The Eaves of Heaven
A Life in Three Wars
Written by Andrew X. Pham


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $16.00

One of the Ten Best Books of the Year, Washington Post Book World
One of the Los Angeles Times’ Favorite Books of the Year
One of the Top Ten National Books of 2008, Portland Oregonian
A 2009 Honor Book of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association

“Few books have combined the historical scope and the literary... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.
Magnificent Desolation
The Long Journey Home from the Moon
Written by Buzz Aldrin and Ken Abraham


Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $27.00

Forty years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second human, minutes after Neil Armstrong, to set foot on a celestial body other than the Earth. The event remains one of mankind’s greatest achievements and was witnessed by the largest worldwide television audience in history. In the years since, millions more have had... Read more >
At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream
Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life
Written by Wade Rouse


Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $23.99

We all dream it.
Wade Rouse actually did it.


Finally fed up with the frenzy of city life and a job he hates, Wade Rouse decided to make either the bravest decision of his life or the worst mistake since his botched Ogilvie home perm: to uproot his life and try... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Reagan's Secret War
The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster
Written by Martin Anderson and Annelise Anderson


Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $32.50

On February 6, 1981, at his first National Security Council meeting, Ronald Reagan told his advisers: “I will make the decisions.” As Reagan’s Secret War reveals, these words provide the touchstone for understanding the extraordinary accomplishments of the Reagan administration, including the decisive events that led to the end of the... Read more >
Also available as an unabridged audiobook download and an eBook.
A Champion's Mind
Lessons from a Life in Tennis
Written by Pete Sampras and Peter Bodo


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $15.00

In A Champion’s Mind, the tennis great who so often exhibited visible discomfort with letting people “inside his head” finally opens up. An athletic prodigy, Pete resolved from his earliest playing days never to let anything get in the way of his love for the game. But while this determination led... Read more >
The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter
A Memoir
Written by Holly Robinson


Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $23.00

“What kind of Navy officer sits on his ship in the middle of the Mediterranean dreaming of gerbils?”

That’s the question that Holly Robinson sets out to answer in this warm and rollicking memoir of life with her father, the world’s most famous gerbil czar.

Starting with a few pairs of gerbils housed... Read more >
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Ted Kennedy
The Dream That Never Died
Written by Edward Klein


Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $26.00

In the most inspiring speech of his career, Ted Kennedy once vowed: "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."

Unlike his martyred brothers, John and Robert, whose lives were cut off before the... Read more >
Out of the Canyon
A True Story of Loss and Love
Written by Art Daily and Allison Daily


Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $24.00

On a crisp winter’s day in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado, Art Daily suffered a terrible tragedy. While driving home with his family from a youth hockey game, a large boulder dislodged from the canyon wall and struck their car, killing his wife and two sons–while leaving him inexplicably untouched. In one instant... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
The Package Deal
My (not-so) Glamorous Transition from Single Gal to Instant Mom
Written by Izzy Rose


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.00

Meet Izzy Rose–a hilarious and chic new stepmom trying to come to terms with the package deal. A single “middle-class socialite” living in San Francisco, Izzy loved her career as a successful, Emmy Award-winning TV producer and she was fine with the fact that she was unmarried and kid-less at thirty-five... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Paul Newman
A Life
Written by Shawn Levy


Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $29.99

Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor with the legendary blue eyes, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades, broken heroes, and winsome antiheroes in such revered films as The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Verdict, The Color of Money, and Nobody’s Fool. But Newman was also... Read more >
Cartwheels in a Sari
A Memoir of Growing Up Cult
Written by Jayanti Tamm


Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $22.99

In this colorful, eye-opening memoir, Jayanti Tamm offers an unforgettable glimpse into the hidden world of growing up “cult” in mainstream America. Through Jayanti’s fascinating story–the first book to chronicle Sri Chinmoy–she unmasks a leader who convinces thousands of disciples to follow him, scores of nations to dedicate monuments to him... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Cat Power
A Good Woman
Written by Elizabeth Goodman


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $13.95

How Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, Survived Herself–and Became the Indie Rock Queen.

Chan Marshall’s stark lyrics, minimal arrangements,and wounded, smoky vocals, were an instant indie hit in the nineties–but her mental instability nearly derailed her career. How this sensitive but headstrong Georgian daughter of an unstable mother and a relatively unknown... Read more >
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Faith Under Fire
An Army Chaplain's Memoir
Written by Roger Benimoff and Eve Conant


Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Price: $23.95

“Running away from God doesn’t work. I had tried.”
—Roger Benimoff

As he left for his second tour of duty as an Army chaplain in Iraq, Roger Benimoff noted in his journal: I am excited and I am scared. I am on fire for God...He is my hope, strength, and focus.

