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 >

Savage Inequalities
Children in America's Schools
Written by Jonathan Kozol

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $15.00

For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly... Read more >

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 >

Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble
Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
Written by Nora Ephron

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $15.95

Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit—now available in one book for the first time. 
 
This edition brings together some of Ephron’s most famous writing on a generation of women (and men) who... Read more >

The Road of Lost Innocence
As a girl she was sold into sexual slavery, but now she rescues others. The true story of a Cambodian heroine.
Written by Somaly Mam

Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $11.99

A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Somaly Mam Foundation.

A riveting, raw, and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hope

Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the... Read more >

Cracking the AP Human Geography Exam, 2013 Edition

Written by Princeton Review

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $18.00

If you need to know it, it’s in this book! Cracking the AP Human Geography Exam, 2013 Edition includes:

   • 2 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations
   • Comprehensive and engaging subject reviews for all topics from land use to population pyramids
   • A review of key AP Human Geography terms in every chapter
   • Easy-to-understand tables, charts, and... Read more >

Why You're Not Married . . . Yet
The Straight Talk You Need to Get the Relationship You Deserve
Written by Tracy McMillan

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $15.00

This paperback edition includes an exclusive conversation between Bill and Giuliana Rancic, hosts of NBC’s Ready for Love, and Tracy McMillan, one of its expert matchmakers. This new relationship show features three of America’s most eligible guys searching for their soul mates.
 
If you’re looking to get married and you’re... Read more >

Confront and Conceal
Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power
Written by David E. Sanger

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $17.00

"This astonishingly revealing insider's account of the Obama administration's foreign policy process is a triumph." —Foreign Affairs 

President Obama's administration came to office with the world on fire. Confront and Conceal is the story of how, in his first term, Obama secretly used the most innovative weapons and tools of American power... Read more >

All Souls
A Family Story from Southie
Written by Michael Patrick MacDonald

Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2007
Price: $14.95

A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald's Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger's crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald's Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters like his Ma, a... Read more >

A History of Women in America

Written by Carol Hymowitz and Michaele Weissman

Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1984
Price: $7.99

From colonial to modern-day times this narrative history, incorporating first-person accounts, traces the development of women's roles in America. Against the backdrop of major historical events and movements, the authors examine the issues that changed the roles and lives of women in our society. Includes photographs. Read more >