Title: “Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine”

Author: Glenn Beck

Rank: 3

Blurb: “Glenn Beck revisits Paine’s powerful treatise with one purpose: to galvanize Americans to see past government’s easy solutions, two-part monopoly, and illogical methods and take back our great country.”

Review: “Thomas Paine was a rabble-rousing hellion who punched out many more revolutionary pamphlets than those collected in ‘Common Sense.’ Further, Thomas Paine didn’t survive the George Washington government following the American Revolution and took off for France to fight in the French Revolution in 1792. Paine was a out-and-out lefty and where Glen Beck gets off acquiring Paine to boost his sales is typical of the former CNN commentator, the rat. Reader, beware.”

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Footnote: You didn’t know Glenn sports the magic undies? Neither did we!

Glenn Beck’s Common Sense [Amazon]

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Title: The Riddle of Life and Death

Authors: Tillie Olsen (Tell Me a Riddle), Leo Tolstoy (The Death of Ivan Ilych)

Rank: 526,004

Blurb: “Masters of short fiction illumine questions of pain, suffering, medicine, fate, and, most starkly, ‘Why am I dying?'”

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Footnote: This morning’s post inaugurates a threatened monthly event, the real Stinque Book Club. The Management has agreed to open a multipurpose room for the occasion and waive the cleaning deposit. Please note that a gratuity of Two Buck Chuck to the janitor is appreciated.

The Riddle of Life and Death [Amazon]

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Title: 5 Principles for a Successful Life: From Our Family to Yours

Authors: Newt Gingrich and Jackie Gingrich Cushman

Rank: 1,749

Blurb: “In these pages, Newt Gingrich and his daughter Jackie Gingrich Cushman — with the help of prominent people they know and admire, such as Bill Clinton, Rush Limbaugh, Mary Matalin, and David Petraeus — show how, by following just five principles, you can live life to its fullest.”

Review: “Of particular intrigue is the discussion of how winners have to be great at failing.”

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Title: Rules for Radicals

Author: Saul Alinsky

Rank: 135

Blurb: “This primer tells the ‘have-nots’ how they can organize to achieve real political power for the practice of true democracy.”

Review: “This book is a must read for all to understand radicalism and how their goals are achieved. This book was essentially the blueprint for the Obama campaign. Saul Alinsky and his views are admired by both Obama and Hillary Clinton.”

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Title: Deb & Seby’s Real Deal on Global Warming

Author: Al Sonja Schmidt

Rank: 520,655

Blurb: “In and out of the classroom children are bombarded with graphic images of earth’s destruction and drowning polar bears due to global warming. They worry that we must all fix the problem FAST! Or they worry that it’s already too late and we’re all DOOMED! But is man-made global warming really settled science, or the last environmental scare? Deb and Seby’s Real Deal on Global Warming is a contemporary, fun and entertaining book for children (ages 11 and up) and adults who want to learn more about the other side of global warming without big scientific words!”

Review: “London was hit by its first October snow since 1922.”

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Title: Sarah Palin: Poised to Become America’s First Female President

Author: Recaldo Ochoa

Rank: 329,289

Blurb: “During the campaign, the media attacked her, as did her detractors from within and outside of the Republican Party. But Americans saw a tenacious political warrior who would not acquiesce in a male-dominated political battle.”

About the Author: “Recaldo Ochoa is a high school teacher who has taken over three hundred of his students to the halls of Congress and the White House to experience their federal government in action.”

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Title: Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir

Author: Christopher Buckley

Rank: 40

Blurb: “As Buckley tells the story of their final year together, he takes readers on a surprisingly entertaining tour through hospitals, funeral homes, and memorial services, capturing the heartbreaking and disorienting feeling of becoming a 55-year-old orphan.”

Review: “It’s too damn bad his poor parents can’t disinherit from the grave!”

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