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Booksellers' Recommendations

We asked our booksellers to tell us which books they'd recommended as gifts this year - here's what they said.

Plain Tales Books, Arlington Heights, IL

1. The Black Arrow, Robert Louis Stevenson
$22.00
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2. Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
$18.00
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3. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
$24.00
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4. The Deerslayer, James Fenimore Cooper
$22.00
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Morningstar Books, Berkeley, CA

1. Tasha Tudor's Advent Calendar: A Wreath Of Days, Tasha Tudor
$22.00
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2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: The Pennyroyal Edition, Lewis Carroll and Barry Moser
$85.00
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3. European and American Carpets and Rugs, Cornelia Bateman Faraday
$100.00
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4. A Prayer For The Opening of the Little League Season, Willie Morris & Barry Moser
$130.00
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5. The Secret Moose, Jean Rogers
$22.00
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The Book Hive, Plymouth, MN

1. Girls Think of Everything, Catherine Thimmesh
$4.45
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For adolescent girls ages 6 to 14. This and other books by Thimmesh encourage young women to expand their horizons by showing them how women and girls have achieved success in the past in all kinds of careers.

2. The Pause: A Christmas Gift, Keith Gaddy Davis
$12.95
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For the busy executive or business person....

3. Smartass Answers to Stupid Interview Questions, Barry Shamis
$7.95
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For Human Resources or hiring managers or new graduates interviewing for the first time...

4. The Holy Scriptures - According to the Masoretic Text
45.95
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J&D Books, East Hartford, CT

1. A Tribute to John F Kennedy
$19.95
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2. The Red Pony, John Steinbeck
$149.99
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3. The Spirit of Christmas: Creative Holiday Ideas Book One, Anne Young
$9.99
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4. A Christmas Treasury, Compiled by Mark Daniel
$19.99
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Jgjvisions, Collingwood, ON
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1. I recently took my sister's favorite Little Golden Book and had it framed for her as her holiday gift. It is an Eloise Wilkin first edition and she is going to love It!

2. Children love How to and Craft books...Give a child the book with some of the materials to make the items inside.

3. If you have kids 7 to 12...try books that are guides or feature characters from their favorite video games: Sonic the Hedgehog; Pokemon, Anime books...

4. Young Teens love to read "series" books. Look for a four or five softcover books that belong to a favorite series or get them started on a new one: Nancy Drew; Gordon Korman; Fear Street...

5. Give the 11- to 16-year old books that will motivate them to read. Books that are about their favorite TV series or movie: X-files; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Star Wars; Star Trek...

6. Give a young child a picture book and the plush toy to go with it. It makes reading more fun! Clifford; Madeline; Pokemon; Arthur; Sesame Street; Bear in the Big Blue House; Teletubbies...

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