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Still Points North
One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home
Written by Leigh Newman
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $12.99
Part adventure story, part love story, part homecoming, Still Points North is a page-turning memoir that explores the extremes of belonging and exile, and the difference between how to survive and knowing how to truly live.
Growing up in the wilds of Alaska, seven-year-old Leigh Newman spent her time landing silver salmon... Read more >
One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home
Written by Leigh Newman
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $12.99
Part adventure story, part love story, part homecoming, Still Points North is a page-turning memoir that explores the extremes of belonging and exile, and the difference between how to survive and knowing how to truly live.
Growing up in the wilds of Alaska, seven-year-old Leigh Newman spent her time landing silver salmon... Read more >
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Susie Cooper
Written by Alan Marshall
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $12.95
During her 65-year career, Susie Cooper introduced more than 4,500 ceramic patterns and shapes, making her one of the most prolific, versatile and influential designers the industry has ever seen. Between the 1920s and 1980s she moved from the bold hand-painting of the jazz age through delicate wash banding and aerograph... Read more >
Written by Alan Marshall
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $12.95
During her 65-year career, Susie Cooper introduced more than 4,500 ceramic patterns and shapes, making her one of the most prolific, versatile and influential designers the industry has ever seen. Between the 1920s and 1980s she moved from the bold hand-painting of the jazz age through delicate wash banding and aerograph... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Susie Cooper
Written by Alan Marshall
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $7.95
During her 65-year career, Susie Cooper introduced more than 4,500 ceramic patterns and shapes, making her one of the most prolific, versatile and influential designers the industry has ever seen. Between the 1920s and 1980s she moved from the bold hand-painting of the jazz age through delicate wash banding and aerograph... Read more >
Written by Alan Marshall
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $7.95
During her 65-year career, Susie Cooper introduced more than 4,500 ceramic patterns and shapes, making her one of the most prolific, versatile and influential designers the industry has ever seen. Between the 1920s and 1980s she moved from the bold hand-painting of the jazz age through delicate wash banding and aerograph... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Toms River
A Story of Science and Salvation
Written by Dan Fagin
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $28.00
“A thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology, Toms River is essential reading for our times. Dan Fagin handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the honesty of a journalist, and the dramatic skill of a novelist.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of... Read more >
A Story of Science and Salvation
Written by Dan Fagin
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $28.00
“A thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology, Toms River is essential reading for our times. Dan Fagin handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the honesty of a journalist, and the dramatic skill of a novelist.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of... Read more >
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Toms River
A Story of Science and Salvation
Written by Dan Fagin
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $13.99
“A thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology, Toms River is essential reading for our times. Dan Fagin handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the honesty of a journalist, and the dramatic skill of a novelist.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of... Read more >
A Story of Science and Salvation
Written by Dan Fagin
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $13.99
“A thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology, Toms River is essential reading for our times. Dan Fagin handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the honesty of a journalist, and the dramatic skill of a novelist.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of... Read more >
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Toms River
A Story of Science and Salvation
Written by Dan Fagin
Read by Dan Woren
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $25.00
“A thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology, Toms River is essential reading for our times. Dan Fagin handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the honesty of a journalist, and the dramatic skill of a novelist.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of... Read more >
A Story of Science and Salvation
Written by Dan Fagin
Read by Dan Woren
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $25.00
“A thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology, Toms River is essential reading for our times. Dan Fagin handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the honesty of a journalist, and the dramatic skill of a novelist.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of... Read more >
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Everybody's Autobiography
Written by Gertrude Stein
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 13, 2013
Price: $12.99
“Alice B. Toklas wrote hers and now everybody will write theirs.” In 1933 Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas skyrocketed to the top of the bestseller lists, and the author found herself a celebrity. Everybody’s Autobiography is the very Steinian account of her soul-satisfying next five years in France... Read more >
Written by Gertrude Stein
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 13, 2013
Price: $12.99
“Alice B. Toklas wrote hers and now everybody will write theirs.” In 1933 Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas skyrocketed to the top of the bestseller lists, and the author found herself a celebrity. Everybody’s Autobiography is the very Steinian account of her soul-satisfying next five years in France... Read more >
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Wars I Have Seen
Written by Gertrude Stein
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2013
Price: $11.99
Wars I Have Seen is the American writer Gertrude Stein's memoir of her experiences during the Second World War. Gertrude Stein was living in Europe during the time of the war. Read more >
Written by Gertrude Stein
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2013
Price: $11.99
Wars I Have Seen is the American writer Gertrude Stein's memoir of her experiences during the Second World War. Gertrude Stein was living in Europe during the time of the war. Read more >
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The Big Miss
My Years Coaching Tiger Woods
Written by Hank Haney
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
My Years Coaching Tiger Woods
Written by Hank Haney
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
Hank Haney's candid, surprisingly insightful account of his tumultuous six-year journey with Tiger Woods, during which the supremely gifted golfer collected six major championships and rewrote golf history. Hank was one of very few people allowed behind the curtain and observed Tiger in nearly every circumstance. There's never been a book...
