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Audition
Audition
Written by Barbara Walters
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307279965
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Audition

Written by Barbara Walters


Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.95

Barbara Walters, arguably the most important woman in the history of television, has had an amazingly full life. In the bestselling Audition, she describes her extraordinary public and private journey. Read more >
Travels with Herodotus
Travels with Herodotus
Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400078783
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Travels with Herodotus

Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $14.95

From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.

In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to... Read more >
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Audition
Audition
Written by Barbara Walters
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307266460
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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... Read more >
Audition
Audition
Written by Barbara Walters, Read by Barbara Walters
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780739343982
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Audition
A Memoir
Written by Barbara Walters
Read by Barbara Walters


Format: Abridged Compact Disc
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... Read more >
Audition
Audition
Written by Barbara Walters, Read by Barbara Walters
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780739343999
Our Price: $15.00

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Audition
A Memoir
Written by Barbara Walters
Read by Barbara Walters


Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $15.00

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... Read more >
Audition
Audition
Written by Barbara Walters
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780739327302
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Audition
A Memoir
Written by Barbara Walters


Format: Trade Paperback, 992 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... Read more >
In an Instant
In an Instant
Written by Lee Woodruff
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812978254
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In an Instant
A Family's Journey of Love and Healing
Written by Lee Woodruff


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $16.00

In January 2006, Lee and Bob Woodruff seemed to have it all–a happy marriage, four beautiful children, and marvelous careers. Bob had just been named co-anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight, but then, while he was embedded with the military in Iraq, an improvised explosive device went off near the tank... Read more >
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The Making of a Writer
The Making of a Writer
Written by Gail Godwin, Edited by Rob Neufeld
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307432421
Our Price: $16.95
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The Making of a Writer
Journals, 1961-1963
Written by Gail Godwin
Edited by Rob Neufeld


Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95

Gail Godwin was twenty-four years old and working as a waitress in the North Carolina mountains when she wrote: “I want to be everybody who is great; I want to create everything that has ever been created.” It is a declaration that only a wildly ambitious young writer would make in... Read more >
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A Writer at War
A Writer at War
Written by Vasily Grossman
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307424587
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A Writer at War
A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945
Written by Vasily Grossman


Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.95

When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers... Read more >
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The Ride of Our Lives
The Ride of Our Lives
Written by Mike Leonard
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780345481498
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The Ride of Our Lives

Written by Mike Leonard


Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $13.95

The Ride of Our Lives is the humorous yet deeply moving account of NBC journalist Mike Leonard’s cross-country odyssey with his eccentric parents, three grown children, and a daughter-in-law. Full of ups and downs, laughs and tears, the month-long journey becomes a much larger tale of hope, persistence, and valuable lessons... Read more >
A Writer at War
A Writer at War
Written by Vasily Grossman
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307275332
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A Writer at War
A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945
Written by Vasily Grossman


Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $15.95

When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
The Making of a Writer
The Making of a Writer
Written by Gail Godwin, Edited by Rob Neufeld
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812974690
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The Making of a Writer
Journals, 1961-1963
Written by Gail Godwin
Edited by Rob Neufeld


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2007
Price: $16.95

Gail Godwin was twenty-four years old when she wrote: “I want to be everybody who is great; I want to create everything that has ever been created.” It is a declaration that only a wildly ambitious young writer would make in the privacy of her journal. Now, in The Making of... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Too Soon to Say Goodbye
Too Soon to Say Goodbye
Written by Art Buchwald
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781588365743
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Too Soon to Say Goodbye

Written by Art Buchwald


Format: eBook
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $17.95

When doctors told Art Buchwald that his kidneys were kaput, the renowned humorist declined dialysis and checked into a Washington, D.C., hospice to live out his final days. Months later, “The Man Who Wouldn’t Die” was still there, feeling good, holding court in a nonstop “salon” for his family and dozens... Read more >
The Ride of Our Lives
The Ride of Our Lives
Written by Mike Leonard, Read by Mike Leonard
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780739324660
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The Ride of Our Lives
Roadside Lessons of an American Family
Written by Mike Leonard
Read by Mike Leonard


Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 18, 2006
Price: $27.95

Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite–pessimistic and... Read more >
The Ride of Our Lives
The Ride of Our Lives
Written by Mike Leonard, Read by Mike Leonard
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780739324677
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The Ride of Our Lives
Roadside Lessons of an American Family
Written by Mike Leonard
Read by Mike Leonard


Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 18, 2006
Price: $13.98

Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite–pessimistic and... Read more >
The Ride of Our Lives
The Ride of Our Lives
Written by Mike Leonard
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780739325902
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The Ride of Our Lives
Roadside Lessons of an American Family
Written by Mike Leonard


Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: April 18, 2006
Price: $26.95

Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite–pessimistic and... Read more >
The Ride of Our Lives
The Ride of Our Lives
Written by Mike Leonard
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780345490940
Our Price: $13.95
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The Ride of Our Lives
Roadside Lessons of an American Family
Written by Mike Leonard


Format: eBook
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $13.95

Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At eighty-seven, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of sixty years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite–pessimistic and... Read more >
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