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Fresh Off the Boat
A Memoir
Written by Eddie Huang
Read by Eddie Huang
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $17.50
“Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. He’s bigger than food.”—Anthony Bourdain
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Eddie Huang is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus—the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Eddie Huang
Read by Eddie Huang
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $17.50
“Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. He’s bigger than food.”—Anthony Bourdain
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Eddie Huang is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus—the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the... Read more >
Daddy's Home!
Written by Steven Schnur
Format: eBook, 188 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2013
Price: $9.99
Today’s dad comes home at the end of the day to a job he loves: fatherhood.
Daddy’s Home! gathers together honest and funny true stories about coming home into manhood--getting married, buying a house, having kids, and everything else that happens when you don't want to put off being a grown-up... Read more >
Written by Steven Schnur
Format: eBook, 188 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2013
Price: $9.99
Today’s dad comes home at the end of the day to a job he loves: fatherhood.
Daddy’s Home! gathers together honest and funny true stories about coming home into manhood--getting married, buying a house, having kids, and everything else that happens when you don't want to put off being a grown-up... Read more >
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Saturday Night Widows
The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Written by Becky Aikman
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $26.00
Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.
In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief... Read more >
The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Written by Becky Aikman
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $26.00
Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.
In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief... Read more >
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Saturday Night Widows
The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Written by Becky Aikman
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.
In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief... Read more >
The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Written by Becky Aikman
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.
In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Saturday Night Widows
The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Written by Becky Aikman
Read by Ann Marie Lee
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $40.00
Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.
In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief... Read more >
The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Written by Becky Aikman
Read by Ann Marie Lee
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $40.00
Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.
In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief... Read more >
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Saturday Night Widows
The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Written by Becky Aikman
Read by Ann Marie Lee
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $20.00
Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.
In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief... Read more >
The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Written by Becky Aikman
Read by Ann Marie Lee
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $20.00
Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.
In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief... Read more >
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Sugar in the Blood
A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Written by Andrea Stuart
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $27.95
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a... Read more >
A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Written by Andrea Stuart
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $27.95
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a... Read more >
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Sugar in the Blood
A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Written by Andrea Stuart
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $13.99
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a... Read more >
A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Written by Andrea Stuart
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $13.99
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a... Read more >
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hardcover and a
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The Heavy
A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet--A Memoir
Written by Dara-Lynn Weiss
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $26.00
For readers of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Bringing Up Bebe, a mother’s unflinching memoir about helping her seven year-old daughter lose weight, and the challenges of modern parenting.
When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weiss’s daughter Bea obese at age seven, the mother of two knew she had... Read more >
A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet--A Memoir
Written by Dara-Lynn Weiss
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $26.00
For readers of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Bringing Up Bebe, a mother’s unflinching memoir about helping her seven year-old daughter lose weight, and the challenges of modern parenting.
When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weiss’s daughter Bea obese at age seven, the mother of two knew she had... Read more >
The Heavy
A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet--A Memoir
Written by Dara-Lynn Weiss
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $12.99
For readers of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Bringing Up Bebe, a mother’s unflinching memoir about helping her seven year-old daughter lose weight, and the challenges of modern parenting.
When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weiss’s daughter Bea obese at age seven, the mother of two knew she had... Read more >
A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet--A Memoir
Written by Dara-Lynn Weiss
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $12.99
For readers of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Bringing Up Bebe, a mother’s unflinching memoir about helping her seven year-old daughter lose weight, and the challenges of modern parenting.
When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weiss’s daughter Bea obese at age seven, the mother of two knew she had... Read more >
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The Heavy
A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet--A Memoir
Written by Dara-Lynn Weiss
Read by Amanda Tepe
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $35.00
For readers of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Bringing Up Bebe, a mother’s unflinching memoir about helping her seven year-old daughter lose weight, and the challenges of modern parenting.
When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weiss’s daughter Bea obese at age seven, the mother of two knew she had... Read more >
A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet--A Memoir
Written by Dara-Lynn Weiss
Read by Amanda Tepe
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $35.00
For readers of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Bringing Up Bebe, a mother’s unflinching memoir about helping her seven year-old daughter lose weight, and the challenges of modern parenting.
When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weiss’s daughter Bea obese at age seven, the mother of two knew she had... Read more >
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The Heavy
A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet--A Memoir
Written by Dara-Lynn Weiss
Read by Amanda Tepe
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $20.00
For readers of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Bringing Up Bebe, a mother’s unflinching memoir about helping her seven year-old daughter lose weight, and the challenges of modern parenting.
When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weiss’s daughter Bea obese at age seven, the mother of two knew she had... Read more >
A Mother, A Daughter, A Diet--A Memoir
Written by Dara-Lynn Weiss
Read by Amanda Tepe
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $20.00
For readers of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Bringing Up Bebe, a mother’s unflinching memoir about helping her seven year-old daughter lose weight, and the challenges of modern parenting.
