Cagney
Written by John McCabe
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $16.99
John McCabe's participation in the writing of James Cagney's autobiography, the many years of friendship that followed, and an intense period of interview and discussion in preparation for a musical comedy based on Cagney's life--a show that never saw the light of day--make him Cagney's ideal biographer. And, indeed, he has...
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Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere
Written by Lucas Mann
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $13.99
An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails of the players of the Clinton LumberKings but also the lives of their dedicated fans and of the town itself.
Award-winning essayist Lucas Mann delivers a powerful debut in his telling of the...
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Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter
Growing Up with a Gay Dad
Written by Alison Wearing
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $11.99
A moving memoir about growing up with a gay father in the 1980s, and a tribute to the power of truth, humour, acceptance and familial love.
Alison Wearing led a largely carefree childhood until she learned, at the age of 12, that her family was a little more complex than she had...
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
A Novel
Written by Anthony Marra
Read by Colette Whitaker
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $22.50
A resilient doctor risks everything to save the life of a hunted child, in this majestic debut about love, loss, and the unexpected ties that bind us together.
In his brilliant, haunting novel, Stegner Fellow and Whiting Award winner Anthony Marra transports us to a snow-covered village in Chechnya, where eight-year-old Havaa...
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
A Novel
Written by Anthony Marra
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $12.99
A resilient doctor risks everything to save the life of a hunted child, in this majestic debut about love, loss, and the unexpected ties that bind us together.
In his brilliant, haunting novel, Stegner Fellow and Whiting Award winner Anthony Marra transports us to a snow-covered village in Chechnya, where eight-year-old Havaa...
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Cronkite's War
His World War II Letters Home
Written by Walter Cronkite, IV and Maurice Isserman
Foreword by Tom Brokaw
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $28.00
A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. Walter Cronkite, an obscure 23-year-old United Press wire service reporter, married Betsy Maxwell on March 30, 1940, following a four-year courtship. She proved to be the love of...
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The Crypt Thief
A Hugo Marston Novel
Written by Mark Pryor
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $11.99
It’s summer in Paris and two tourists have been killed in Père La Chaise cemetery in front of Jim Morrison’s grave. The killer leaves the bodies untouched but moves deeper into the cemetery, where he breaks into the crypt of a long-dead Moulin Rouge dancer. In a bizarre twist, he disappears...
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A Curious Man
The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley
Written by Neal Thompson
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $12.99
A Curious Man is the marvelously compelling biography of Robert “Believe It or Not” Ripley, the enigmatic cartoonist turned globetrotting millionaire who won international fame by celebrating the world's strangest oddities, and whose outrageous showmanship taught us to believe in the unbelievable.
As portrayed by acclaimed biographer Neal Thompson, Ripley’s life is...
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Dad Is Fat
Written by Jim Gaffigan
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $12.99
In
Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who’s best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children—everything from cousins ("celebrities for little kids") to toddlers’ communication skills (“they always sound like they have traveled...
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Dad Is Fat
Written by Jim Gaffigan
Read by Jim Gaffigan
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $16.00
In
Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who’s best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children—everything from cousins ("celebrities for little kids") to toddlers’ communication skills (“they always sound like they have traveled...
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Dared And Done
The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
Written by Julia Markus
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $13.99
A Riveting and brilliant work of biography. The story of two great English poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, whose work was immediately recognized and adored by their contemporaries, whose courtship ranks with the great love stories of all time -- and in whose marriage romance was not merely sustained but...
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Dead Lions
Written by Mick Herron
Format: eBook, 348 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $25.95
London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Maybe they got...
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Declaration of Independence
A Study in the History of Political Ideas
Written by Carl L. Becker
Format: eBook, 316 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $12.99
The Declaration of Independence
Carl L. Becker's important study is an analysis of the concepts expressed in the Declaration. Here is a lucid explanation of what the Declaration really is, what views it sets forth, where those views arose, and how they have been accepted or modified by succeeding generations. A book...
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Doll Bones
Written by Holly Black
Read by Nick Podehl
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $18.00
A doll that may be haunted leads three friends on a thrilling adventure in this delightfully creepy novel from the New York Times bestselling cocreator of the Spiderwick Chronicles. Zach, Poppy, and Alice have been friends forever. And for almost as long, they’ve been playing one continuous, ever-changing game of pirates...
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Dossier K
A Memoir
Written by Imre Kertesz
Translated by Tim Wilkinson
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $18.95
The first and only memoir from the Nobel Prize-winning author, in the form of an illuminating, often funny, and often combative interview—conducted by the author of himself. Dossier K is Imre Kertész’s response to the hasty biographies and profiles that followed his 2002 Nobel Prize, an attempt to set the record...
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The Dragon's Village
An Autobiographical Novel of Revolutionary China
Written by Yuan-Tsung Chen
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $10.99
This extraordinary autobiographical story, compelling, candid, and deeply personal, plunges us into that tumultuous moment in China out of which the modern People’s Republic finally emerged. It is the first time a novelist has ever described that distant world in words that open it up to Western readers in the clearest...
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Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner
Written by Claire Watson Garcia
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $14.99
Based upon the author’s own successful workshops,
Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner helps new artists create competent, often eloquent drawings. A series of progressive lessons demonstrates such essential skills as recording edges, creating dimension, adding accuracy, developing value, balancing compositional elements, and drawing the human face, both frontal and...
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Drops of God, Volume '01
Les Gouttes de Dieu
Written by Tadashi Agi
Format: eBook, 440 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $9.99
Few comics have ever exhibited such sway over the economics of an industry as the Drops of God. The legendary wine comic that dictates wine market prices worldwide is now available in English for the first time!
A wine critic and his adopted brother must compete against each other to determine who...
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A Dual Inheritance
A Novel
Written by Joanna Hershon
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $12.99
For readers of Rules of Civility and The Marriage Plot, Joanna Hershon’s A Dual Inheritance is an engrossing novel of passion, friendship, betrayal, and class—and their reverberations across generations. Autumn 1962: Ed Cantowitz and Hugh Shipley meet in their final year at Harvard. Ed is far removed from Hugh’s privileged...
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