Death of a Jewish American Princess
The True Story of a Victim on Trial
Written by Shirley Frondorf
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 10, 2013
Price: $11.99
In 1982, a sensational murder trial in Phoenix, Arizona, reverberated throughout the legal community. Restaurateur Steven Steinberg, who killed his wife by stabbing her 26 times, was acquitted; his legal defense portrayed the victim as an overpowering "Jewish American Princess" whose excesses may have provoked her violent end. Examining the structure...
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Fascinating Womanhood
Written by Helen Andelin
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2013
Price: $7.99
How to Make Your Marriage a Lifelong Love Affair
What makes a woman fascinating to her husband? What is happiness in marriage for a woman? These are just two of the questions Helen B. Andelin answers in the bestselling classic that has already brought new happiness and life to millions of marriages...
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FROM EROS TO GAIA
Written by Freeman Dyson
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 10, 2013
Price: $22.99
Readers of Freeman Dyson’s previous books,
Disturbing the Universe, Weapons and Hope, and
Infinite in All Directions, have discovered for themselves what Dyson reveals here: that he was a writer long before he became a distinguished scientist.
The aim of this new book, as Dyson says, is to open windows, to let...
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Othello
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2013
Price: $4.99
Though this great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor, its story of the doomed marriage of a Venetian senator’s daughter, Desdemona, to a Moorish general, Othello, is especially relevant to modern audiences. The differences in race and background create an initial tension that allows the...
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Spoiled Rotten
Today's Children and How to Change Them
Written by Fred G. Gosman
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 10, 2013
Price: $11.99
It starts with designer diapers. It extends to extravagant birthday parties, leads to boorish behavior and plummeting grades. What is the problem here? It's what we are doing to our children by not having the smarts to set boundaries, impose rules, and give them the firm, unwavering guidance they really need.
Finally...
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A Summer of Sundays
Written by Lindsay Eland
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $16.99
Fans of The Mother Daughter Book Club (Heather Vogel Fredericks) and The Wedding Planner's Daughter (Coleen Paratore) series will fall in love with the humor, classic charm, and very determined heronine of Lindsay Eland's sophomore novel.
When you're the third of six kids, it's easy to get lost in the shuffle, but...
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A Summer of Sundays
Written by Lindsay Eland
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $16.99
Fans of The Mother Daughter Book Club (Heather Vogel Fredericks) and The Wedding Planner's Daughter (Coleen Paratore) series will fall in love with the humor, classic charm, and very determined heronine of Lindsay Eland's sophomore novel.
When you're the third of six kids, it's easy to get lost in the shuffle, but...
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An Afghanistan Picture Show
Or, How I Saved the World
Written by William T. Vollmann
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
Never before available in paperback and all but invisible for twenty years, a personal account of the origins of America's longest war.
In 1982, the young William Vollmann worked odd jobs, including as a secretary at an insurance company, until he'd saved up enough money to go to Afghanistan, where he wanted...
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Amelia Earhart
A Biography
Written by Doris L. Rich
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. She set record after record—among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched Earhart on a...
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The Apple Orchard Riddle
Written by Margaret McNamara
Illustrated by G. Brian Karas
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $15.99
Mr. Tiffin and his students from the perenially popular
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? are back in this picture book about a school trip to an apple orchard! In this playful, humorous, and child-friendly classroom story, the students learn a lot about apples and apple orchards—including how apples are harvested...
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The Apple Orchard Riddle
Written by Margaret McNamara
Illustrated by G. Brian Karas
Format: eBook, 40 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $10.99
Mr. Tiffin and his students from the perenially popular
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? are back in this picture book about a school trip to an apple orchard! In this playful, humorous, and child-friendly classroom story, the students learn a lot about apples and apple orchards—including how apples are harvested...
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The Apple Orchard Riddle
Written by Margaret McNamara
Illustrated by G. Brian Karas
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 40 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $18.99
Mr. Tiffin and his students from the perenially popular
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? are back in this picture book about a school trip to an apple orchard! In this playful, humorous, and child-friendly classroom story, the students learn a lot about apples and apple orchards—including how apples are harvested...
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The Berenstain Bears Happy Halloween!
Written by Stan Berenstain and Jan Berenstain
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $9.99
It's the best Halloween treat ever—a collection of three Berenstain Bears Halloween books in one! Included are
The Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat, The Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of the Forest, and
The Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin, sweet and spooky tales that are the perfect ingredients for a...
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The Best of Connie Willis
Award-Winning Stories
Written by Connie Willis
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $13.99
Few authors have had careers as successful as that of Connie Willis. Inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and recently awarded the title of Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Willis is still going strong. Her smart, heartfelt fiction runs the gamut from screwball...
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The Best of Connie Willis
Award-Winning Stories
Written by Connie Willis
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $28.00
Few authors have had careers as successful as that of Connie Willis. Inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and recently awarded the title of Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Willis is still going strong. Her smart, heartfelt fiction runs the gamut from screwball...
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Blue Plate Special
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $26.95
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of...
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Blue Plate Special
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $13.99
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of...
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Blue Plate Special
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Read by Tavia Gilbert
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $20.00
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of...
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The Book of Blood and Shadow
Written by Robin Wasserman
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $10.99
One night. One body, broken in a pool of blood.
One killer, lost in the shadows.
One girl, left behind.
Left alone, to face the consequences.
To find the truth.
To avenge the dead.
One night is all it takes to change Nora Kane's life forever. Her best friend is dead; her boyfriend has...
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A Boy and a Bear in a Boat
Written by Dave Shelton
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $6.99
A boy and a bear go to sea, equipped with a suitcase, a comic book, and a ukulele. The bear assures the boy that they are traveling a short distance and it really shouldn't take very long. But then they encounter "unforeseeable anomalies": turbulent stormy seas! a terrifying sea monster! and...
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Butterfly
Written by Sonya Hartnett
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $7.99
In masterful prose, the author of SURRENDER tells a quiet but powerful tale about the shifting bonds and psychological perils of adolescence.Plum Coyle is on the edge of adolescence. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching, when her old life and her old body will fall away, and she will become graceful, powerful...
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The Cookie Dough Lover's Cookbook
Cookies, Cakes, Candies, and More
Written by Lindsay Landis
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $18.95
Food blogger Lindsay Landis has invented the perfect cookie dough. It tastes great. It’s egg free (and thus safe to eat raw). You can whip it up in minutes. And, best of all, you can use it to make dozens of delicious cookie dough creations, from cakes, custards, and pies to...
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