The combination of a pre-Father's Day release and a government running roughshot over its citizens has given Glenn Beck's modern-day interpretation of Thomas Paine's classic a life of its own.

From the back of the book.  Abe Lincoln made this quote 145 years prior to 2009:

"We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.  With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor.  Here are two, not  only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name -- liberty.  And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names --- LIBERTY and TYRANNY."

 Originally published in 2003, "The Time Traveler's Wife" was once again a bestseller due to the August release of the film adaptation.

 

The remaining TOP TEN NON-TWILIGHT BOOKS sold at Russo's Books this year are: the Kern County Museum's Hard Drivin' Country (Jeff Nickell and Sarah Woodman), Going Rogue (Sarah Palin), Diary of a Wimpy Kid #3 (Jeff Kinney), Lost Symbol (Dan Brown), and Arguing with Idiots (Glenn Beck).