner Book Retailers

Here are some recommended retailers. Click on the name of the retailer to shop online.

AbeBooks is a major online bookseller which not only carries a large selection, it also specializes in rare, valuable and highly collectible books. 

Browse categories include: 

    Fiction
    History
    Antiques
    Children's Fiction
    Religion
    Art
    Cooking
    Crafts & Hobbies
    Science
    Music
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Amazon practically invented the model for successful online shopping with their book offerings. This retailer, which started out selling books, soon spread out into a large variety of products. These products are divided into categories which are full online stores in and of themselves.  In addition to book discounts, the site offers descriptions, professional and user reviews and previews of book text. Amazon also tracks the type of books you buy and offers recommendations based on your past selections.

Browse options for Book Product Category include: 

     Award Winners
    Best Books of 2007

    4-for-3 Books
    Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
    Bargain Books
    New Year, New You '08
    Textbooks

    2008 Calendars
    Arts & Photography
    Audiobooks
    Biographies & Memoirs
    Business & Investing
    Children's Books
    Comics & Graphic Novels
    Computers & Internet
    Cooking, Food & Wine
    Crafts & Hobbies
    Entertainment
    Gay & Lesbian
    Health, Mind & Body