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  • Enter Helen

    The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman

    by Brooke Hauser ...
    "Engaging…. Nimble-footed…. Amusing….Throughout, Hauser weaves in passages connecting Brown to her contemporaries and the cultural landscape of the 1960s…[to] situate her life in the context of its times."— New York Times Book ReviewThis female Mad Men-like story chronicles the legendary Cosmopolitan magazine editor's rise to power as both a cultural icon and trailblazer who redefined what it ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Kids

    Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens

    by Brooke Hauser ...
    Some walked across deserts and mountains to get here. Others flew in on planes. One arrived after escaping in a suitcase. And some won’t say how they got here.These are “the new kids”: new to America and all the routines and rituals of an American high school, from lonely first days to prom. They attend the International High School at Prospect Heights in Brooklyn, which is like most high schools ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Enter Helen

    The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman

    by Brooke Hauser ...
    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 30 min

    “Engaging…. Nimble-footed…. Amusing….Throughout, Hauser weaves in passages connecting Brown to her contemporaries and the cultural landscape of the 1960s…[to] situate her life in the context of its times.”— New York Times Book ReviewThis female Mad Men-like story chronicles the legendary Cosmopolitan magazine editor’s rise to power as both a cultural icon and trailblazer who redefined what it ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The New Kids

    Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for

    by Brooke Hauser ...
    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 17 min

    Inspired by the author's widely acclaimed New York Times article, The New Kids is immersion reporting at its most compelling. Brooke Hauser takes us deep inside a unique New York City high school over the course of a year as she follows diverse newcomers whose lives are at once ordinary and extraordinary, international headlines brought to life. No native English-speaking students attend the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    American Titan

    Searching for John Wayne

    by Marc Eliot ...
    Narrated by Pete Larkin ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 31 min

    From the veteran New York Times bestselling biographer comes a major, in-depth look at one of the most enduring American icons of all time, “the Duke,” John Wayne.As he did in his bestselling biographies of Jimmy Stewart and Clint Eastwood, acclaimed Hollywood biographer Marc Eliot digs deep beneath the myth in this revealing look at the most legendary Western film hero of all time; the man with ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • True Notebooks

    A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

    by Mark Salzman ...
    In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularly. In voices of indelible emotional presence, the boys write about what led them to crime and about ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Jackie After O

    One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations & Rediscovered Her Dreams

    by Tina Cassidy ...
    Former Boston Globe reporter Tina Cassidy delivers a remarkable account of one year in the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, America's favorite first lady and an international icon. 1975 was a year of monumental changes for Jackie: it was the year she lost her second husband, shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, saved one of New York City's cultural landmarks at Grand Central Station, and found ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mommie Dearest

    The fortieth anniversary edition of the "shocking" #1 New York Times bestseller with a bonus story by the author, "Never Got to Say Goodbye" ( Los Angeles Times).When Christina Crawford's harrowing chronicle of child abuse was first published in 1978, it brought global attention to the previously closeted subject. It also shed light on the guarded world of Hollywood and stripped away the façade of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Future Cities

    by Daniel Brook ...
    A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai.Every month, five million people move from the past to the future. Pouring into developing-world “instant cities” like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban newcomers confront a modern world cobbled together from fragments of a West they have never seen. Do these fantastical ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Remember How I Love You

    Love Letters from an Extraordinary Marriage

    Every morning for the thirteen years he was on Law & Order, Jerry Orbach wrote his wife a short love poem and placed it next to her coffee cup before he left for work.Over the years Jerry wrote hundreds of notes -- all of which Elaine cherished and preserved. Now dozens of Jerry's most meaningful poems to Elaine, along with stories from his amazing career and their enduring romance, tell the tale ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Triangle Fire

    by Leon Stein ...
    "Leon Stein's gripping narrative of the Triangle tragedy is one of the classics of American history. As the grandson of a onetime Triangle seamstress, I salute the reissue of a book that anyone who cares about labor, past or present, should read."—Michael Kazin, Georgetown University, author of The Populist Persuasion: An American History and other booksPraise for the 1962 edition—"Stein recreates ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ali

    A Life

    by Jonathan Eig ...
    A New York Times bestseller, the definitive biography of "The Greatest" heavyweight boxing champion and American icon.Winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year"As Muhammad Ali's life was an epic of a life so Ali: A Life is an epic of a b... ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus