Feet on the Street
Rambles Around New Orleans
Written by Roy Blount Jr.

Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2005
Price: $16.95

“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for... Read more >

Zen and Now

Written by Mark Richardson

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $15.00

Part travelogue, part meditation on an author and his work, Zen and Now is a tribute to a beloved American book and the landscape that inspired it.

Since it was first published in 1974, Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance has become a modern classic, a beautifully constructed blend... Read more >

The Vintage Caper

Written by Peter Mayle

Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $24.95

Set in Hollywood, Paris, Bordeaux, and Marseille, Peter Mayle’s newest and most delightful novel is filled with culinary delights, sumptuous wines, and colorful characters. It’s also a lot of fun.

The story begins high above Los Angeles, at the extravagant home and equally impressive wine cellar of entertainment lawyer Danny Roth. Unfortunately... Read more >

Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy
A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes
Written by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali

Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00

In this inspiring new book, Lidia Bastianich awakens in us a new respect for food and for the people who produce it in the little-known parts of Italy that she explores. All of the recipes reflect the regions from which they spring, and in translating them to our home kitchens, Lidia... Read more >

You Can Get Arrested for That
2 Guys, 25 Dumb Laws, 1 Absurd American Crime Spree
Written by Rich Smith

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $13.95

Two Englishmen on a crime spree break American laws!

Stupid, unreasonable, and long-forgotten laws—but laws just the same.

In 1787 the wise framers of the U.S. Constitution laid out the laws of the land. Since then, things have gone awry, and a few laws even the far-sighted framers couldn’t have imagined have worked... Read more >

Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Written by Jake Adelstein

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $26.00

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime... Read more >

Istanbul

Written by Orhan Pamuk

Format: eBook
On Sale: December 5, 2006
Price: $15.95

A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a... Read more >

Near Death on the High Seas

Written by Cecil Kuhne

Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $14.95

“The wind was blowing at hurricane strength-sixty-five knots and over-and increasing in the gusts to eighty knots. His boat was surfing on waves as high as a sixty-foot, six-storey building. . .Each wave that struck choked and froze him, the icy water working its way down inside his survival suit.” —from... Read more >

Charm City
A Walk Through Baltimore
Written by Madison Smartt Bell

Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $16.95

With a writer’s keen eye, a longtime resident’s familiarity, and his own sly wit, acclaimed novelist Madison Smartt Bell leads us on a walk through his adopted hometown of Baltimore, a city where crab cakes, Edgar Allan Poe, hair extensions, and John Waters movies somehow coexist. From its founding before the... Read more >

No-Man's Lands
One Man's Odyssey Through The Odyssey
Written by Scott Huler

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $24.95

When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce’s Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book’s inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus.

No-Man’s Lands is Huler’s funny and touching exploration... Read more >