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Inspired by a True Story
Written by Charles McDowell
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $9.99
Based on the wildly popular Twitter feed Dear Girls Above Me, a roman à clef about how thinking like a couple of girls turned one single guy into a better man.
When Charlie McDowell began sharing his open letters to his noisy upstairs neighbors—two impossibly ditzy female roommates in their mid-twenties—on Twitter...
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Inspired by a True Story
Written by Charles McDowell
Read by Kirby Heyborne
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $20.00
Based on the wildly popular Twitter feed Dear Girls Above Me, a roman à clef about how thinking like a couple of girls turned one single guy into a better man.
When Charlie McDowell began sharing his open letters to his noisy upstairs neighbors—two impossibly ditzy female roommates in their mid-twenties—on Twitter...
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Written by Will Schwalbe
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
An Entertainment Weekly and BookPage Best Book of the Year
During her treatment for cancer, Mary Anne Schwalbe and her son Will spent many hours sitting in waiting rooms together. To pass the time, they would talk about the books they were reading. Once, by chance, they read the same book at...
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A Father's Last Letters
Written by Lt. Col. Mark Weber
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $25.00
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
At the pinnacle of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber was tapped to serve in a high-profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Weeks later, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three. Over the... Read more >
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A Father's Last Letters
Written by Lt. Col. Mark Weber
Read by Lt. Col. Mark Weber
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $17.50
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
At the pinnacle of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber was tapped to serve in a high-profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Weeks later, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three. Over the... Read more >
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How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
Written by Danielle Ofri
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $24.95
A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient care
Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments. But doctors’ emotional responses to the life-and-death dramas...
How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
Written by Danielle Ofri
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $24.95
A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient care
Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments. But doctors’ emotional responses to the life-and-death dramas...
A Journey through Spirit and Revolution
Written by Margot Adler
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $24.00
Starting in 1964, writes Margot Adler in this dazzling memoir, “I found myself mysteriously at the center of extraordinary events.” Now a correspondent for National Public Radio, Adler was a young woman determined to be taken seriously and to be an agent of change—on her own terms, free from dogma and... Read more >
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An Extraordinary Journey of Love, Discovery, and the Sex Life of Mushrooms
Written by Cardy Raper
Foreword by Remeline Damasco, M.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $15.95
A STORY OF TRUE LOVE, DETERMINATION, SACRIFICE, AND DISCOVERY.
A Woman of Science catalogues a decades-long journey of inspirational hardship and success that serves as a model for what women can do in a field largely dominated by men.
Cardy Raper succeeded in becoming what she dreamed of as a young girl: a... Read more >
An Extraordinary Journey of Love, Discovery, and the Sex Life of Mushrooms
Written by Cardy Raper
Foreword by Remeline Damasco, M.D.
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $9.99
A STORY OF TRUE LOVE, DETERMINATION, SACRIFICE, AND DISCOVERY.
A Woman of Science catalogues a decades-long journey of inspirational hardship and success that serves as a model for what women can do in a field largely dominated by men.
Cardy Raper succeeded in becoming what she dreamed of as a young girl: a... Read more >
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Written by Nora Gallagher
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $11.99
This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of the author’s experience with a baffling illness poised to take her sight, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you had and find something better.
One day at the end of 2009, during a...
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Written by Nora Gallagher
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $24.00
This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of the author’s experience with a baffling illness poised to take her sight, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you had and find something better.
One day at the end of 2009, during a...
