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From the Ground Up
A Food Grower's Education in Life, Love, and the Movement That's Changing the Nation
Written by Jeanne Nolan
Foreword by Alice Waters
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $26.00
An inspiring story for everyone who’s ever dreamed of growing the food they eat
When Jeanne Nolan, a teenager in search of a less materialistic, more authentic existence, left Chicago in 1987 to join a communal farm, she had no idea that her decades-long journey would lead her to the... Read more >
A Food Grower's Education in Life, Love, and the Movement That's Changing the Nation
Written by Jeanne Nolan
Foreword by Alice Waters
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $26.00
An inspiring story for everyone who’s ever dreamed of growing the food they eat
When Jeanne Nolan, a teenager in search of a less materialistic, more authentic existence, left Chicago in 1987 to join a communal farm, she had no idea that her decades-long journey would lead her to the... Read more >
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From the Ground Up
A Food Grower's Education in Life, Love, and the Movement That's Changing the Nation
Written by Jeanne Nolan
Foreword by Alice Waters
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $13.99
An inspiring story for everyone who’s ever dreamed of growing the food they eat
When Jeanne Nolan, a teenager in search of a less materialistic, more authentic existence, left Chicago in 1987 to join a communal farm, she had no idea that her decades-long journey would lead her to the... Read more >
A Food Grower's Education in Life, Love, and the Movement That's Changing the Nation
Written by Jeanne Nolan
Foreword by Alice Waters
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $13.99
An inspiring story for everyone who’s ever dreamed of growing the food they eat
When Jeanne Nolan, a teenager in search of a less materialistic, more authentic existence, left Chicago in 1987 to join a communal farm, she had no idea that her decades-long journey would lead her to the... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Klonopin Lunch
A Memoir
Written by Jessica Dorfman Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $14.00
Gritty. Dirty. Hard-core. Transformative. Funny. This is the real Sex and the City.
By her late twenties, Jessica Dorfman Jones had dutifully achieved everything she thought she was supposed to: marriage, law degree, high-paying job, nice apartment in Greenwich Village. But she was miserable and felt like she was living... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Jessica Dorfman Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $14.00
Gritty. Dirty. Hard-core. Transformative. Funny. This is the real Sex and the City.
By her late twenties, Jessica Dorfman Jones had dutifully achieved everything she thought she was supposed to: marriage, law degree, high-paying job, nice apartment in Greenwich Village. But she was miserable and felt like she was living... Read more >
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Zealot
The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Written by Reza Aslan
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $27.00
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth.
Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish... Read more >
The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Written by Reza Aslan
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $27.00
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth.
Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
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Zealot
The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Written by Reza Aslan
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $13.99
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth.
Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish... Read more >
The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Written by Reza Aslan
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $13.99
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth.
Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
Zealot
The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Written by Reza Aslan
Read by Reza Aslan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $17.50
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth.
Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish... Read more >
The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Written by Reza Aslan
Read by Reza Aslan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $17.50
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth.
Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish... Read more >
Death of a Jewish American Princess
The True Story of a Victim on Trial
Written by Shirley Frondorf
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 10, 2013
Price: $11.99
In 1982, a sensational murder trial in Phoenix, Arizona, reverberated throughout the legal community. Restaurateur Steven Steinberg, who killed his wife by stabbing her 26 times, was acquitted; his legal defense portrayed the victim as an overpowering "Jewish American Princess" whose excesses may have provoked her violent end. Examining the structure... Read more >
The True Story of a Victim on Trial
Written by Shirley Frondorf
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 10, 2013
Price: $11.99
In 1982, a sensational murder trial in Phoenix, Arizona, reverberated throughout the legal community. Restaurateur Steven Steinberg, who killed his wife by stabbing her 26 times, was acquitted; his legal defense portrayed the victim as an overpowering "Jewish American Princess" whose excesses may have provoked her violent end. Examining the structure... Read more >
An Afghanistan Picture Show
Or, How I Saved the World
Written by William T. Vollmann
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
Never before available in paperback and all but invisible for twenty years, a personal account of the origins of America's longest war.
