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An Autobiography
Written by Andre Agassi
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2009
Price: $28.95
From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.
Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis... Read more >
An Autobiography
Written by Andre Agassi
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2009
Price: $28.95
From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.
Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis... Read more >
Also available as an
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abridged audiobook download and an
unabridged audiobook download.
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The Snowball
Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Written by Alice Schroeder
Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $20.00
Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to... Read more >
Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Written by Alice Schroeder
Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $20.00
Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
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Letter to My Daughter
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $15.00
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with meaning. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that taught Angelou lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was... Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $15.00
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with meaning. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that taught Angelou lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was... Read more >
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Miracle on the Hudson
The Survivors of Flight 1549 Tell Their Extraordinary Stories of Courage, Faith, and Determination
Written by The Survivors of Flight 1549, William Prochnau and Laura Parker
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $25.00
In this heart-stopping, page-turning tale of fear, heroism, and redemption, the passengers of the Hudson River crash landing tell their remarkable stories.
Millions watched the aftermath on television, while others witnessed the event actually happening from the windows of nearby skyscrapers. But only 155 people know firsthand what really happened on U.S... Read more >
The Survivors of Flight 1549 Tell Their Extraordinary Stories of Courage, Faith, and Determination
Written by The Survivors of Flight 1549, William Prochnau and Laura Parker
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $25.00
In this heart-stopping, page-turning tale of fear, heroism, and redemption, the passengers of the Hudson River crash landing tell their remarkable stories.
Millions watched the aftermath on television, while others witnessed the event actually happening from the windows of nearby skyscrapers. But only 155 people know firsthand what really happened on U.S... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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I Am the New Black
Written by Tracy Morgan and Anthony Bozza
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $25.00
The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.
Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock, whose... Read more >
Written by Tracy Morgan and Anthony Bozza
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $25.00
The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.
Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock, whose... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD and an
eBook.
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Weekends at Bellevue
Written by Julie Holland
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $25.00
Julie Holland thought she knew what crazy was.
Then she came to Bellevue.
New York City’s Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the United States, has a tradition of “serving the underserved” that dates back to 1736. For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekend physician in charge of... Read more >
Written by Julie Holland
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $25.00
Julie Holland thought she knew what crazy was.
Then she came to Bellevue.
New York City’s Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the United States, has a tradition of “serving the underserved” that dates back to 1736. For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekend physician in charge of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Shadow of the Sword
A Marine's Journey of War, Heroism, and Redemption
Written by Jeremiah Workman and John Bruning
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $26.00
Awarded the Navy Cross for gallantry under fire, Staff Sergeant Jeremiah Workman is one of the Marine Corps’ best-known contemporary combat veterans. In this searing and inspiring memoir, he tells an unforgettable story of his service overseas–and of the emotional wars that continue to rage long after our fighting men come... Read more >
A Marine's Journey of War, Heroism, and Redemption
Written by Jeremiah Workman and John Bruning
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $26.00
Awarded the Navy Cross for gallantry under fire, Staff Sergeant Jeremiah Workman is one of the Marine Corps’ best-known contemporary combat veterans. In this searing and inspiring memoir, he tells an unforgettable story of his service overseas–and of the emotional wars that continue to rage long after our fighting men come... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Somebody
The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando
Written by Stefan Kanfer
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $16.00
Stefan Kanfer, acclaimed biographer of Lucille Ball and Groucho Marx, now gives us the definitive life of Marlon Brando, seamlessly intertwining the man and the work to give us a stunning and illuminating appraisal. Beginning with Brando’s turbulent childhood, Kanfer follows him to New York where he made his star-making Broadway... Read more >
The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando
Written by Stefan Kanfer
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $16.00
Stefan Kanfer, acclaimed biographer of Lucille Ball and Groucho Marx, now gives us the definitive life of Marlon Brando, seamlessly intertwining the man and the work to give us a stunning and illuminating appraisal. Beginning with Brando’s turbulent childhood, Kanfer follows him to New York where he made his star-making Broadway... Read more >
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Guts
Written by Gary Paulsen
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $6.50
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... Read more >
Written by Gary Paulsen
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $6.50
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The World Is What It Is
The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Written by Patrick French
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $17.00
The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred.
Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick French skillfully examines Naipaul’s life... Read more >
The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Written by Patrick French
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $17.00
The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred.
Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick French skillfully examines Naipaul’s life... Read more >
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