 | Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1) by Jim Butcher
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.98 They originally published these books with generic covers. But then put this mysterious ZZ Top groupie (sans beard) on the cover.
and it made all the difference.
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 | Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change by Jonah Goldberg
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.48 This is the perfect coveryou look at it and you know the book. Remember that smiley-face fascism was an expression coined by George Carlin.
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 | AMERICA'S REAL WAR by Rabbi Daniel Lapin
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $12.58 This is another cover that evokes yellow journalism. Again, by looking at the cover, you get a feel for R. Lapins take on the culture war. The tug-o-war with the flag makes this book #2 after Liberal Fascism.
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 | Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture by Paul Nathanson
Buy new: $22.45 / Used from: $5.95 The cover depicts a victim of male-bashing, or misandry. It is so gruesome you cant keep your eyes off of it.
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 | Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination Against Men by Paul Nathanson
Buy new: $31.96 / Used from: $30.69 This is how you do good continuity between books. They used a different angle from the same session. So it looks like the first gruesome cover, but not exactly. Red, then Bluejust like the Beatles's albums.
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 | Space Cadet by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy used from: $0.01 I loved this cover as a teenager. You see the Mercury-era astronaut in tin-foil, with the 2001: Space Odyssey helmet. But there is no face, so you put your own face into the spacesuit. He is caught mid-step, like we are watching, and admiring himas we did with Neal Armstrong.
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 | Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.85 This is a good example of a cover that bent the book in the wrong direction. I read the first chapter online, so was sold on the book. But the cover looks girly. It is really a male fairy-talea guy book. So sales were lost. You can put a new cover on, with Harrison Ford, or Frodo.
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 | The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
Buy used from: $7.49 This is a dramatic picture, depicting the fall of Numenor (Atlantis). Remember the newspaper pictures the day after 9/11? With the fireballs coming out of the World Trade Center? This cover has the same effect. Newer covers show the three silmarilinot as dramatic, but more applicable.
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 | Gray Lensman (The Lensman Series, Book 4) by Edward E. Smith
Buy used from: $10.19 I love the retro-covers that are now in vogue. This one, taken from the original pulp magazine, conveys old-school manliness. But you get a sense of dignity, honor and courage. It also shows that Brendan Fraser could be Kimball Kinnison.
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 | Cries of The Heart by Ravi Zacharias
Buy new: $11.19 / Used from: $5.89 The somber picture strikes a chord with anyone feeling pain. A great homage to Vermeer.
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