The American Nurse

Written by Carolyn Jones

Format: Hardcover, 180 pages
Publisher: Welcome Books
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 978-1-59962-121-0 (1-59962-121-5)

In The American Nurse, readers are invited to think about nurses in a way that they never have before, unless they have been under a nurse’s care. This body of work will inspire audiences to focus their attention on the nurses who serve as healers in their community, and whose wealth... Read more >

Confidence
How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End
Written by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5290-5 (1-4000-5290-4)

Confidence is based on an investigation of success and failure in companies such as Continental Airlines, Seagate, and Verizon and sports teams such as the University of North Carolina women’s soccer team, New England Patriots, and Philadelphia Eagles, as well as schools, health care, and politics.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter explainins why... Read more >

Do They Hear You When You Cry

Written by Fauziya Kassindja

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: January 12, 1999
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-31994-2 (0-385-31994-0)

In 1994, Fauziya Kassindja, an extraordinary teenager from a wealthy, prominent family in Kpalime, Africa, fled from her home to escape tribal ritual female genital mutilation. She sought political asylum in the United States, but was instead incarcerated for 16 months in various Immigration and Naturalization Service detention facilities. Housed in... Read more >

Geeks
How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho
Written by Jon Katz

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: February 20, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0699-9 (0-7679-0699-3)

The sociological study and inspirational story of how two social misfits and self-professed “geeks” used their technological prowess to escape dead-end life in a dreary Idaho town. Geeks is a provocative look inside a rapidly growing subculture of “techno-outsiders,” many of whom are now running the systems that run the world.

"A... Read more >

The Cult of the Amateur
How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values
Written by Andrew Keen

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52081-2 (0-385-52081-6)

A polemic describing the dark consequences of the new digital economy, dubbed Web 2.0, on our culture, our
standards, and our commerce. Building on the controversial arguments he posed in a much talked-about
2-part article that ran in The Weekly Standard in February 2006, Silicon Valley dissident Andrew Keen
condemns the new digital media... Read more >

Fire in the Belly
On Being a Man
Written by Sam Keen

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: March 1, 1992
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-35137-8 (0-553-35137-0)

Fire in the Belly is the seminal study of masculinity that, since its publication in 1991, has become a classic of the Men’s Movement. Keen begins by exploring WOMAN: the “larger-than-life,” “shadowy” psychological construct that influences men’s lives, distinct from real flesh-and-blood women. Proposing that men cannot find themselves without first... Read more >

Savage Spawn
Reflections on Violent Children
Written by Jonathan Kellerman

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 18, 1999
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-42939-1 (0-345-42939-7)

In this powerful and disturbing book, a bestselling author and noted child psychologist shines a penetrating light on antisocial youth - kids who kill without remorse - asserting that "psychopathic tendencies begin very early in life, as young as three, and they endure." He examines the origins of psychopathy and the... Read more >

Sideways on a Scooter
Life and Love in India
Written by Miranda Kennedy

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6786-2 (1-4000-6786-3)

When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly developing country. What she quickly learns in Delhi about renting an apartment as a single woman—it’s next to... Read more >

Orange Is the New Black
My Year in a Women's Prison
Written by Piper Kerman

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52339-4 (0-385-52339-4)

With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years ago. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the... Read more >

Beyond the Influence
Understanding and Defeating Alcoholism
Written by Katherine Ketcham, William F. Asbury, Mel Schulstad and Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: April 4, 2000
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38014-9 (0-553-38014-1)

Although alcoholism has been recognized by scientists as a disease rather than a character flaw, proper treatment for this condition is still unavailable to millions. Beyond the Influence offers solutions. This invaluable sourcebook, compiled by top experts in the field of alcohol dependency, clarifies the neurological nature of the disease and... Read more >

Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Written by Tracy Kidder

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7301-3 (0-8129-7301-1)

ALA Notable Book
A New York Times Notable book

This paperback edition includes a Reading Group Guide.

Selected for Common Reading:

Colleges & Universities
Adirondack Comm. Coll., Auburn Univ., Augustana Coll., Austin Coll., Barton Coll., Bernard M. Baruch Coll., CUNY, Berry Coll., Boise State Univ., Boston Coll., Bowdoin Coll., Brandeis Univ., Butler Univ., Bunker Hill... Read more >

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Written by Tracy Kidder

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-50616-1 (0-375-50616-0)

ALA Notable Book, 2003


Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” This powerful and inspiring new book... Read more >

The Soul of a New Machine

Written by Tracy Kidder

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: June 24, 1997
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-60261-3 (0-679-60261-5)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, The Soul of a New Machine was a bestseller on its first publication in 1981.

