Zealot
The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Written by Reza Aslan
Read by Reza Aslan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $17.50
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the internationally bestselling author of
No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth.
Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee...
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Man's Search for Meaning
Written by Viktor Frankl
Afterword by William J. Winslade
Foreword by Harold S. Kushner
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 1, 2006
Price: $14.00
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the...
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
A Memoir of Food and Longing
Written by Anya Von Bremzen
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2013
Price: $26.00
A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations
With startling beauty and sardonic wit, Anya von Bremzen tells an intimate yet epic story of life in that vanished empire known as the USSR—a place where...
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Unbroken
A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Written by Laura Hillenbrand
Read by Edward Herrmann
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 16, 2010
Price: $22.50
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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The Diary of a Young Girl
Written by Anne Frank
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2010
Price: $5.99
The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. At last, in a new translation, this definitive edition contains entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Anne Frank's
The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has...
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Written by Isabel Wilkerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERLYNTON HISTORY PRIZE WINNERHEARTLAND AWARD...
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Written by Katherine Boo
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $27.00
In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $16.99
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail
—well, most of it. In
A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia...
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