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The Kiss
A Memoir
Written by Kathryn Harrison
Afterword by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $15.00
In this acclaimed and groundbreaking memoir, Kathryn Harrison transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman’s life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter that begins when she, at age twenty, is reunited with the father whose absence had haunted her youth. Exquisitely and... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Kathryn Harrison
Afterword by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $15.00
In this acclaimed and groundbreaking memoir, Kathryn Harrison transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman’s life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter that begins when she, at age twenty, is reunited with the father whose absence had haunted her youth. Exquisitely and... Read more >
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The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost
A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure
Written by Rachel Friedman
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $11.99
Rachel Friedman has always been the consummate good girl who does well in school and plays it safe, so the college grad surprises no one more than herself when, on a whim (and in an effort to escape impending life decisions), she buys a ticket to Ireland, a place she has... Read more >
A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure
Written by Rachel Friedman
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $11.99
Rachel Friedman has always been the consummate good girl who does well in school and plays it safe, so the college grad surprises no one more than herself when, on a whim (and in an effort to escape impending life decisions), she buys a ticket to Ireland, a place she has... Read more >
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The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost
A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure
Written by Rachel Friedman
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $15.00
Rachel Friedman has always been the consummate good girl who does well in school and plays it safe, so the college grad surprises no one more than herself when, on a whim (and in an effort to escape impending life decisions), she buys a ticket to Ireland, a place she has... Read more >
A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure
Written by Rachel Friedman
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $15.00
Rachel Friedman has always been the consummate good girl who does well in school and plays it safe, so the college grad surprises no one more than herself when, on a whim (and in an effort to escape impending life decisions), she buys a ticket to Ireland, a place she has... Read more >
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Without Reservations
The Travels of an Independent Woman
Written by Alice Steinbach
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2011
Price: $11.99
Paris
Dear Alice,
Each morning I am awakened by the sound of a tinkling bell. A cheerful sound, it reminds me of the bells that shopkeepers attach to their doors at Christmastime. In this case, the bell marks the opening of the hotel door. From my room, which is just off the winding... Read more >
The Travels of an Independent Woman
Written by Alice Steinbach
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2011
Price: $11.99
Paris
Dear Alice,
Each morning I am awakened by the sound of a tinkling bell. A cheerful sound, it reminds me of the bells that shopkeepers attach to their doors at Christmastime. In this case, the bell marks the opening of the hotel door. From my room, which is just off the winding... Read more >
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My Point...And I Do Have One
Written by Ellen Degeneres
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2011
Price: $7.99
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ellen DeGeneres shares her hilarious take on everything from our most baffling human foibles–including how we behave in elevators, airplanes, and restrooms, and why we’re so scared of the boogeyman–to fashion trends, celebrity, and her secret recipe for Ellen’s Real Frenchy French Toast. Most... Read more >
Written by Ellen Degeneres
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2011
Price: $7.99
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ellen DeGeneres shares her hilarious take on everything from our most baffling human foibles–including how we behave in elevators, airplanes, and restrooms, and why we’re so scared of the boogeyman–to fashion trends, celebrity, and her secret recipe for Ellen’s Real Frenchy French Toast. Most... Read more >
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Art and Madness
A Memoir of Lust Without Reason
Written by Anne Roiphe
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $11.99
A Memoir of Lust Without Reason
Written by Anne Roiphe
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $11.99
Luminous and intensely personal, Art and Madness recounts the lost years of Anne Roiphe’s twenties, when the soon-to-be-critically-acclaimed author put her dreams of becoming a writer on hold to devote herself to the magnetic but coercive male artists of the period.
Coming of age in the 1950s, Roiphe, the granddaughter of...