In 1982, the young William Vollmann worked odd jobs, including as a secretary at an insurance company, until he'd saved up enough money to go to Afghanistan, where he wanted... Read more >
Or, How I Saved the World
Written by William T. Vollmann
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
Never before available in paperback and all but invisible for twenty years, a personal account of the origins of America's longest war.
In 1982, the young William Vollmann worked odd jobs, including as a secretary at an insurance company, until he'd saved up enough money to go to Afghanistan, where he wanted... Read more >
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Amelia Earhart
A Biography
Written by Doris L. Rich
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. She set record after record—among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched Earhart on a... Read more >
A Biography
Written by Doris L. Rich
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. She set record after record—among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched Earhart on a... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Blue Plate Special
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $26.95
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of... Read more >
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $26.95
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
Blue Plate Special
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $13.99
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of... Read more >
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $13.99
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
Blue Plate Special
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Read by Tavia Gilbert
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $20.00
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of... Read more >
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Read by Tavia Gilbert
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $20.00
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of... Read more >
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Rocket Girl
The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
Written by George D. Morgan
Foreword by Ashley Stroupe, PHD
Format: Trade Paperback, 310 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $18.00
This is the extraordinary true story of America's first female rocket scientist. Told by her son, it describes Mary Sherman Morgan's crucial contribution to... Read more >
The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
Written by George D. Morgan
Foreword by Ashley Stroupe, PHD
Format: Trade Paperback, 310 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $18.00
Blending a fascinating personal history with dramatic historical events, this book brings long-overdue attention to a brilliant woman whose work proved essential for America's early space program.
This is the extraordinary true story of America's first female rocket scientist. Told by her son, it describes Mary Sherman Morgan's crucial contribution to... Read more >
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Rocket Girl
The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
Written by George D. Morgan
Foreword by Ashley Stroupe, PHD
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $11.99
This is the extraordinary true story of America's first female rocket scientist, told by her son. It describes Mary Sherman Morgan's crucial contribution to launching America's first satellite and the author's labyrinthine journey to uncover his mother's lost legacy - a legacy buried deep under a lifetime of secrets political, technological... Read more >
The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
Written by George D. Morgan
Foreword by Ashley Stroupe, PHD
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $11.99
This is the extraordinary true story of America's first female rocket scientist, told by her son. It describes Mary Sherman Morgan's crucial contribution to launching America's first satellite and the author's labyrinthine journey to uncover his mother's lost legacy - a legacy buried deep under a lifetime of secrets political, technological... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Wallflower at the Orgy
Written by Nora Ephron
Read by Kathe Mazur
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $17.50
From her Academy Award—nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is one of America’s most gifted, prolific, and versatile writers. In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what she does best: embrace American culture with love, cynicism, and unmatched wit. From tracking down the beginnings of... Read more >
Written by Nora Ephron
Read by Kathe Mazur
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $17.50
From her Academy Award—nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is one of America’s most gifted, prolific, and versatile writers. In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what she does best: embrace American culture with love, cynicism, and unmatched wit. From tracking down the beginnings of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Derek Bailey
And The Story Of Free Improvisation
Written by Ben Watson
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $26.95
This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation, post-punk and the avant-garde. Derek Bailey was at the top of his profession as a dance band and recordsession guitarist when, in the early 1960s, he began playing an... Read more >
And The Story Of Free Improvisation
Written by Ben Watson
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $26.95
This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation, post-punk and the avant-garde. Derek Bailey was at the top of his profession as a dance band and recordsession guitarist when, in the early 1960s, he began playing an... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Derek Bailey
And The Story Of Free Improvisation
Written by Ben Watson
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $26.95
This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation, post-punk and the avant-garde. Derek Bailey was at the top of his profession as a dance band and recordsession guitarist when, in the early 1960s, he began playing an... Read more >
And The Story Of Free Improvisation
Written by Ben Watson
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $26.95
This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation, post-punk and the avant-garde. Derek Bailey was at the top of his profession as a dance band and recordsession guitarist when, in the early 1960s, he began playing an... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Hallucinations
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $15.95
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $15.95
To many people, hallucinations imply madness, but in fact they are a common part of the human experience. These sensory distortions range from the shimmering zigzags of a visual migraine to powerful visions brought on by fever, injuries, drugs, sensory deprivation, exhaustion, or even grief. Hallucinations doubtless lie behind many mythological...
