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| | Title | The House at Sugar Beach | | Author | Cooper, Helene | | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9780743266253 | | US Price | $17 | | CDN Price | $23 | | Pages | 384 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| | Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup in this deeply personal memoir and finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. |
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| | Title | Waiting for Snow in Havana | | Author | Eire, Carlos | | Sub-Imprint | Free Press | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9780743246415 | | US Price | $16 | | CDN Price | $18.99 | | Pages | 400 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| | “Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban.” In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Havana—exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by Fidel Castro’s revolution. Winner of the National Book Award, this stunning memoir is a vibrant and evocative look at Latin America from a child’s unforgettable experience. |
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| | Title | We Heard the Heavens Then | | Author | Minu-Sepehr, Aria | | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781451652192 | | US Price | $16 | | CDN Price | $18.99 | | Pages | 256 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| | A piercing look at revolution through the wide-open eyes of a child, this is the true story of an extraordinary father/son relationship imperiled by Iran’s ominous and drastically changing political climate. |
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| | Title | Wait Till Next Year | | Author | Goodwin, Doris Kearns | | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9780684847955 | | US Price | $16 | | CDN Price | $18.99 | | Pages | 272 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| | By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. |
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| | Title | 1 Dead in Attic | | Author | Rose, Chris | | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | History | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781501125379 | | US Price | $17 | | CDN Price | $22 | | Pages | 384 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| | With a new foreword by the author on the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina—Chris Rose’s New York Times bestselling collection: “A gripping book about life’s challenges in post-Katrina New Orleans…packed with heart, honesty, and wit” (New Republic). |
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| | Title | Empire of the Summer Moon | | Author | Gwynne, S. C. | | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | History | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781416591061 | | US Price | $17 | | CDN Price | $20 | | Pages | 384 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
This stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West was a major New York Times bestseller. |
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| | Title | The Girls of Atomic City | | Author | Kiernan, Denise | | Sub-Imprint | Atria Books | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | Biography & Autobiography | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781451617535 | | US Price | $17 | | CDN Price | $20 | | Pages | 416 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| | The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback—an incredible true story of the top-secret World War II town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the young women brought there unknowingly to help build the atomic bomb. |
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| | Title | Once in a Great City | | Author | Maraniss, David | | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | | Format | Hardcover | | Category 1 | History | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781476748382 | | US Price | $32.5 | | CDN Price | $42.5 | | Pages | 464 | | Title Status | OSI | | | | |
| * Winner - Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (2016) *
“Elegiac and richly detailed...[Maraniss] succeeds with authoritative, adrenaline-laced flair...evocative.” —Michiko Kakutani for The New York Times
As David Maraniss captures it with power and affection, Detroit summed up America’s path to music and prosperity that was already past history. |
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| | Title | Our Kids | | Author | Putnam, Robert D. | | Sub-Imprint | Simon & Schuster | | Format | Hardcover | | Category 1 | Political Science | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781476769899 | | US Price | $28 | | CDN Price | $34 | | Pages | 400 | | Title Status | OSI | | | | |
| | A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. |
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| | Title | Rebel Yell | | Author | Gwynne, S. C. | | Sub-Imprint | Scribner | | Format | Paperback | | Category 1 | History | | | | |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781451673296 | | US Price | $20 | | CDN Price | $26 | | Pages | 688 | | Title Status | AS | | | | |
| | Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson became a great and tragic national hero. |
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