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Traffic
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Written by Tom Vanderbilt
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $24.95
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Written by Tom Vanderbilt
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $24.95
Would you be surprised that road rage can be good for society? Or that most crashes happen on sunny, dry days? That our minds can trick us into thinking the next lane is moving faster? Or that you can gauge a nation’s driving behavior by its levels of corruption? These are...
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The Innocent Man
Written by John Grisham
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2007
Price: $7.99
In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named... Read more >
Written by John Grisham
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2007
Price: $7.99
In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named... Read more >
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hardcover,
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Kabul Beauty School
An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
Written by Deborah Rodriguez and Kristin Ohlson
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as doctors, nurses, and therapists–seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from... Read more >
An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
Written by Deborah Rodriguez and Kristin Ohlson
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as doctors, nurses, and therapists–seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from... Read more >
Reading Lolita in Tehran
A Memoir in Books
Written by Azar Nafisi
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $16.00
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a... Read more >
A Memoir in Books
Written by Azar Nafisi
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $16.00
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a... Read more >
A Raisin in the Sun
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2004
Price: $6.95
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play... Read more >
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 29, 2004
Price: $6.95
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Innocent Man
Written by John Grisham
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2007
Price: $16.00
In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named... Read more >
Written by John Grisham
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2007
Price: $16.00
In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named... Read more >
Also available as an abridged audiobook download,
abridged audio CD,
abridged audio CD,
unabridged audio CD,
hardcover,
paperback, unabridged audiobook download and in
large print.
Factory Girls
From Village to City in a Changing China
Written by Leslie T. Chang
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $26.00
From Village to City in a Changing China
Written by Leslie T. Chang
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $26.00
An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.
China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the...
Also available as an
eBook.
And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl
The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost
Written by Roger Bennett and Josh Kun
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $24.95
What started out as a mutual affinity for kitschy Jewish album covers–think Neil Diamond baring his chest hair on the cover of Hot August Night or Barbra Streisand in hot pants on the cover of Streisand Superman–soon became a quest for identity, history, and culture between the grooves of LPs.
Together, Roger... Read more >
The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost
Written by Roger Bennett and Josh Kun
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $24.95
What started out as a mutual affinity for kitschy Jewish album covers–think Neil Diamond baring his chest hair on the cover of Hot August Night or Barbra Streisand in hot pants on the cover of Streisand Superman–soon became a quest for identity, history, and culture between the grooves of LPs.
Together, Roger... Read more >
Reading Lolita in Tehran
A Memoir in Books
Written by Azar Nafisi
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $15.00
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a... Read more >
A Memoir in Books
Written by Azar Nafisi
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $15.00
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a... Read more >
Super Crunchers
Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $14.00
An international sensation—and still the talk of the relevant blogosphere—this Wall Street Journal and New York Times business bestseller examines the “power” in numbers. Today more than ever, number crunching affects your life in ways you might not even imagine. Intuition and experience are no longer enough to make the grade... Read more >
Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $14.00
An international sensation—and still the talk of the relevant blogosphere—this Wall Street Journal and New York Times business bestseller examines the “power” in numbers. Today more than ever, number crunching affects your life in ways you might not even imagine. Intuition and experience are no longer enough to make the grade... Read more >
