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The Other Wes Moore
The Other Wes Moore
Written by Wes Moore
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781588369697
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The Other Wes Moore
One Name, Two Fates
Written by Wes Moore


Format: eBook
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Price: $11.99

BONUS: This edition contains a new afterword and a The Other Wes Moore discussion guide.

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... Read more >
The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City
Written by Erik Larson, Read by Scott Brick
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780736697750
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The Devil in the White City
Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Written by Erik Larson
Read by Scott Brick


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 17, 2002
Price: $22.95

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the... Read more >
Half the Sky
Half the Sky
Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
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ISBN: 9780307273154
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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

#1 National Bestseller

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... Read more >
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Born to Run
Born to Run
Written by Christopher McDougall, Read by Fred Sanders
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ISBN: 9780739383735
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Born to Run
A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Written by Christopher McDougall
Read by Fred Sanders


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $20.00

Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance... Read more >
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The Mushroom Hunters
The Mushroom Hunters
Written by Langdon Cook
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ISBN: 9780345536266
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The Mushroom Hunters
On the Trail of an Underground America
Written by Langdon Cook


Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2013
Price: $13.99

In the tradition of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief, and Mark Kurlansky’s Cod—a renowned culinary adventurer goes into the woods with the iconoclasts and outlaws who seek the world’s most coveted ingredient . . . and one of nature’s last truly wild foods: the uncultivated, uncontrollable... Read more >
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Dreams from My Father
Dreams from My Father
Written by Barack Obama
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400082773
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Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Written by Barack Obama


Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $14.95

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than... Read more >
Start Something That Matters
Start Something That Matters
Written by Blake Mycoskie
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ISBN: 9780812981445
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Start Something That Matters

Written by Blake Mycoskie


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $14.00

The incredible story of the man behind TOMS Shoes and One for One, the revolutionary business model that marries fun, profit, and social good
 
“A creative and open-hearted business model for our times.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
Why this book is for you:
 
• You’re ready to make...

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Ten Billion
Ten Billion
Written by Stephen Emmott
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780345806475
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Ten Billion

Written by Stephen Emmott


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2013
Price: $12.95

A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

Just over two hundred years ago, there were one billion humans on Earth.

There are now over seven billion of us.

And, sometime this century, the world population will reach at least ten billion.

Deforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. The driving issues of our times are... Read more >
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Written by Jared Diamond, Read by Doug Ordunio
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ISBN: 9780307932433
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
Written by Jared Diamond
Read by Doug Ordunio


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 18, 2011
Price: $22.50

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history.
 
Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of... Read more >
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Keep It Pithy
Keep It Pithy
Written by Bill O'Reilly, Read by Bill O'Reilly and Dan Woren
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780804128971
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Keep It Pithy
Useful Observations in a Tough World
Written by Bill O'Reilly
Read by Bill O'Reilly and Dan Woren


Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $25.00

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 >
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