Audition
A Memoir
Written by Barbara Walters
Format: Hardcover, 624 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $29.95
Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”
And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting...
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The Prince of Frogtown
Written by Rick Bragg
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $24.00
In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin’ and continued with Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his ten-year-old stepson.
He learns, right from the...
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Gandhi & Churchill
The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Written by Arthur Herman
Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $30.00
In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.
They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain’s most glamorous...
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A Freewheelin' Time
A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
Written by Suze Rotolo
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $22.95
A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster. It chronicles the back-story of Greenwich Village in the early days of the folk music explosion...
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Education of a Wandering Man
Written by Louis L'Amour
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $25.00
Shortly before his death in June 1988, Louis L’Amour completed writing his most unique adventure story: a personal reflection on his lifelong love affair with learning. Now Bantam Books proudly presents this special Centennial Edition of
Education of a Wandering Man, in which L’Amour vividly recalls many of the books he...
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Notes on a Life
Written by Eleanor Coppola
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $25.00
Eleanor Coppola shares her extraordinary life as an artist, filmmaker, wife, and mother in a book that captures the glamour and grit of Hollywood and reveals the private tragedies and joys that tested and strengthened her over the past twenty years.
Her first book, Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now,...
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The Dream
A Memoir
Written by Harry Bernstein
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2008
Price: $24.00
“Dreams played an important part in our lives in those early days in England. Our mother invented them for us to make up for all the things we lacked and to give us some hope for the future.”
During the hard and bitter years of his youth in England, Harry Bernstein’s selfless...
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Guts
Written by Gary Paulsen
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $5.99
Guess what -- Gary Paulsen was being kind to Brian. In
Guts, Gary tells the real stories behind the Brian books, the stories of the adventures that inspired him to write Brian Robeson's story: working as an emergency volunteer; the death that inspired the pilot's death in
Hatchet; plane crashes he...
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