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Destiny of the Republic
A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Written by Candice Millard
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $11.99
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political... Read more >
A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Written by Candice Millard
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $11.99
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political... Read more >
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The Blood Telegram
Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
Written by Gary J. Bass
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: September 24, 2013
Price: $14.99
Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
Written by Gary J. Bass
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: September 24, 2013
Price: $14.99
A riveting history—the first full account—of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh that led to war between India and Pakistan, shaped the fate of Asia, and left in their wake a host of major strategic consequences for the world today.
Giving an astonishing inside...
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Pilgrim's Wilderness
A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier
Written by Tom Kizzia
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $12.99
Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness – and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch.
When Papa Pilgrim appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy with his wife and fifteen children in tow, his... Read more >
A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier
Written by Tom Kizzia
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $12.99
Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness – and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch.
When Papa Pilgrim appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy with his wife and fifteen children in tow, his... Read more >
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
A Memoir of Food and Longing
Written by Anya Von Bremzen
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2013
Price: $12.99
A Memoir of Food and Longing
Written by Anya Von Bremzen
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 17, 2013
Price: $12.99
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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The Guns of August
The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $7.99
In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step... Read more >
The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $7.99
In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step... Read more >
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Maus II
A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
Written by Art Spiegelman
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1992
Price: $15.95
***WINNER OF THE 1992 PULIZTER PRIZE***
Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Mausintroduced readers to Vladek Spieglman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story... Read more >
A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
Written by Art Spiegelman
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1992
Price: $15.95
***WINNER OF THE 1992 PULIZTER PRIZE***
Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Mausintroduced readers to Vladek Spieglman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story... Read more >
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Written by Robert K. Massie
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $15.99
“[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Street Journal
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure... Read more >
Written by Robert K. Massie
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $15.99
“[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Street Journal
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure... Read more >
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Man's Search for Meaning
Written by Viktor Frankl
Afterword by William J. Winslade
Foreword by Harold S. Kushner
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
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... Read more >
Written by Viktor Frankl
Afterword by William J. Winslade
Foreword by Harold S. Kushner
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
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... Read more >
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The Hiding Place
Written by Corrie Ten Boom and John Scherrill
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1984
Price: $7.99
“I pray that God forgive them...”
Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner. “Oh, the poor woman,” Corrie cried. “Yes. May God forgive her,” Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it was for the souls of the brutal Nazi... Read more >
Written by Corrie Ten Boom and John Scherrill
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1984
Price: $7.99
“I pray that God forgive them...”
Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner. “Oh, the poor woman,” Corrie cried. “Yes. May God forgive her,” Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it was for the souls of the brutal Nazi... Read more >
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Daily Rituals
How Artists Work
Edited by Mason Currey
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $24.95
How Artists Work
Edited by Mason Currey
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $24.95
Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through...
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