Reclaiming Virtue
How We Can Develop the Moral Intelligence to Do the Right Thing at the Right Time for the Right Reason
Written by John Bradshaw

Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-09592-0 (0-553-09592-7)

In his groundbreaking New York Times bestselling books and compelling PBS specials, John Bradshaw transformed our understanding of the family and became a dominant figure in the field of addiction and recovery. Now he brings together a lifetime of experience and teaching to redefine virtue—how we learn it and live it—for... Read more >

Final Exam
A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Written by Pauline W. Chen

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27537-0 (0-307-27537-X)

A brilliant transplant surgeon brings compassion and narrative drama to the fearful reality that every doctor must face: the inevitability of mortality.

When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she could not predict was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, she... Read more >

Relentless Pursuit
A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America
Written by Donna Foote

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27823-4 (0-307-27823-9)

When Locke High School opened its doors in 1967, the residents of Watts celebrated it as a sign of the changes promised by Los Angeles. But four decades later, first-year Teach for America recruits Rachelle, Phillip, Hrag, and Taylor are greeted by a school that looks more like a prison, with... Read more >

Elvis Is Titanic
Classroom Tales from Iraqi Kurdistan
Written by Ian Klaus

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27689-6 (0-307-27689-9)

In the spring of 2005, twenty-five-year-old Rhodes Scholar Ian Klaus took a semester-long appointment at Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Officially he was there to lecture on American history and to teach English. Unofficially he was there because he felt obliged, as a... Read more >

A Mighty Long Way
My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Written by Carlotta Walls Lanier and Lisa Frazier Page
Foreword by Bill Clinton

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-51100-3 (0-345-51100-X)

"Carlotta Walls LaNier's A Mighty Long Way is a riveting account of nine brave high school students and their families in a quest for quality desegregated public education. What happened in Little Rock in 1957 resulted in America's greatest constitutional crisis since the Civil War. Carlotta's account of events inside and... Read more >

Positive Parenting for Bipolar Kids
How to Identify, Treat, Manage, and Rise to the Challenge
Written by Mary Ann McDonnell and Janet Wozniak
Contribution by Judy Fort Brenneman

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38462-8 (0-553-38462-7)

The Definitive Resource on How to Identify, Treat, and Thrive with a Bipolar Child

More than three million American children suffer from some form of bipolar disorder, a life-impairing illness that can cause wild mood swings and even episodes of rage. But as a parent, can you tell the difference between a... Read more >