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	I Love This Game
	Sabine Auken
	Hear the top-ranked woman player in the world describe her favourite moments in her bridge career, and share her philosophy of the game. This is my personal favorite of the expert biographies on the market.
	$19.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Great Hands I Wish I Had Played
	Sally and Raymond Brock
	When's the last time you said to yourself, "gee, I wish I could play that last hand over again!"? You'll feel better knowing that experts say the same thing to themselves more often than you'd think. The Brocks tattle on themselves, showing dozens of real-life hands, and showing how they should have been played and why. (And yes, they confess what really happened at the table on each deal, too.) Warning: Out of Print! These are the last two copies I am likely to ever have.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Right Through the Pack
	Robert Darvas and Norman de Vere Hart
	A collection of fifty-two deals, one in which each card in the deck is the key to the whole hand. People have written lots of stories about cards -- but this is a story told by the cards looking up at the people holding them. A delightful fairy-tale-like atmosphere, achieved by looking at the familiar from an unfamiliar angle without having to resort to a completely made-up "Mollo's Menagerie" type world.
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge With the Blue Team
	Pietro Forquet
	Reprint (and translation into English) of Forquet's classic book, a collection of the Italian Blue Team's greatest hands from their many years dominating the world championships. Also includes a summary of the 3 bidding systems used by the team.
	$29.99		By special order only

	Gamesman Bridge
	Eddie Kantar
	A rarely seen early Kantar book, from way back in 1972. The story of a beginner named Stanley's journey to becoming a strong bridge player. Is it a bridge novel, or a lesson series taught with the classic Kantar wit sprinkled through it from beginning to end?
	$7.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Take All Your Chances at Bridge
	Eddie Kantar
	A collection of declarer-play problems, emphasizing the theme of identifying several possible ways of making your contract and finding the plan that maximizes your odds.
	$18.95		By special order only

	The Bridge Philosopher
	James Kauder
	Newly released edition of Kauder's classic book Creative Card Play. My personal favorite of all "collections of bridge deals" books and I am delighted to see it back in print. Every one of the hands has a logical but non-textbook solution; he explains the clues from the bidding, play, and his reading of the opponents' habits that guide him to the winning line.
	$18.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Return of the Bridge Philosopher
	James Kauder
	Another bookful of stories in the same style as The Bridge Philosopher, fifty more entertaining stories from Jimmy Kauder's adventures in the tournament and rubber bridge worlds.
	$18.00		Available now and ready to ship

	Kelsey on Squeeze Play
	Hugh Kelsey
	Get a classic book at 20% off! Retails for $36.00! A reprint of Kelsey's four classic books on simple, double, triple, and strip squeezes, bound as one volume. An abundance of examples of hands drawn from real play, and a classification of different types of threats and guards. Great if you like collections of interesting hands, or if you prefer to "learn by example" at a laid-back pace how squeezes work.
	$29.99		Available now and ready to ship

	Persistent Human Bridge Errors
	Danny Kleinman and Nick Straguzzi
	Further tales of Chthonic, the perfect bridge-playing computer, and the trouble he has making sense of his human partners, teammates, and opponents. Not just stories - each story has a moral, a lesson about mistakes mere mortals frequently make at the table. Lots of material that didn't appear in The Bridge World!
	$18.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The Principle of Restricted Talent
	Danny Kleinman and Nick Straguzzi
	The adventures of a wisecracking bridge-playing robot and his inventors. Logical solutions to dozens of very difficult cardplay and defense problems, mixed into a series of short stories. One of the best recent contributions to the "bridge novel" genre.
	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Play Bridge With Mike Lawrence
	Mike Lawrence
	Look over Mike's shoulder as he plays a 2-session matchpoint pairs event and explains what bids and plays he chooses on 52 deals. Lots of good sound advice on interpreting the auction and reading your opponents - and a few examples of hair-raising matchpoint daring!
	$11.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Northern Lights
	Ray and Linda Lee
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	$16.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Around the World in 80 Hands
	Zia Mahmood and David Burn
	A collection of Zia's favorite hands, drawn from world championships, high-stakes money bridge games, and other random places the world over.
	$16.95		By special order only

	Backwash Squeeze and Other Improbable Feats : A Newcomer's Journey into the World of Bridge
	Edward McPherson
	A (former) non-bridge-player journals his entry into the exciting world of duplicate bridge, starting from his first beginner's lesson at the Manhattan Bridge Club on up to his attendance at the NABC. Intended for general audiences, but of interest to bridge players. A great gift for your non-bridge-playing friends and relatives this Christmas!
	$14.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Takeout Double: a Bridge Mystery
	Jim Priebe
	A novel about a murdered tournament bridge player and the police lieutenant assigned to solve it. "A complex tangle of jealousy, ambition, sex, and deceit amongst people to whom he knows bridge is far more than just a game."
	$17.95		By special order only

	Story of an Accusation
	Terence Reese
	Terence Reese's account, in his own words, of how the investigation of his alleged cheating at the 1965 Buenos Aires world championship unfolded. Compare with Alan Truscott's The Great Bridge Scandal written from the accuser's point of view. Some say that whichever of these two books you read first will determine whether you believe Reese and Schapiro were guilty or not.
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge: Common Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
	Andrew Robson
	A total of 172 of Andrew Robson's newspaper column hands, organized by topic and with a short easy-to-remember tip at the end of each one.
	$17.99		By special order only

	The Naked Bridge Player and Other Stories
	David Silver
	Parodies of novels and films, with accompanying bridge hands. Some are standalone stories but most are further adventures of the characters introduced in David Silver's earlier novels.
	$17.95		Available now and ready to ship

	How to Play Bridge with your Spouse and Survive
	Roselyn Teukolsky
	It really IS possible to have a successful partnership with your spouse -- in fact there are several good reasons why that can be an ideal situation for you! Part autobiography, part humor, part bridge textbook, and part marriage counselor. A look at how a bridge partnership evolves as the people involved date, marry, have children, and cope with midlife crises. (And yes, the book has a happy ending!)
	$15.95		Available now and ready to ship

	Bridge Out of School
	Bill Townsend
	A novel, weaving together the lives of four marginally competent schoolteachers, a corrupt bridge federation official, and a blackmailed lawyer. Mixed in with lots of clever declarer play and defense problems, of course.
	$16.00		By special order only

	The Great Bridge Scandal: the Most Famous Cheating Case in the History of the Game
	Alan Truscott
	A bridge journalist's firsthand account of discovering that Boris Schapiro and Terence Reese appeared to be using hand signals in the 1965 world championships. The story of the American team's investigations and the subsequent World Bridge Federation hearing. Compare with the same story told from the other side's point of view in Reese's Story of an Accusation.
	$21.95		Available now and ready to ship

	The New York Times Bridge Book
	Alan Truscott
	Subtitle: An anecdotal history of the development, personalities, and strategies of the world's most popular card game.
	$13.95		By special order only

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