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Orange Is the New Black
My Year in a Women's Prison
Written by Piper Kerman
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $16.00
SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years ago. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal... Read more >
My Year in a Women's Prison
Written by Piper Kerman
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $16.00
SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years ago. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal... Read more >
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A Ticket to the Circus
A Memoir
Written by Norris Church Mailer
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
In this revealing memoir, told with southern charm and wit, Norris Church Mailer depicts the full evolution of her colorful life—from her childhood in a small Arkansas town all the way through her intense thirty-three-year marriage with Norman Mailer and his heartbreaking death. She met Norman by chance while in her... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Norris Church Mailer
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
In this revealing memoir, told with southern charm and wit, Norris Church Mailer depicts the full evolution of her colorful life—from her childhood in a small Arkansas town all the way through her intense thirty-three-year marriage with Norman Mailer and his heartbreaking death. She met Norman by chance while in her... Read more >
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Blood, Bones & Butter
The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Written by Gabrielle Hamilton
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $26.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • Newsday • The Huffington Post • Financial Times • GQ • Slate • Men’s Journal • Washington Examiner • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews &bull... Read more >
The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Written by Gabrielle Hamilton
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $26.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • Newsday • The Huffington Post • Financial Times • GQ • Slate • Men’s Journal • Washington Examiner • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews &bull... Read more >
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Blood, Bones & Butter
The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Written by Gabrielle Hamilton
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $11.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood... Read more >
The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Written by Gabrielle Hamilton
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $11.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood... Read more >
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Blood, Bones & Butter
The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Written by Gabrielle Hamilton
Read by Gabrielle Hamilton
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $40.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • Newsday • The Huffington Post • Financial Times • GQ • Slate • Men’s Journal • Washington Examiner • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews &bull... Read more >
The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Written by Gabrielle Hamilton
Read by Gabrielle Hamilton
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $40.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • Newsday • The Huffington Post • Financial Times • GQ • Slate • Men’s Journal • Washington Examiner • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews &bull... Read more >
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Blood, Bones & Butter
The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Written by Gabrielle Hamilton
Read by Gabrielle Hamilton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $20.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • Newsday • The Huffington Post • Financial Times • GQ • Slate • Men’s Journal • Washington Examiner • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews &bull... Read more >
The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Written by Gabrielle Hamilton
Read by Gabrielle Hamilton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $20.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • Newsday • The Huffington Post • Financial Times • GQ • Slate • Men’s Journal • Washington Examiner • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews &bull... Read more >
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens
How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $15.00
The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring.” Only this... Read more >
How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $15.00
The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring.” Only this... Read more >
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Untied
A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering
Written by Meredith Baxter
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $11.99
“I remember Sarah asking me, when I’d just begun therapy with her, what I looked for in a man. After a few moments of silent, tense deliberation I had it. ‘Hair,’ I blurted. ‘He has to have hair.’”
Meredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic television actress, most well-known for her enormously... Read more >
A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering
Written by Meredith Baxter
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $11.99
“I remember Sarah asking me, when I’d just begun therapy with her, what I looked for in a man. After a few moments of silent, tense deliberation I had it. ‘Hair,’ I blurted. ‘He has to have hair.’”
Meredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic television actress, most well-known for her enormously... Read more >
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Untied
A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering
Written by Meredith Baxter
Read by Meredith Baxter
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $17.50
“I remember Sarah asking me, when I’d just begun therapy with her, what I looked for in a man. After a few moments of silent, tense deliberation I had it. ‘Hair,’ I blurted. ‘He has to have hair.’”
Meredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic television actress, most well-known for her enormously... Read more >
A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering
Written by Meredith Baxter
Read by Meredith Baxter
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $17.50
“I remember Sarah asking me, when I’d just begun therapy with her, what I looked for in a man. After a few moments of silent, tense deliberation I had it. ‘Hair,’ I blurted. ‘He has to have hair.’”
Meredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic television actress, most well-known for her enormously... Read more >
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Amelia Earhart
Challenging the Skies Great Lives Series
Written by Susan Sloate
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 23, 2011
Price: $6.99
The Great Lives Series
Witness history in the making as you turn the pages of time and discover the fascinating lives of famous explorers, leaders of 20th century politics and government, and great Americans.
Amelia Earhart
Challenging the Skies
When Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 during her attempt to make the... Read more >
Challenging the Skies Great Lives Series
Written by Susan Sloate
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 23, 2011
Price: $6.99
The Great Lives Series
Witness history in the making as you turn the pages of time and discover the fascinating lives of famous explorers, leaders of 20th century politics and government, and great Americans.
Amelia Earhart
Challenging the Skies
When Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 during her attempt to make the... Read more >
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A Most Dangerous Method
The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein
Written by John Kerr
Format: eBook, 624 pages
On Sale: February 23, 2011
Price: $11.99
“Has all the elements of a juicy novel . . . riveting. . . . Reudite and elegant.” —Newsday
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, Direcetd by Dabid Cronenbertg and STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLY, VIGGO MORENSEN, MICHAEL FASSBENDER, and VINCENT CASSEL
In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a... Read more >
The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein
Written by John Kerr
Format: eBook, 624 pages
On Sale: February 23, 2011
Price: $11.99
“Has all the elements of a juicy novel . . . riveting. . . . Reudite and elegant.” —Newsday
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, Direcetd by Dabid Cronenbertg and STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLY, VIGGO MORENSEN, MICHAEL FASSBENDER, and VINCENT CASSEL
In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a... Read more >
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Karla Faye Tucker Set Free
Life and Faith on Death Row
Written by Linda Strom
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2011
Price: $11.99
This gripping story about the first woman executed in Texas in over one hundred years draws on accounts from family, prisoners, government officials, and friends to show how God used a remarkable woman to reach countless lives with a message of redemption and joy. Linda Strom, Tucker's spiritual advisor and close... Read more >
Life and Faith on Death Row
Written by Linda Strom
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2011
Price: $11.99
This gripping story about the first woman executed in Texas in over one hundred years draws on accounts from family, prisoners, government officials, and friends to show how God used a remarkable woman to reach countless lives with a message of redemption and joy. Linda Strom, Tucker's spiritual advisor and close... Read more >
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The Bread of Angels
A Journey to Love and Faith
Written by Stephanie Saldana
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
A Journey to Love and Faith
Written by Stephanie Saldana
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
A riveting memoir about one woman's journey into Syria under the Baathist regime and an unexpected love story between two strangers searching for meaning.
