Format: Hardcover, 352 pages Publisher: Random House On Sale: September 29, 2009 Price: $26.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6704-6 (1-4000-6704-9)
Caught up in a terrifying war, facing choices of life and death, two Iraqi sisters take us into the hidden world of women’s lives under U.S. occupation. Through their powerful story of love and betrayal, interwoven with the stories of a Palestinian American women’s rights activist and a U.S. soldier, journalist...
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Format: Hardcover, 304 pages Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: November 11, 2008 Price: $26.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-42502-8 (0-375-42502-0)
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977–with his wife and three young children–intending to convert them. What he...
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Format: Hardcover, 224 pages Publisher: Random House On Sale: November 10, 2009 Price: $35.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6848-7 (1-4000-6848-7)
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her...Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: December 4, 2007 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-27950-7 (0-307-27950-2)
By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book is even more necessary today than when it first appeared. An...
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Format: Hardcover, 304 pages Publisher: Knopf On Sale: May 5, 2009 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-26630-9 (0-307-26630-3)
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: October 13, 2009 Price: $20.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7038-8 (0-8129-7038-1)
Sweet Land of Liberty is Thomas J. Sugrue’s epic account of the abiding quest for racial equality in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South. Sugrue’s panoramic view sweeps from the 1920s to the present–more...
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