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Don't Put Me In, Coach
My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench
Written by Mark Titus
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $15.00
An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would... Read more >
My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench
Written by Mark Titus
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $15.00
An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would... Read more >
Father, Soldier, Son
Memoir of a Platoon Leader In Vietnam
Written by Nathaniel Tripp
Format: eBook, 261 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $14.95
"Father, Soldier, Son will stand as one of the finest soldier memoirs of the Vietnam War . . . If all that has been written about the war in Vietnam, in fiction and nonfiction, has made it a familiar story to some, Tripp overcomes cliché by individualizing every well-known fact." --... Read more >
Memoir of a Platoon Leader In Vietnam
Written by Nathaniel Tripp
Format: eBook, 261 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $14.95
"Father, Soldier, Son will stand as one of the finest soldier memoirs of the Vietnam War . . . If all that has been written about the war in Vietnam, in fiction and nonfiction, has made it a familiar story to some, Tripp overcomes cliché by individualizing every well-known fact." --... Read more >
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The Lone Samurai
The Life of Miyamoto Musashi
Written by William Scott Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $16.95
Miyamoto Musashi (1584‒1645) was the legendary samurai known throughout the world as a master swordsman, spiritual seeker, and author of the classic book on strategy, the Book of Five Rings. Over 350 years after his death, Musashi and his legacy still fascinate us and continue to inspire artists, authors, and filmmakers... Read more >
The Life of Miyamoto Musashi
Written by William Scott Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $16.95
Miyamoto Musashi (1584‒1645) was the legendary samurai known throughout the world as a master swordsman, spiritual seeker, and author of the classic book on strategy, the Book of Five Rings. Over 350 years after his death, Musashi and his legacy still fascinate us and continue to inspire artists, authors, and filmmakers... Read more >
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Raising Cubby
A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives
Written by John Elder Robison
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $26.00
The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble
Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed... Read more >
A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives
Written by John Elder Robison
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $26.00
The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble
Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed... Read more >
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Raising Cubby
A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives
Written by John Elder Robison
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $12.99
The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble
Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed... Read more >
A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives
Written by John Elder Robison
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $12.99
The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble
Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed... Read more >
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Raising Cubby
A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives
Written by John Elder Robison
Read by John Elder Robison
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $40.00
The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble
Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed... Read more >
A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives
Written by John Elder Robison
Read by John Elder Robison
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $40.00
The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble
Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed... Read more >
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Raising Cubby
A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives
Written by John Elder Robison
Read by John Elder Robison
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $20.00
The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble
Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed... Read more >
A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives
Written by John Elder Robison
Read by John Elder Robison
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $20.00
The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble
Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed... Read more >
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Sum It Up
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 Compact Disc
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $45.00
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 >
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 Compact Disc
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $45.00
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 >
There Is a Garden in the Mind
A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California
Written by Paul A. Lee
Format: eBook, 248 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $15.95
There Is a Garden in the Mind presents an engaging look at the work and life of pioneering organic gardener Alan Chadwick and his profound influence on the organic farming movement. In this wide-ranging and philosophical memoir, author Paul Lee recounts his first serendipitous meeting with Chadwick in Santa Cruz, California... Read more >
A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California
Written by Paul A. Lee
Format: eBook, 248 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $15.95
