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Redeeming Features
A Memoir
Written by Nicholas Haslam
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $30.00
From British interior designer Nicholas Haslam, a dazzling and witty account of a frenetic and full life—from the 1940s to the present—in Europe and America, in a crowd of friends and acquaintances that includes virtually all of the cultural icons of our time.
Haslam has found himself at the center of... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Nicholas Haslam
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $30.00
From British interior designer Nicholas Haslam, a dazzling and witty account of a frenetic and full life—from the 1940s to the present—in Europe and America, in a crowd of friends and acquaintances that includes virtually all of the cultural icons of our time.
Haslam has found himself at the center of... Read more >
Also available as an
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Redeeming Features
Written by Nicholas Haslam
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $30.00
From British interior designer Nicholas Haslam, a dazzling and witty account of a frenetic and full life—from the 1940s to the present—in Europe and America, in a crowd of friends and acquaintances that includes virtually all of the cultural icons of our time.
Haslam has found himself at the center of... Read more >
Written by Nicholas Haslam
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $30.00
From British interior designer Nicholas Haslam, a dazzling and witty account of a frenetic and full life—from the 1940s to the present—in Europe and America, in a crowd of friends and acquaintances that includes virtually all of the cultural icons of our time.
Haslam has found himself at the center of... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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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
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download and an
unabridged audiobook download.
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An Autobiography
Written by Andre Agassi
Read by Erik Davies
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 9, 2009
Price: $32.00
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
Read by Erik Davies
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 9, 2009
Price: $32.00
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 >
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An Autobiography
Written by Andre Agassi
Read by Erik Davies
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 9, 2009
Price: $16.00
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
Read by Erik Davies
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 9, 2009
Price: $16.00
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 >
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All of Me
Written by Anne Murray and Michael Posner
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $26.00
In this revealing autobiography, Canada’s first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid retrospective of the extraordinary success achieved, and the prices that had to be paid.
“After ‘Snowbird’ hit, I was swept up like Dorothy... Read more >
Written by Anne Murray and Michael Posner
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $26.00
In this revealing autobiography, Canada’s first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid retrospective of the extraordinary success achieved, and the prices that had to be paid.
“After ‘Snowbird’ hit, I was swept up like Dorothy... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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All of Me
Written by Anne Murray and Michael Posner
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $26.00
In this revealing autobiography, Canada’s first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid retrospective of the extraordinary success achieved, and the prices that had to be paid.
“After ‘Snowbird’ hit, I was swept up like Dorothy... Read more >
Written by Anne Murray and Michael Posner
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $26.00
In this revealing autobiography, Canada’s first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid retrospective of the extraordinary success achieved, and the prices that had to be paid.
“After ‘Snowbird’ hit, I was swept up like Dorothy... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Don Cherry's Hockey Stories and Stuff
Written by Don Cherry
As told to Al Strachan
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $15.95
#1 National Bestseller
Don Cherry has been named a National Hockey League Coach of the Year with a winning percentage of over .600 and also received Coach of the Year honours in the American Hockey League. His comments on Hockey Night in Canada’s "Coach's Corner" routinely make headlines as they entertain, educate... Read more >
Written by Don Cherry
As told to Al Strachan
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $15.95
#1 National Bestseller
Don Cherry has been named a National Hockey League Coach of the Year with a winning percentage of over .600 and also received Coach of the Year honours in the American Hockey League. His comments on Hockey Night in Canada’s "Coach's Corner" routinely make headlines as they entertain, educate... Read more >
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Eating
A memoir
Written by Jason Epstein
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $25.00
Jason Epstein, the legendary editor and publisher of Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, and E. L. Doctorow, among many other distinguished writers, and the editor of such great chefs and bakers as Alice Waters, Wolfgang Puck, and Maida Heatter, takes us on a culinary tour through his eventful life, beginning... Read more >
A memoir
Written by Jason Epstein
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $25.00
