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Stranger Among Friends
Written by David Mixner
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: November 25, 2009
Price: $19.00
"From my fear of coming out to coming on strong in the struggle for human rights, this is my American journey, the story of an outsider on the inside, a gay man proudly committed to a life of standing up for freedom.
"President Clinton and I were born three days apart. We had... Read more >
Written by David Mixner
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: November 25, 2009
Price: $19.00
"From my fear of coming out to coming on strong in the struggle for human rights, this is my American journey, the story of an outsider on the inside, a gay man proudly committed to a life of standing up for freedom.
"President Clinton and I were born three days apart. We had... Read more >
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Hell or High Water
My Life in and out of Politics
Written by Paul Martin
Format: Trade Paperback, 504 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $18.95
National bestseller
Paul Martin was the Prime Minister we never really knew — in this memoir he emerges as a fascinating flesh and blood man, still working hard to make a better world.
“The next thing you know, I was in a jail cell.” (Chapter 2)
“From the moment I flipped his truck... Read more >
My Life in and out of Politics
Written by Paul Martin
Format: Trade Paperback, 504 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $18.95
National bestseller
Paul Martin was the Prime Minister we never really knew — in this memoir he emerges as a fascinating flesh and blood man, still working hard to make a better world.
“The next thing you know, I was in a jail cell.” (Chapter 2)
“From the moment I flipped his truck... Read more >
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Hell or High Water
My Life in and out of Politics
Written by Paul Martin
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $18.95
National bestseller
Paul Martin was the Prime Minister we never really knew — in this memoir he emerges as a fascinating flesh and blood man, still working hard to make a better world.
“The next thing you know, I was in a jail cell.” (Chapter 2)
“From the moment I flipped his truck... Read more >
My Life in and out of Politics
Written by Paul Martin
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $18.95
National bestseller
Paul Martin was the Prime Minister we never really knew — in this memoir he emerges as a fascinating flesh and blood man, still working hard to make a better world.
“The next thing you know, I was in a jail cell.” (Chapter 2)
“From the moment I flipped his truck... Read more >
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Just Watch Me
The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000
Written by John English
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $
This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.
His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories... Read more >
The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000
Written by John English
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $
This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.
His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories... Read more >
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Just Watch Me
The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000
Written by John English
Format: Hardcover, 832 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $33.95
This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.
His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories... Read more >
The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000
Written by John English
Format: Hardcover, 832 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $33.95
This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.
His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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First Ladies
An Intimate Group Portrait of White House Wives
Written by Margaret Truman
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $16.00
This well-informed, intimate look at 29 women whose lives were intertwined with those who lead and have led this country presents forthright interviews with Lady Bird Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan, and others, while warmly recalling Pat Nixon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Ms. Truman's legendary frankness is present but so, too... Read more >
An Intimate Group Portrait of White House Wives
Written by Margaret Truman
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $16.00
This well-informed, intimate look at 29 women whose lives were intertwined with those who lead and have led this country presents forthright interviews with Lady Bird Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan, and others, while warmly recalling Pat Nixon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Ms. Truman's legendary frankness is present but so, too... Read more >
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Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
Written by Anthony Everitt
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $30.00
Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt, whose Augustus was praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “a narrative of sustained drama and skillful analysis,” is the rare writer whose work both informs and enthralls. In Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome–the first major account of the emperor in nearly a century–Everitt presents a compelling... Read more >
Written by Anthony Everitt
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $30.00
Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt, whose Augustus was praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “a narrative of sustained drama and skillful analysis,” is the rare writer whose work both informs and enthralls. In Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome–the first major account of the emperor in nearly a century–Everitt presents a compelling... Read more >
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Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
Written by Anthony Everitt
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $30.00
Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt, whose Augustus was praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “a narrative of sustained drama and skillful analysis,” is the rare writer whose work both informs and enthralls. In Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome–the first major account of the emperor in nearly a century–Everitt presents a compelling... Read more >
Written by Anthony Everitt
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $30.00
Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt, whose Augustus was praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “a narrative of sustained drama and skillful analysis,” is the rare writer whose work both informs and enthralls. In Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome–the first major account of the emperor in nearly a century–Everitt presents a compelling... Read more >
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A Sense of Belonging
From Castro's Cuba to the U.S. Senate, One Man's Pursuit of the American Dream
Written by Mel Martinez
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $15.00
The remarkable story of how a teenager rescued from Castro’s Cuba rose to become a United States senator
The swift and improbable rise of Mel Martinez to the top echelon of America’s government began not with a political race but with a burst of gunfire. In April 1958, an eleven-year-old Martinez huddled... Read more >
From Castro's Cuba to the U.S. Senate, One Man's Pursuit of the American Dream
Written by Mel Martinez
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $15.00
The remarkable story of how a teenager rescued from Castro’s Cuba rose to become a United States senator
