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Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Written by Barack Obama
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $14.95
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than... Read more >
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Written by Barack Obama
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $14.95
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than... Read more >
The Future
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $15.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history... Read more >
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $15.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history... Read more >
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The Power Broker
Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Written by Robert A. Caro
Format: Trade Paperback, 1344 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1975
Price: $25.00
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost... Read more >
Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Written by Robert A. Caro
Format: Trade Paperback, 1344 pages
On Sale: July 12, 1975
Price: $25.00
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Dakini Power
Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West
Written by Michaela Haas
Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
How 12 Tibetan Buddhist Teachers Succeed in Merging East and West - including Pema Chödrön, Joan Halifax, and Thubten Chodron, among others
Personal reflections and life stories from 12 contemporary female Tibetan Buddhist teachers, both Westerners and Tibetans, who share insights into how they discovered their true calling, overcame barriers, and developed... Read more >
Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West
Written by Michaela Haas
Format: Trade Paperback, 344 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
How 12 Tibetan Buddhist Teachers Succeed in Merging East and West - including Pema Chödrön, Joan Halifax, and Thubten Chodron, among others
Personal reflections and life stories from 12 contemporary female Tibetan Buddhist teachers, both Westerners and Tibetans, who share insights into how they discovered their true calling, overcame barriers, and developed... Read more >
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Coming Apart
The State of White America, 1960-2010
Written by Charles Murray
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $16.00
From the bestselling author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that historically have joined our classes.
In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever... Read more >
The State of White America, 1960-2010
Written by Charles Murray
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $16.00
From the bestselling author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that historically have joined our classes.
In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever... Read more >
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Toms River
A Story of Science and Salvation
Written by Dan Fagin
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $28.00
“A thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology, Toms River is essential reading for our times. Dan Fagin handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the honesty of a journalist, and the dramatic skill of a novelist.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of... Read more >
A Story of Science and Salvation
Written by Dan Fagin
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $28.00
“A thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology, Toms River is essential reading for our times. Dan Fagin handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the honesty of a journalist, and the dramatic skill of a novelist.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Kindred
Written by Octavia Butler
Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2004
Price: $15.00
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn... Read more >
Written by Octavia Butler
Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2004
Price: $15.00
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn... Read more >
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Outcasts United
An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference
Written by Warren St. John
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $15.00
The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town
Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia... Read more >
An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference
Written by Warren St. John
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $15.00
The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town
Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
eBook,
hardcover,
hardcover library binding and a
trade paperback.
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Close Encounters with Addiction
Written by Gabor Mate, M.D.
Foreword by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 520 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2010
Price: $17.95
Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouver’s skid row, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach. Dr. Maté presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined... Read more >
Close Encounters with Addiction
Written by Gabor Mate, M.D.
Foreword by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 520 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2010
Price: $17.95
Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouver’s skid row, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach. Dr. Maté presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
A Memoir in Books
Written by Azar Nafisi
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $16.00
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a... Read more >
A Memoir in Books
Written by Azar Nafisi
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $16.00
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