When Stephanie Saldaña arrives in Damascus, she is running away from a broken heart and a haunted family history that she has crossed the world to escape. Yet as...
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The Foremost Good Fortune
Written by Susan Conley
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $11.99
Susan Conley, her husband, and their two young sons say good-bye to their friends, family, and house in Maine for a two-year stint in a high-rise apartment in Beijing, prepared to embrace the inevitable onslaught of new experiences that such a move entails. But Susan can’t predict just how much their... Read more >
Written by Susan Conley
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $11.99
Susan Conley, her husband, and their two young sons say good-bye to their friends, family, and house in Maine for a two-year stint in a high-rise apartment in Beijing, prepared to embrace the inevitable onslaught of new experiences that such a move entails. But Susan can’t predict just how much their... Read more >
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The Foremost Good Fortune
Written by Susan Conley
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $25.95
Susan Conley, her husband, and their two young sons say good-bye to their friends, family, and house in Maine for a two-year stint in a high-rise apartment in Beijing, prepared to embrace the inevitable onslaught of new experiences that such a move entails. But Susan can’t predict just how much their... Read more >
Written by Susan Conley
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $25.95
Susan Conley, her husband, and their two young sons say good-bye to their friends, family, and house in Maine for a two-year stint in a high-rise apartment in Beijing, prepared to embrace the inevitable onslaught of new experiences that such a move entails. But Susan can’t predict just how much their... Read more >
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Lieutenant Nun
Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World
Written by Catalina De Erauso
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 7, 2011
Price: $18.00
One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, this is the extraordinary tale of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history. A soldier in the... Read more >
Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World
Written by Catalina De Erauso
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 7, 2011
Price: $18.00
One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, this is the extraordinary tale of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history. A soldier in the... Read more >
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I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
Written by Maxine Hong Kingston
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 18, 2011
Price: $24.95
In her singular voice—humble, elegiac, practical—Maxine Hong Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five.
Kingston’s swift, effortlessly flowing verse lines feel instantly natural in this fresh approach to the art of memoir, as she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend... Read more >
Written by Maxine Hong Kingston
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 18, 2011
Price: $24.95
In her singular voice—humble, elegiac, practical—Maxine Hong Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five.
Kingston’s swift, effortlessly flowing verse lines feel instantly natural in this fresh approach to the art of memoir, as she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend... Read more >
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Hungry for the World
A Memoir
Written by Kim Barnes
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2011
Price: $9.99
From the author of the critically acclaimed In the Wilderness, comes a riveting new narrative of self-discovery and personal triumph. Hungry for the World is the story of how an intelligent and passionate young woman, yearning for an understanding of the world beyond her insular family life, found her way.
On the... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Kim Barnes
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2011
Price: $9.99
From the author of the critically acclaimed In the Wilderness, comes a riveting new narrative of self-discovery and personal triumph. Hungry for the World is the story of how an intelligent and passionate young woman, yearning for an understanding of the world beyond her insular family life, found her way.
On the... Read more >
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Ruth, A Portrait
The story of Ruth Bell Graham
Written by Patricia Cornwell
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 5, 2011
Price: $12.99
Ruth Bell Graham is known as the wife of evangelist Billy Graham. It was Ruth who influenced Billy, as his most trusted life-partner. In Ruth, a Portrait, we meet this fascinating and remarkable woman. Brimming with anecdotes, this is a breathtaking journey, with stops at many of this century's epoch-making events.
The... Read more >
The story of Ruth Bell Graham
Written by Patricia Cornwell
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 5, 2011
Price: $12.99
Ruth Bell Graham is known as the wife of evangelist Billy Graham. It was Ruth who influenced Billy, as his most trusted life-partner. In Ruth, a Portrait, we meet this fascinating and remarkable woman. Brimming with anecdotes, this is a breathtaking journey, with stops at many of this century's epoch-making events.
The... Read more >
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