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The Push
A Climber's Search for the Path
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
**A New York Times Bestseller
A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite’s El Capitan
“The rarest of adventure reads: it thrills with colorful details of courage and perseverance but it enriches...
Playing the Enemy
Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
The inspiration for the film INVICTUS, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman.
Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament- the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After being released from prison and winning South Africa's...
The Professor in the Cage
Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
An English professor begins training in the sport of mixed martial arts and explores the science and history behind the violence of men
When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym moves in across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge, and an opportunity. Pushing forty, out...
by John Hooper
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
**Washington Post bestseller
Los Angeles Times bestseller
A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent**
How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none...
City of Djinns
A Year in Delhi
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
Peeling back the layers of Delhi’s centuries-old history, City of Djinns is an irresistible blend of research and adventure.
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old history, revealing an extraordinary array of characters along the way-from...
Travels with Epicurus
A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Advice on achieving a fulfilling old age from one of the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .
After being advised by his dentist to get tooth implants, Daniel Klein decides to stick with his dentures and instead use the money to make a trip to the Greek island Hydra...
Vacationland
True Stories from Painful Beaches
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
**“I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size.” —Jon Stewart
Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone...
The Girl from Foreign
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
A search for shipwrecked ancestors, forgotten histories, and a sense of home
Fascinating and intimate , The Girl from Foreign is one woman's search for ancient family secrets that leads to an adventure in far-off lands. Sadia Shepard, the daughter of a white Protestant from Colorado and a Muslim...
Un Amico Italiano
Eat, Pray, Love in Rome
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
"Luca Spaghetti is not only one of my favorite people in the world, but also a natural-born storyteller. . . . This [is a] marvelous book." -Elizabeth Gilbert
When Luca Spaghetti (yes, that's really his name) was asked to show a writer named Elizabeth Gilbert around Rome, he had no...
by Tony Judt
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
"It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than...
US Guys
The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
**From the New York Times bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy
“A fearless, clear eyed companion into parts of America that rarely see print.”—Entertainment Weekly**
Charlie LeDuff has made a career out of his extraordinary ability to capture the spirit of the people...
C'est La Vie
An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris and--Voila!--Becomes Almost French
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2005
Bestselling writer Suzy Gershman (dubbed “Super Shopper Suzy” by Oprah) is our answer to Peter Mayle in this heartfelt, breezy, and funny story of starting over in Paris. Suzy had always fantasized about moving to Paris with her husband, but when he dies unexpectedly, she decides to fulfill their...
Paris versus New York
A Tally of Two Cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
A beautiful visualization of a popular travel journal as told by a lover of Paris wandering through New York
When Vahram Muratyan began his online travel journal, Paris versus New York, he had no idea how quickly it would become one of the most buzzed-about sites on the Internet—it garnered...
by A. N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
A collection that includes all three novels in Anne Rice’s seductive retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story.
A spell has been cast upon a lovely young princess who sleeps, waiting for someone to save her. The Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for...