The swift and improbable rise of Mel Martinez to the top echelon of America’s government began not with a political race but with a burst of gunfire. In April 1958, an eleven-year-old Martinez huddled... Read more >
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Companero
The Life and Death of Che Guevara
Written by Jorge Castaneda
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 16, 2009
Price: $16.95
Cuando llegó el momento en que fue muerto en las selvas de Bolivia, donde su cuerpo fue exhibido como un Cristo destronado, Ernesto "Che Guevara se había convertido en sinónimo de revolución en todas partes desde Cuba hasta los terrenos universitarios de los Estados Unidos. Esta biografía extraordinaria por uno de los... Read more >
The Life and Death of Che Guevara
Written by Jorge Castaneda
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 16, 2009
Price: $16.95
Cuando llegó el momento en que fue muerto en las selvas de Bolivia, donde su cuerpo fue exhibido como un Cristo destronado, Ernesto "Che Guevara se había convertido en sinónimo de revolución en todas partes desde Cuba hasta los terrenos universitarios de los Estados Unidos. Esta biografía extraordinaria por uno de los... Read more >
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Toussaint Louverture
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
In 1791, Saint Domingue was both the richest and cruelest colony in the Western Hemisphere; more than a third of African slaves died within a few years of their arrival there. Thirteen years later, Haitian rebels declared independence from France after the first--and only--successful slave revolution in history. Much of the... Read more >
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
In 1791, Saint Domingue was both the richest and cruelest colony in the Western Hemisphere; more than a third of African slaves died within a few years of their arrival there. Thirteen years later, Haitian rebels declared independence from France after the first--and only--successful slave revolution in history. Much of the... Read more >
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Barack Obama For Beginners, Updated Edition
An Essential Guide
Written by Bob Neer
Illustrated by Joe Lee
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $12.95
Barack Obama For Beginners: An Essential Guide is the most concise and reliable short biography available on the 44th President of the United States – from his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, education at Columbia and Harvard, work as a community organizer, writer, teacher, lawyer, and politician in Illinois, to his... Read more >
An Essential Guide
Written by Bob Neer
Illustrated by Joe Lee
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $12.95
Barack Obama For Beginners: An Essential Guide is the most concise and reliable short biography available on the 44th President of the United States – from his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, education at Columbia and Harvard, work as a community organizer, writer, teacher, lawyer, and politician in Illinois, to his... Read more >
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eBook.
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Barack Obama For Beginners, Updated Edition
An Essential Guide
Written by Bob Neer
Illustrated by Joe Lee
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $12.95
Barack Obama For Beginners: An Essential Guide is the most concise and reliable short biography available on the 44th President of the United States – from his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, education at Columbia and Harvard, work as a community organizer, writer, teacher, lawyer, and politician in Illinois, to his... Read more >
An Essential Guide
Written by Bob Neer
Illustrated by Joe Lee
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $12.95
Barack Obama For Beginners: An Essential Guide is the most concise and reliable short biography available on the 44th President of the United States – from his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, education at Columbia and Harvard, work as a community organizer, writer, teacher, lawyer, and politician in Illinois, to his... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Dawn Dusk or Night
A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy
Written by Yasmina Reza
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $15.00
From celebrated playwright-novelist Yasmina Reza comes an unprecedented account of her year spent with French president Nicolas Sarkozy. This utterly unorthodox portrait is written in a captivatingly impressionistic style: their exchanges exist as a play of words and glances, framed as scenes from a headlong drama. Along the campaign trail, in... Read more >
A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy
Written by Yasmina Reza
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $15.00
From celebrated playwright-novelist Yasmina Reza comes an unprecedented account of her year spent with French president Nicolas Sarkozy. This utterly unorthodox portrait is written in a captivatingly impressionistic style: their exchanges exist as a play of words and glances, framed as scenes from a headlong drama. Along the campaign trail, in... Read more >
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Kingfish
The Reign of Huey P. Long
Written by Richard White
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $17.00
From the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin’s bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless ambition and ruthless vindictiveness, Long orchestrated elections, hired and fired thousands at will, and... Read more >
The Reign of Huey P. Long
Written by Richard White
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $17.00
From the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin’s bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless ambition and ruthless vindictiveness, Long orchestrated elections, hired and fired thousands at will, and... Read more >
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The Woman Behind the New Deal
The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
Written by Kirstin Downey
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: March 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. Based on eight years of research, extensive archival materials, new documents, and exclusive access to Perkins’s family members and friends, this biography is the first complete portrait of a devoted... Read more >
The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
Written by Kirstin Downey
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: March 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. Based on eight years of research, extensive archival materials, new documents, and exclusive access to Perkins’s family members and friends, this biography is the first complete portrait of a devoted... Read more >
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The Woman Behind the New Deal
The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
Written by Kirstin Downey
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: March 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
Written by Kirstin Downey
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: March 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. Based on eight years of research, extensive archival materials, new documents, and exclusive access to Perkins’s family members and friends, this biography is the first complete portrait of a devoted...
Read more >
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Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada
Written by William Johnson
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $18.95
There has never been a book about Stephen Harper, yet on June 28 he came close to being our prime minister. If Paul Martin miscalculates, Stephen Harper could be our next prime minister in months, not years.
