"I can't separate what part of pro football is business and what part is personal with me," he said. "I just know that it is very important that I succeed. "He had loved games as a young boy, had played them as...
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It's a warm and muggy Saturday night in August of 1942. The Nazis are liquidating the ghetto of Shedlitz, an industrial town east of Warsaw, Poland. Zippa, a twenty-seven-year-old Jewish woman, finds temporary shelter in a small attic,...
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Featuring more than 40 full-color photographs and a short but comprehensive bio, Lady Gaga, a celebrity-focused minibiography by Sarah Parvis, provides in rich detail how Lady Gaga rose to fame. Everything a fan could want to know about...
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A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance In his fascinating new book, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin...
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Discovered singing on YouTube in 2008, Justin Bieber is now a worldwide pop teen sensation. His first album My World was certified platinum in the United States, with seven Billboard Hot 100 hits. His first full studio album titled My...
- Auteur:Mann, Barney ScoutSommaire:
Thru hiker Barney Scout Mann spins a tale of six hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2007 as they walk from Mexico to Canada, forming relationships and revealing deep secrets.
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As writer, actor and activist, his words and music shaped a generation. John Lennon: In His Own Words is a fitting tribute to a man who changed the world with his music and his message. John Lennon inspired millions during his too-brief...
- Auteur:Spoto, DonaldSommaire:
Since her death at the age of nineteen in 1431, Joan of Arc has maintained a remarkable hold on our collective imagination. During the tumultuous Hundred Years War between England and France, a young peasant girl nicknamed "The Maid" (...
- Auteur:Smith, StarrSommaire:
Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II-and they were legion-Jimmy Stewart was unique. Jimmy Stewart, Bomber Pilot chronicles his long journey to become a bomber pilot in combat.
- Auteur:Rafati, KhalilSommaire:
Khalil Rafati went to Los Angeles in the 1990s and had it all. He was working with Hollywood movie stars and legendary rock musicians, but it wasn't long before he found his way into the dark underbelly of the City of Angels. When he...
- Auteur:Hughes, Patrick HenrySommaire:
Patrick Henry Hughes was born blind and physically disabled. But he was also blessed with exceptional musical talent. Here, he shares his courageous lessons for living with faith and defying the impossible at every turn.
- Auteur:Bass, S. JonathanSommaire:
Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within...
- Auteur:Reidy, JamieSommaire:
Jamie Reidy is the guy who's been there, done that and walked away with the insider stories. Inside Hard Sell: Now a Major Motion Picture, Love and Other Drugs, you'll find yourself rooting for Reidy and shocked by the...
- Auteur:Eyman, ScottSommaire:
Henry Fonda and James Stewart were two of the biggest stars in Hollywood for forty years. They became friends and then roommates as stage actors in New York, and when they began making films in Hollywood, they roomed together again....
- Auteur:Dungy, Camille T.Sommaire:
As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille T. Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then a toddler. As they travel, Dungy is intensely aware of how they are seen, not just as mother and...
- Auteur:Morton, MichaelSommaire:
On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton went to work at his usual time. By the end of the day, his wife Christine had been savagely bludgeoned to death in the couple's bed-and the Williamson...
- Auteur:Schanzer, RosalynSommaire:
George Washington and King George III of Britain had a great deal in common-aside from sharing the same first name. Both loved to hunt and farm, both towered above most other men of their day, and both were dedicated husbands and...
- Auteur:Giffels, DavidSommaire:
David Giffels grew up fascinated by his father's dusty, tool-strewn workshop and the countless creations-both practical and fantastical-it inspired. So when he enlisted his eighty-one-year-old dad for the unusual project of building a...
- Auteur:Durand, Carolyn, Scobie, OmidSommaire:
This book goes beyond the headlines to reveal unknown details of Harry and Meghan's life together, dispelling the many rumors and misconceptions that plague the couple on both sides of the pond. As members of the select group of...
- Auteur:Skidelsky, WilliamSommaire:
For much of the past decade, William Skidelsky has had an all-consuming devotion to Roger Federer, whom he considers to be the greatest and most graceful tennis player of all time.In this mesmerizing memoir, Skidelsky ponders what it is...