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The Science of Miracles
Investigating the Incredible
Written by Joe Nickell


Format: eBook
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $11.99

Conveying the sense of adventure surrounding the investigation of any mystery, this is both entertaining reading and a comprehensive, science-based study of miracle claims. Is the Shroud of Turin really the burial cloth of Jesus, produced by a miraculous burst of radiant energy at the moment of Resurrection? What happens at... Read more >
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The Secret Lives of Baked Goods
Sweet Stories & Recipes for America's Favorite Desserts
Written by Jessie Oleson Moore


Format: eBook
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $24.95

Have you ever wondered where the ideas for baking red velvet cupcakes, brownies, birthday cake, Girl Scout cookies, and other dessert recipes came from? Discover the history behind America's most popular and nostalgic desserts with popular CakeSpy blogger and self-proclaimed "dessert detective" Jessie Oleson Moore. Moore has put her sweet-sleuthing skills... Read more >
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Seventeen Famous Operas
Seventeen Famous Operas
Written by Ernest Newman
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307830838
Our Price: $18.99
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Seventeen Famous Operas

Written by Ernest Newman


Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $18.99

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The Shambhala Principle
Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure
Written by Sakyong Mipham


Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $11.99

One of Tibet's highest and most respected lamas elucidates for us the principles of Shambhala, or the path to happiness, set down by his legendary father, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Dear Reader,
We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future... Read more >
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Shield of Sea and Space

Written by Erin Hoffman


Format: eBook
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $11.99

Vidarian Rulorat, called the Tesseract, a powerful magic-user whose abilities spread across multiple elements, finds himself at war with the Alorean Import Company, a powerful cabal of merchants wealthy enough to buy nations. By opening the gate between worlds, Vidarian released the Starhunter, goddess of chaos. With her coming, wild magic... Read more >
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Shinohata
Shinohata
Written by Ronald Dore
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307831934
Our Price: $24.99
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Shinohata
A Portrait of a Japanese Village
Written by Ronald Dore


Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $24.99

Not many foreigners have the chance to live in a Japanese village, certainly not foreigners who are sufficiently at home to do so as unobtrusively and intimately as the author of this book. Ronald Dore went to Shinohata twenty years ago when he was studying the land reform which broke the... Read more >
Snob Zones
Fear, Prejudice, and Real Estate
Written by Lisa Prevost


Format: eBook
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $25.95

An exploration of the corrosive effects of overpriced housing, exclusionary zoning, and the flight of the younger population in the Northeast
 
As anyone of moderate income who has wanted to buy a house or condo in the Northeast knows, young couples and families are increasingly being priced out of the market. And...

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So Far from God
So Far from God
Written by John S.D. Eisenhower
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307827685
Our Price: $11.99
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So Far from God
The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848
Written by John S.D. Eisenhower


Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $11.99

The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent treaty, the United States gained territory that would become California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and... Read more >
The Souvenir
A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War
Written by Louise Steinman


Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $12.99

Louise Steinman’s American childhood in the fifties was bound by one unequivocal condition: “Never mention the war to your father.” That silence sustained itself until the fateful day Steinman opened an old ammunition box left behind after her parents’ death. In it she discovered nearly 500 letters her father had written... Read more >
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Story of My People

Written by Edoardo Nesi


Format: eBook
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $11.99

Winner of the 2011 Strega Prize, this blend of essay, social criticism, and memoir is a striking portrait of the effects of globalization on Italy’s declining economy.
 
Starting from his family’s textile factory in Prato, Tuscany, Edoardo Nesi examines the recent shifts in Italy’s manufacturing industry. Only one generation ago, Prato was... Read more >
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Supernutrition

Written by Richard Passwater


Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $9.99

Megavitamin therapy, good foods supplemented by vitamins to improve health and physical well-being. Chapters include Supernutrition Explained, Contraversies in Nutrition, Recent Discoveries in Nutrition, Vitamin C and the Common Cold, Megavitamin Therapy for Mental and Emotional Disorders, Cholesterol Doesnt Count, Expose of the Cholesterol Contraversy, Vitamin E and Heart Disease, Vitamin... Read more >
Into the Void: Star Wars (Dawn of the Jedi)

