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Supernatural Serial Killers
Samantha Lyon · Arcturus Publishing Limited
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Albert Fish held the genuine belief that the murders he committed were upon instruction from God. Peter Stumpp, who started practising the "wicked arts from twelve years of age", was convinced he was a werewolf. There are many more murderous individuals like them. Supernatural... |
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To Selena, with Love
Chris Perez · Celebra Hardcover; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most compelling and adored superstars in Latin music history, Selena was nothing short of a phenomenon who shared all of herself with her millions of devoted fans. Her tragic murder, at the young age of twenty-three, stripped the world of her talent and boundless potential, her tightly... |
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The Whitney I Knew
Bebe Winans · Worthy Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A virtual album of BeBe Winans' treasured memories of his friend and "sister," Whitney Houston. In the years between the first time BeBe Winans and Whitney Houston met in 1985, to the day he delivered the tribute that touched a watching nation at Houston's funeral, a deep... |
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The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
Andrew Scott Cooper · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 608
Format: Print book
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An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administrationIn this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth... |
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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940
Victoria Wilson · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Frank Capra called her “The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known.” She was one of its most natural, timeless, and underrated stars. Now, Victoria Wilson gives us the first full-scale life of Barbara Stanwyck, whose astonishing career in movies (eighty-eight in all)... |
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
Kara Cooney · Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power. Hatshepsut - the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty - was born into a privileged position in the royal... |
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Jim Henson: The Biography
Brian Jay Jones · Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGEFor the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson He was a gentle dreamer whose... |
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The Princess Diarist
Carrie Fisher · Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher's intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie. * Named a PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of Fall 2016 *A New York Times Bestseller * "Bright... |
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The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
Jenny Nordberg · Crown; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune. A bacha posh (literally translated from Dari as "dressed up like a boy") is a third kind of child -- a girl temporarily... |
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Warren G. Harding: The American Presidents Series: The 29th President, 1921-1923
John W. Dean · Times Books; 1st edition
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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President Nixon’s former counsel illuminates another presidency marked by scandalWarren G. Harding may be best known as America’s worst president. Scandals plagued him: the Teapot Dome affair, corruption in the Veterans Bureau and the Justice Department, and the posthumous... |
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Happily Ali After: And Other Fairly True Tales
Ali Wentworth · Harper
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The actress, comedian, media darling, and New York Times bestselling author picks up where she left off in Ali in Wonderland, dissecting modern life - and this time, on a mission of self-improvement - in a series of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Moved by a particularly inspirational tweet... |
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JFK and His Enemies: A Portrait of Power
Thomas J. Whalen · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The famed 19th century humorist Finely Peter Dunne once commented that life “would not be worth living if we didn’t keep our enemies.” Certainly John F. Kennedy could appreciate the wisdom behind this observation. At nearly every stage of his noteworthy political career,... |
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The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
Gregory Zuckerman · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone knew it was crazy to try to extract oil and natural gas buried in shale rock deep below the ground. Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters - who risked their careers to prove the world wrong. Things looked grim for American energy in 2006. Oil production was in steep... |
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A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings
Mark Twain · University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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This book publishes, for the first time in full, the two most revealing of Mark Twain’s private writings. Here he turns his mind to the daily life he shared with his wife Livy, their three daughters, a great many servants, and an imposing array of pets. These first-hand accounts display... |
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