Paris in Love
A Memoir
Written by Eloisa James

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $11.99

“Exhilarating and enchanting . . . brims with a casual wisdom about life.”—Chicago Tribune

In 2009, New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James took a leap that many people dream about: She sold her house, took a sabbatical from her job as a Shakespeare professor, and moved her family to Paris. This... Read more >

Rocket Boys

Written by Homer Hickam

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1999
Price: $7.99

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir--a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of young men who dreamed of launching... Read more >

Ghost Soldiers
The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Written by Hampton Sides

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 17, 2002
Price: $11.99

On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the... Read more >

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 >

Happier at Home
Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Written by Gretchen Rubin

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $12.99

In the spirit of her blockbuster #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin embarks on a new project to make home a happier place.
 
One Sunday afternoon, as she unloaded the dishwasher, Gretchen Rubin felt hit by a wave of homesickness. Homesick—why? She was standing right in her own... Read more >

Sickened
The True Story of a Lost Childhood
Written by Julie Gregory

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $11.99

A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor’s examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she’s tall, skinny, and weak. It’s four o’clock, and she hasn’t been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. She's... Read more >

The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Written by Maya Angelou

Format: eBook, 1184 pages
On Sale: April 18, 2012
Price: $19.99

This Modern Library edition contains I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Gather Together in My Name, Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas, The Heart of a Woman, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, and A Song Flung Up to Heaven.
 
When I Know Why the Caged Bird... Read more >

Once Upon a Secret
My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath
Written by Mimi Alford

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2012
Price: $11.99

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
In the summer of 1962, nineteen-year-old Mimi Beardsley arrived in Washington, D.C., to begin an internship in the White House press office. After just three days on the job, the privileged but sheltered young woman was presented to the President himself. Almost immediately, the two...

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His Bright Light
The Story of Nick Traina
Written by Danielle Steel

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $11.99

"This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race against death.

I want to share the story, and the pain, the courage, the love, and... Read more >

Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition
My Life with Autism
Written by Temple Grandin

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $11.99

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us... Read more >