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How Literature Saved My Life
Written by David Shields
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $25.95
Written by David Shields
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $25.95
“Reading How Literature Saved My Life is like getting to listen in on a really great, smart, provocative conversation. The book is not straightforward, it resists any single interpretation, and it seems to me to constitute nothing less than a new form.” ––Whitney Otto
In this wonderfully intelligent, stunningly honest...
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Data, A Love Story
How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match
Written by Amy Webb
Read by Amy Webb and Brian Woolf
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 31, 2013
Price: $20.00
A lively, thought-provoking memoir about how one woman "gamed" online dating sites like JDate, OKCupid and eHarmony – and met her eventual husband.
After yet another online dating disaster, Amy Webb was about to cancel her JDate membership when an epiphany struck: It wasn’t that her standards were too high, as... Read more >
How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match
Written by Amy Webb
Read by Amy Webb and Brian Woolf
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 31, 2013
Price: $20.00
A lively, thought-provoking memoir about how one woman "gamed" online dating sites like JDate, OKCupid and eHarmony – and met her eventual husband.
After yet another online dating disaster, Amy Webb was about to cancel her JDate membership when an epiphany struck: It wasn’t that her standards were too high, as... Read more >
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Herculine Barbin
Written by Michel Foucault
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2013
Price: $9.99
With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the... Read more >
Written by Michel Foucault
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2013
Price: $9.99
With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the... Read more >
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My Century
Written by Aleksander Wat
Translated by Richard Lourie
Introduction by Czeslaw Milosz
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 30, 2013
Price: $22.95
In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, My Century describes the artistic, sexual, and political experimentation—in which Wat was a major participant—that followed... Read more >
Written by Aleksander Wat
Translated by Richard Lourie
Introduction by Czeslaw Milosz
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 30, 2013
Price: $22.95
In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, My Century describes the artistic, sexual, and political experimentation—in which Wat was a major participant—that followed... Read more >
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Abraham Lincoln: From the Log Cabin to the White House
Campfire Heroes Line
Written by Lewis Helfand
Illustrated by Manikandan
Format: Trade Paperback, 108 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $12.99
One of the most courageous and esteemed presidents of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln is known mainly for abolishing slavery and his leadership during the Civil War. He grew up in a single-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kenrucky. His mother died when he... Read more >
Campfire Heroes Line
Written by Lewis Helfand
Illustrated by Manikandan
Format: Trade Paperback, 108 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $12.99
One of the most courageous and esteemed presidents of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln is known mainly for abolishing slavery and his leadership during the Civil War. He grew up in a single-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kenrucky. His mother died when he... Read more >
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Fresh Off the Boat
A Memoir
Written by Eddie Huang
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $26.00
“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
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $26.00
“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 >
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Fresh Off the Boat
A Memoir
Written by Eddie Huang
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $12.99
“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
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $12.99
“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 >
Also available as an
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hardcover and a
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Fresh Off the Boat
A Memoir
Written by Eddie Huang
Read by Eddie Huang
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $35.00
“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 Compact Disc
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $35.00
“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 >
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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 >
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Madison and Jefferson
Written by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $20.00
“[A] monumental dual biography . . . a distinguished work, combining deep research, a pleasing narrative style and an abundance of fresh insights, a rare combination.”—The Dallas Morning News
The third and fourth presidents have long been considered proper gentlemen, with Thomas Jefferson’s genius overshadowing James Madison’s judgment and common sense... Read more >
Written by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $20.00
“[A] monumental dual biography . . . a distinguished work, combining deep research, a pleasing narrative style and an abundance of fresh insights, a rare combination.”—The Dallas Morning News
The third and fourth presidents have long been considered proper gentlemen, with Thomas Jefferson’s genius overshadowing James Madison’s judgment and common sense... Read more >
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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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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Written by Jeanne Theoharis
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $27.95
Written by Jeanne Theoharis
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $27.95
The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement
Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis...
