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
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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Unbroken
A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Written by Laura Hillenbrand
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 16, 2010
Price: $12.99
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who...
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Written by Mindy Kaling
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $9.99
Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence “Can I just say one...
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My Beloved World
Written by Sonia Sotomayor
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $12.99
The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an...
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The Buy Side
A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess
Written by Turney Duff
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $12.99
The Buy Side, by former Galleon Group trader Turney Duff, portrays an after-hours Wall Street culture where drugs and sex are rampant and billions in trading commissions flow to those who dangle the most enticements. A remarkable writing debut, filled with indelible moments, The Buy Side shows as no book ever...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Written by Rebecca Skloot
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $9.99
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are...
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Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Written by Cheryl Strayed
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $9.99
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed...
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Tell My Sons
A Father's Last Letters
Written by Lt. Col. Mark Weber
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2012
Price: $9.99
NATIONAL BESTSELLERAt the pinnacle of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber was tapped to serve in a high-profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Weeks later, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three. Over the...
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