But... Read more >
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Escape from Saddam
The Incredible True Story of One Man's Journey to Freedom
Written by Lewis Alsamari


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $13.95

At the age of seventeen, Lewis Alsamari was conscripted into Saddam Hussein’s army. The training was brutal, with discipline enforced by regular beatings, and desertion punishable by mutilation or imprisonment. Somehow Lewis made it through and, thanks in part to his fluent English, was soon offered a post in Iraqi military... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Wedlock
The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
Written by Wendy Moore


Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $25.95

With the death of her fabulously wealthy coal magnate father when she was just eleven, Mary Eleanor Bowes became the richest heiress in Britain. An ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II, Mary grew to be a highly educated young woman, winning acclaim as a playwright and botanist. Courted by a bevy of... Read more >
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Standing Tall
A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph
Written by C. Vivian Stringer and Laura Tucker


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 3, 2009
Price: $14.95

“Lots of people have dreams, but C. Vivian Stringer is the dream—a coalminer’s daughter who believed when her Poppa told her there was no obstacle she could not surmount. And she lives that dream, teaching others to rise up to meet challenges, turning underdogs into champions again and again—on and off... Read more >
Also available as an abridged audio CD, abridged audiobook download and an eBook.
In the Ring
The Trials of a Washington Lawyer
Written by Robert S. Bennett


Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $15.95

“The best legal read . . . in decades. A brilliantly entertaining work, both for the lawyer and the layman.”
Washington Times

Robert S. Bennett has been a lawyer for more than forty years. In that time, he’s taken on dozens of high-profile and groundbreaking cases and emerged as the go-to... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Sit, Ubu, Sit
How I Went from Brooklyn to Hollywood with the Same Woman, the Same Dog, and a Lot Less Hair
Written by Gary David Goldberg


Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $13.95

A sports-crazed kid from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Gary David Goldberg never imagined he’d end up in Hollywood, let alone make it big there. But as a twenty-five-year-old waiter in Greenwich Village he met Diana, the love of his life; followed her out to Northern California; then moved in and never moved out... Read more >
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How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed
A Memoir of Starting Over
Written by Theo Pauline Nestor


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $13.00

“I feel like I’ve joined an enormous club, something like the Veterans of Foreign Wars. We are weary with battle fatigue and sometimes even gripped by nostalgia for the good old, bad old days, but our numbers are large,” writes Theo Pauline Nestor in this wry, fiercely honest chronicle of life... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
13 Is the New 18
And Other Things My Children Taught Me--While I Was Having a Nervous Breakdown Being Their Mother
Written by Beth J. Harpaz


Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $23.95

“I wonder sometimes if there’s something to the old superstition about the number thirteen. Maybe that superstition was originally created by the mothers in some tribe who noticed that in their children’s thirteenth year, they suddenly became possessed by evil spirits. Because it did seem that whenever Taz was around, things... Read more >
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The Echo from Dealey Plaza
The true story of the first African American on the White House Secret Service detail and his quest for justice after the assassination of JFK
Written by Abraham Bolden


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $13.95

A gripping and unforgettable true story of bravery and patriotism in the face of bitter hatred.

Abraham Bolden was a young African American Secret Service agent in Chicago when he was asked by John F. Kennedy himself to join the White House Secret Service detail. For Bolden, it was a dream come... Read more >
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Just Do It
How One Couple Turned Off the TV and Turned On Their Sex Lives for 101 Days (No Excuses!)
Written by Douglas Brown


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $13.95

Even though it feels like there’s never enough time or energy, trust Annie and Doug...THERE IS!

Creeping into middle age and saddled with work deadlines, child rearing, homemaking, and fourteen years of togetherness, an ordinary, happy but harried couple set an outlandish goal: to have sex for 101 consecutive days–no excuses (not... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Charlatan
America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
Written by Pope Brock


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $14.95

“An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing” –USA Today

In 1917, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility.

It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made “Dr.” Brinkley one of America’s richest men–and a national... Read more >
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A Journal for Jordan
A Story of Love and Honor
Written by Dana Canedy


Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $25.95

In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. Charles King, forty-eight, was killed on October 14, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated under his Humvee on... Read more >
The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up
A True Story
Written by Rich Blake


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 9, 2008
Price: $13.95

The remarkable story of a fireman who miraculously came out of a coma for one full day

On a brutally cold December day, Donny Herbert, a hardworking firefighter from Buffalo, New York, was searching the attic of a burning house. The roof, heavy with snow, suddenly collapsed, and for six minutes he... Read more >
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