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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Written by Rebecca Skloot
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $26.00
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
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $26.00
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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Amazing Grace
The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $15.00
The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $15.00
Amazing Grace is Jonathan Kozol’s classic book on life and death in the South Bronx—the poorest urban neighborhood of the United States. He brings us into overcrowded schools, dysfunctional hospitals, and rat-infested homes where families have been ravaged by depression and anxiety, drug-related violence, and the spread of AIDS. But he...
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The Central Park Five
The Untold Story Behind One of New York City's Most Infamous Crimes
Written by Sarah Burns
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $15.95
The Untold Story Behind One of New York City's Most Infamous Crimes
Written by Sarah Burns
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $15.95
In this spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case, Sarah Burns powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crimes and its aftermath.
On April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered the body of the "Central Park jogger" crumpled in a ravine. She'd been raped and severely...
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Sex and the Citadel
Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
Written by Shereen El Feki
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $28.95
Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
Written by Shereen El Feki
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $28.95
If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms.
As political change sweeps the streets and squares, the parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at an upheaval a little closer to home—in the sexual lives of men and women...
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A Gift of Hope
Helping the Homeless
Written by Danielle Steel
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $20.00
In her powerful memoir His Bright Light, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In A Gift of Hope, she shows us how she transformed that pain into a campaign of service that enriched her... Read more >
Helping the Homeless
Written by Danielle Steel
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $20.00
In her powerful memoir His Bright Light, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In A Gift of Hope, she shows us how she transformed that pain into a campaign of service that enriched her... Read more >
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Salt Sugar Fat
How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Written by Michael Moss
Read by Scott Brick
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $45.00
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and fat to addict us and, more important... Read more >
How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Written by Michael Moss
Read by Scott Brick
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $45.00
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and fat to addict us and, more important... Read more >
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There Are No Children Here
The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
Written by Alex Kotlowitz
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2011
Price: $11.99
This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
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The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
Written by Alex Kotlowitz
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2011
Price: $11.99
This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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Down These Mean Streets
Written by Piri Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 25, 1997
Price: $14.95
Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood... Read more >
Written by Piri Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 25, 1997
Price: $14.95
Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood... Read more >
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The Unhealthy Truth
How Our Food Is Making Us Sick - And What We Can Do About It
Written by Robyn O'Brien and Rachel Kranz
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $13.99
Robyn O’Brien is not the most likely candidate for an antiestablishment crusade. A Houston native from a conservative family, this MBA and married mother of four was not someone who gave much thought to misguided government agencies and chemicals in our food—until the day her youngest daughter had a violent allergic... Read more >
How Our Food Is Making Us Sick - And What We Can Do About It
Written by Robyn O'Brien and Rachel Kranz
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $13.99
Robyn O’Brien is not the most likely candidate for an antiestablishment crusade. A Houston native from a conservative family, this MBA and married mother of four was not someone who gave much thought to misguided government agencies and chemicals in our food—until the day her youngest daughter had a violent allergic... Read more >
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Nine Parts of Desire
The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Written by Geraldine Brooks
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1995
Price: $15.00
With a New Afterword
As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline events were only the backdrop to a less obvious but more enduring drama: the daily... Read more >
The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Written by Geraldine Brooks
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1995
Price: $15.00
With a New Afterword
As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline events were only the backdrop to a less obvious but more enduring drama: the daily... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
