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Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail

After graduating from college, Jennifer isn’t sure what she wants to do with her life. She is drawn to the Appalachian Trail, a 2175-mile footpath that stretches from Georgia to Maine. Though her friends and family think she’s crazy, she sets out alone to hike the trail, hoping it will give her time to think about what she wants to do next.

The next four months are the most physically and emotionally challenging of her life. She quickly discovers that thru-hiking is harder than she had imagined: coping with blisters and aching shoulders from the 30-pound pack she carries; sleeping on the hard wooden floors of trail shelters; hiking through endless torrents of rain and even a blizzard.

With every step she takes, Jennifer transitions from an over-confident college graduate to a student of the trail, braving situations she never imagined before her thru-hike. The trail is full of unexpected kindness, generosity, and humor. And when tragedy strikes, she learns that she can depend on other people to help her in times of need.

About: Jennifer Pharr Davis

Paperback: $15.95 (ISBN: 9780825305689)

Hardcover: $24.95 (ISBN: 9780825306495)

E-book: $15.95 (ISBN:9780825305665)

Travel/ Memoir

320 pages

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Bon Courage: Rediscovering the Art of Living In the Heart of France

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

One year and one arduous home-renovation into their marriage, Ken and Bing head to the French countryside to celebrate their long-delayed honeymoon, swearing they’re getting out of the home-fixing business for good. When they fall in love with the village of La Montaigne Noire, they find themselves buying a fixer-upper and starting all over again—but this time, in French! McAdams recounts their mishaps and misadventures with humor, capturing the essence of French village life, the awkwardness of being foreigners in a close-knit town, the couple’s hilarious linguistic pratfalls, and how the mammoth undertaking that threatens to tear their new marriage apart ultimately brings them closer together and helps them find a place in the community they have grown to love.

About the Author: Ken McAdams

ISBN: 978-1-55921-398-1
$22.95 Hardcover
Travelogue/Memoir
336 pages 5.5×8.5
Illustrations throughout by Marian “Bing” Bingham

I Shall Live

Orenstein’s searing account of his experience as a young man in Germany, Russia, and ultimately, in a concentration camp, has been called, “[a]n adventure…almost novelesque in the extraordinary succession of miracles which enable the young man to remain among the living so as to eventually tell his story forty years later with Voltaire-esque ferocity and often sheer and invigorating joy.”–Claude Lanzmann

Orenstein’s ingenuity and indefatigable vitality in the face of the horrors of the Holocaust enabled him to save himself and his family from execution by playing a role in the greatest trick ever pulled on the Nazis. Orenstein and his brothers were part of a fake Commando formed by German SS officers who wanted to avoid fighting at the Russian front. The new edition of I Shall Live contains new evidence about this false Commando-letters signed to and from Himmler himself.

About: Henry Orenstein

Paperback: $15.95 (ISBN: 9780825305979)

History/ Autobiography

336 pages

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Homeland

A tribute to a generation of survivors, Dr. Mordecai Hacohen’s powerful memoir recounts a period of great turmoil and triumph: the foundation of the Jewish State in Israel. As a young man, Dr. Hacohen was a leader in the heroic but little-known Clandestine Immigration of Jews from Nazi-controlled Europe to Israel, which eventually transported over 22,000 European Jews to what would eventually become the State of Israel. He also assisted in the foundation of the State of Israel, and helped create the Israeli Foreign Service.

In this intriguing memoir, Hacohen relates the numerous efforts that brought him into contact with many of the brightest and most influential personalities of the twentieth century, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, Isaac Stern, Golda Meir, Elie Wiesel, and many others. The book includes an introduction by Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an epilogue written by Dr. Hacohen’s son, Israel Hacohen.

About: Dr. Mordecai Hacohen

Hardcover: $24.95 (ISBN: 9780825305900)

E-Book: $9.99 (ISBN: 9780825305894)

Memoir

256 pages

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You Must Remember This

You Must Remember This is published on the 40th anniversary of the most exhilarating, turbulent, violent and tragic year in modern U.S. political history. In it, author Lansing Lamont offers the personal eyewitness narrative of a national magazine correspondent who covered the assassinations, riots and burnings that accompanied the fiercely fought presidential campaign that year – 1968. He etches the personalities and characters of the outsize figures who commanded the political stage. Forty years later, the nation is consumed with another fateful presidential campaign, another war, another transformative young political figure who has excitingly captured the public’s imagination as Robert Kennedy did in 1968. What was it like reporting the legendary events of ’68? How do the two years, 1968 and 2008 – the stakes, the key players, the national moods – compare? 1968 is the transforming year in a broad canvas of exciting decades, from the Kennedys’ Camelot to 9/11, which You Must Remember This explores through the eyes of a veteran journalist who was there when it happened.

About: Lansing Lamont

Hardcover: $24.95 (ISBN: 9780825305832)

Memoir

264 Pages

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