In this book, Tracy Kidder recounts the feverish efforts of a team of Data General researchers to create a new 32-bit superminicomputer. A compelling account of individual... Read more >

Strength in What Remains

Written by Tracy Kidder

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7761-5 (0-8129-7761-0)

Selected for Common Reading at:
Alvernia University
Arcadia University
Caldwell College
Claremont McKenna College
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Penn State Berks
Stanford University
Trinity College
University of Delaware
Western Michigan University

All Iowa Reads 2012
Reading Together 2011, Kalamazoo Public Library

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award


In Strength in What Remains, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder gives us the story... Read more >

Strength in What Remains

Written by Tracy Kidder

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6621-6 (1-4000-6621-2)

Selected for Common Reading at the University of Delaware, 2010

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award

To watch the book's trailer, go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcAQFNLacfw

Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and common reading program classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the... Read more >

Raising Cain
Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
Written by Dan Kindlon, Ph.D. and Michael Thompson, Ph.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: April 4, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-43485-2 (0-345-43485-4)

Two of the country's leading child psychologists share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of combined experience working with boys and their families. They reveal a nation of boys who are hurting-sad, afraid, angry, and silent. Cutting through outdated theories of "mother blame," "boy biology," and "testosterone," the... Read more >

Lost in the Meritocracy
The Undereducation of an Overachiever
Written by Walter Kirn

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27945-3 (0-307-27945-6)

From elementary school on, Walter Kirn knew how to stay at the top of his class: He clapped erasers, memorized answer keys, and parroted his teachers’ pet theories. But when he launched himself eastward to an Ivy League university, Kirn discovered that the temple of higher learning he had expected was... Read more >

The Earth Knows My Name
Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans
Written by Patricia Klindienst

Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: April 1, 2007
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8571-4 (0-8070-8571-5)

Patricia Klindienst crossed the country to write this book, inspired by a torn and faded photograph that shed new light on the story of her Italian immigrant family’s struggle to adapt to America. She gathered the stories of urban, suburban, and rural gardens created by people rarely presented in books about... Read more >

Drinking: A Love Story

Written by Caroline Knapp

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: May 12, 1997
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-31554-8 (0-385-31554-6)

Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Author Caroline Knapp, for example, started drinking at age fourteen. She drank through her years at an Ivy League college, and through an award-winning career as a lifestyle editor and columnist. Publicly, she was a dutiful... Read more >

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him
The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients
Written by Sheldon Kopp

Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: May 1, 1982
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-553-27832-3 (0-553-27832-0)

Using the myths of Gilgamesh, Siddhartha, and the Wife of Bath, and drawing from the works of Buber, Ginsberg, Shakespeare, and Jung, noted psychotherapist Sheldon B. Kopp explores how one’s individual identity builds on the legends and rituals of one’s culture, compounded with the epic of one’s own personal history. Includes... Read more >

Amazing Grace
The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Written by Jonathan Kozol

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-7704-3566-0 (0-7704-3566-1)

The author of Savage Inequalities, a New York Times best-seller, and Rachel and Her Children, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils... Read more >

Fire in the Ashes
Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
Written by Jonathan Kozol

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5246-2 (1-4000-5246-7)

In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and... Read more >

Letters to a Young Teacher

Written by Jonathan Kozol

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-39372-2 (0-307-39372-0)

“What a wonderful book! Anyone who cares about rebuilding our public education system should read it. I could not put it down!”
—Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University

“This book cuts to the heart of the matter of what it means to be a teacher today. The truth about... Read more >

Ordinary Resurrections
Children in the Years of Hope
Written by Jonathan Kozol

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-7704-3567-7 (0-7704-3567-X)

In a stirring departure from his earlier work, Jonathan Kozol has written his most personal and hopeful book to date, an energized and unexpected answer to the bleakness of Death at an Early Age, the prize-winning classic that he published more than 30 years ago.

Like his most recent book, Amazing Grace... Read more >

Savage Inequalities
Children in America's Schools
Written by Jonathan Kozol

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-7704-3568-4 (0-7704-3568-8)

A searing examination of the extremes of wealth and poverty, cities and suburbs and the question of equal opportunity in the American educational system.
In 1988, Jonathan Kozol set off to spend time with children in the American publication education system. For two years, he visited schools and spoke with children... Read more >