When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weiss’s daughter Bea obese at age seven, the mother of two knew she had... Read more >
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Mi mundo adorado
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $27.95
La primera latina y tan sólo la tercera mujer designada a la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, Sonia Sotomayor se ha convertido en un icono americano contemporáneo. Ahora, con un candor e intimidad nunca antes asumidos por un juez en activo, Sonia nos narra el viaje de su vida —desde... Read more >
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $27.95
La primera latina y tan sólo la tercera mujer designada a la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, Sonia Sotomayor se ha convertido en un icono americano contemporáneo. Ahora, con un candor e intimidad nunca antes asumidos por un juez en activo, Sonia nos narra el viaje de su vida —desde... Read more >
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Mi mundo adorado
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $12.99
La primera latina y tan sólo la tercera mujer designada a la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, Sonia Sotomayor se ha convertido en un icono americano contemporáneo. Ahora, con un candor e intimidad nunca antes asumidos por un juez en activo, Sonia nos narra el viaje de su vida —desde... Read more >
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $12.99
La primera latina y tan sólo la tercera mujer designada a la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, Sonia Sotomayor se ha convertido en un icono americano contemporáneo. Ahora, con un candor e intimidad nunca antes asumidos por un juez en activo, Sonia nos narra el viaje de su vida —desde... Read more >
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hardcover.
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My Beloved World
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $27.95
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $27.95
The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an...
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My Beloved World
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $12.99
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $12.99
The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an...
Read more >
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My Beloved World
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Read by Rita Moreno
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $40.00
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Read by Rita Moreno
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $40.00
The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an...
Read more >
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My Beloved World
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Read by Rita Moreno
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $20.00
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Read by Rita Moreno
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $20.00
The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an...
Read more >
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A Very Easy Death
Written by Simone De Beauvoir
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2013
Price: $8.99
Written by Simone De Beauvoir
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2013
Price: $8.99
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence” (The Sunday Telegraph).
Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking, this is an end-of-life account that no reader is...
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Crossing the Borders of Time
A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
Written by Leslie Maitland
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $17.95
A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
Written by Leslie Maitland
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $17.95
On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried from the arms of the Catholic Frenchman she loved and promised to marry. As the Lipari...
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Jumped In
What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption
Written by Jorja Leap
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $16.00
What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption
Written by Jorja Leap
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $16.00
When Jorja Leap began studying Los Angeles gang violence in 2002, she encountered a myriad of proposed solutions to the seemingly intractable “gang problem” and set out to discover what was really going on. The stakes—then and now—could not be higher: a child or teenager is killed by gunfire every three...
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Prairie Silence
A Memoir
Written by Melanie Hoffert
Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $24.95
A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people
Melanie Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood home, with its grain trucks and empty main streets. A land where she imagines standing at the bottom of the ancient lake that... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Melanie Hoffert
Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $24.95
A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people
Melanie Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood home, with its grain trucks and empty main streets. A land where she imagines standing at the bottom of the ancient lake that... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Prairie Silence
A Memoir
Written by Melanie Hoffert
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $24.95
A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people
Melanie Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood home, with its grain trucks and empty main streets. A land where she imagines standing at the bottom of the ancient lake that... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Melanie Hoffert
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $24.95
A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people
Melanie Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood home, with its grain trucks and empty main streets. A land where she imagines standing at the bottom of the ancient lake that... Read more >
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A Mind that Found Itself
Written by Clifford Whittingham Beers
Format: eBook, 380 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2013
Price: $13.99
In the groundbreaking book, Clifford Beers tells what it was like to be institutionalized at a time when mental illness received little attention or respect. A Mind that Found Itself is Clifford Beers's own story, as one of five children who all suffered psychological distress and were all confined to mental... Read more >
Written by Clifford Whittingham Beers
Format: eBook, 380 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2013
Price: $13.99
In the groundbreaking book, Clifford Beers tells what it was like to be institutionalized at a time when mental illness received little attention or respect. A Mind that Found Itself is Clifford Beers's own story, as one of five children who all suffered psychological distress and were all confined to mental... Read more >
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My Autobiography
Written by Charlie Chaplin
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2012
Price: $20.00
“The best autobiography ever written by an actor. An astonishing work.” —Chicago Tribune
Chaplin’s heartfelt and hilarious autobiography tells the story of his childhood, the challenge of identifying and perfecting his talent, his subsequent film career and worldwide celebrity. In this, one of the very first celebrity memoirs, Chaplin displays all the... Read more >
Written by Charlie Chaplin
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2012
Price: $20.00
“The best autobiography ever written by an actor. An astonishing work.” —Chicago Tribune
Chaplin’s heartfelt and hilarious autobiography tells the story of his childhood, the challenge of identifying and perfecting his talent, his subsequent film career and worldwide celebrity. In this, one of the very first celebrity memoirs, Chaplin displays all the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
