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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 >
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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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An Autobiography
Written by Andre Agassi
Read by Erik Davies
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 9, 2009
Price: $27.50
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: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 9, 2009
Price: $27.50
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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Jacques Plante
The Man Who Changed the Face of Hockey
Written by Todd Denault
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $26.95
The first full-scale biography of a legendary and award-winning NHL goalie who transformed the game.
“There are a lot of very good goalies, there are even a fair number of great goalies. But there aren’t many important goalies. And Jacques Plante was an important goalie.” Ken Dryden
On and off the ice Jacques... Read more >
The Man Who Changed the Face of Hockey
Written by Todd Denault
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $26.95
The first full-scale biography of a legendary and award-winning NHL goalie who transformed the game.
“There are a lot of very good goalies, there are even a fair number of great goalies. But there aren’t many important goalies. And Jacques Plante was an important goalie.” Ken Dryden
On and off the ice Jacques... Read more >
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Jacques Plante
The Man Who Changed the Face of Hockey
Written by Todd Denault
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $26.95
The first full-scale biography of a legendary and award-winning NHL goalie who transformed the game.
“There are a lot of very good goalies, there are even a fair number of great goalies. But there aren’t many important goalies. And Jacques Plante was an important goalie.” Ken Dryden
On and off the ice Jacques... Read more >
The Man Who Changed the Face of Hockey
Written by Todd Denault
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $26.95
The first full-scale biography of a legendary and award-winning NHL goalie who transformed the game.
“There are a lot of very good goalies, there are even a fair number of great goalies. But there aren’t many important goalies. And Jacques Plante was an important goalie.” Ken Dryden
On and off the ice Jacques... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Sweet Thunder
The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson
Written by Wil Haygood
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $27.95
From the author of the critically acclaimed In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr., comes another illuminating socio-historical narrative of the twentieth century, this one spun around one of the most iconic figures of the fight game, Sugar Ray Robinson.
Continuing to set himself apart as one of our... Read more >
The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson
Written by Wil Haygood
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $27.95
From the author of the critically acclaimed In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr., comes another illuminating socio-historical narrative of the twentieth century, this one spun around one of the most iconic figures of the fight game, Sugar Ray Robinson.
Continuing to set himself apart as one of our... Read more >
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Sweet Thunder
Written by Wil Haygood
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $27.95
From the author of the critically acclaimed In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr., comes another illuminating socio-historical narrative of the twentieth century, this one spun around one of the most iconic figures of the fight game, Sugar Ray Robinson.
Continuing to set himself apart as one of our... Read more >
Written by Wil Haygood
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $27.95
From the author of the critically acclaimed In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr., comes another illuminating socio-historical narrative of the twentieth century, this one spun around one of the most iconic figures of the fight game, Sugar Ray Robinson.
Continuing to set himself apart as one of our... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Resilience
Written by Alonzo Mourning and Dan Wetzel
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $15.00
In 2000, Alonzo Mourning was on top of the world: He had a fat new NBA contract, an Olympic gold medal, and a second beautiful child–plus the fame and wealth he had earned playing the game he loved. But in September of that year he was diagnosed with a rare and... Read more >
Written by Alonzo Mourning and Dan Wetzel
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $15.00
In 2000, Alonzo Mourning was on top of the world: He had a fat new NBA contract, an Olympic gold medal, and a second beautiful child–plus the fame and wealth he had earned playing the game he loved. But in September of that year he was diagnosed with a rare and... Read more >
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Swimming to Antarctica
Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2009
Price: $24.95
• At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland.
• At ages fifteen and sixteen, she broke the men’s and women’s world records for swimming the English Channel—a thirty-three-mile crossing in nine hours, thirty-six minutes.
• At eighteen, she swam the twenty-mile Cook Strait between North and South Islands of... Read more >
Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
Written by Lynne Cox
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2009
Price: $24.95
• At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland.
• At ages fifteen and sixteen, she broke the men’s and women’s world records for swimming the English Channel—a thirty-three-mile crossing in nine hours, thirty-six minutes.
