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What's So Funny?: My Hilarious Life
Tim Conway · Howard Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Six-time Emmy Award-winning funnyman Tim Conway, best known for his characters on The Carol Burnett Show, offers a straight-shooting and hilarious memoir about his life on stage and off as an actor and comedian. In television history, few entertainers have captured as many hearts and made... |
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Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency
David Greenberg · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 540
Format: Print book
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The most powerful political tool of the modern presidency is control of the message and the image. In Republic of Spin -- a vibrant history covering more than one hundred years of politics -- presidential historian David Greenberg recounts the rise of the White House spin machine,... |
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George W. Bush: The American Presidents Series: The 43rd President, 2001-2009
James Mann · Times Books
Format: Hardcover
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The controversial president whose time in office was defined by the September 11 attacks and the war on terrorGeorge W. Bush stirred powerful feelings on both sides of the aisle. Republicans viewed him as a resolute leader who guided America through the September 11 attacks and retaliated... |
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The Good Luck Cat: How a Cat Saved a Family, and a Family Saved a Cat
Lissa Warren · Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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Lissa Warren’s father needed a retirement companion while his wife and daughter were at work. Enter Ting, a seven-pound Korat who changed his life, and the life of the family. All kittens are mischievous, but Ting “the cat grenade” was real trouble. She was also smart,... |
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Holding Silvan: A Brief Life
Monica Wesolowska · Hawthorne Books
Format: Print book
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In the opening of Holding Silvan: A Brief Life, Monica Wesolowska gives birth to her first child, a healthy-seeming boy who is taken from her arms for “observation” when he won’t stop crying. Within days, Monica and her husband have been given the grimmest of prognoses... |
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Minding the manor : the memoir of a 1930s English kitchen maid
Mollie Moran · Lyons Press,
Pages: 353
Format: Print book
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"Born in 1916 in Norfolk, Mollie Moran is one of the few people still alive today who can recall working "downstairs" in the golden years of the early 1930's before the outbreak of WWII. She provides a rare and fascinating insight into a world that has long since vanished.... |
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Letters to a Young Athlete
Chris Bosh · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Chris Bosh is on any list of the Top 100 NBA players of all time--an eleven-time All Star, two-time NBA champion, Olympic gold medalist, and currently the league's Global Ambassador. Always an uncommonly philosophical NBA star, with interests far beyond basketball, including fashion,... |
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