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My 360-Degree View of the UFC
Written by Bruce Buffer
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $12.99
If you’re reading these words, chances are that you, like me, are a fan of the great sport we call MMA.
And if you’re a fan, then you probably recognize my face.
Yeah, that’s right—I’m that guy you see at every UFC match, spinning around and roaring into the microphone and... Read more >
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Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age
Written by Allen Barra
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $27.00
Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field.
Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they came to New York at the same... Read more >
Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age
Written by Allen Barra
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $13.99
Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field.
Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they came to New York at the same... Read more >
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How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World
Written by Stefan Bechtel
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $17.00
He was complex, quirky, pugnacious, and difficult. He seemed to create enemies wherever he went, even among his friends. A fireplug of a man who stood only five feet eight inches in his stocking feet, he began as a taxidermist and an adventurer who tracked tigers in Borneo with friendly headhunters... Read more >
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Written by Gordon Pinsent and George Anthony
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $22.00
One of the great Canadian actors of his generation, Gordon Pinsent has worked in theatre, and on film and television, for more than six decades. In this compelling and candid, engaging and entertaining memoir, Pinsent shares career highlights - including roles in Quentin Durgens, M.P., The Rowdyman, John and the Missus,...
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A Life Inside the Center
Written by Ray Monk
Format: Hardcover, 848 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $37.50
Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the “Father... Read more >
A Life Inside the Center
Written by Ray Monk
Format: eBook, 848 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $18.99
Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the “Father... Read more >
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A Life Inside the Center
Written by Ray Monk
Read by Michael Goldstrom
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $37.50
Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the “Father... Read more >
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A Memoir of Forty Years in Food
Written by Raymond Sokolov
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $25.95
Four decades of memories from a gastronome who witnessed the food revolution from the (well-provisioned) trenches—a delicious tour through contemporary food history.
When Raymond Sokolov became food editor of The New York Times in 1971, he began a long, memorable career as restaurant critic, food historian, and author. Here he traces...
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A Memoir of Forty Years in Food
Written by Raymond Sokolov
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $13.99
Four decades of memories from a gastronome who witnessed the food revolution from the (well-provisioned) trenches—a delicious tour through contemporary food history.
When Raymond Sokolov became food editor of The New York Times in 1971, he began a long, memorable career as restaurant critic, food historian, and author. Here he traces...
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A Father's Journey to Become His Son's Caddie
Written by Don J. Snyder
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $25.95
A long-standing promise from a father to his five-year-old son . . .
A poignant diary that chronicles the journey
When Don Snyder was teaching the game of golf to his young son, Jack, they made a pact: if one day Jack became good enough to play on a pro golf tour, Don...
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A Father's Journey to Become His Son's Caddie
Written by Don J. Snyder
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $12.99
A long-standing promise from a father to his five-year-old son . . .
A poignant diary that chronicles the journey
When Don Snyder was teaching the game of golf to his young son, Jack, they made a pact: if one day Jack became good enough to play on a pro golf tour, Don...
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Confessions of a Wayward Monk
Written by Shozan Jack Haubner
Foreword by Leonard Cohen
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $14.95
“This punk of a monk, who should be tending to his own affairs, has decided to infect the real world with his tall tales, and worse, to let the cat out of the bag. And what a sly, dangerous, beautiful, foul-smelling, heart-warming beast it is.”—Leonard Cohen, from the foreword
These hilarious essays... Read more >
The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
Written by Julia Markus
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $13.99
A Riveting and brilliant work of biography. The story of two great English poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, whose work was immediately recognized and adored by their contemporaries, whose courtship ranks with the great love stories of all time -- and in whose marriage romance was not merely sustained but... Read more >
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A Physician Looks at His Work
Written by David Hilfiker, M.D.
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $13.99
Healing the Wounds is the most revealing book ever written by a doctor about his own profession. In it, David Hilfiker breaks the code of silence surrounding the everyday practice of medicine and gives is a dramatically different personal account of how the family doctors gets by in a world of... Read more >
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A Harrowing Account of America's Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam
Written by Tom Mangold
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $7.99
At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong cached their weapons, tended their wounded, and prepared to strike. They had only one enemy: U.S. soldiers small and wiry enough... Read more >
Lover of Strange Souls
Written by Denis Donoghue
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $11.99
A TWENTIETH-CENTURY intellectual of the first rank presents the case for the nineteenth-century aesthetician whose elegant subversions delivered us to modernism. Walter Pater (1839-1894) was an obscure Oxford don until 1873, when his first book, The Renaissance, exposed his argument favoring sensation over though and, in doing so, ignited a hard... Read more >
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My Life On and Off the Canvas
Written by Eric Fischl and Michael Stone
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $26.00
In Bad Boy, renowned American artist Eric Fischl has written a penetrating, often searing exploration of his coming of age as an artist, and his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly charged and competitive New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s. With such notorious and controversial... Read more >
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My Life On and Off the Canvas
Written by Eric Fischl and Michael Stone
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $12.99
In Bad Boy, renowned American artist Eric Fischl has written a penetrating, often searing exploration of his coming of age as an artist, and his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly charged and competitive New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s. With such notorious and controversial... Read more >
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Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere
Written by Lucas Mann
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $26.95
An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails of the players of the Clinton LumberKings but also the lives of their dedicated fans and of the town itself.
Award-winning essayist Lucas Mann delivers a powerful debut in his telling of the...
Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere
Written by Lucas Mann
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $13.99
An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails of the players of the Clinton LumberKings but also the lives of their dedicated fans and of the town itself.
Award-winning essayist Lucas Mann delivers a powerful debut in his telling of the...
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Growing Up with a Gay Dad
Written by Alison Wearing
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $11.99
A moving memoir about growing up with a gay father in the 1980s, and a tribute to the power of truth, humour, acceptance and familial love.
Alison Wearing led a largely carefree childhood until she learned, at the age of 12, that her family was a little more complex than she had...
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Growing Up with a Gay Dad
Written by Alison Wearing
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $24.00
A moving memoir about growing up with a gay father in the 1980s, and a tribute to the power of truth, humour, acceptance and familial love.
Alison Wearing led a largely carefree childhood until she learned, at the age of 12, that her family was a little more complex than she had...
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His World War II Letters Home
Written by Walter Cronkite, IV and Maurice Isserman
Foreword by Tom Brokaw
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $28.00
A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. Walter Cronkite, an obscure 23-year-old United Press wire service reporter, married Betsy Maxwell on March 30, 1940, following a four-year courtship. She proved to be the love of... Read more >
His World War II Letters Home
Written by Walter Cronkite, IV and Maurice Isserman
Foreword by Tom Brokaw
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $28.00
A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. Walter Cronkite, an obscure 23-year-old United Press wire service reporter, married Betsy Maxwell on March 30, 1940, following a four-year courtship. She proved to be the love of... Read more >
