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Young Mr. Roosevelt: FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and Life
Stanley Weintraub · Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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In Young Mr. Roosevelt Stanley Weintraub evokes Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s political and wartime beginnings. An unpromising patrician playboy appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913, Roosevelt learned quickly and rose to national visibility in World War I. Democratic vice-presidential... |
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Johnny Cash: The Life
Robert Hilburn · Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The national bestseller celebrated as the ultimate Johnny Cash biography....Rock writer great Robert Hilburn goes deep. -- Rolling StoneIn this, the definitive biography of an American legend, Robert Hilburn conveys the unvarnished truth about a musical superstar. Johnny Cashs extraordinary... |
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Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six
Jessica Buchanan · Atria Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestseller! In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Buchanan stepped off a plane in Nairobi, Kenya, with a teaching degree and long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married a native Swede named Erik Landemalm, who worked to coordinate... |
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Amor Verdadero
Jennifer Lopez · Celebra Hardcover
Pages: 288
Format: Book
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En Amor verdadero, Lopez explora uno de los períodos más decisivos de su vida: el viaje de transformación que duró dos años, donde ella cuenta cómo, siendo madre y artista, afrentó sus mayores retos, identificó sus miedos más grandes y, en última instancia, terminó siendo una persona... |
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Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant
Jose Angel N. · University of Illinois Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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A day after N. first crossed the U.S. border from Mexico, he was caught and then released onto the streets of Tijuana. Undeterred, N. crawled back through a tunnel to San Diego, where he entered the United States forever. Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant is his timely and compelling... |
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Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde
Jennie Garth · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 256
Format: Book
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For the first time ever, Jennie Garth is putting it all out there, sharing her joys and her sorrows, her successes and her failures, with candor and a surprising, even bawdy, sense of humor. From her sudden rise to fame as a golden-haired teen beauty, to recently redefining herself as a single... |
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Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero
Douglas Perry · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a city's soulEliot Ness is famous for leading the Untouchables against the notorious mobster Al Capone. But it turns out that the legendary Prohibition Bureau squad's daring... |
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Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp
Ann Kirschner · Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner is the definitive biography of a Jewish girl from New York who won the heart of Wyatt Earp.For nearly fifty years, she was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp: hero of the O.K. Corral and the most famous lawman... |
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The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
SAM KASHNER · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else - Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill - from the authors of Furious Love.When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger... |
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90 Church: Inside America's Notorious First Narcotics Squad
Dean Unkefer · Picador USA
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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MAD MEN MEETS THE WIRE IN THIS GRIPPING TRUE-CRIME MEMOIR BY A FORMER AGENT AT THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARCOTICS IN 1960s NEW YORKBefore Nixon famously declared a "war on drugs," there was the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. New York City in the mid-1960s: The war in Vietnam... |
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The Kinks: A Thoroughly English Phenomenon
Carey Fleiner · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 242
Format: Print book
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Emerging from the same British music boom that birthed the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Dave and Ray Davies's band, the Kinks, became one of England's most influential groups. Remembered best for such singles as "You Really Got Me," "Lola," and "Sunny... |
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Leggy Blonde: A Memoir
Aviva Drescher · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Aviva Drescher, the REAL Housewife of New York City, born and bred in Manhattan, shares her REAL story in this tell-all memoir.She's blond, beautiful, and brazenly honest - one of the boldest cast members of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York City and most talked-about stars... |
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