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Martin Luther King Jr.: Let Freedom Ring
Campfire Biography-Heroes Line
Written by Michael Teitelbaum and Lewis Helfand
Illustrated by Sankha Banerjee
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $11.99
Not even half a century ago America was segregated, when everything depended on teh color of one's skin. Access to schools, restaurants, parks, buses or even water fountains was segregated. And born into this segregated world was Martin Luther King Jr..
The son of a black preacher, King was taught from a... Read more >
Campfire Biography-Heroes Line
Written by Michael Teitelbaum and Lewis Helfand
Illustrated by Sankha Banerjee
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $11.99
Not even half a century ago America was segregated, when everything depended on teh color of one's skin. Access to schools, restaurants, parks, buses or even water fountains was segregated. And born into this segregated world was Martin Luther King Jr..
The son of a black preacher, King was taught from a... Read more >
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Trudeau Transformed
The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965
Written by Max Nemni and Monique Nemni
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $24.99
This groundbreaking biography, now in paperback, continues the story begun in Young Trudeau, taking Canada's legendary Prime Minister from his pro-fascist youth all the way to his entry into federal politics as a crusading Liberal democrat.
When he went to Harvard in 1944, Pierre Trudeau was twenty-five, a recent graduate of the... Read more >
The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965
Written by Max Nemni and Monique Nemni
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $24.99
This groundbreaking biography, now in paperback, continues the story begun in Young Trudeau, taking Canada's legendary Prime Minister from his pro-fascist youth all the way to his entry into federal politics as a crusading Liberal democrat.
When he went to Harvard in 1944, Pierre Trudeau was twenty-five, a recent graduate of the... Read more >
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Arrows of the Night
Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War
Written by Richard Bonin
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $16.00
Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War
Written by Richard Bonin
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $16.00
The definitive account of what Iraqi exile Ahmad Chalabi did to manipulate the U.S. government into invading Iraq with his ultimate hope of being placed in power, by longtime 60 Minutes producer Richard Bonin.
Drawing on unparalleled access to Chalabi, Bonin traces the exile’s ingenious efforts to stoke a desire for Iraqi...
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The Joy of Hate
How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
Written by Greg Gutfeld
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.00
From the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture.
Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. At the root of every single major political conflict is the annoying coddling Americans must endure of these harebrained liberal hypocrisies. In fact, most... Read more >
How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
Written by Greg Gutfeld
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.00
From the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture.
Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. At the root of every single major political conflict is the annoying coddling Americans must endure of these harebrained liberal hypocrisies. In fact, most... Read more >
The Joy of Hate
How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
Written by Greg Gutfeld
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $12.99
From the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture.
Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. At the root of every single major political conflict is the annoying coddling Americans must endure of these harebrained liberal hypocrisies. In fact, most... Read more >
How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
Written by Greg Gutfeld
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $12.99
From the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture.
Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. At the root of every single major political conflict is the annoying coddling Americans must endure of these harebrained liberal hypocrisies. In fact, most... Read more >
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The Joy of Hate
How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
Written by Greg Gutfeld
Read by Steve Kramer
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $20.00
From the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture.
Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. At the root of every single major political conflict is the annoying coddling Americans must endure of these harebrained liberal hypocrisies. In fact, most... Read more >
How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
Written by Greg Gutfeld
Read by Steve Kramer
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $20.00
From the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture.
Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. At the root of every single major political conflict is the annoying coddling Americans must endure of these harebrained liberal hypocrisies. In fact, most... Read more >
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The Man Who Saved the Union
Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Written by H.W. Brands
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $60.00
From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.
Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover... Read more >
Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Written by H.W. Brands
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $60.00
From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.
Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover... Read more >
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The Man Who Saved the Union
Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Written by H.W. Brands
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $25.00
From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.
Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover... Read more >
Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Written by H.W. Brands
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $25.00
From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.
Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover... Read more >
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The Man Who Saved the Union
Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Written by H.W. Brands
Format: eBook, 720 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $13.99
From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.
Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover... Read more >
Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Written by H.W. Brands
Format: eBook, 720 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $13.99
From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.
Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover... Read more >
Also available as an
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unabridged audiobook download,
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The Man Who Saved the Union
Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Written by H.W. Brands
Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $35.00
From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.
Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover... Read more >
Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
Written by H.W. Brands
Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $35.00
From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.
Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Nicholas and Alexandra
Written by Robert K. Massie
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $25.00
Written by Robert K. Massie
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $25.00
From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Robert K. Massie—also available are Peter the Great and The Romanovs
In this commanding book, Robert K. Massie, prize-winning author of Catherine the Great, sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the...
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
Written by Robert K. Massie
Format: Hardcover, 1136 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $25.00
Written by Robert K. Massie
Format: Hardcover, 1136 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $25.00
From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Robert K. Massie—also available are Nicholas and Alexandra and The Romanovs
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned co-tsar at the age of ten. The acclaimed author...
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trade paperback.
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No Higher Honor
A Memoir of My Years in Washington
Written by Condoleezza Rice
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $18.00
From one of the world’s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. In her position as America’s chief diplomat, Rice traveled almost continuously around the globe, seeking common ground among sometimes... Read more >
A Memoir of My Years in Washington
Written by Condoleezza Rice
Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $18.00
From one of the world’s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. In her position as America’s chief diplomat, Rice traveled almost continuously around the globe, seeking common ground among sometimes... Read more >
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Nation Maker
Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times
Written by Richard J. Gwyn
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $23.00
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most important prime minister, is the man who made Confederation happen, who built this country over the next quarter century, and who shaped what it is today. From Confederation Day in 1867, where this volume picks up, Macdonald finessed a reluctant union of... Read more >
Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times
Written by Richard J. Gwyn
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $23.00
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most important prime minister, is the man who made Confederation happen, who built this country over the next quarter century, and who shaped what it is today. From Confederation Day in 1867, where this volume picks up, Macdonald finessed a reluctant union of... Read more >
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Hitlers Social Revolution
Written by David Schoenbaum
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2012
Price: $14.99
The author attempts to analyze Hitler's appeal to German farmers, workers, businessmen, industrialists, women and youth. Beginning with Germany's social situation after World War I, he demonstrates how Hitler improvised a programme that claimed to offer a classless society. Read more >
Written by David Schoenbaum
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2012
Price: $14.99
The author attempts to analyze Hitler's appeal to German farmers, workers, businessmen, industrialists, women and youth. Beginning with Germany's social situation after World War I, he demonstrates how Hitler improvised a programme that claimed to offer a classless society. Read more >
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A Daughter's Tale
The Memoir of Winston Churchill's Youngest Child
Written by Mary Soames
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $28.00
In this charming and intimate memoir, Winston Churchill’s youngest daughter shares stories from her remarkable life—and tells of the unbreakable bond she forged with her father through some of the most tumultuous years in British history.
Now approaching her ninetieth birthday, Mary Soames is the only surviving child of... Read more >
The Memoir of Winston Churchill's Youngest Child
Written by Mary Soames
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $28.00
In this charming and intimate memoir, Winston Churchill’s youngest daughter shares stories from her remarkable life—and tells of the unbreakable bond she forged with her father through some of the most tumultuous years in British history.
Now approaching her ninetieth birthday, Mary Soames is the only surviving child of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
A Daughter's Tale
The Memoir of Winston Churchill's Youngest Child
Written by Mary Soames
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $14.99
In this charming and intimate memoir, Winston Churchill’s youngest daughter shares stories from her remarkable life—and tells of the unbreakable bond she forged with her father through some of the most tumultuous years in British history.
Now approaching her ninetieth birthday, Mary Soames is the only surviving child of... Read more >
The Memoir of Winston Churchill's Youngest Child
Written by Mary Soames
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $14.99
In this charming and intimate memoir, Winston Churchill’s youngest daughter shares stories from her remarkable life—and tells of the unbreakable bond she forged with her father through some of the most tumultuous years in British history.
