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The Corner
A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
Written by David Simon and Edward Burns

Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2013
Price: $12.99

The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war... Read more >

Fire in the Ashes
Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
Written by Jonathan Kozol

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $13.99

   In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and...

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Fire in the Ashes
Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
Written by Jonathan Kozol

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $27.00

   In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and...

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Fire in the Ashes
Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Read by Keythe Farley

Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $40.00

   In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and...

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Fire in the Ashes
Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
Written by Jonathan Kozol
Read by Keythe Farley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $22.50

   In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and...

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The Price of Civilization
Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
Written by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $18.00

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
 
“Succinct, humane, and politically astute . . . Sachs lays out a detailed path to reform, regulation, and recovery.”—The American Prospect
 
In this forceful and impassioned book, Jeffrey D...

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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

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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Amazing Grace
The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Written by Jonathan Kozol

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $11.99

The author of Savage Inequalities, a New York Times best-seller, and Rachel and Her Children, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils... Read more >

Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Written by Katherine Boo

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $13.99

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Written by Katherine Boo
Read by Sunil Malhotra

Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $35.00

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday
... Read more >

Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Written by Katherine Boo
Read by Sunil Malhotra

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $17.50

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday
... Read more >

Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Written by Katherine Boo

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $27.00

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday
... Read more >

The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity

Written by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $15.99

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
 
“Succinct, humane, and politically astute . . . Sachs lays out a detailed path to reform, regulation, and recovery.”—The American Prospect
 
In this forceful and impassioned book, Jeffrey D... Read more >

The Price of Civilization
Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
Written by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Read by Richard McGonagle

Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $40.00

For more than three decades, Jeffrey D. Sachs has been at the forefront of international economic problem solving.  But Sachs turns his attention back home in The Price of Civilization, a book that is essential reading for every American. In a forceful, impassioned, and personal voice, he offers not only a... Read more >

The Price of Civilization
Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
Written by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Read by Richard McGonagle

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $20.00

For more than three decades, Jeffrey D. Sachs has been at the forefront of international economic problem solving.  But Sachs turns his attention back home in The Price of Civilization, a book that is essential reading for every American. In a forceful, impassioned, and personal voice, he offers not only a... Read more >

Ask Me Why I Hurt
The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
Written by Randy Christensen, M.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $15.00

The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way. Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting but, rather... Read more >

Ask Me Why I Hurt
The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
Written by Randy Christensen, M.D.

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $11.99

The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting but, rather... Read more >

All You Can Eat
How Hungry is America?
Written by Joel Berg

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $22.95

With the biting wit of Supersize Me and the passion of a lifelong activist, Joel Berg has his eye on the growing number of people who are forced to wait on lines at food pantries across the nation—the modern breadline. All You Can Eat reveals that hunger is a problem as... Read more >

Globalizing Civil Society
Reclaiming Our Right to Power
Written by David C. Korten

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95

Prompted by the 1998 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Korten's book indicts the world's governments for failing to address growing hunger, housing shortages, unemployment, poverty, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation. He examines the causes of this global crisis and offers fresh solutions reflecting sustainability, community, and equity--the only principles... Read more >

Grand Central Winter
Stories from the Street
Written by Lee Stringer
Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95

Whether Lee Stringer is describing "God's corner" as he calls 42nd Street, or his friend Suzy, a hooker and "past due tourist" whose infant child he sometimes babysits, whether he is recounting his experiences at Street News, where he began hawking the newspaper for a living wage, then wrote articles, and... Read more >

the immigrant suite
hey xenophobe! Who you calling foreigner?
Written by Hattie Gossett

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95

Writing from the upper west side of Manhattan, where Harlem intersects with waves of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Korea, Cambodia, Ivory Coast, India, Native America, and from all over the globe, hattie gossett vividly invokes her neighborhood experience. With wit and candor, she questions why so many... Read more >

Paranoia & Heartbreak
Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility
Written by Jerome Gold

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95

For fifteen years, Jerome Gold worked as a rehabilitation counselor in a prison for juveniles in Washington state. Throughout his time there, he kept a journal of his experiences with youths who had been incarcerated for murder, kidnap, assault, rape and other sex offenses, auto theft, burglary, and selling drugs. What... Read more >

Urban Injustice
How Ghettos Happen
Written by David Hilfiker
Foreword by Marian Wright Edelman

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $15.95

David Hilfiker has committed his life, both as a writer and a doctor, to people in need, writing about the urban poor with whom he’s spent all his days for the last two decades. In Urban Injustice, he explains in beautiful and simple language how the myth that the urban poor... Read more >

Cold New World
Growing Up in Harder Country
Written by William Finnegan

Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2010
Price: $13.99

New Yorker writer William Finnegan spent time with families in four communities across America and became an intimate observer of the lives he reveals in these beautifully rendered portraits: a fifteen-year-old drug dealer in blighted New Haven, Connecticut; a sleepy Texas town transformed by crack; Mexican American teenagers in Washington State... Read more >

Grand Central Winter
Stories from the Street
Written by Lee Stringer
Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $14.95

Whether Lee Stringer is describing "God's corner" as he calls 42nd Street, or his friend Suzy, a hooker and "past due tourist" whose infant child he sometimes babysits, whether he is recounting his experiences at Street News, where he began hawking the newspaper for a living wage, then wrote articles, and... Read more >