There Is a Garden in the Mind presents an engaging look at the work and life of pioneering organic gardener Alan Chadwick and his profound influence on the organic farming movement. In this wide-ranging and philosophical memoir, author Paul Lee recounts his first serendipitous meeting with Chadwick in Santa Cruz, California... Read more >
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There Is a Garden in the Mind
A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California
Written by Paul A. Lee
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $19.95
There Is a Garden in the Mind presents an engaging look at the work and life of pioneering organic gardener Alan Chadwick and his profound influence on the organic farming movement. In this wide-ranging and philosophical memoir, author Paul Lee recounts his first serendipitous meeting with Chadwick in Santa Cruz, California... Read more >
A Memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California
Written by Paul A. Lee
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $19.95
There Is a Garden in the Mind presents an engaging look at the work and life of pioneering organic gardener Alan Chadwick and his profound influence on the organic farming movement. In this wide-ranging and philosophical memoir, author Paul Lee recounts his first serendipitous meeting with Chadwick in Santa Cruz, California... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
When the Birds Stopped Singing
Life in Ramallah Under Siege
Written by Raja Shehadeh
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $13.99
The Israeli army invaded Ramallah in March 2002. A tank stood at the end of Raja Shehadeh's road; Israeli soldiers patrolled from the roof toops. Four soldiers took over his brother's apartment and then used him as a human shield as they went through the building, while his wife tried to... Read more >
Life in Ramallah Under Siege
Written by Raja Shehadeh
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $13.99
The Israeli army invaded Ramallah in March 2002. A tank stood at the end of Raja Shehadeh's road; Israeli soldiers patrolled from the roof toops. Four soldiers took over his brother's apartment and then used him as a human shield as they went through the building, while his wife tried to... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Lean In
Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Written by Sheryl Sandberg
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2013
Price: $24.95
Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Written by Sheryl Sandberg
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2013
Price: $24.95
Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg...
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Lean In
Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Written by Sheryl Sandberg
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2013
Price: $12.99
Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Written by Sheryl Sandberg
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2013
Price: $12.99
Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why...
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Lean In
Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Written by Sheryl Sandberg
Read by Elisa Donovan
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 11, 2013
Price: $35.00
Sheryl Sandberg--Facebook COO, ranked eighth on Fortune's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business--has become one of America's most galvanizing leaders, and an icon for millions of women juggling work and family. In Lean In, she urges women to take risks and seek new challenges, to find work that... Read more >
Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Written by Sheryl Sandberg
Read by Elisa Donovan
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 11, 2013
Price: $35.00
Sheryl Sandberg--Facebook COO, ranked eighth on Fortune's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business--has become one of America's most galvanizing leaders, and an icon for millions of women juggling work and family. In Lean In, she urges women to take risks and seek new challenges, to find work that... Read more >
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Lean In
Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Written by Sheryl Sandberg
Read by Elisa Donovan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 11, 2013
Price: $17.50
Sheryl Sandberg--Facebook COO, ranked eighth on Fortune's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business--has become one of America's most galvanizing leaders, and an icon for millions of women juggling work and family. In Lean In, she urges women to take risks and seek new challenges, to find work that... Read more >
Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Written by Sheryl Sandberg
Read by Elisa Donovan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 11, 2013
Price: $17.50
Sheryl Sandberg--Facebook COO, ranked eighth on Fortune's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business--has become one of America's most galvanizing leaders, and an icon for millions of women juggling work and family. In Lean In, she urges women to take risks and seek new challenges, to find work that... Read more >
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A Day at the Beach
Recollections
Written by Geoffrey Wolff
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2013
Price: $9.99
With these interwoven autobiographical essays, Geoffrey Wolff, author of the acclaimed The Duke of Deception, recounts the moral (and immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father, as he offers his spirited, elegant, and deeply felt observations on an extraordinary life: from wildly dysfunctional childhood Christmases to a concupiscent career... Read more >
Recollections
Written by Geoffrey Wolff
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2013
Price: $9.99
With these interwoven autobiographical essays, Geoffrey Wolff, author of the acclaimed The Duke of Deception, recounts the moral (and immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father, as he offers his spirited, elegant, and deeply felt observations on an extraordinary life: from wildly dysfunctional childhood Christmases to a concupiscent career... Read more >
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