Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Written by Jack Weatherford

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2005
Price: $15.00

The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing cultures of... Read more >

Leaving the Saints
How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
Written by Martha Beck

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $14.95

Leaving the Saints is an unforgettable memoir about one woman’s spiritual quest and journey toward faith. As “Mormon royalty” within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Church’s high elders—known as the apostles—and her existence was framed by their strict... Read more >

Unraveled
The True Story of a Woman Who Dared to Become a Different Kind of Mother
Written by Maria Housden

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: June 7, 2005
Price: $13.95

As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden’s vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans.

Unraveled is Housden’s riveting and thoughtful story of how, after the death of her young daughter, she found the courage to... Read more >

Meet You in Hell
Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
Written by Les Standiford

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $13.95

Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry—Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick—and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Author Les Standiford begins at the bitter end, when the dying Carnegie proposes a final meeting... Read more >

Lincoln
A Life of Purpose and Power
Written by Richard Carwardine

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $15.00

An original and deeply insightful biography of Abraham Lincoln, already awarded the prestigious Lincoln Prize.

As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. But the story of his rise to greatness is as... Read more >

My Life in France

Written by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $15.00

Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she was not always a master chef.


Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with... Read more >

A Writer's Life

Written by Gay Talese

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 25, 2006
Price: $15.95

The inner workings of a writer’s life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life—the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism and best-sellerdom and acclaim... Read more >

Soldier

Written by Karen DeYoung

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $17.95

The first full biography of Colin Powell, from his Bronx childhood to his military career to his controversial tenure as secretary of state, with a new afterword detailing his life after the Bush White House.

Over the course of a lifetime of service to his country, Colin Powell became a national hero... Read more >

Walt Disney

Written by Neal Gabler

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 31, 2006
Price: $20.00

The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history.

Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films–most notably Snow White... Read more >

Prisoners

Written by Jeffrey Goldberg

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $14.95

They met in 1990 during the first Palestinian uprising—one was an American Jew who served as a prison guard in the largest prison in Israel, the other, his prisoner, Rafiq, a rising leader in the PLO. Despite their fears and prejudices, they began a dialogue there that grew into a remarkable... Read more >