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The Free Man
Written by Conrad Richter
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 2, 2013
Price: $15.99
Henry Free, they called him now, or Frey in the dialect; and they knew him well in all the Pennsylvania land his own Palatine fellow countrymen had settled. They had even sent him to represent them in the Congress at Washington. Captain Free, they said, when they thought how he had... Read more >
Written by Conrad Richter
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 2, 2013
Price: $15.99
Henry Free, they called him now, or Frey in the dialect; and they knew him well in all the Pennsylvania land his own Palatine fellow countrymen had settled. They had even sent him to represent them in the Congress at Washington. Captain Free, they said, when they thought how he had... Read more >
Gautama Buddha
Written by Vishvapani Blomfield
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $19.95
The words and example of Gautama (often known by the title, "Buddha") have affected billions of people. But what do we really know about him? While there is much we cannot say for certain about the historical Gautama, this persuasive new biography provides the fullest and most plausible account yet.
Weaving ancient... Read more >
Written by Vishvapani Blomfield
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $19.95
The words and example of Gautama (often known by the title, "Buddha") have affected billions of people. But what do we really know about him? While there is much we cannot say for certain about the historical Gautama, this persuasive new biography provides the fullest and most plausible account yet.
Weaving ancient... Read more >
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The Global War on Christians
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution
Written by John L. Allen, Jr.
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $12.99
One of the most respected journalists in the United States and the bestselling author of The Future Church uses his unparalleled knowledge of world affairs and religious insight to investigate the troubling worldwide persecution of Christians.
From Iraq and Egypt to Sudan and Nigeria, from Indonesia to the Indian subcontinent, Christians in... Read more >
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution
Written by John L. Allen, Jr.
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $12.99
One of the most respected journalists in the United States and the bestselling author of The Future Church uses his unparalleled knowledge of world affairs and religious insight to investigate the troubling worldwide persecution of Christians.
From Iraq and Egypt to Sudan and Nigeria, from Indonesia to the Indian subcontinent, Christians in... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
Golden Hour
Written by William Nicholson
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $15.95
A stylish romantic comedy and a brilliant follow up to All the Hopeful Lovers from the award-winning screenwriter.
Maggie and Andrew are lovers who live apart—Maggie in the country, Andrew in London. When Andrew is offered a job close to Maggie, moving in with her is the obvious next step. Or is... Read more >
Written by William Nicholson
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $15.95
A stylish romantic comedy and a brilliant follow up to All the Hopeful Lovers from the award-winning screenwriter.
Maggie and Andrew are lovers who live apart—Maggie in the country, Andrew in London. When Andrew is offered a job close to Maggie, moving in with her is the obvious next step. Or is... Read more >
The Greek Myths
Written by Robin Waterfield
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $22.95
A highly readable and beautifully illustrated re-telling of the most famous stories from Greek mythology.
The Greek Myths contains some of the most thrilling, romantic, and unforgettable stories in all human history. From Achilles rampant on the fields of Troy, to the gods at sport on Mount Olympus; from Icarus flying too... Read more >
Written by Robin Waterfield
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $22.95
A highly readable and beautifully illustrated re-telling of the most famous stories from Greek mythology.
The Greek Myths contains some of the most thrilling, romantic, and unforgettable stories in all human history. From Achilles rampant on the fields of Troy, to the gods at sport on Mount Olympus; from Icarus flying too... Read more >
Half the Kingdom
A Novel
Written by Lore Segal
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $24.95
"No one writes like Segal — her glittering intelligence, her piercing wit, and her dazzling insights into manners and mores, are a profound pleasure. From first to last I loved this wise and irreverent novel." —Margot Livesey
"I always feel in her work such a sense of toughness and humor&hellip.... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Lore Segal
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $24.95
"No one writes like Segal — her glittering intelligence, her piercing wit, and her dazzling insights into manners and mores, are a profound pleasure. From first to last I loved this wise and irreverent novel." —Margot Livesey
"I always feel in her work such a sense of toughness and humor&hellip.... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
Heart of Tango
Written by Elia Barcelo
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $19.95
A ghostly tale of a love that is cursed, set in the smoky, passionate atmosphere of 1920s Buenos Aires:
Natalia is to be married to a German sailor much older than herself, but two days before the wedding she meets Diego, a mysterious young dancer, and they fall immediately in love. When... Read more >
Written by Elia Barcelo
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $19.95
A ghostly tale of a love that is cursed, set in the smoky, passionate atmosphere of 1920s Buenos Aires:
Natalia is to be married to a German sailor much older than herself, but two days before the wedding she meets Diego, a mysterious young dancer, and they fall immediately in love. When... Read more >
Holy City
Written by Guillermo Orsi
Translated by Nick Caistor
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $19.95
One former Miss Bolivia. Two missing Colombian drug dealers. Three wealthy tourists taken hostage.