Jason Epstein, the legendary editor and publisher of Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, and E. L. Doctorow, among many other distinguished writers, and the editor of such great chefs and bakers as Alice Waters, Wolfgang Puck, and Maida Heatter, takes us on a culinary tour through his eventful life, beginning... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Reading Jesus
A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels
Written by Mary Gordon
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $24.95
In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as the driver listens to a religious broadcast, and she reflects that, though a lifelong Christian, she is at odds with many others who identify themselves as Christians. In an effort to understand whether or not she... Read more >
A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels
Written by Mary Gordon
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $24.95
In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as the driver listens to a religious broadcast, and she reflects that, though a lifelong Christian, she is at odds with many others who identify themselves as Christians. In an effort to understand whether or not she... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Reading Jesus
A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels
Written by Mary Gordon
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $24.95
In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as the driver listens to a religious broadcast, and she reflects that, though a lifelong Christian, she is at odds with many others who identify themselves as Christians. In an effort to understand whether or not she... Read more >
A Writer's Encounter with the Gospels
Written by Mary Gordon
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $24.95
In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as the driver listens to a religious broadcast, and she reflects that, though a lifelong Christian, she is at odds with many others who identify themselves as Christians. In an effort to understand whether or not she... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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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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The Way of the World
Written by Nicolas Bouvier
Illustrated by Thierry Vernet
Translated by Robyn Marsack
Introduction by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $16.95
In 1953, twenty-four-year old Nicolas Bouvier and his artist friend Thierry Vernet set out to make their way overland from their native Geneva to the Khyber Pass. They had a rattletrap Fiat and a little money, but above all they were equipped with the certainty that by hook or by crook... Read more >
Written by Nicolas Bouvier
Illustrated by Thierry Vernet
Translated by Robyn Marsack
Introduction by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $16.95
In 1953, twenty-four-year old Nicolas Bouvier and his artist friend Thierry Vernet set out to make their way overland from their native Geneva to the Khyber Pass. They had a rattletrap Fiat and a little money, but above all they were equipped with the certainty that by hook or by crook... Read more >
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The Man Who Lives with Wolves
Written by Shaun Ellis and Penny Junor
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $24.99
What would compel a man to place himself in constant danger in order to become a member of a wolf pack? To eat with them, putting his head into a carcass alongside the wolves' gnashing teeth? To play, hunt, and spar with them, suffering bruises and bites? To learn their language... Read more >
Written by Shaun Ellis and Penny Junor
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $24.99
What would compel a man to place himself in constant danger in order to become a member of a wolf pack? To eat with them, putting his head into a carcass alongside the wolves' gnashing teeth? To play, hunt, and spar with them, suffering bruises and bites? To learn their language... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Man Who Lives with Wolves
Written by Shaun Ellis and Penny Junor
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $24.99
What would compel a man to place himself in constant danger in order to become a member of a wolf pack? To eat with them, putting his head into a carcass alongside the wolves' gnashing teeth? To play, hunt, and spar with them, suffering bruises and bites? To learn their language... Read more >
Written by Shaun Ellis and Penny Junor
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $24.99
What would compel a man to place himself in constant danger in order to become a member of a wolf pack? To eat with them, putting his head into a carcass alongside the wolves' gnashing teeth? To play, hunt, and spar with them, suffering bruises and bites? To learn their language... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 20, 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: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 20, 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 a
hardcover.
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One and the Same
My Life as an Identical Twin and What I've Learned About Everyone's Struggle to Be Singular
Written by Abigail Pogrebin
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $26.95
The author of Stars of David and a twin herself, journalist Abigail Pogrebin offers a poignant and personal look at what it's really like to live with your mirror image and tells the story of many twins who struggle to balance intimacy and individuality.
Writer. Mother. Wife. New Yorker. Abigail Pogrebin is... Read more >
My Life as an Identical Twin and What I've Learned About Everyone's Struggle to Be Singular
Written by Abigail Pogrebin
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $26.95
The author of Stars of David and a twin herself, journalist Abigail Pogrebin offers a poignant and personal look at what it's really like to live with your mirror image and tells the story of many twins who struggle to balance intimacy and individuality.
