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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 >
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Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2012
Price: $11.99
Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels--Hell's Angels, that is. He's lived with them, he knows them and their machines, he speaks their langauge,and he reports it back to the world with all the fearsome force of a souped-up cyclone burning rubber. Read more >
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2012
Price: $11.99
Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels--Hell's Angels, that is. He's lived with them, he knows them and their machines, he speaks their langauge,and he reports it back to the world with all the fearsome force of a souped-up cyclone burning rubber. Read more >
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The Looming Tower
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $12.99
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $12.99
UPDATED AND WITH A NEW AFTERWORD
National Book Award Finalist
A Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year
A gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence...
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Born on a Mountaintop
On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier
Written by Bob Thompson
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $27.00
Combining the stories of the real hero and his Disney-enhanced afterlife, Born on a Mountaintop delves deep into our love for an American icon.
Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. Over the years, he... Read more >
On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier
Written by Bob Thompson
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $27.00
Combining the stories of the real hero and his Disney-enhanced afterlife, Born on a Mountaintop delves deep into our love for an American icon.
Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. Over the years, he... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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 Death and Life of Great American Cities
Written by Jane Jacobs
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1992
Price: $16.00
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose... Read more >
Written by Jane Jacobs
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1992
Price: $16.00
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose... Read more >
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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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Saturday Night Widows
The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Written by Becky Aikman
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.
In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief... Read more >
The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
Written by Becky Aikman
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $12.99
Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.
In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Gun Guys
A Road Trip
Written by Dan Baum
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $26.95
Here is armed America—a land of machine-gun gatherings in the desert, lederhosened German shooting societies, feral-hog hunts in Texas, and Hollywood gun armories. Whether they’re collecting antique weapons, practicing concealed carry, or firing an AR-15 or a Glock at their local range, many Americans love guns—which horrifies and fascinates many other... Read more >
A Road Trip
Written by Dan Baum
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $26.95
Here is armed America—a land of machine-gun gatherings in the desert, lederhosened German shooting societies, feral-hog hunts in Texas, and Hollywood gun armories. Whether they’re collecting antique weapons, practicing concealed carry, or firing an AR-15 or a Glock at their local range, many Americans love guns—which horrifies and fascinates many other... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Full Body Burden
Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
Written by Kristen Iversen
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $25.00
Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
Written by Kristen Iversen
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $25.00
Full Body Burden is a haunting work of narrative nonfiction about a young woman, Kristen Iversen, growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." It's the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow...
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Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
