Grace
A Memoir
Written by Grace Coddington
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.99
Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of
Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s best-kept secret were it not for
The September Issue,...
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Means of Ascent
The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
Written by Robert A. Caro
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 23, 2011
Price: $15.99
Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, continues -- one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President. In Means of Ascent the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again
The True Adventures of a Hollywood Nanny
Written by Suzanne Hansen
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $9.99
New and completely updated editionHilarious and addictive, this chronicle of a small-town girl’s stint as a celebrity nanny reveals what really happens in the diaper trenches of Hollywood.
When Oregon native Suzanne Hansen becomes a live-in nanny to the children of Hollywood über-agent Michael Ovitz, she thinks she’s found the job of...
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Jackie Robinson
A Biography
Written by Arnold Rampersad
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2011
Price: $12.99
The extraordinary life of Jackie Robinson is illuminated as never before in this full-scale biography by Arnold Rampersad, who was chosen by Jack's widow, Rachel, to tell her husband's story, and was given unprecedented access to his private papers. We are brought closer than we have ever been to the great...
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Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Written by Barack Obama
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $11.99
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than...
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Titan
The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Written by Ron Chernow
Format: eBook, 832 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.99
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
"A biography that has many of the best attributes of a novel. . . . Wonderfully fluent and compelling." --
The New York Times"A triumph of the art of biography. Unflaggingly interesting, it brings John D. Rockefeller Sr. to life through sustained narrative portraiture of the large-scale...
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All Souls
A Family Story from Southie
Written by Michael Patrick MacDonald
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 28, 2010
Price: $14.95
A breakaway bestseller since its first printing,
All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald's Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger's crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald's Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters like his Ma, a miniskirted, accordion-playing...
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Eisenhower in War and Peace
Written by Jean Edward Smith
Format: eBook, 976 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $15.99
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Magisterial.”—The New York Times In this extraordinary volume, Jean Edward Smith presents a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America’s thirty-fourth president...
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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...
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Written by Haruki Murakami
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $11.99
An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible way they intersect, from the incomparable, bestselling author Haruki Murakami.While simply training for New York City Marathon would be enough for most people, Haruki Murakami's decided to write about it as well. The result is a beautiful memoir about his intertwined obsessions...
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