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Published Seasonally | Volume 2 | Fall 2009
featured nonfiction

The Audacity to Win
By David Plouffe

Chronicling the arrival of a new moment in American life at the convergence of digital technology and grassroots organization, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe unfolds one of the most important political stories of our time.

Prologue

David Axelrod and I left the Obama campaign headquarters election bunker in Chicago at 10:30 p.m. central time to humbling cheers from the knot of staffers who had been prepared for a long night of data crunching and narrow margins. Instead, they were downing beers and celebrating, having just watched all the networks announce the election of their boss as the forty-fourth president of the United States of America.

It was the end of long road. Axelrod and I had begun the journey walking together through an airport in November 2006, en route to our first meeting about the far-fetched prospect of Barack Obama’s running for president. At the time we figured it was probably the only meeting that such an unlikely endeavor would yield.

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featured Fiction

Knit the Season
by Kate Jacobs

The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns with a moving, laugh-out-loud celebration of special times with friends and family.

Join Kate Jacobs at the Water Cooler for a chat about Knit the Season on Wednesday, December 2nd at 12:30 PM EST.

Picking up a year after the end of Knit Two, readers join Dakota Walker on her trip to spend the Christmas holidays with her Gran in Scotland-accompanied by her father, her grandparents, and her mother's best friend, Catherine. Together, they share a trove of happy memories about Christmases past with Dakota's mom, Georgia. From Thanksgiving through Hanukkah and Christmas to New Year's, Knit the Season is a novel about the richness of family bonds and the joys of friendship.

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