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The Social Animal
The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
Written by David Brooks
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2012
Price: $16.00
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success...
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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...
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Written by Jane Jacobs
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1992
Price: $16.95
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...
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Coming Apart
The State of White America, 1960-2010
Written by Charles Murray
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $16.00
From the bestselling author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that historically have joined our classes.
In
Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever...
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A Gift of Hope
Helping the Homeless
Written by Danielle Steel
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $9.99
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...
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The Looming Tower
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $12.99
UPDATED AND WITH A NEW AFTERWORD
National Book Award Finalist
A Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year
A gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence...
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Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Written by Hunter S. Thompson
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 29, 1996
Price: $16.00
"California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. ...
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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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