A passenger liner runs aground on the muddy banks of the Rio del Plata. One by one, its passengers are abducted by the city’s criminal classes.As the kidnapping of three wealthy European couples sends stock markets yo-yoing, the... Read more >
Written by Guillermo Orsi
Translated by Nick Caistor
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $19.95
One former Miss Bolivia. Two missing Colombian drug dealers. Three wealthy tourists taken hostage.
A passenger liner runs aground on the muddy banks of the Rio del Plata. One by one, its passengers are abducted by the city’s criminal classes.As the kidnapping of three wealthy European couples sends stock markets yo-yoing, the... Read more >
How to Destroy the Universe
Written by Paul Parsons
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $12.95
If you thought physics was all about measuring the temperature of ice in a bucket or trying to fathom what E=mc2 means, think again. How to Destroy the Universe and 34 other really interesting uses of physics demystifies the astonishing world of physics in a series of intriguing, entertaining and often... Read more >
Written by Paul Parsons
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $12.95
If you thought physics was all about measuring the temperature of ice in a bucket or trying to fathom what E=mc2 means, think again. How to Destroy the Universe and 34 other really interesting uses of physics demystifies the astonishing world of physics in a series of intriguing, entertaining and often... Read more >
If You're Reading This, I'm Already Dead
Written by Andrew Nicoll
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $14.95
The bright, funny and wild story of an acrobat from Hamburg who decided to become the King of Albania, succeeded, and fell in love along the way
Otte Witte is an old man. The Allies are raining bombs on his city and, having narrowly escaped death, he has come home to his... Read more >
Written by Andrew Nicoll
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $14.95
The bright, funny and wild story of an acrobat from Hamburg who decided to become the King of Albania, succeeded, and fell in love along the way
Otte Witte is an old man. The Allies are raining bombs on his city and, having narrowly escaped death, he has come home to his... Read more >
Infinite Mindfield
A Quest to Find the Gateway to Higher Consciousness
Written by Anthony Peake
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2013
Price: $9.99
For thousands of years, voyagers of inner space spiritual seekers, shamans and mystics have returned from their inner travels reporting another level of reality that is more real than the one we inhabit in waking life. Others have claimed that under the influence of mysterious substances, known as entheogens, the everyday... Read more >
A Quest to Find the Gateway to Higher Consciousness
Written by Anthony Peake
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2013
Price: $9.99
For thousands of years, voyagers of inner space spiritual seekers, shamans and mystics have returned from their inner travels reporting another level of reality that is more real than the one we inhabit in waking life. Others have claimed that under the influence of mysterious substances, known as entheogens, the everyday... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London
Written by Keith Mansfield
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $16.95
When thirteen-year-old Johnny’s talking computer Kovac, detects an extraterrestrial signal, his life is set to change forever. Until then, stuck in his children’s home in Castle Dudbury New Town, with the nasty cook Mr. Wilkins watching his every move, football had been his only escape.
But soon things start happening around... Read more >
Written by Keith Mansfield
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $16.95
When thirteen-year-old Johnny’s talking computer Kovac, detects an extraterrestrial signal, his life is set to change forever. Until then, stuck in his children’s home in Castle Dudbury New Town, with the nasty cook Mr. Wilkins watching his every move, football had been his only escape.
