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by Shirlee Kalstone
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
For almost twenty years, dog owners have turned to this compact guide for sensible, step-by-step advice how to housebreak their beloved pets--in just one week! Now revised and updated, pet expert Shirlee Kalstone's foolproof method for housebreaking your dog is available with a fresh new look and...
Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn
A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS
In a memoir of family bonding and cutting-edge physics for readers of Brian Greene’s The Hidden Reality and Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist?, Amanda Gefter tells the story of how she conned her way into a career as a science...
Nim Chimpsky
The Chimp Who Would Be Human
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Now Elizabeth Hess’s unforgettable biography is the inspiration for Project Nim, a riveting new documentary directed by James Marsh and produced by Simon Chinn, the Oscar-winning team known for Man on Wire. Hess, a consultant on the film, says, “Getting a call...
by Jan Spiller
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
For the first time ever, a famous spiritual astrologer shares the secrets, previously known only to professionals, that hold the key to your future.
Astrologer Jan Spiller shows you the key to discovering your hidden talents, your deepest desires, and the ways you can avoid negative influences...
The Wise Heart
A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
A guide to the transformative power of Buddhist psychology—for meditators and mental health professionals, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.
You have within you unlimited capacities for extraordinary love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom—and here is how to...
Voices of Freedom
An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
In this monumental volume, Henry Hampton, creator and executive producer of the acclaimed PBS series Eyes on the Prize, and Steve Fayer, series writer, draw upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary...
Street Shadows
A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Masterfully told, marked by irony and humor as well as outrage and a barely contained sadness, Jerald Walker’s Street Shadows is the story of a young man’s descent into the “thug life” and the wake-up call that led to his finding himself again.
Walker was born in a Chicago housing project...
Hunger of Memory
The Education of Richard Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum.
Here is the poignant journey of a “minority...
The Secret Race
Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
“The holy grail for disillusioned cycling fans . . . The book’s power is in the collective details, all strung together in a story that is told with such clear-eyed conviction that you never doubt its veracity. . . . The Secret Race isn’t just a game changer for the Lance Armstrong myth. It’s...
Left for Dead
My Journey Home from Everest
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2000
With a new preface by the author • As featured in the upcoming motion picture Everest, starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, and Jake Gyllenhaal
“I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last...
by Tahir Shah
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
In the tradition of A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun, acclaimed English travel writer Tahir Shah shares a highly entertaining account of making an exotic dream come true. By turns hilarious and harrowing, here is the story of his family’s move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched...
Education of a Wandering Man
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here...
The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost
A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Rachel Friedman has always been the consummate good girl who does well in school and plays it safe, so the college grad surprises no one more than herself when, on a whim (and in an effort to escape impending life decisions), she buys a ticket to Ireland, a place she has never visited. There she forms...
by Nora Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts serves up a sizzling novel of explosive suspense and sensual romance as the search for a murderer ignites passion between a beautiful psychiatrist and the sexy, brooding detective determined to crack the case.
In the unbearable heat of another...