Sisters in War
A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq
Written by Christina Asquith

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... Read more >

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Written by Daniel L. Everett

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... Read more >

The Black Book
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison

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 >

The Gift
Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Written by Lewis Hyde

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... Read more >

Born to Run
A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Written by Christopher McDougall

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... Read more >

Sweet Land of Liberty
The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Written by Thomas J. Sugrue

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... Read more >