Holiday Book Sale! Take 40% Off These Select Titles

 

Nothing quite beats a gift-wrapped book, except maybe a book torn into and impossible to put down.    

This holiday season, pass your love of reading—and the savings—on to the readers in your life. UPNE is offering a selection of 12 books at a reduced price–40% off!—through January 31, 2014!

(Click on each title for more info and to add to your cart. The discount will automatically be added to your order through UPNE.com.) 

Here are the books to put a bow on—and why they may be right up your alley:

Why, when Twain published Huck Finn, the humorist turned sour...
Confederate Bushwhacker: Mark Twain in the Shadow of the Civil War, by Jerome Loving, $27.95, now $16.77

 

Dairy-free tiramisu? Believe it!...

The Kosher Baker: Over 160 Dairy-free Recipes from Traditional to Trendy, by Paula Shoyer, $35.00, now $21.00

 

Proving nothing is impossible on Christmas Eve in a lighthouse...
The Lighthouse Santa, by Sara Hoagland Hunter; illus. Julia Miner, $17.95, now $10.77
 

Ben Franklin lobbied hard for the turkey, because eagles are jerks...

Why the Turkey Didn’t Fly: The Surprising Stories Behind theEagle, the Flag, Uncle Sam, and Other Images of America, by Paul Aron, $15.95, now $9.57
 

The Whitey Bulger story as it's never been told...

Animal: The Bloody Rise and Fall of the Mob’s Most Feared Assassin, by Casey Sherman, $27.95, now $16.77

The Jewish comic who paved the way for Seinfeld, Stiller, and Sandler...

Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman, by Mark Cohen, $29.95, now $17.97

A memoir of being young and starstruck among great American poets...

With Robert Lowell and His Circle, by Kathleen Spivack, $19.95, now $11.97
 

World's most valuable resource? A lightbulb...above your head...

The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet, by Ramez Naam, $29.95, now $17.97

Because 2014 is the year you finally start writing that novel...
The Language of Fiction: A Writer’s Stylebook, by Brian Shawver, $19.95, now $11.97

Like a time-lapse video covering 50 millennia, but better...

Ceremonial Time: Fifty Thousand Years on One Square Mile, by John Hanson Mitchell, $18.95, now $11.37

How a rock radio station broke the mold, defined a generation...

Radio Free Boston: The Rise and Fall of WBCN, by Carter Alan, $25.95, now $15.57

The sex appeal of lobsters is a real thing. Just ask Freud...
I, Lobster: A Crustacean Odyssey, by Nancy Frazier, $24.95, now $14.97


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