• At eighteen, she swam the twenty-mile Cook Strait between North and South Islands of... Read more >
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Barney Ross
The Life of a Jewish Fighter
Written by Douglas Century
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $12.95
Born Dov-Ber Rasofsky to Eastern European immigrant parents, Barney Ross grew up in a tough Chicago neighborhood and witnessed his father’s murder, his mother’s nervous breakdown, and the dispatching of his three younger siblings to an orphanage, all before he turned fourteen. To make enough money to reunite the family, Ross... Read more >
The Life of a Jewish Fighter
Written by Douglas Century
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $12.95
Born Dov-Ber Rasofsky to Eastern European immigrant parents, Barney Ross grew up in a tough Chicago neighborhood and witnessed his father’s murder, his mother’s nervous breakdown, and the dispatching of his three younger siblings to an orphanage, all before he turned fourteen. To make enough money to reunite the family, Ross... Read more >
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Barney Ross
The Life of a Jewish Fighter
Written by Douglas Century
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $12.95
Born Dov-Ber Rasofsky to Eastern European immigrant parents, Barney Ross grew up in a tough Chicago neighborhood and witnessed his father’s murder, his mother’s nervous breakdown, and the dispatching of his three younger siblings to an orphanage, all before he turned fourteen. To make enough money to reunite the family, Ross... Read more >
The Life of a Jewish Fighter
Written by Douglas Century
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $12.95
Born Dov-Ber Rasofsky to Eastern European immigrant parents, Barney Ross grew up in a tough Chicago neighborhood and witnessed his father’s murder, his mother’s nervous breakdown, and the dispatching of his three younger siblings to an orphanage, all before he turned fourteen. To make enough money to reunite the family, Ross... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Satchel
The Life and Times of an American Legend
Written by Larry Tye
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $26.00
He is that rare American icon who has never been captured in a biography worthy of him. Now, at last, here is the superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige.
Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. Through... Read more >
The Life and Times of an American Legend
Written by Larry Tye
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $26.00
He is that rare American icon who has never been captured in a biography worthy of him. Now, at last, here is the superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige.
Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. Through... Read more >
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A Champion's Mind
Lessons from a Life in Tennis
Written by Pete Sampras and Peter Bodo
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $15.00
In A Champion’s Mind, the tennis great who so often exhibited visible discomfort with letting people “inside his head” finally opens up. An athletic prodigy, Pete resolved from his earliest playing days never to let anything get in the way of his love for the game. But while this determination led... Read more >
Lessons from a Life in Tennis
Written by Pete Sampras and Peter Bodo
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $15.00
In A Champion’s Mind, the tennis great who so often exhibited visible discomfort with letting people “inside his head” finally opens up. An athletic prodigy, Pete resolved from his earliest playing days never to let anything get in the way of his love for the game. But while this determination led... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
hardcover.
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Hard Driving
The Wendell Scott Story
Written by Brian Donovan
Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $16.99
Hard Driving is the dramatic story of one man’s dogged determination to live the life he loved, and to compete, despite daunting obstacles, at the highest level of his sport.
Wendell Scott figured he was signing up for trouble when he became nascar’s version of Jackie Robinson in the segregated 1950s. Some... Read more >
The Wendell Scott Story
Written by Brian Donovan
Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $16.99
Hard Driving is the dramatic story of one man’s dogged determination to live the life he loved, and to compete, despite daunting obstacles, at the highest level of his sport.
Wendell Scott figured he was signing up for trouble when he became nascar’s version of Jackie Robinson in the segregated 1950s. Some... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Mysterious Montague
A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robbery
Written by Leigh Montville
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.00
John Montague was a boisterous enigma. In the 1930s, he was called “the world's greatest golfer” by famed sportswriter Grantland Rice. He could drive the ball 300 yards and more, or he could chip it across a room into a highball glass. He played golf with everyone from Howard Hughes and... Read more >
A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robbery
Written by Leigh Montville
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.00
John Montague was a boisterous enigma. In the 1930s, he was called “the world's greatest golfer” by famed sportswriter Grantland Rice. He could drive the ball 300 yards and more, or he could chip it across a room into a highball glass. He played golf with everyone from Howard Hughes and... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
hardcover.
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Crystal Clear
The Inspiring Story of How an Olympic Athlete Lost His Legs Due to Crystal Meth and Found a Better Life
Written by Eric Le Marque and Davin Seay
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $24.00
In this gripping first-person account, former Olympian Eric LeMarque recounts a harrowing tale of survival—of eight days in the frozen wilderness, of losing his legs to frostbite, and coming face-to-face with death. But Eric’s ordeal on the mountain was only part of his struggle for survival—as he reveals, with startling candor... Read more >
The Inspiring Story of How an Olympic Athlete Lost His Legs Due to Crystal Meth and Found a Better Life
Written by Eric Le Marque and Davin Seay
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $24.00
In this gripping first-person account, former Olympian Eric LeMarque recounts a harrowing tale of survival—of eight days in the frozen wilderness, of losing his legs to frostbite, and coming face-to-face with death. But Eric’s ordeal on the mountain was only part of his struggle for survival—as he reveals, with startling candor... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Crystal Clear
The Inspiring Story of How an Olympic Athlete Lost His Legs Due to Crystal Meth and Found a Better Life
Written by Eric Le Marque and Davin Seay
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $24.00
