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Keep It Pithy
Keep It Pithy
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385346627
Our Price: $21.99
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Keep It Pithy
Useful Observations in a Tough World
Written by Bill O'Reilly


Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $21.99

From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values

Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the... Read more >
Orange Is the New Black (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Orange Is the New Black (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Written by Piper Kerman
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812986181
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Orange Is the New Black (Movie Tie-in Edition)
My Year in a Women's Prison
Written by Piper Kerman


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 6, 2013
Price: $16.00

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen... Read more >
Jim Henson
Jim Henson
Written by Brian Jay Jones
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780345526137
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Jim Henson
The Biography
Written by Brian Jay Jones


Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: September 24, 2013
Price: $14.99

For the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson
 
He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters born of... Read more >
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780679755333
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A Raisin in the Sun

Written by Lorraine Hansberry


Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2004
Price: $7.50

When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play... Read more >
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Jim Henson
Jim Henson
Written by Brian Jay Jones, Read by Kirby Heyborne
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780804128650
Our Price: $30.00

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Jim Henson
The Biography
Written by Brian Jay Jones
Read by Kirby Heyborne


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 24, 2013
Price: $30.00

For the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson
 
He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters born of... Read more >
Also available as an unabridged audio CD, eBook and a hardcover.
The Other Wes Moore
The Other Wes Moore
Written by Wes Moore
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385528207
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The Other Wes Moore
One Name, Two Fates
Written by Wes Moore


Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $15.00

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on... Read more >
The Book of Matt
Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard
Written by Stephen Jimenz


Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: September 24, 2013
Price: $26.00

Late on the night of October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a twenty-one-year-old gay college student, left a bar in Laramie, Wyoming with two alleged “strangers,” Aaron McKin­ney and Russell Henderson. Eighteen hours later, Matthew was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of town, unconscious and barely alive. He...

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Devil's Night
Devil's Night
Written by Ze'ev Chafets
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780804171403
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Devil's Night
And Other True Tales of Detroit
Written by Ze'ev Chafets


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2013
Price: $15.95

A New York Times Notable Book

On Devil’s Night, the night before Halloween, some citizens of Detroit try to burn down their neighborhoods for an international audience of fire buffs. This gripping and often heartbreaking tour of the “Murder Capital of America” often seems lit by those same fires. But as a... Read more >
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Keep It Pithy
Keep It Pithy
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385346634
Our Price: $11.99
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Keep It Pithy
Useful Observations in a Tough World
Written by Bill O'Reilly


Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $11.99

From the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core values

Bill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the... Read more >
Born to Run
Born to Run
Written by Christopher McDougall
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307279187
Our Price: $15.95
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Born to Run
A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Written by Christopher McDougall


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $15.95

An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt?
 
Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In a riveting narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Christopher McDougall sets out to discover... Read more >
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