Written by Tim Lebbon


Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $13.99

On the planet Tython, the ancient Je’daii order was founded. And at the feet of its wise Masters, Lanoree Brock learned the mysteries and methods of the Force—and found her calling as one of its most powerful disciples. But as strongly as the Force flowed within Lanoree and her parents, it... Read more >
Tales from Lovecraft Middle School #1, #2, and #3
#1: Professor Gargoyle, #2: The Slither Sisters, #3: Teacher's Pest
Written by Charles Gilman
Read by Kristoffer Tabori


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $23.00

Strange things are happening at Lovecraft Middle School. Rats are leaping from lockers. Students are disappearing.  The school library is a labyrinth of secret corridors. And the science teacher is acting very peculiar – in fact, he just might be a monster-in-disguise.  Twelve-year-old Robert Arthur knew that seventh grade was going... Read more >
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Tales from Lovecraft Middle School #3: Teacher's Pest

Written by Charles Gilman
Read by Kristoffer Tabori


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $11.00

“Two-headed monsters, giant tentacles, angry demons—Lovecraft Middle School is great creepy fun!”
—Ransom Riggs, author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
 
DON'T BE FOOLED by his friendly smile, his perfect manners, or his shiny red apple. Student council president Howard Mergler is actually a sinister bug-monster in disguise—and he's summoning swarms of roaches... Read more >
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The Televisionary Oracle

Written by Rob Brezsny


Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $14.99

Millions of people already live their lives in accordance with Rob Brezsny's "Real Astrology" prophecies. But the time has come for a deeper dose of Brezsny's brain. The Televisionary Oracle is an archetypal roller-coaster that would make Rumi dizzy and leave Carl Jung gasping for breath. Read more >
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The Tempest
The Tempest
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307808615
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The Tempest

Written by William Shakespeare


Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $4.99

This joyous play, the last comedy of Shakespeare's career, sums up his stagecraft with a display of seemingly effortless skill. Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, living on an enchanted island, has the opportunity to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore—as well as to... Read more >
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That's That
A Memoir
Written by Colin Broderick


Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $9.99

A brutally honest and deeply affecting memoir about growing up in the countryside in rebel country in Northern Ireland.

Colin Broderick was born in 1968 and spent his childhood in Tyrone county, in Northern Ireland. It was the beginning of the period of heightened tension and violence known as the Troubles, and... Read more >
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Through the Perilous Fight
Six Weeks That Saved the Nation
Written by Steve Vogel


Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $14.99

In a rousing account of one of the critical turning points in American history, Through the Perilous Fight tells the gripping story of the burning of Washington and the improbable last stand at Baltimore that helped save the nation and inspired its National Anthem.
 
In the summer of 1814, the... Read more >
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Tibetan Treasure Literature
Tibetan Treasure Literature
Written by Andreas Doctor
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781559394253
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Tibetan Treasure Literature
Revelation, Tradition, and Accomplishment in Visionary Buddhism
Written by Andreas Doctor


Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $29.95

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Tragic Muse
Tragic Muse
Written by Rachel Brownstein
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307831828
Our Price: $19.99
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Tragic Muse
Rachel of the Comedie-Francaise
Written by Rachel Brownstein


Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $19.99

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Transit

Written by Anna Seghers
Afterword by Heinrich Boll
Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo
Introduction by Peter Conrad


Format: eBook, 280 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $15.95

Anna Seghers’s Transit is an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight.
     
Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old German... Read more >
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Transit

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Transit
Written by Anna Seghers, Afterword by Heinrich Boll, Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo, Introduction by Peter Conrad
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781590176252
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Transit

Written by Anna Seghers
Afterword by Heinrich Boll
Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo
Introduction by Peter Conrad


Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $15.95

Anna Seghers’s Transit is an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight.
     
Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old German... Read more >
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The Trial of God
(as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)
Written by Elie Wiesel


Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $11.99

The Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)
A Play by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Marion Wiesel
Introduction by Robert McAfee Brown
Afterword by Matthew Fox
 
Where is God when innocent human beings suffer? This drama lays bare the most vexing questions confronting the moral imagination.
 
Set in a Ukranian village... Read more >
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The Tunnels of Cu Chi
A Harrowing Account of America's Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam
Written by Tom Mangold


Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $7.99

At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong cached their weapons, tended their wounded, and prepared to strike. They had only one enemy: U.S. soldiers small and wiry enough... Read more >
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Twin Spica, Volume: 01

Written by Kou Yaginuma


Format: eBook, 220 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $4.99

In a Tokyo in the not too distant future a young girl studies deligently with ambitions of soon attending space academy. If things work out just right, her future may very well be among the stars as well. And yet, every time she looks up to the stars there is a... Read more >
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