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A Door in the Ocean by David McGlynn On a warm September night in 1991, in a quiet neighborhood north of Houston, Texas, David McGlynn’s closest friend and teammate on the high school swimming team is... More about this book »	"Use All The Crayons! The Colorful Guide to Simple Human... by Chris Rodell Charcoal and lampblack: those were the only two colors the company that would grow to be Crayola Crayons produced when it was founded in 1864. Today the children... More about this book »
Enchantment: New and Selected Stories by Thaisa Frank The short fiction of Thaisa Frank has captivated readers for two decades, and now many of those pieces are collected in one volume, along with several new stories... More about this book »	America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't by Stephen Colbert Book store nation, in the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America. You could say we're the #1 nation at being the best at greatness.... More about this book »
I Am a Pole (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert Stephen is excited to celebrate the publication of his first children's book, I Am a Pole (And So Can You!). It is the heartfelt tale of a pole searching for... More about this book »	The Way of the Modern Warrior - Living the Samurai Ideal in the... by Stephen Kaufman The Way of the Modern Warrior is an explanation of the ethos of Japan's samurai warriors, practiced for over 1000 years. The author, Hanshi Stephen Kaufman, has... More about this book »
The Poems of Wing Lei by Alex Grant A monk-poet born in the JiangXi province of China in the mid-9th century, Wing Lei was a contemporary of the Chinese poetry masters Li Po, Tu Fu, and Wang Wei. His... More about this book »	Tweakers: How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay America by Frank Sanello More than 250 crystal methamphetamine users and those who treat them were interviewed for this book. One after another, stories were told of lives destroyed by a... More about this book »
City Chronicles: A Tale of Nine Cities by Deborah Cater A Tale of Nine Cities relates the tale of an eye-opening and inspirational trip taken by two 30 year-old friends around Central and Eastern Europe by train.... More about this book »	Haveli by Suzanne Staples The world of Newbery Honor book Shabanu is vividly re-created in this novel of a young Pakistani woman's heartbreaking struggle against the tyranny of custom and... More about this book »

Sins of the Mothers by Brenda Webster Set in Berkeley, California, in the 1970s, this novel "charts the breakup of an abusive, seventeen-year marriage. Their 'intellectual companionship' long over... More about this book »	Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas Funny in Farsi is a series of 27 humorous vignettes chronicling my family's immigration to America from Abadan, Iran. We came here in 1972 when there were few... More about this book »
"Edges, O Israel, O Palestine" by Leora Skolkin-Smith Starring Tovah Feldshuh, the novel Edges, O Israel, O Palestine, is performed with music and sound. More about this book »	The Day Nothing Happened by Terence Clarke In this collection of related short stories, the main character Dan Collins is working for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Sarawak in western... More about this book »
Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders by Aimee Liu Thirty years after Liu penned Solitaire documenting her teenage experience with anorexia nervosa, she recounts her midlife relapse and recovery. Liu exposes many... More about this book »	Always Come Home to Me by Belle Yang A moving and uplifting tale of two children and their parents, and the beloved pet doves that help them to understand one another. "Fei, fei — fly, fly, little... More about this book »
Falling into Manholes: The Memoir of a Bad/Good Girl by Wendy Merrill A fabulous new Everywoman voice – the hilarious, skewed, rueful misadventures of a forty-something, in-recovery-from-everything bad girl/good girl in her search for... More about this book »	It’s A Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters by Jacquelyn Mitchard Edited by Andrea J. Buchanan About the Anthology The wide-ranging essays in this collection examine the mother-daughter bond and the experience of raising... More about this book »
Searching for Mary Poppins: Women Write About the Intense... by Jacquelyn Mitchard Edited by Susan Davis and Gina Hyams About the Anthology With wit, sensitivity, and unflinching honesty, Searching for Mary Poppins brings together twenty-... More about this book »	Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in... by Joe Raelin Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone presents a new paradigm of leadership that is based on mutual—rather than heroic and... More about this book »