When a Heart Turns Rock Solid
The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers On and Off the Streets
Written by Timothy Black

Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-37774-6 (0-307-37774-1)

This provocative and compelling book examines how jobs, schools, the streets, and prisons have shaped the lives and choices of a generation of Puerto Rican youth at the turn of the twenty-first century.

At the center of this riveting account–based on an unprecedented eighteen-year study–are three engaging, streetwise brothers from Springfield, Massachusetts... Read more >

Hurry Down Sunshine
A Father's Story of Love and Madness
Written by Michael Greenberg

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47354-7 (0-307-47354-6)

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Hurry Down Sunshine is an extraordinary family story and a memoir of exceptional power. In it, Michael Greenberg recounts in vivid detail the remarkable summer when, at the age of fifteen, his daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally's sudden visionary crack-up on the... 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 >

Half the Sky
Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26714-6 (0-307-26714-8)

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia... Read more >

An American Family
Three Decades with the McGarveys
Text by Claude Cookman
Photographed by Pam Spaulding

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Focal Point
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0504-0 (1-4262-0504-X)

Whether you think of it as the ultimate in time-lapse photography or a reality show begun decades before its time, this 30-year photographic look at one middle-class family from Louisville, Kentucky, is Americana at its most evocative—at once moving, modest, and quietly magnificent. Conceived in the 20th century and carried forward... Read more >

Make the Impossible Possible
One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary
Written by Bill Strickland and Vince Rause

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Broadway Business
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52055-3 (0-385-52055-7)

“Success is the point where your most authentic talents, passion, values, and experiences intersect with the chance to contribute to some greater good.”
--Bill Strickland

According to MacArthur Fellowship “genius” award winner Bill Strickland, a successful life is not something you simply pursue, it is something that you create, moment by moment. It... Read more >