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Audition
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 >
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 >
Highway to Hell
Dispatches from a Mercenary in Iraq
Written by John Geddes
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $24.95
Dispatches from a Mercenary in Iraq
Written by John Geddes
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $24.95
“They come from across the globe: former special forces soldiers from Britain, the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and every country on the European mainland. There are Gurkhas from the Himalayan foothills and Fijians from the South Sea Islands. There are men who learned their skills with the Japanese antiterrorist paramilitaries...
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The Geography of Love
A Memoir
Written by Glenda Burgess
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $22.95
“If I had given it much thought, I might have hesitated to marry a man for whom at the age of 45 much of the past was too painful to consider--for either of us. Truthfully, thought had little to do with it. Instinct did--the instinct to seize a sure and ebullient... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Glenda Burgess
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $22.95
“If I had given it much thought, I might have hesitated to marry a man for whom at the age of 45 much of the past was too painful to consider--for either of us. Truthfully, thought had little to do with it. Instinct did--the instinct to seize a sure and ebullient... Read more >
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The Three of Us
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 >
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
Guts
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 >
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
Practicing
A Musician's Return to Music
Written by Glenn Kurtz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $13.95
In a remarkable memoir written with insight and humor, Glenn Kurtz takes us from his first lessons at the age of eight to his acceptance at the elite New England Conservatory of Music. After graduation, he attempts a solo career in Vienna but soon realizes that he has neither the ego... Read more >
A Musician's Return to Music
Written by Glenn Kurtz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $13.95
In a remarkable memoir written with insight and humor, Glenn Kurtz takes us from his first lessons at the age of eight to his acceptance at the elite New England Conservatory of Music. After graduation, he attempts a solo career in Vienna but soon realizes that he has neither the ego... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
Counterpoint
Daniel Libeskind in Conversation with Paul Goldberger
Written by Daniel Libeskind and Paul Goldberger
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $60.00
Architect Daniel Libeskind, known for his dynamic, fractured compositions, is also recognized for introducing a new critical discourse to architecture. In an enormous variety of projects around the world—major cultural institutions, convention centers, universities, hotels, commercial centers, and residential work—he has manifested his commitment to expanding the horizons of architecture and... Read more >
Daniel Libeskind in Conversation with Paul Goldberger
Written by Daniel Libeskind and Paul Goldberger
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $60.00
Architect Daniel Libeskind, known for his dynamic, fractured compositions, is also recognized for introducing a new critical discourse to architecture. In an enormous variety of projects around the world—major cultural institutions, convention centers, universities, hotels, commercial centers, and residential work—he has manifested his commitment to expanding the horizons of architecture and... Read more >
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