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On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier
Written by Bob Thompson
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $27.00
Combining the stories of the real hero and his Disney-enhanced afterlife, Born on a Mountaintop delves deep into our love for an American icon.
Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. Over the years, he... Read more >
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On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier
Written by Bob Thompson
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $13.99
Combining the stories of the real hero and his Disney-enhanced afterlife, Born on a Mountaintop delves deep into our love for an American icon.
Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. Over the years, he... Read more >
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A Writer's Journey Home
Written by Howard Frank Mosher
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $15.00
Several months before novelist Howard Frank Mosher turned sixty-five, he learned that he had prostate cancer. Following forty-six intensive radiation treatments, Mosher set out alone in his twenty-year-old Chevy Celebrity on a monumental road trip and book tour across twenty-first-century America. From a chance meeting with an angry moose in northern... Read more >
A Doctor's Journey
Written by Danielle Ofri
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $3.99
New York Times WellBlog regular contributor, Danielle Ofri has been praised for turning the triumphs and trials of medicine into riveting and compassionate stories. This e-book exclusive edition offers 98 pages of her best work.
This eBook original exhibits Danielle Ofri's range and skill as a storyteller as well as... Read more >
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Written by Lillian Faderman
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $25.95
An acclaimed writer on her mother’s tumultuous life as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York and her life-long guilt when the Holocaust claims the family she left behind in Latvia
A story of love, war, and life as a Jewish immigrant in the squalid factories and lively dance halls of New...
Written by Lillian Faderman
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $25.95
An acclaimed writer on her mother’s tumultuous life as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York and her life-long guilt when the Holocaust claims the family she left behind in Latvia
A story of love, war, and life as a Jewish immigrant in the squalid factories and lively dance halls of New...
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Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built
Written by Mark Russ Federman
Foreword by Calvin Trillin
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $25.95
WITH 8 PAGES OF FULL-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGES THROUGHOUT
The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal...
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Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built
Written by Mark Russ Federman
Foreword by Calvin Trillin
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $13.99
WITH 8 PAGES OF FULL-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGES THROUGHOUT
The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal...
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The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers
Written by Lee Sandlin
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $26.95
With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations
From the acclaimed author of Wicked River comes Storm Kings, a riveting tale of supercell tornadoes and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists whose discoveries created the science of modern meteorology.
While tornadoes have occasionally been spotted elsewhere, only the central plains of North America have the perfect...
The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers
Written by Lee Sandlin
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $13.99
With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations
From the acclaimed author of Wicked River comes Storm Kings, a riveting tale of supercell tornadoes and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists whose discoveries created the science of modern meteorology.
While tornadoes have occasionally been spotted elsewhere, only the central plains of North America have the perfect...
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A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
Written by Pat Head Summitt and Sally Jenkins
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $28.00
Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she... Read more >
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A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
Written by Pat Head Summitt and Sally Jenkins
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $12.99
Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she... Read more >
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A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
Written by Pat Head Summitt and Sally Jenkins
Read by Sally Jenkins
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $22.50
Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she... Read more >
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Written by Sonali Deraniyagala
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $24.00
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She...
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Written by Sonali Deraniyagala
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $11.99
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She...
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Written by Sonali Deraniyagala
Read by Hannah Curtis
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $30.00
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She...
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Written by Sonali Deraniyagala
Read by Hannah Curtis
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $17.50
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She...
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Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the Modern Age of Golf
Written by James Dodson
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $16.95
With compelling detail and pure passion, James Dodson recounts the singular brilliance of three golf titans and how they saved the professional tour and created the game as we know it today.
During the Depression golf was in crisis. As a spectator sport it was on the verge of extinction. This was...
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Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
Written by Matthew Goodman
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $28.00
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer’s World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day—and heading in the opposite direction by train—was... Read more >
Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
Written by Matthew Goodman
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $13.99
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer’s World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day—and heading in the opposite direction by train—was... Read more >
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Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
Written by Matthew Goodman
Read by Kathe Mazur
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $25.00
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer’s World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day—and heading in the opposite direction by train—was... Read more >
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My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond
Written by Lilly Ledbetter and Lanier Scott Isom
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $15.00
The inspiring 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 always knew that she was destined for something more than... Read more >
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An American Odyssey
Written by Vernona Gomez and Lawrence Goldstone
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
“An intimate portrait of a man whose life off the field was equally as captivating as his unparalleled baseball career.”—Yankees Magazine
Born into a small-town California ranching family, Vernon “Lefty” Gomez rode his powerful arm and jocular personality across America to the dugout of the New York Yankees. Lefty... Read more >
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A Journey into the Wondrous World of the Circus, Past and Present
Written by Duncan Wall
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $26.95
The extraordinary story of a young man’s plunge into the unique and wonderful world of the circus—taking readers deep into circus history and its renaissance as a contemporary art form, and behind the (tented) walls of France’s most prestigious circus school.
When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as...
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A Journey into the Wondrous World of the Circus, Past and Present
Written by Duncan Wall
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $13.99
The extraordinary story of a young man’s plunge into the unique and wonderful world of the circus—taking readers deep into circus history and its renaissance as a contemporary art form, and behind the (tented) walls of France’s most prestigious circus school.
When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as...