Writer. Mother. Wife. New Yorker. Abigail Pogrebin is... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Animal Magnetism
My Life with Creatures Great and Small
Written by Rita Mae Brown
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $25.00
Rita Mae Brown’s earliest memory is of the soothing purr of Mickey, her family’s long-haired tiger cat, who curled up and claimed a spot in her crib. From there, a steady parade of cats, dogs, horses, and all manner of two- and four-legged critters have walked, galloped, and flown into and... Read more >
My Life with Creatures Great and Small
Written by Rita Mae Brown
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $25.00
Rita Mae Brown’s earliest memory is of the soothing purr of Mickey, her family’s long-haired tiger cat, who curled up and claimed a spot in her crib. From there, a steady parade of cats, dogs, horses, and all manner of two- and four-legged critters have walked, galloped, and flown into and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Animal Magnetism
My Life with Creatures Great and Small
Written by Rita Mae Brown
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $25.00
Rita Mae Brown’s earliest memory is of the soothing purr of Mickey, her family’s long-haired tiger cat, who curled up and claimed a spot in her crib. From there, a steady parade of cats, dogs, horses, and all manner of two- and four-legged critters have walked, galloped, and flown into and... Read more >
My Life with Creatures Great and Small
Written by Rita Mae Brown
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $25.00
Rita Mae Brown’s earliest memory is of the soothing purr of Mickey, her family’s long-haired tiger cat, who curled up and claimed a spot in her crib. From there, a steady parade of cats, dogs, horses, and all manner of two- and four-legged critters have walked, galloped, and flown into and... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Bay of Spirits
A Love Story
Written by Farley Mowat
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $16.95
In 1957, Farley Mowat shipped out aboard one of Newfoundland’s famous coastal steamers, tramping from outport to outport along the southwest coast. The indomitable spirit of the people and the bleak beauty of the landscape would lure him back again and again over the years. In the process of falling in... Read more >
A Love Story
Written by Farley Mowat
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $16.95
In 1957, Farley Mowat shipped out aboard one of Newfoundland’s famous coastal steamers, tramping from outport to outport along the southwest coast. The indomitable spirit of the people and the bleak beauty of the landscape would lure him back again and again over the years. In the process of falling in... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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A Journal for Jordan
A Story of Love and Honor
Written by Dana Canedy
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $15.00
"This book is a gift, and not only to Jordan."–USA Today
In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. He was killed by a roadside bomb on October... Read more >
A Story of Love and Honor
Written by Dana Canedy
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $15.00
"This book is a gift, and not only to Jordan."–USA Today
In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. He was killed by a roadside bomb on October... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
hardcover.
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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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American Prince
A Memoir
Written by Tony Curtis and Peter Golenbock
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
"Curtis spares few intimate details about his years as a Hollywood lothario, including his teenage affair with a redheaded, ponytailed Marilyn Monroe."–USA Today
He was the Golden Boy of the Golden Age. Dashing and debonair, Tony Curtis arrived on the scene in a blaze of bright lights and celluloid. His good looks... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Tony Curtis and Peter Golenbock
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
"Curtis spares few intimate details about his years as a Hollywood lothario, including his teenage affair with a redheaded, ponytailed Marilyn Monroe."–USA Today
He was the Golden Boy of the Golden Age. Dashing and debonair, Tony Curtis arrived on the scene in a blaze of bright lights and celluloid. His good looks... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
hardcover.
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Blue Genes
A Memoir of Loss and Survival
Written by Christopher Lukas
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
Christopher (Kit) Lukas’s mother committed suicide when he was a boy. He and his brother, Tony, were not told how she died. No one spoke of the family’s history of depression and bipolar disorder. The brothers grew up to achieve remarkable success; Tony as a gifted journalist (and author of the... Read more >
A Memoir of Loss and Survival
Written by Christopher Lukas
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
Christopher (Kit) Lukas’s mother committed suicide when he was a boy. He and his brother, Tony, were not told how she died. No one spoke of the family’s history of depression and bipolar disorder. The brothers grew up to achieve remarkable success; Tony as a gifted journalist (and author of the... Read more >
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Impossible Motherhood
Testimony of an Abortion Addict
Written by Irene Vilar
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.95
Irene Vilar was just a pliant young college undergraduate in thrall to her professor when they embarked on a relationship that led to marriage—a union of impossible odds—and fifteen abortions in fifteen years. Vilar knows that she is destined to be misunderstood, that many will see her nightmare as an instance... Read more >
Testimony of an Abortion Addict
Written by Irene Vilar
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.95
Irene Vilar was just a pliant young college undergraduate in thrall to her professor when they embarked on a relationship that led to marriage—a union of impossible odds—and fifteen abortions in fifteen years. Vilar knows that she is destined to be misunderstood, that many will see her nightmare as an instance... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
