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Click on a January Bestseller to purchase Nearly three decades of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and television? It must be Saturday Night Live. In Live From New York journalists Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller do an expert job of dishing the dirt on one of television's true originals. Though it's not even Halloween yet, we know Christmas can't be far behind: seasonal books are starting to put in an appearance. First up: Esther's Gift: A Mitford Christmas Story the latest installment in Jan Karon's seemingly endless saga of the fictional town of Mitford, North Carolina. To be extra Christmassy, team this one with The Mitford Snowmen, Karon's 2001 Christmas effort. There is one author of children's books who consistently gives J.K. Rowling a run for her money. Though author Lemony Snicket is, in fact, a fictional character himself, his books always jump to the bestseller lists as soon as they're published. Book nine in the Series of Unfortunate Events is The Carnivorous Carnival, new this week. It seems as though every year at book awards time -- right around now -- the literati start debating the merits and demerits of book award programs. Here's an example of why they're good: almost the moment Yann Martel's Life of Pi won the 2002 Man Booker award, people started buying -- and reading -- the book. Exposing themselves to a lovely piece of literature they might otherwise have missed. If all the press and discussion get people reading, you don't need other reasons to justify the existence of the awards. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? -- retired CEO Louis V. Gerstner's memoir of his years at IBM -- might more aptly be titled Who Says Dinosaurs Have to Become Extinct? because that more neatly sums up this book's contents. How did a company that perhaps should have gone the way of the dodo bird stage such a striking recovery? Those that are deeply inspired by corporate success stories will love this book. More than 500,000 people in 210 countries get a Word A Day sent to them in their e-mail. If you're one of them -- and it seems quite possible that you might be -- you need to know that some of what's good about the service has now been crammed into a book. A Word A Day: A Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English is by the site's creators Anu and Stuti Garg. Looking for more lists? All previous January Magazine online bestseller lists are available here.
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