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A Memoir
Written by Barbara Walters
Format: Hardcover, 624 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $29.95
Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”
And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting... Read more >
Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal
Written by Laurie Notaro
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $20.00
Laurie Notaro has an uncanny ability to attract insanity–and leave readers doubled over with laughter. Need proof? Check out The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death and try not to bust a gut.
Join Notaro as she experiences the popular phenomenon of laser hair removal (because at least one of... Read more >
John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate
Written by James Rosen
Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $35.00
The Strong Man is the first full-scale biography of John N. Mitchell, the central figure in the rise and ruin of Richard Nixon and the highest-ranking American official ever convicted on criminal charges.
As U.S. attorney general from 1969 to 1972, John Mitchell stood at the center of the upheavals of the...
My Life, My Beats
Written by Grandmaster Flash and David Ritz
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $22.95
A no-holds-barred memoir from the primary architect of hip hop and one of the culture's most revered music icons—both the tale of his life and legacy and a testament to dogged determination.
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five fomented the musical revolution known as hip hop. Theirs was a groundbreaking union between...
Written by Gary Paulsen
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $5.99
Guess what -- Gary Paulsen was being kind to Brian. In Guts, Gary tells the real stories behind the Brian books, the stories of the adventures that inspired him to write Brian Robeson's story: working as an emergency volunteer; the death that inspired the pilot's death in Hatchet; plane crashes he... Read more >
A Family Story
Written by Julia Blackburn
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $26.00
This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas; and her mother, Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic who for many years was addicted to barbiturates, which would often make him violent. Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious; she treated Julia as her sister, her... Read more >
