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Blue Nights
Written by Joan Didion
Read by Kimberly Farr
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $25.00
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Read by Kimberly Farr
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $25.00
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having... Read more >
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Blue Nights
Written by Joan Didion
Read by Kimberly Farr
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $12.50
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Read by Kimberly Farr
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $12.50
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having... Read more >
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unabridged audio CD,
eBook,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
Written by Les Standiford
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $14.99
As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how one writer and one book revived the signal holiday of the Western world.
Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher... Read more >
How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
Written by Les Standiford
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $14.99
As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how one writer and one book revived the signal holiday of the Western world.
Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher... Read more >
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Here Be Dragons
Telling Tales Of People, Passion and Power
Written by Peter C. Newman
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 12, 2011
Price: $16.99
The #1 national bestseller now revised and updated with a new Epilogue.
Now aged 75, Peter C. Newman at last tells the story of his stranger-than-fiction life. Try to keep up as we follow his many lives: as a pampered child in a Czech chateau; a Jewish kid in short pants being... Read more >
Telling Tales Of People, Passion and Power
Written by Peter C. Newman
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 12, 2011
Price: $16.99
The #1 national bestseller now revised and updated with a new Epilogue.
Now aged 75, Peter C. Newman at last tells the story of his stranger-than-fiction life. Try to keep up as we follow his many lives: as a pampered child in a Czech chateau; a Jewish kid in short pants being... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Balzac's Omelette
A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honore'de Balzac
Written by Anka Muhlstein
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $19.95
"Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are." This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein’s erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honoré de Balzac’s The Human Comedy... Read more >
A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honore'de Balzac
Written by Anka Muhlstein
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $19.95
"Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are." This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein’s erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honoré de Balzac’s The Human Comedy... Read more >
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The Journals of John Cheever
Written by John Cheever
Edited by Robert Gottlieb
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $13.99
In these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail.John Cheever's journals provide peerless insights into the creation of his novels and stories. But they are equally the record of a complex, often dark, always closely observed inner world... Read more >
Written by John Cheever
Edited by Robert Gottlieb
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $13.99
In these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail.John Cheever's journals provide peerless insights into the creation of his novels and stories. But they are equally the record of a complex, often dark, always closely observed inner world... Read more >
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The Siren Years
A Canadian Diplomat Abroad 1937-1945
Written by Charles Ritchie
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $14.99
Charles Ritchie, one of Canada’s most distinguished diplomats, was a born diarist, a man whose daily record of his life is so well written that it leaps from the page.
In wartime England, Ritchie, as Second Secretary at the Canadian High Commission, served as private secretary to Vincent Massey, whose second-in-command... Read more >
A Canadian Diplomat Abroad 1937-1945
Written by Charles Ritchie
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $14.99
Charles Ritchie, one of Canada’s most distinguished diplomats, was a born diarist, a man whose daily record of his life is so well written that it leaps from the page.
In wartime England, Ritchie, as Second Secretary at the Canadian High Commission, served as private secretary to Vincent Massey, whose second-in-command... Read more >
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Mile Marker Zero
The Moveable Feast of Key West
Written by William McKeen
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $25.00
True tales of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in America’s southernmost city
For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation—one defined by the likes of Jimmy Buffett... Read more >
The Moveable Feast of Key West
Written by William McKeen
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $25.00
True tales of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in America’s southernmost city
For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation—one defined by the likes of Jimmy Buffett... Read more >
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Mile Marker Zero
The Moveable Feast of Key West
Written by William McKeen
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $12.99
True tales of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in America’s southernmost city
For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation—one defined by the likes of Jimmy Buffett... Read more >
The Moveable Feast of Key West
Written by William McKeen
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $12.99
True tales of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in America’s southernmost city
For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation—one defined by the likes of Jimmy Buffett... Read more >
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hardcover.
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My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner
A Family Memoir
Written by Meir Shalev
Translated by Evan Fallenberg
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $15.99
A Family Memoir
Written by Meir Shalev
Translated by Evan Fallenberg
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $15.99
From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev’s birth. Here we meet Shalev’s amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923...
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My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner
A Family Memoir
Written by Meir Shalev
Translated by Evan Fallenberg
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $25.95
A Family Memoir
Written by Meir Shalev
Translated by Evan Fallenberg
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $25.95
From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev’s birth. Here we meet Shalev’s amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923...