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Mother Daughter Me
A Memoir
Written by Katie Hafner
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $26.00
The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner’s remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions.
Dreaming of a “year in Provence” with her mother, Katie... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Katie Hafner
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $26.00
The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner’s remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions.
Dreaming of a “year in Provence” with her mother, Katie... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Mother Daughter Me
A Memoir
Written by Katie Hafner
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $12.99
The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner’s remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions.
Dreaming of a “year in Provence” with her mother, Katie... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Katie Hafner
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $12.99
The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner’s remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions.
Dreaming of a “year in Provence” with her mother, Katie... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Wrapped in the Flag
A Personal History of America's Radical Right
Written by Claire Conner
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $25.95
A narrative history of the John Birch Society by a daughter of one of the infamous ultraconservative organization’s founding fathers
Long before the rise of the Tea Party movement and the prominence of today’s religious Right, the John Birch Society, first established in 1958, championed many of the same radical causes touted... Read more >
A Personal History of America's Radical Right
Written by Claire Conner
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $25.95
A narrative history of the John Birch Society by a daughter of one of the infamous ultraconservative organization’s founding fathers
Long before the rise of the Tea Party movement and the prominence of today’s religious Right, the John Birch Society, first established in 1958, championed many of the same radical causes touted... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Wrapped in the Flag
A Personal History of America's Radical Right
Written by Claire Conner
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $28.95
A narrative history of the John Birch Society by a daughter of one of the infamous ultraconservative organization’s founding fathers
Long before the rise of the Tea Party movement and the prominence of today’s religious Right, the John Birch Society, first established in 1958, championed many of the same radical causes touted... Read more >
A Personal History of America's Radical Right
Written by Claire Conner
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $28.95
A narrative history of the John Birch Society by a daughter of one of the infamous ultraconservative organization’s founding fathers
Long before the rise of the Tea Party movement and the prominence of today’s religious Right, the John Birch Society, first established in 1958, championed many of the same radical causes touted... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Windward Road
Written by Archie Carr
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 26, 2013
Price: $14.99
The Windward Road, published in 1956, made history. When Archie Carr began to rove the Caribbean to write about sea turtles, he saw that their numbers were dwindling. Out of this appeal to save them grew the first ventures in international sea turtle conservation and the establishment of the Caribbean Conservation... Read more >
Written by Archie Carr
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 26, 2013
Price: $14.99
The Windward Road, published in 1956, made history. When Archie Carr began to rove the Caribbean to write about sea turtles, he saw that their numbers were dwindling. Out of this appeal to save them grew the first ventures in international sea turtle conservation and the establishment of the Caribbean Conservation... Read more >
Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Kit Maude
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 25, 2013
Price: $15.95
Days before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is translated for the first time here, giving English-language readers a new insight into his life, loves, and thoughts about his work and country at the end of his life.
... Read more >
and Other Conversations
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Kit Maude
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 25, 2013
Price: $15.95
Days before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is translated for the first time here, giving English-language readers a new insight into his life, loves, and thoughts about his work and country at the end of his life.
... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Kit Maude
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 25, 2013
Price: $15.95
Days before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is translated for the first time here, giving English-language readers a new insight into his life, loves, and thoughts about his work and country at the end of his life.
... Read more >
and Other Conversations
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Kit Maude
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 25, 2013
Price: $15.95
Days before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is translated for the first time here, giving English-language readers a new insight into his life, loves, and thoughts about his work and country at the end of his life.
... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
