Whenever anyone ask me what i would like for a Christmas gift, my answer has always been books, even when i was a young boy. I still remember the thrill of receiving my first book, Moby Dick, as a Christmas present from a dotting aunt when i was about 10 years old. The excitement and joy was simply beyond words.
Unlike other gifts, books to me are timeless and i experience the same joy, if not more, when reading a book a second or even a third time round. There is just something about books, maybe it's their texture, the smell of printed paper, the visual impact of the cover or the promise of a wonderful journey, that make books so attractive to me. So, here is a selection of books from Amazon.com and with 34 per cent off books over $25, would make wonderful gifts for the coming festive holidays :
INSPIRATIONAL
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| Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Yo... by Joel Osteen $11.19 | The Secret $13.17 | You: Staying Young by Michael F. Roizen $15.60 |
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| Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, ... by Tony Dungy $16.19 | Conversations with God : An Uncommon Dialog... by Neale Donald Walsch $16.29 | Basic Black $14.97 |
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| Become a Better You by Joel Osteen $13.75 | Five Wishes by Gay Hendricks $10.80 | Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfeld $14.97 |
NON-FICTION
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| I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert $16.19 | Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert $8.99 | 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper $7.79 |
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Three Cups of Tea:One Man's Mission to Pro... by Greg Mortenson $8.99 | Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton $15.60 | The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New ... by Alan Greenspan $20.99 |
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks $15.60 | The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls $8.99 | Rescuing Sprite by Mark R. Levin $13.20 |
FICTION
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Love in the Time of Cholera(Oprah's Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez $8.97 | Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen $8.37 | The Gathering (Man Booker Prize) by Anne Enright $8.40 |
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The Choice by Nicholas Sparks $13.74 | A Thousand SplendidSuns by Khaled Hosseini $14.27 | World Without End by Ken Follett $19.25 |
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| The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold $13.74 | The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta $16.47 | The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield $10.20 |
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