Read more >
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eBook.
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An Appetite for Life
The Education of a Young Diarist, 1924-1927
Written by Charles Ritchie
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 28, 2011
Price: $11.99
Charles Ritchie’s first volume of diaries, The Siren Years, created a sensation when it was published in 1974. Besides winning the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction, it was hailed by reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic. An Appetite for Life, his second volume, first published in 1977, deals with his... Read more >
The Education of a Young Diarist, 1924-1927
Written by Charles Ritchie
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 28, 2011
Price: $11.99
Charles Ritchie’s first volume of diaries, The Siren Years, created a sensation when it was published in 1974. Besides winning the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction, it was hailed by reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic. An Appetite for Life, his second volume, first published in 1977, deals with his... Read more >
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My Grandfather's House
Written by Charles Ritchie
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 28, 2011
Price: $11.99
In this book, Charles Ritchie looks back at some of the characters that peopled his childhood and youth, in the years before his brilliant career in Canada’s diplomatic corps began. In these essays we are introduced to his uncles, Harry “Bimbash” Stewart and the dashing, doomed Charlie Stewart; to his indomitable... Read more >
Written by Charles Ritchie
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 28, 2011
Price: $11.99
In this book, Charles Ritchie looks back at some of the characters that peopled his childhood and youth, in the years before his brilliant career in Canada’s diplomatic corps began. In these essays we are introduced to his uncles, Harry “Bimbash” Stewart and the dashing, doomed Charlie Stewart; to his indomitable... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Oscar Wilde
A Certain Genius
Written by Barbara Belford
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 21, 2011
Price: $11.99
In this elegant and affectionate biography of one of the most controversial personalities of the nineteenth century, Barbara Belford breaks new ground in the evocation of Oscar Wilde's personal life and in our understanding of the choices he made for his art. Published for the centenary of Wilde's death, here is... Read more >
A Certain Genius
Written by Barbara Belford
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 21, 2011
Price: $11.99
In this elegant and affectionate biography of one of the most controversial personalities of the nineteenth century, Barbara Belford breaks new ground in the evocation of Oscar Wilde's personal life and in our understanding of the choices he made for his art. Published for the centenary of Wilde's death, here is... Read more >
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Create Dangerously
The Immigrant Artist at Work
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $14.95
A New York Times Notable Book
A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile.
Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who... Read more >
The Immigrant Artist at Work
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $14.95
A New York Times Notable Book
A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile.
Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who... Read more >
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Hemingway's Boat
Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
Written by Paul Hendrickson
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $12.99
From a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, a brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood.
Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961—from Hemingway’s pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until... Read more >
Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
Written by Paul Hendrickson
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $12.99
From a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, a brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood.
Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961—from Hemingway’s pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until... Read more >
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From the Kingdom of Memory
Reminiscences
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2011
Price: $11.99
"One of the great writers of our generation" (The New Republic) weaves together memories of his life before the Holocaust and his great struggle to find meaning afterwards. Included are Wiesel's landmark speeches, among them his powerful testimony at the trial of Klaus Barbie and his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance... Read more >
Reminiscences
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2011
Price: $11.99
"One of the great writers of our generation" (The New Republic) weaves together memories of his life before the Holocaust and his great struggle to find meaning afterwards. Included are Wiesel's landmark speeches, among them his powerful testimony at the trial of Klaus Barbie and his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance... Read more >
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Half a Life
A Memoir
Written by Darin Strauss
Read by Darin Strauss
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $12.00
A Memoir
Written by Darin Strauss
Read by Darin Strauss
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $12.00
In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss examines the far-reaching consequences of the tragic moment that has shadowed his whole life. In his last month of high school, he was behind the wheel of his dad's Oldsmobile, driving with friends, heading off to play mini-golf. Then: a classmate swerved...
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Albert Camus
A Life
Written by Olivier Todd
Format: eBook, 468 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2011
Price: $19.99
In this enormously engaging, vibrant, and richly researched biography of Albert Camus, the French writer and journalist Olivier Todd has drawn on personal correspondence, notebooks, and public records never before tapped, as well as interviews with Camus's family, friends, fellow workers, writers, mentors, and lovers.