Now approaching her ninetieth birthday, Mary Soames is the only surviving child of... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
Dreadnought
Written by Robert K. Massie
Format: eBook, 1040 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2012
Price: $13.99
"A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era...Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert K. Massie has written a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century's first great arms race. Massie brings to vivid life, such historical... Read more >
Written by Robert K. Massie
Format: eBook, 1040 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2012
Price: $13.99
"A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era...Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert K. Massie has written a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century's first great arms race. Massie brings to vivid life, such historical... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Troublemaker
A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Sixties
Written by Bill Zimmerman
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $16.95
A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Sixties
Written by Bill Zimmerman
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $16.95
In this spellbinding memoir, Bill Zimmerman relates his many adventures in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the sixties and offers invaluable lessons on the art of effective protest for today’s activists.
In Troublemaker, Zimmerman vividly describes registering black voters in Mississippi, marching with Martin Luther King, Jr., organizing for...
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Yours in Truth
A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee
Written by Jeff Himmelman
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $27.00
“I hope we’re as good friends when you finish your book as we are now,” Ben Bradlee, the legendary former executive editor of The Washington Post, told Jeff Himmelman in March 2010. “But I don’t give a [expletive deleted] what you write about me.”
So begins Yours in Truth, an... Read more >
A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee
Written by Jeff Himmelman
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $27.00
“I hope we’re as good friends when you finish your book as we are now,” Ben Bradlee, the legendary former executive editor of The Washington Post, told Jeff Himmelman in March 2010. “But I don’t give a [expletive deleted] what you write about me.”
So begins Yours in Truth, an... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Yours in Truth
A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee
Written by Jeff Himmelman
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $13.99
“I hope we’re as good friends when you finish your book as we are now,” Ben Bradlee, the legendary former executive editor of The Washington Post, told Jeff Himmelman in March 2010. “But I don’t give a [expletive deleted] what you write about me.”
So begins Yours in Truth, an... Read more >
A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee
Written by Jeff Himmelman
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $13.99
“I hope we’re as good friends when you finish your book as we are now,” Ben Bradlee, the legendary former executive editor of The Washington Post, told Jeff Himmelman in March 2010. “But I don’t give a [expletive deleted] what you write about me.”
So begins Yours in Truth, an... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Grace and Grit
My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond
Written by Lilly Ledbetter and Lanier Scott Isom
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $25.00
The courageous story of the woman at the center of the historic discrimination case that inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act--her fight for equal rights in the workplace, and how her determination became a victory for the nation.
Lilly Ledbetter was born in a house with no running water or... Read more >
My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond
Written by Lilly Ledbetter and Lanier Scott Isom
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $25.00
The courageous story of the woman at the center of the historic discrimination case that inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act--her fight for equal rights in the workplace, and how her determination became a victory for the nation.
Lilly Ledbetter was born in a house with no running water or... Read more >
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Grace and Grit
My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond
Written by Lilly Ledbetter and Lanier Scott Isom
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $11.99
The courageous story of the woman at the center of the historic discrimination case that inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act--her fight for equal rights in the workplace, and how her determination became a victory for the nation.
Lilly Ledbetter was born in a house with no running water or... Read more >
My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond
Written by Lilly Ledbetter and Lanier Scott Isom
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $11.99
The courageous story of the woman at the center of the historic discrimination case that inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act--her fight for equal rights in the workplace, and how her determination became a victory for the nation.
Lilly Ledbetter was born in a house with no running water or... Read more >
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
Written by Robert K. Massie
Format: eBook, 928 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2012
Price: $13.99
"Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages into the Enlightenment and transformed it into... Read more >
Written by Robert K. Massie
Format: eBook, 928 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2012
Price: $13.99
"Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages into the Enlightenment and transformed it into... Read more >
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Dutch
A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Written by Edmund Morris
Read by Edmund Morris
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $20.00
This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. When Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in 1981, one of his first literary guests was Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore... Read more >
A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Written by Edmund Morris
Read by Edmund Morris
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $20.00
This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. When Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in 1981, one of his first literary guests was Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore... Read more >
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