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Half the Sky
Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $11.99
#1 National Bestseller
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa... Read more >
Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $11.99
#1 National Bestseller
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa... Read more >
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Nothing to Envy
Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Written by Barbara Demick
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $16.00
A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens
Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick follows the lives of six North Korean citizens over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the... Read more >
Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Written by Barbara Demick
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $16.00
A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens
Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick follows the lives of six North Korean citizens over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the... Read more >
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Going Clear
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $28.95
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $28.95
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
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The Undercover Economist
Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, Why the Poor Are Poor--And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!
Written by Tim Harford
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2007
Price: $16.00
“The economy [isn’t] a bunch of rather dull statistics with names like GDP (gross domestic product),” notes Tim Harford, columnist and regular guest on NPR’s Marketplace, “economics is about who gets what and why.” In this acclaimed and riveting book–part exposé, part user’s manual–the astute and entertaining columnist from the Financial... Read more >
Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, Why the Poor Are Poor--And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!
Written by Tim Harford
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2007
Price: $16.00
“The economy [isn’t] a bunch of rather dull statistics with names like GDP (gross domestic product),” notes Tim Harford, columnist and regular guest on NPR’s Marketplace, “economics is about who gets what and why.” In this acclaimed and riveting book–part exposé, part user’s manual–the astute and entertaining columnist from the Financial... Read more >
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City of Scoundrels
The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
Written by Gary Krist
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $14.95
The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse.
When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had... Read more >
The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
Written by Gary Krist
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $14.95
The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse.
When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had... Read more >
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Born to Run
A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Written by Christopher McDougall
Read by Fred Sanders
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $20.00
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance... Read more >
A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Written by Christopher McDougall
Read by Fred Sanders
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $20.00
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance... Read more >
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A Raisin in the Sun
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2011
Price: $6.99
"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling... Read more >
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2011
Price: $6.99
"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling... Read more >
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The Social Animal
The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
Written by David Brooks
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2012
Price: $16.00
The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
Written by David Brooks
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2012
Price: $16.00
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Written by Rebecca Skloot
Read by Cassandra Campbell and Bahni Turpin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $20.00
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are... Read more >
Written by Rebecca Skloot
Read by Cassandra Campbell and Bahni Turpin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $20.00
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are... Read more >
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Start Something That Matters
Written by Blake Mycoskie
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $14.00
Written by Blake Mycoskie
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $14.00
The incredible story of the man behind TOMS Shoes and One for One, the revolutionary business model that marries fun, profit, and social good
“A creative and open-hearted business model for our times.”—The Wall Street Journal
Why this book is for you:
• You’re ready to make...