But soon things start happening around... Read more >
A Journey to Nowhere
Written by Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $19.95
Courland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga to the north, the Baltic to the west and Lithuania at its southern border, and now part of modern Latvia, the region was by occupied by Nazi Germany and returned to Soviet Russia after the war, remaining largely... Read more >
Written by Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $19.95
Courland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga to the north, the Baltic to the west and Lithuania at its southern border, and now part of modern Latvia, the region was by occupied by Nazi Germany and returned to Soviet Russia after the war, remaining largely... Read more >
Kill Fish Jones
Written by Caro King
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $16.95
It’s Grimshaw’s job to carry out death bed curses. The more horrible and deadly they are, the more he enjoys them.
When his master, Lampwick the Robber, has an unexpected opportunity to curse a whole new set of humans, Grimshaw can’t believe his luck!
He is desperate to catch a young boy... Read more >
Written by Caro King
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $16.95
It’s Grimshaw’s job to carry out death bed curses. The more horrible and deadly they are, the more he enjoys them.
When his master, Lampwick the Robber, has an unexpected opportunity to curse a whole new set of humans, Grimshaw can’t believe his luck!
He is desperate to catch a young boy... Read more >
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La union hace la fuerza
Written by Luigi Garlando
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $7.99
Ocho niñ@s.
Una pasión: el fútbol.
Un sueño: ¡ser los mejores!
Ya hemos llegado al ecuador del campeonato, ¡y los Cebolletas están a solo un punto del líder! Pero su mayor reto no va a ser conseguir el primer puesto, sino superar los problemas internos. Desde que Fidu dejó el futbol... Read more >
Written by Luigi Garlando
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $7.99
Ocho niñ@s.
Una pasión: el fútbol.
Un sueño: ¡ser los mejores!
Ya hemos llegado al ecuador del campeonato, ¡y los Cebolletas están a solo un punto del líder! Pero su mayor reto no va a ser conseguir el primer puesto, sino superar los problemas internos. Desde que Fidu dejó el futbol... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Landscape with Traveler
The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves
Written by Barry Gifford
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $13.95
In print for the first time in 15 years, Landscape with Traveler is the first full-length novel by Gifford, laying bare the themes that have marked his lifelong career: gay issues, a winsome, Beat-inspired frenzy of love, a generation-defining crossroads in American history. Written as the protagonist's diary, and structured as three... Read more >
The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves
Written by Barry Gifford
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $13.95
In print for the first time in 15 years, Landscape with Traveler is the first full-length novel by Gifford, laying bare the themes that have marked his lifelong career: gay issues, a winsome, Beat-inspired frenzy of love, a generation-defining crossroads in American history. Written as the protagonist's diary, and structured as three... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Last Man Standing
Written by Davide Longo
Translated by Silvester Mazzarella
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $24.95
GQ (Italy) called Davide Longo, "the most talented and intense Italian novelist of his generation." In this dystopian, post-apocalyptic literary novel, Italy is on the brink of collapse: borders are closed, banks are refusing to distribute money to their clients, the postal service is shuttered, and food supplies are running short. Armed gangs... Read more >
Written by Davide Longo
Translated by Silvester Mazzarella
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $24.95
GQ (Italy) called Davide Longo, "the most talented and intense Italian novelist of his generation." In this dystopian, post-apocalyptic literary novel, Italy is on the brink of collapse: borders are closed, banks are refusing to distribute money to their clients, the postal service is shuttered, and food supplies are running short. Armed gangs... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Leopard
A Novel
Written by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2013
Price: $11.99
A classic of modern fiction. Set in the 1860s, THE LEOPARD is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. Read more >
A Novel
Written by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2013
Price: $11.99
A classic of modern fiction. Set in the 1860s, THE LEOPARD is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Life in Five Seconds
The Short Story of Absolutely Everything
Written by H-57
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $14.95
Told in ingenious pictographs that are witty, provocative, and to the point, Life in 5 Seconds starts with 200 important events, inventions, great lives, wonders of the natural world, and cultural icons and boils away the useless details to give you the pure essence of knowledge.
In today’s caffeine-charged, jet-fueled, information-overload society... Read more >
The Short Story of Absolutely Everything
Written by H-57
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $14.95
Told in ingenious pictographs that are witty, provocative, and to the point, Life in 5 Seconds starts with 200 important events, inventions, great lives, wonders of the natural world, and cultural icons and boils away the useless details to give you the pure essence of knowledge.
