1493
Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Written by Charles C. Mann
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $16.95
A deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world, from the bestselling author of 1491. Presenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the post-Columbian network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China...
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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...
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Half the Sky
Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $11.99
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia...
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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...
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Nothing to Envy
Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Written by Barbara Demick
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 29, 2009
Price: $11.99
A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of...
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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...
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Going Clear
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $12.99
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his...
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Written by Isabel Wilkerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERLYNTON HISTORY PRIZE WINNERHEARTLAND AWARD...
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Going Clear
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $28.95
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his...
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Written by Nujood Ali and Delphine Minoui
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Price: $12.00
“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.” Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from...
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