Scoop up the ebooks below, on sale from $1.99 from participating retailers during April. Click on each cover to learn more.
Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladiesby J. B. West
In Upstairs at the White House, chief usher J. B. West offers an absorbing and novel glimpse at America’s first families, from the Roosevelts to the Kennedys and the Nixons. Alive with anecdotes ranging from the quotidian (Lyndon B. Johnson’s showerheads) to the tragic (the aftermath of John F. Kennedy’s assassination), West’s book is an enlightening and rich account of the American history that took place just behind the Palladian doors of the North Portico. Buy Upstairs at the Whitehouse from Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, Google Play, or Kobo.
The Group by Mary McCarthy
A novel that stunned the world when it was first published in 1963, Mary McCarthy’s The Group found acclaim, controversy, and a place atop the New York Times bestseller list for nearly two years for its frank and controversial exploration of women’s issues, social concerns, and sexuality. A blistering satire of the mores of an emergent generation of women, The Group is McCarthy’s enduring masterpiece, still as relevant, powerful, and wonderfully entertaining fifty years on. Buy The Group from Amazon.com, the Apple iBookstore, Barnesandnoble.com, Google Play, or Kobo.
To Die Forby Joyce Maynard
A local weather reporter will do anything to become famous—she will even murder her own husband. Told through a series of recollections by twenty-four characters, To Die For, which inspired a movie of the same name starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Gus Van Sant, is a razor-sharp satire of a celebrity-obsessed culture, and the story of one woman’s all-consuming pursuit of fame. Buy To Die For from Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, Google Play, or Kobo.
Secrets of Power Negotiating: Inside Secrets From a Master Negotiator (15th Anniversary Edition) by Roger Dawson
Power Negotiating teaches that the way you negotiate can get you everything you want and still convince the other side that they also won. Secrets of Power Negotiating covers every aspect of the negotiating process with practical, proven advice, from beginning steps to critical final moves: how to recognize unethical tactics, key principles of the Power Negotiating strategy, why money is not as important as everyone thinks, negotiating pressure points, understanding the other party and gaining the upper hand, and analyses of different negotiating styles. Buy Secrets of Power Negotiating from Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, Google Play, or Kobo.
The Young Lionsby Irwin Shaw
The Young Lions describes the experiences of soldiers fighting in World War II from the perspectives of a Nazi, an American film producer, and a Jewish boy. The inspiration for the famous film starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin, Irwin Shaw’s classic novel stands among the best fictional depictions of World War II. Buy The Young Lions from Amazon.com, the Apple iBookstore, Barnesandnoble.com, Google Play, or Kobo.
The Greek Coffin Mysteryby Ellery Queen
America’s master of deduction, Ellery Queen, has made his name by combining dazzling feats of pure reason with the old-fashioned legwork that comes with being the son of a New York cop. In The Greek Coffin Mystery, Queen tracks down the missing will of a famous deceased art dealer.Buy The Greek Coffin Mystery from Amazon.com, the Apple iBookstore, Barnesandnoble.com, Google Play, or Kobo.
Saigonby Anthony Grey
Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon, the capital of French colonial Cochin-China, in 1925 on a hunting expedition with his father, a US senator. He is lured back again and again as a traveler, a soldier, and then as a reporter by his fascination for the exotic land and for Lan, a mandarin’s daughter he cannot forget. At once a story of adventure, love, war, and political power, Saigon presents an enthralling and enlightening depiction of twentieth-century Vietnam. Buy Saigonfrom Amazon.com, the Apple iBookstore, Barnesandnoble.com, Google Play, or Kobo.
Binary by Michael Crichton writing as John Lange
State Department intelligence agent John Graves is tracking John Wright—a crazed millionaire who is about to unleash the greatest domestic threat Graves’s agency has ever faced. Can Graves stop Wright before he detonates a nerve gas weapon at the Republican National Convention, potentially killing one million Americans—including the president? Buy Binary from Amazon.com, the Apple iBookstore, Barnesandnoble.com, Google Play, or Kobo.
Canal House Cooking Volume N˚ 3by Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton
Canal House Cooking Volume N° 3: Winter & Spring contains the perfect recipes to share with your friends and family as you welcome warmer weather. Recipes for favorites like marmalade, cannelloni, and lamb will make you want to run into the kitchen and start cooking. Buy Canal House Cooking Volume N° 3 from Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, Google Play, or Kobo.
As if her first day at a new high school isn’t overwhelming enough, Helen witnesses a car crash after school, caused by a rock thrown through the window. She sees a man in the woods by the crash, and when the police arrest one of her classmates, she is sure they have the wrong person. Will she be able to find the true identity of the man in the woods before it’s too late? Buy The Man in the Woods from Amazon.com, the Apple iBookstore, Barnesandnoble.com, Google Play, or Kobo.
My Nature Is Hunger: New and Selected Poems, 1989-2004by Luis J. Rodríguez
Over his three-decade career as a poet, novelist, and memoirist, Luis J. Rodríguez has earned acclaim for his remarkable ear for the voices of the city. For Rodríguez’s subjects, the city is all-consuming, devouring lives, hopes, and the dreams of its citizens even as it flourishes with possibility. “Out of my severed body / the world has bloomed,” and out of Rodríguez’s stirring vision, so has beauty. Buy My Nature Is Hunger from Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, Google Play, or Kobo.