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The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV
Written by Robert A. Caro
Format: Trade Paperback, 768 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $18.95
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE
NAMED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist *...
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A Life Inside the Center
Written by Ray Monk
Format: Hardcover, 848 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $37.50
Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the “Father... Read more >
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A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Written by Kristine Barnett
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $25.00
Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became... Read more >
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Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere
Written by Lucas Mann
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $26.95
An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails of the players of the Clinton LumberKings but also the lives of their dedicated fans and of the town itself.
Award-winning essayist Lucas Mann delivers a powerful debut in his telling of the...
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A Memoir of Forty Years in Food
Written by Raymond Sokolov
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $25.95
Four decades of memories from a gastronome who witnessed the food revolution from the (well-provisioned) trenches—a delicious tour through contemporary food history.
When Raymond Sokolov became food editor of The New York Times in 1971, he began a long, memorable career as restaurant critic, food historian, and author. Here he traces...
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Two Novels in One Volume
Written by Jean Plaidy
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: July 5, 2011
Price: $16.99
For the first time in one volume, Jean Plaidy’s duet of Borgia novels brings to life the infamous, reckless, and passionate family in an unforgettable historical saga.
Madonna of the Seven Hills:
Fifteenth-century Rome: the Borgia family is on the rise. Lucrezia’s father is named Pope Alexander VI, and he places... Read more >
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Written by Nora Gallagher
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $24.00
This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of the author’s experience with a baffling illness poised to take her sight, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you had and find something better.
One day at the end of 2009, during a...
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Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Written by H.W. Brands
Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $17.95
Ulysses Grant emerges in this masterful biography as a genius in battle and a driven president to a divided country, who remained fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field who made the sacrifices necessary to win the war, even in the face of criticism...
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