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A Memoir
Written by Marcus Samuelsson and Veronica Chambers
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $16.00
JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“One of the great culinary stories of our time.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother’s... Read more >
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Growing Up and Coming Down in the New Asia
Written by Karl Taro Greenfeld
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 15, 2013
Price: $14.99
“I was twenty-three and I had set off for Asia to become a writer, intrigued by lurid tales of booms, busts, drugs, sex, violence, magic. There was a wicked sorcery in Asia, in the economic profligacy of the early nineties, in the way financiers and businessmen took a rapidly wiring and... Read more >
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A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
Written by M.E. Thomas
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $12.99
As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, we are your neighbors, co-workers, and quite possibly the people closest to you: lovers, family, friends. Our risk-seeking behavior and general fearlessness are thrilling, our glibness and charm alluring. Our often quick wit and outside-the-box thinking make us appear intelligent—even brilliant. We climb... Read more >
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A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
Written by M.E. Thomas
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $25.00
As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, we are your neighbors, co-workers, and quite possibly the people closest to you: lovers, family, friends. Our risk-seeking behavior and general fearlessness are thrilling, our glibness and charm alluring. Our often quick wit and outside-the-box thinking make us appear intelligent—even brilliant. We climb... Read more >
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A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
Written by M.E. Thomas
Read by Bernadette Sullivan
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $40.00
As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, we are your neighbors, co-workers, and quite possibly the people closest to you: lovers, family, friends. Our risk-seeking behavior and general fearlessness are thrilling, our glibness and charm alluring. Our often quick wit and outside-the-box thinking make us appear intelligent—even brilliant. We climb... Read more >
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A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
Written by M.E. Thomas
Read by Bernadette Sullivan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $20.00
As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, we are your neighbors, co-workers, and quite possibly the people closest to you: lovers, family, friends. Our risk-seeking behavior and general fearlessness are thrilling, our glibness and charm alluring. Our often quick wit and outside-the-box thinking make us appear intelligent—even brilliant. We climb... Read more >
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The Natural Education of a Father
Written by John Price
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $14.95
“If David Sedaris and Annie Dillard had a literary love child and raised him in Iowa, he would write like this.”—The Iowan
John Price appears to have thrown in the towel. He has spent the last year struggling to support his family, neglecting to spend time with his wife and children... Read more >
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Reimagining My Life After Loss
Written by Jai Pausch
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $14.00
Now in paperback, a remarkably frank, deeply moving, and inspiring memoir by Jai Pausch, whose husband, Randy, wrote the bestseller The Last Lecture while battling pancreatic cancer.
"Jai is such a giver that she often forgets to take care of herself," Randy Pausch wrote about his wife. "Jai knows that she'll have... Read more >
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A Father's Journey to Become His Son's Caddie
Written by Don J. Snyder
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $25.95
A long-standing promise from a father to his five-year-old son . . .
A poignant diary that chronicles the journey
When Don Snyder was teaching the game of golf to his young son, Jack, they made a pact: if one day Jack became good enough to play on a pro golf tour, Don...
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A Father's Journey to Become His Son's Caddie
Written by Don J. Snyder
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $12.99
A long-standing promise from a father to his five-year-old son . . .
A poignant diary that chronicles the journey
When Don Snyder was teaching the game of golf to his young son, Jack, they made a pact: if one day Jack became good enough to play on a pro golf tour, Don...
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Confessions of a Wayward Monk
Written by Shozan Jack Haubner
Foreword by Leonard Cohen
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $14.95
“This punk of a monk, who should be tending to his own affairs, has decided to infect the real world with his tall tales, and worse, to let the cat out of the bag. And what a sly, dangerous, beautiful, foul-smelling, heart-warming beast it is.”—Leonard Cohen, from the foreword
These hilarious essays... Read more >
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My Life On and Off the Canvas
Written by Eric Fischl and Michael Stone
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $26.00
In Bad Boy, renowned American artist Eric Fischl has written a penetrating, often searing exploration of his coming of age as an artist, and his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly charged and competitive New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s. With such notorious and controversial... Read more >
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My Life On and Off the Canvas
Written by Eric Fischl and Michael Stone
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $12.99
In Bad Boy, renowned American artist Eric Fischl has written a penetrating, often searing exploration of his coming of age as an artist, and his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly charged and competitive New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s. With such notorious and controversial... Read more >