In today’s caffeine-charged, jet-fueled, information-overload society... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
Lines in Long Array
A Civil War Commemoration: Poems and Photographs, Past and Present
Edited by David C. Ward and Frank H. Goodyear III
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $19.95
Lines in Long Array demonstrates the enduring impact of the Civil War on American culture by presenting poems and photographs from both the past and present, including 12 wholly new poems by contemporary poets created especially for this volume.
Includes previously unpublished poetry by Eavan Boland, Geoffrey Brock, Nikki Giovanni, Jorie Graham... Read more >
A Civil War Commemoration: Poems and Photographs, Past and Present
Edited by David C. Ward and Frank H. Goodyear III
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $19.95
Lines in Long Array demonstrates the enduring impact of the Civil War on American culture by presenting poems and photographs from both the past and present, including 12 wholly new poems by contemporary poets created especially for this volume.
Includes previously unpublished poetry by Eavan Boland, Geoffrey Brock, Nikki Giovanni, Jorie Graham... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Loss of Innocence
Written by Richard North Patterson
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $26.95
From acclaimed author Richard North Patterson comes a sweeping family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings, set against the backdrop of the tumultuous summer of 1968.
America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane- spending the summer of her twenty-second year on... Read more >
Written by Richard North Patterson
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $26.95
From acclaimed author Richard North Patterson comes a sweeping family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings, set against the backdrop of the tumultuous summer of 1968.
America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane- spending the summer of her twenty-second year on... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Maharajah's Monkey
Written by Natasha Narayan
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $12.95
Dark secrets at the maharajah’s palace . . .
Lost treasure and a bear attack in the Himalayas . . .
And a naughty Indian monkey, filled with an ancient evil . . .
When world-famous Explorer Gustav Champlon disappears just before a trip to India to find lost treasure, Kit Salter is... Read more >
Written by Natasha Narayan
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $12.95
Dark secrets at the maharajah’s palace . . .
Lost treasure and a bear attack in the Himalayas . . .
And a naughty Indian monkey, filled with an ancient evil . . .
When world-famous Explorer Gustav Champlon disappears just before a trip to India to find lost treasure, Kit Salter is... Read more >
Man Made Boy
Written by Jon Skovron
Read by Jon Skovron
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 3, 2013
Price: $24.00
Love can be a real monster.
Sixteen-year-old Boy’s never left home. When you’re the son of Frankenstein’s monster and the Bride, it’s tough to go out in public, unless you want to draw the attention of a torch-wielding mob. And since Boy and his family live in a secret enclave... Read more >
Written by Jon Skovron
Read by Jon Skovron
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 3, 2013
Price: $24.00
Love can be a real monster.
Sixteen-year-old Boy’s never left home. When you’re the son of Frankenstein’s monster and the Bride, it’s tough to go out in public, unless you want to draw the attention of a torch-wielding mob. And since Boy and his family live in a secret enclave... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD.
Man on the Move
Written by Otto de Kat
Translated by Sam Garrett
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $16.95
In Janaury 1935, Rob, a young Dutchman, departs to Capetown in search of adventure. After a brutal stint in the diamond mines, Rob sails to Java to join up in the Dutch army which is making a last stand against the Japanese invading army. Here he meets a fellow Dutchman, Guus... Read more >
Written by Otto de Kat
Translated by Sam Garrett
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $16.95
In Janaury 1935, Rob, a young Dutchman, departs to Capetown in search of adventure. After a brutal stint in the diamond mines, Rob sails to Java to join up in the Dutch army which is making a last stand against the Japanese invading army. Here he meets a fellow Dutchman, Guus... Read more >
Martin Luther King
Written by Godfrey Hodgson
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $18.95
Martin Luther King left an indelible mark on 20th-century American history through his leadership of the non-violent civil rights campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s. The election of Barack Obama as America’s first black president in November 2008 has spawned a renewed interest in King’s role as an agent and prophet... Read more >
Written by Godfrey Hodgson
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $18.95
Martin Luther King left an indelible mark on 20th-century American history through his leadership of the non-violent civil rights campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s. The election of Barack Obama as America’s first black president in November 2008 has spawned a renewed interest in King’s role as an agent and prophet... Read more >