In this gripping first-person account, former Olympian Eric LeMarque recounts a harrowing tale of survival—of eight days in the frozen wilderness, of losing his legs to frostbite, and coming face-to-face with death. But Eric’s ordeal on the mountain was only part of his struggle for survival—as he reveals, with startling candor... Read more >
The Inspiring Story of How an Olympic Athlete Lost His Legs Due to Crystal Meth and Found a Better Life
Written by Eric Le Marque and Davin Seay
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $24.00
In this gripping first-person account, former Olympian Eric LeMarque recounts a harrowing tale of survival—of eight days in the frozen wilderness, of losing his legs to frostbite, and coming face-to-face with death. But Eric’s ordeal on the mountain was only part of his struggle for survival—as he reveals, with startling candor... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Tunney
Boxing's Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey
Written by Jack Cavanaugh
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $15.95
Among the legendary athletes of the 1920s, the unquestioned halcyon days of sports, stands Gene Tunney, the boxer who upset Jack Dempsey in spectacular fashion, notched a 77—1 record as a prizefighter, and later avenged his sole setback (to a fearless and highly unorthodox fighter named Harry Greb). Yet within a... Read more >
Boxing's Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey
Written by Jack Cavanaugh
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $15.95
Among the legendary athletes of the 1920s, the unquestioned halcyon days of sports, stands Gene Tunney, the boxer who upset Jack Dempsey in spectacular fashion, notched a 77—1 record as a prizefighter, and later avenged his sole setback (to a fearless and highly unorthodox fighter named Harry Greb). Yet within a... Read more >
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The 33-Year-Old Rookie
My 13-Year Journey from the Minor Leagues to the World Series
Written by Chris Coste
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $15.00
Chris Coste dreamed of playing major-league baseball from the age of seven. But after eleven grueling years in the minors, a spot on a major-league roster still seemed just out of his reach–until that fateful call came from the Philadelphia Phillies in May 2006. At age thirty-three (“going on eighty”), Coste... Read more >
My 13-Year Journey from the Minor Leagues to the World Series
Written by Chris Coste
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $15.00
Chris Coste dreamed of playing major-league baseball from the age of seven. But after eleven grueling years in the minors, a spot on a major-league roster still seemed just out of his reach–until that fateful call came from the Philadelphia Phillies in May 2006. At age thirty-three (“going on eighty”), Coste... Read more >
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Standing Tall
A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph
Written by C. Vivian Stringer and Laura Tucker
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 3, 2009
Price: $14.95
“Lots of people have dreams, but C. Vivian Stringer is the dream—a coalminer’s daughter who believed when her Poppa told her there was no obstacle she could not surmount. And she lives that dream, teaching others to rise up to meet challenges, turning underdogs into champions again and again—on and off... Read more >
A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph
Written by C. Vivian Stringer and Laura Tucker
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 3, 2009
Price: $14.95
“Lots of people have dreams, but C. Vivian Stringer is the dream—a coalminer’s daughter who believed when her Poppa told her there was no obstacle she could not surmount. And she lives that dream, teaching others to rise up to meet challenges, turning underdogs into champions again and again—on and off... Read more >
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My Life
Written by Earvin Magic Johnson
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $7.99
"A true emotional phenomenon...Entertaining...Of particular interest to fans will be the evolution of Johnson's relationship with Bird, his great karmic partner in the game."
NEW YORK NEWSDAY
He's faced challenges all of his life, but now Magic Johnson faces the biggest challenge of all, his own brave battle with HIV. In this dramatic... Read more >
Written by Earvin Magic Johnson
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $7.99
"A true emotional phenomenon...Entertaining...Of particular interest to fans will be the evolution of Johnson's relationship with Bird, his great karmic partner in the game."
NEW YORK NEWSDAY
He's faced challenges all of his life, but now Magic Johnson faces the biggest challenge of all, his own brave battle with HIV. In this dramatic... Read more >
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The Yankee Years
Written by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $26.95
Written by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $26.95
Twelve straight playoff appearances. Six American League pennants. Four World Series titles. This is the definitive story of a dynasty: the Yankee years
When Joe Torre took over as manager of the New York Yankees in 1996, the most storied franchise in sports had not won a World Series title in eighteen...
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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The Yankee Years
Written by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
Read by Tom Verducci
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $34.95
Twelve straight playoff appearances. Six American League pennants. Four World Series titles. This is the definitive story of a dynasty: the Yankee years
When Joe Torre took over as manager of the New York Yankees in 1996, the most storied franchise in sports had not won a World Series title in eighteen... Read more >
Written by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
Read by Tom Verducci
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $34.95
Twelve straight playoff appearances. Six American League pennants. Four World Series titles. This is the definitive story of a dynasty: the Yankee years
When Joe Torre took over as manager of the New York Yankees in 1996, the most storied franchise in sports had not won a World Series title in eighteen... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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The Yankee Years
Written by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
Read by Tom Verducci
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $17.50
Twelve straight playoff appearances. Six American League pennants. Four World Series titles. This is the definitive story of a dynasty: the Yankee years
When Joe Torre took over as manager of the New York Yankees in 1996, the most storied franchise in sports had not won a World Series title in eighteen... Read more >
Written by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
Read by Tom Verducci
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $17.50
Twelve straight playoff appearances. Six American League pennants. Four World Series titles. This is the definitive story of a dynasty: the Yankee years
When Joe Torre took over as manager of the New York Yankees in 1996, the most storied franchise in sports had not won a World Series title in eighteen... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