Todd shows us a Camus who struggled... Read more >
A Life
Written by Olivier Todd
Format: eBook, 468 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2011
Price: $19.99
In this enormously engaging, vibrant, and richly researched biography of Albert Camus, the French writer and journalist Olivier Todd has drawn on personal correspondence, notebooks, and public records never before tapped, as well as interviews with Camus's family, friends, fellow workers, writers, mentors, and lovers.
Todd shows us a Camus who struggled... Read more >
Man to Man
Surviving Prostate Cancer
Written by Michael Korda
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2011
Price: $9.99
Although prostate cancer is a disease that strikes nearly 200,000 men every year, it is a disease that has been shrouded in silence, in part because it strikes at the very core of masculine identity. But in Man to Man, bestselling author Michael Korda breaks that silence, turning the story of his... Read more >
Surviving Prostate Cancer
Written by Michael Korda
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2011
Price: $9.99
Although prostate cancer is a disease that strikes nearly 200,000 men every year, it is a disease that has been shrouded in silence, in part because it strikes at the very core of masculine identity. But in Man to Man, bestselling author Michael Korda breaks that silence, turning the story of his... Read more >
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Of Time and Memory
My Parents' Love Story
Written by Don J. Snyder
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2011
Price: $9.99
Don Snyder knew nothing about his mother aside from the terrible fact that she died at the age of nineteen, just sixteen days after giving birth to him and his twin brother. All his life Don had been too shy, too deeply pained to ask his father or grandparents to tell... Read more >
My Parents' Love Story
Written by Don J. Snyder
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2011
Price: $9.99
Don Snyder knew nothing about his mother aside from the terrible fact that she died at the age of nineteen, just sixteen days after giving birth to him and his twin brother. All his life Don had been too shy, too deeply pained to ask his father or grandparents to tell... Read more >
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Henry James: The Young Master
Written by Sheldon M. Novick
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2011
Price: $11.99
As if Henry James himself were guiding us, we visit old Calvinist New York in the mid-nineteenth century, and share the coming-of-age of a young man whose boldness of spirit and profound capacity for affection attract both men and women to him. We journey with James through Italy and France, witness... Read more >
Written by Sheldon M. Novick
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2011
Price: $11.99
As if Henry James himself were guiding us, we visit old Calvinist New York in the mid-nineteenth century, and share the coming-of-age of a young man whose boldness of spirit and profound capacity for affection attract both men and women to him. We journey with James through Italy and France, witness... Read more >
Saint-exupery
A Biography
Written by Stacy Schiff
Format: eBook, 522 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2011
Price: $14.99
From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared at age forty-four during a reconnaissance flight over southern France. At the time he was best known for a career of daring flights over the Sahara... Read more >
A Biography
Written by Stacy Schiff
Format: eBook, 522 pages
On Sale: July 27, 2011
Price: $14.99
From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared at age forty-four during a reconnaissance flight over southern France. At the time he was best known for a career of daring flights over the Sahara... Read more >
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Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem
Written by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $13.99
From one of America's most respected critics comes an acclaimed biography of the controversial feminist. Here, Heilbrun illuminates the life and explores the many facets of Steinem's complex life, from her difficult childhood to the awakening that changed her into the most famous feminist in the world. Intimate and insightful, here... Read more >
Written by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $13.99
From one of America's most respected critics comes an acclaimed biography of the controversial feminist. Here, Heilbrun illuminates the life and explores the many facets of Steinem's complex life, from her difficult childhood to the awakening that changed her into the most famous feminist in the world. Intimate and insightful, here... Read more >
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The Late Lord Byron
Written by Doris Langley Moore
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: July 19, 2011
Price: $18.95
“The best biography of Lord Byron ever written,” according to Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin, is now back in print after decades.
Of the hundreds of books on Byron and his work, not one has been devoted to the immediate aftermath of his life; and yet it is these first twenty posthumous... Read more >
Written by Doris Langley Moore
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: July 19, 2011
Price: $18.95
“The best biography of Lord Byron ever written,” according to Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin, is now back in print after decades.
Of the hundreds of books on Byron and his work, not one has been devoted to the immediate aftermath of his life; and yet it is these first twenty posthumous... Read more >