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Written by Jeanne Theoharis
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $27.95
Written by Jeanne Theoharis
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $27.95
The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement
Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis...
Read more >
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The Architect of Desire
Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family
Written by Suzannah Lessard
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2013
Price: $14.99
The story of Stanford White--his scandalous affair with the 16-year-old actress Evelyn Nesbit, his murder in 1906 by her husband, the millionaire Harry K. Thaw, and the hailstorm of publicity that surrounded "the trial of the century"--has proven irresistable to generations of novelists, historians, and biographers. The premier neoclassical architect of... Read more >
Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family
Written by Suzannah Lessard
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2013
Price: $14.99
The story of Stanford White--his scandalous affair with the 16-year-old actress Evelyn Nesbit, his murder in 1906 by her husband, the millionaire Harry K. Thaw, and the hailstorm of publicity that surrounded "the trial of the century"--has proven irresistable to generations of novelists, historians, and biographers. The premier neoclassical architect of... Read more >
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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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Conversations with Scorsese
Written by Richard Schickel
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $24.95
Now in paperback, and with a new afterword: the history and process of moviemaking in general, and of Martin Scorsese's brilliant and varied films in particular, through the words and wit of the master director.
With Richard Schickel as the canny and intelligent guide, these conversations take us deep into Scorsese's life... Read more >
Written by Richard Schickel
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $24.95
Now in paperback, and with a new afterword: the history and process of moviemaking in general, and of Martin Scorsese's brilliant and varied films in particular, through the words and wit of the master director.
With Richard Schickel as the canny and intelligent guide, these conversations take us deep into Scorsese's life... Read more >
A Remarkable Man
The Story of George Chesterton
Written by Andrew Murtagh
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $18.99
‘I can truthfully say that there has never been a nicer man in the game. George Chesterton is a gentleman to the core. And he wasn’t a bad bowler either!’ Tom Graveney OBE. Wartime pilot dropping supplies over occupied Europe; county cricketer; housemaster teaching and disciplining mischievous teenage boys; family man... Read more >
The Story of George Chesterton
Written by Andrew Murtagh
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $18.99
‘I can truthfully say that there has never been a nicer man in the game. George Chesterton is a gentleman to the core. And he wasn’t a bad bowler either!’ Tom Graveney OBE. Wartime pilot dropping supplies over occupied Europe; county cricketer; housemaster teaching and disciplining mischievous teenage boys; family man... Read more >
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The Inventor and the Tycoon
A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
Written by Edward Ball
Read by John H. Mayer
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $24.00
From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible... Read more >
A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
Written by Edward Ball
Read by John H. Mayer
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $24.00
From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible... Read more >
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The Inventor and the Tycoon
A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
Written by Edward Ball
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $14.99
From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible... Read more >
A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
Written by Edward Ball
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $14.99
From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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The Inventor and the Tycoon
A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
Written by Edward Ball
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $29.95
From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible... Read more >
A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
Written by Edward Ball
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $29.95
From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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A Jew Among Romans
The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus
Written by Frederic Raphael
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $28.95
The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus
Written by Frederic Raphael
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $28.95
From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37–c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world.
Joseph ben Mattathias’s transformation into Titus Flavius Josephus, historian to the Roman emperor Vespasian, is...
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A Jew Among Romans
The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus
Written by Frederic Raphael
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $14.99
The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus
Written by Frederic Raphael
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $14.99
From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37–c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world.
Joseph ben Mattathias’s transformation into Titus Flavius Josephus, historian to the Roman emperor Vespasian, is...
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The Man Within My Head
Written by Pico Iyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.00
Written by Pico Iyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.00
Ever since he first discovered Graham Greene's work, Pico Iyer has felt a haunting closeness with the English writer. In The Man Within My Head, Iyer follows Greene's trail from his first novel, The Man Within, to such later classics as The Quiet American, examining Greene's obsessions, his elusiveness, and his...
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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.
