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Shirley Temple
American Princess
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
At the age of five, Shirley Temple became the world’s most famous and acclaimed child—the most talented, beautiful child performer ever to capture the public’s imagination. By the time she was ten, she had either met or had received words of admiration from almost everyone of distinction. Nine-tenths...
Scandals of Classic Hollywood
Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Gossip meets history—a compulsively readable collection of Hollywood's most notorious clashes and controversies in the spirit of Hollywood Babylon
Believe it or not, America's fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Perez Hilton, Charlie Sheen's breakdown and...
by Anne C. Heller
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the foundation of the Libertarian...
by Anne Boyd Rioux
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
On its 150th anniversary, discover the story of the beloved classic that has captured the imaginations of generations.
Soon after publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women became an enormous bestseller and one of America’s favorite novels. Its popularity quickly spread throughout the...
by Anne-Marie Cocula, Alain Legros
Language: French
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Située sur les derniers contreforts du Périgord, au milieu des vignes et des bois, la « maison armée » de Montaigne se trouvait au coeur des guerres civiles. C’est pourtant là, « aux champs » et en « pays sauvage », que ce seigneur de petite et récente noblesse aimait à se retirer pour...
Suzanne's Children
A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
One of the untold stories of the Holocaust—the nail-biting drama of Suzanne Spaak, who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz “vividly dramatizes the stakes of acting morally in a time of brutality” (The Wall Street Journal).
Suzanne...
Early Reagan
The Rise to Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
First published in 1986 and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Early Reagan is still the most in-depth portrayal of the pre-government years of the late president. The book uncovers Reagan’s formative years: childhood poverty, film stardom, and his politicization via the Screen Actors Guild. Anne...
That Woman
The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
The first full scale biography of Wallis Simpson to be written by a woman, exploring the mind of one of the most glamorous and reviled figures of the Twentieth Century, a character who played prominently in the blockbuster film The King's Speech.
This is the story of the American divorcee notorious...
by Anne A. Sears
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
In this highly controversial book, the author takes the reader through a very personal, brutally honest journey into the issues raised from a child sexual assault. Addressing how the abuse affected her faith in God, concept of self, value, and sexuality, she later applies her unique perspective to...
The Affair of the Poisons
Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The Affair of the Poisons, as it became known, was an extraordinary episode that took place in France during the reign of Louis XIV. When poisoning and black magic became widespread, arrests followed. Suspects included those among the highest ranks of society. Many were tortured and numerous executions...
by Anne Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Briefcase Books: Manager’s Guide to Motivating Employees
More than 700,000 Briefcase Books sold! A manager’s guide to inspiring employees to work at peak performance—to improve organizational culture and help meet the bottom-line
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Manager’s Guide to Motivating Employees...
by Anne-Christine Gasc
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
What would you do if you knew what made your co-workers behave the way they do? What if you could understand the reasons and predict the outcome? What if you could tailor your own working practices to make the most of others? What if you could become the person who can make people do things others...
Mastering Iron
The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Iron making began almost as soon as European settlement, with the establishment of the first ironworks in colonial Massachusetts. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world’s dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron, a position...
Pikachu s Global Adventure
The Rise and Fall of Pokémon
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokémon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Based on a narrative in which a group of children capture, train, and do battle with over a hundred imaginary creatures, Pokémon quickly diversified into an array of popular products including...