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Don't Know Much About Geography
Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Don't Know Much About Geography by New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis is a fascinating and fun exploration of our planet.
Geography is the hub from which other disciplines radiate: meteorology, ecology, geology, oceanography, demographics, cartography, agricultural studies, economics,...
Double Your Profits
In Six Months or Less
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
One of the nations' foremost financial consultants shares 78 proven ways to cut costs dramatically, send productivity through the roof, and, in just six months, double profits.
Unsuccessful Thug
One Comedian's Journey from Naptown to Tinseltown
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
From Naptown to Tinseltown—legendary stand-up comedian and actor Mike Epps finally tells all in this outrageous, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir.
Before starring in Def Comedy Jam and Showtime at the Apollo—before the sold-out comedy shows, Uncle Buck, and becoming his hero Richard Pryor...
Brave New Weed
Adventures into the Uncharted World of Cannabis
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The former editor-in-chief of Details and Star adventures into the fascinating "brave new world" of cannabis, tracing its history and possible future as he investigates the social, medical, legal, and cultural ramifications of this surprisingly versatile plant.
Pot. Weed. Grass. Mary...
The Boys in the Bunkhouse
Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice and reclaim...
Safari
A Memoir of a Worldwide Travel Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
"It's here, in nature, that we are completely unified with all of life."
Geoffrey Kent had nothing but an East African shilling and an old Land Rover when he launched a safari business in 1962 with his parents in Nairobi. Today he is the chairman and CEO of Abercrombie & Kent,...
Mothers Who Can't Love
A Healing Guide for Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
With Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the smash #1 bestseller Toxic Parents, offers a powerful look at the devastating impact unloving mothers have on their daughters—and provides clear, effective techniques for overcoming that painful legacy.
In...
That's What She Said
Wise Words from Influential Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
An artist and activist committed to the empowerment of women and girls has created a gorgeous illustrated volume, blending watercolor and short biography to showcase the contributions of more than fifty influential female leaders whose words and actions are a passionate call to arms.
Distraught...
The Friedkin Connection
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The long-awaited memoir from the Academy Award–winning director of such legendary films as The French Connection, The Exorcist, and To Live and Die in LA, The Friedkin Connection takes readers from the streets of Chicago to the suites of Hollywood and from the sixties to today, with autobiographical...
The Cabala and The Woman of Andros
Two Novels
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
“For much of the twentieth century, these remarkable early novels were hidden in the great shadow of The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Now we can examine them in the spotlight for the gifts that they are—memorable monuments to style and keys to understanding Wilder’s genius.” – Penelope Niven,...
Dorothy and Otis
Designing the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A lavish, gorgeously designed full-color collection that showcases the designs of Dorothy and Otis Shepard, two groundbreaking giants of early twentieth-century American advertising.
Dorothy and Otis Shepard are the unsung heroes of early twentieth-century North American visual culture. Together,...
by Maira Kalman
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
From Maira Kalman, the author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and The Elements of Style, comes this beautiful pictorial and narrative exploration of the significance of objects in our lives, drawn from her personal artifacts, recollections, and selections from the collection of the...
The Sunrise
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
From the internationally bestselling author of The Island comes a stirring novel about loyalty, love, and resilience in the face of tremendous upheaval—a saga of survival set during the 1974 Cypriot coup d’état that tells the intersecting stories of three families whose lives are decimated when...
Forgotten
The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The injustices of 1940s Jim Crow America are brought to life in this extraordinary blend of military and social history—a story that pays tribute to the valor of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognized to this day.
In the early hours of June 6, 1944,...