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The Festive Office
The holidays are already everywhere, and chances are your workplace is not immune. Offices are generally prone to 'Secret Santa' gift exchanges, randomly strewn tinsel and, of course, the inevitable holiday party.
You can take care of any gift exchange with bestselling paperbacks under $10 - there's one right for everyone you work with. And as for the annual party, let our feature on collectible classic cocktail books inspire you to find a well made beverage with which to enjoy the show (while trying not to become part of it.)
Prefer to read about working life rather than actually partake of it? Microserfs by Douglas Coupland is a wry and highly amusing novel about a group of young and rather lost dot com workers
scurrying around Silicon Valley.
 Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson
When it comes to small gifts for co-workers, ten dollars can provide a generic box of chocolates... or it can bring something both entertaining and inspiring, like a copy of Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson's memoirs on the decade he spent building over 50 schools for
impoverished villagers across Pakistan and Afghanistan. Find this book. Stock up on bestselling books under ten dollars and you'll never be without a perfect last minute gift!
 The Savoy Cocktail Book
Harry Craddock
At one time, cocktails were an art, as is evidenced by the full tile of this fun and very collectible volume: The Savoy Cocktail Book: Being in the main a complete compendium of the Cocktails, Rickeys, Daisies, Slings, Shrubs, Smashes, Fizzes, Juleps, Cobblers, Fixes, and other
Drinks, known and greatly appreciated in the year of grace 1930, with sundry notes of amusement and interest concerning them, together with subtle Observations upon Wines and their special occasions. Find this book.
 Microserfs
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland creates a vision of the Silicon Valley as a feudal realm where co-workers struggle to find an all too elusive balance between life and work. Fed up with being faceless serfs in a Microsoft machine, they strike out and start a company of their own. It's an intriguing plot,
but this is secondary to the strength of the characters and the cultural observations that are made through depicting the quirky minutiae of their lives. Find this book.
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