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Convenient Suspect: A Double Murder, a Flawed Investigation, and the Railroading of an Innocent Woman
Tammy Mal · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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On Thursday, December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, home. Four months later, when their bodies were found in a lonely patch of woods, the police would launch a three-year investigation leading to the arrest... |
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Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed
John F Ross · St Martins Pr
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying aceAt the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies--the car and airplane--took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into American life. The brave souls that leaped into... |
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The Yankee Way: Playing, Coaching, and My Life in Baseball
Willie Randolph · It Books; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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Legendary New York Yankee Willie Randolph tells the story of his life playing and coaching for the most storied professional sports franchise in the world, detailing his career on and off the field with some of baseball biggest stars.In his long-awaited memoir, Willie Randolph shares stories... |
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Front of the House: Restaurant Manners, Misbehaviors & Secrets
Jeff Benjamin · Burgess Lea Press
Pages: 200
Format: Print book
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In the bestselling tradition of Restaurant Man and Setting the Table, Front of the House is a revealing and wryly humorous behind-the-scenes look at the gracious art of great restaurant service.Great restaurant service is a gracious art that's been studied, practiced and polished by Jeff... |
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Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home
Leah Lax · She Writes PR
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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In Uncovered, Leah Lax tells her story--beginning as a young teen who left her liberal, secular home for life as a Hasidic Jew and ending as a forty-something woman who has to abandon the only world she's known for thirty years in order to achieve personal freedom. In understated, crystalline... |
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The Portable Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass · Penguin Classics
Format: Print book
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A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed... |
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The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority
Patrick J. Buchanan · Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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Patrick J. Buchanan, bestselling author and senior advisor to Richard Nixon, tells the definitive story of Nixon's resurrection from the political graveyard and his rise to the presidency. After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962... |
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The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia
Liï¸ u︡dmila Petrushevskaiï¸ a︡ · Penguin Books
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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The prizewinning memoir of one of the world's great writers, about coming of age and finding her voice amid the hardships of Stalinist Russia Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel - the setting of the New York Times bestselling novel A Gentleman in Moscow... |
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Samurai: A History
John Man · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 321
Format: Paperback
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The inspiration for the Jedi knights of Star Wars and the films of Akira Kurosawa, the legendary Japanese samurai have captured modern imaginations. Yet with these elite warriors who were bound by a code of honor called Bushido - the Way of the Warrior - the reality behind the myth proves... |
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Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
HEATHER HARPHAM · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual,... |
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Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education
Morris Dickstein · Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A renowned cultural critic tells his own deeply engaging story of growing up in the turbulent American culture of the postwar decades.At once a coming-of-age story, an intellectual autobiography, and vivid cultural history, Why Not Say What Happened is an eloquent, gripping account of an intellectual... |
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