The Well-Spoken Woman
Your Guide to Looking and Sounding Your Best
Written by Christine K. Jahnke

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $11.99

Who doesn’t want to be confident, concise, and compelling when speaking in public?
In this must-have guide, one of the nation’s premier speech coaches shares tested techniques from twenty years of coaching women on what works and what doesn’t. The autohr details the practices and techniques of successful women to help... Read more >

Madrigals Magic Key to Spanish

Written by Margarita Madrigal

Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: September 26, 2012
Price: $9.99

Anyone can read, write, and speak Spanish in only a few short weeks with this unique and proven method, which completely eliminates rote memorization and boring drills.

Original B & W illustrations.


From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >

Wired for Story
The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
Written by Lisa Cron

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $11.99

This guide reveals how writers can utilize cognitive storytelling strategies to craft stories that ignite readers’ brains and captivate them through each plot element.

  Imagine knowing what the brain craves from every tale it encounters, what fuels the success of any great story, and what keeps readers transfixed. Wired for Story reveals these... Read more >

Overcoming Dyslexia
A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level
Written by Sally Shaywitz, M.D.

Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $15.99

FOR EVERYONE WHO STRUGGLES TO READ!
Clear, practical, science-based information and advice for successful results

One in five American children has trouble reading. But they are not stupid or lazy. In Overcoming Dyslexia, Dr. Sally Shaywitz, codirector of the Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention and a leader in the... Read more >

Good Prose
The Art of Nonfiction
Written by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $13.99

Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd... Read more >

Thank You for Arguing
What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion
Written by Jay Heinrichs

Format: eBook
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $11.99

Thank You for Arguing is your master class in the art of persuasion, taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill. The time-tested secrets the book discloses include Cicero’s three-step strategy for moving an audience to actionÑas well as Honest Abe’s Shameless Trick of lowering an audience’s expectations by... 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: $9.99

A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist.
 
Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal... Read more >

The Spell of the Sensuous
Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
Written by David Abram

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2012
Price: $11.99

Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This is a major work of ecological philosophy that startles... Read more >

My Reading Life

Written by Pat Conroy

Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $14.99

Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life.

Pat Conroy, the beloved American storyteller, is a voracious reader. Starting as a childhood passion that bloomed into a life-long companion, reading has been Conroy’s portal to the world... Read more >

Word Smart, 5th Edition

Written by Princeton Review

Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $9.99

Let your vocabulary speak for itself.

Knowing which words to use and how to use them is key to communicating accurately and effectively. That’s why more than one million people have used Word Smart to improve their vocabularies! This updated 5th edition defines and explains more than 1,400 need-to-know vocabulary words.

To create... Read more >