Who is this man? Everyone knows that he became leader of the Alliance Party and... Read more >
Written by William Johnson
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $18.95
There has never been a book about Stephen Harper, yet on June 28 he came close to being our prime minister. If Paul Martin miscalculates, Stephen Harper could be our next prime minister in months, not years.
Who is this man? Everyone knows that he became leader of the Alliance Party and... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Way It Works
Inside Ottawa
Written by Eddie Goldenberg
Format: eBook, 408 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $17.95
The ultimate insider takes us behind the scenes, in the book everyone is waiting for.
As Jean Chrétien’s right-hand man for thirty years in Ministries all over Ottawa, Eddie Goldenberg got to know how things worked — especially from 1993 to 2003, when he was Senior Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister.
What... Read more >
Inside Ottawa
Written by Eddie Goldenberg
Format: eBook, 408 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $17.95
The ultimate insider takes us behind the scenes, in the book everyone is waiting for.
As Jean Chrétien’s right-hand man for thirty years in Ministries all over Ottawa, Eddie Goldenberg got to know how things worked — especially from 1993 to 2003, when he was Senior Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister.
What... Read more >
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Condoleezza Rice: An American Life
A Biography
Written by Elisabeth Bumiller
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $17.00
Condoleezza Rice, one of the most powerful and controversial women in the world, has until now remained a mystery behind an elegant, cool veneer. New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller peels back the layers and presents a revelatory portrait of the first black female secretary of state and President George W... Read more >
A Biography
Written by Elisabeth Bumiller
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $17.00
Condoleezza Rice, one of the most powerful and controversial women in the world, has until now remained a mystery behind an elegant, cool veneer. New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller peels back the layers and presents a revelatory portrait of the first black female secretary of state and President George W... Read more >
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Pierre
Colleagues and Friends Talk about the Trudeau They Knew
Edited by Nancy Southam
Format: eBook, 408 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $16.50
#1 national bestseller
When Pierre Elliott Trudeau died in 2000, the outpouring of emotion was extraordinary. Thousands of people across Canada — and all over the world — mourned the loss of one of our greatest prime ministers, a man who touched the hearts and challenged the minds of a nation. In... Read more >
Colleagues and Friends Talk about the Trudeau They Knew
Edited by Nancy Southam
Format: eBook, 408 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $16.50
#1 national bestseller
When Pierre Elliott Trudeau died in 2000, the outpouring of emotion was extraordinary. Thousands of people across Canada — and all over the world — mourned the loss of one of our greatest prime ministers, a man who touched the hearts and challenged the minds of a nation. In... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Hell or High Water
My Life in and out of Politics
Written by Paul Martin
Format: Hardcover, 504 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $37.99
National bestseller
Paul Martin was the Prime Minister we never really knew — in this memoir he emerges as a fascinating flesh and blood man, still working hard to make a better world.
“The next thing you know, I was in a jail cell.” (Chapter 2)
“From the moment I flipped his truck... Read more >
My Life in and out of Politics
Written by Paul Martin
Format: Hardcover, 504 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $37.99
National bestseller
Paul Martin was the Prime Minister we never really knew — in this memoir he emerges as a fascinating flesh and blood man, still working hard to make a better world.
“The next thing you know, I was in a jail cell.” (Chapter 2)
“From the moment I flipped his truck... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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This Time, This Place
My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood
Written by Jack Valenti
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $15.95
“[Jack Valenti] lived his life as a gentleman and patriot...He might have been the last of the breed.” —New York Times
An Influential and Varied Life
The list of notable names—people that Jack Valenti knew and with whom he worked—is astonishing. Aside from LBJ, there were Jack and Bobby Kennedy, Kirk Douglas, Frank... Read more >
My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood
Written by Jack Valenti
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $15.95
“[Jack Valenti] lived his life as a gentleman and patriot...He might have been the last of the breed.” —New York Times
An Influential and Varied Life
The list of notable names—people that Jack Valenti knew and with whom he worked—is astonishing. Aside from LBJ, there were Jack and Bobby Kennedy, Kirk Douglas, Frank... Read more >
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Undiplomatic Diaries
1937-1971
Written by Charles Ritchie
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $24.99
With an Introduction by Allan Gotlieb
One of Canada’s most distinguished diplomats, Charles Ritchie was also a born diarist. Now, for the first time, Ritchie’s diplomatic diaries are collected in one complete volume, covering his entire career in the Canadian Foreign Service. Ritchie creates a startlingly vivid and perceptive portrait of daily... Read more >
1937-1971
Written by Charles Ritchie
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $24.99
With an Introduction by Allan Gotlieb
One of Canada’s most distinguished diplomats, Charles Ritchie was also a born diarist. Now, for the first time, Ritchie’s diplomatic diaries are collected in one complete volume, covering his entire career in the Canadian Foreign Service. Ritchie creates a startlingly vivid and perceptive portrait of daily... Read more >
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Young Stalin
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $18.00
Based on ten years' astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy became a student priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary, and the merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image: How Stalin became Stalin. Read more >
Written by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $18.00
Based on ten years' astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy became a student priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary, and the merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image: How Stalin became Stalin. Read more >
