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A Daughter's Journey Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Academy Award winner Tatum O’Neal continues her inspiring true-life story begun in the 2004 New York Times bestseller A Paper Life with Found: A Daughter’s Journey Home—a moving memoir of discovery and reconciliation. In Found, the star of “Paper Moon,” TV’s “Rescue Me,” and the OWN...
When the Farm Gates Opened
The Impact of Rogernomics on Rural New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
The economic reforms launched by the 1984 David Lange–led Labour government changed New Zealand forever. Agriculture bore the brunt of those changes and Rogernomics, the name by which the era came to be known, became an historical reference point for the primary sector: a defining and pivotal moment...
Life: The Movie
How Entertainment Conquered Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything—news, politics, religion, high culture—into one vast public entertainment.
Neal Gabler calls them "lifies," those blockbusters written in the medium of life that dominate the media...
Kickflip Boys
A Memoir of Freedom, Rebellion, and the Chaos of Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
“Thompson captures the ache, fizz, yearning and frustration of being the father of adolescent boys.” —Michael Chabon
“What a riveting, touching, and painful read!” —Maria Semple
“Fun, moving, raw, and relatable.” —Tony Hawk
What makes a good father, and what...
by Jillian Neal
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
First Sergeant Griff Haywood reporting for duty. I may be a weapon’s expert and one heck of a former Green Beret but I like to think I specialize in the “–asms”, both “sarc” and “org.”
I’ve been head over army boots in love with Hannah Hagen since I first stepped into her...
It Seemed Like a Good Idea...
A Cautionary Guide to Avoiding 101 of Life's Potentially Most-Regrettable Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
It Is a Good Idea to Purchase This Book
If you think a neti pot for that stuffy nose is just what the doctor ordered, think again (choking on salt water and mucus is a horrible way to go).
If you indulge your midlife crisis by going whole-hog Harley, you may look darn good in those leathers...
by Jaylon V. O’Neal
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Written with courage and pride, this is a heart wrenching personal story - the truth as an outstanding young man named Jaylon O'Neal lived it. To read his book is to know what it feels like to be "autistic" and to have grown up with the stigmatism that surrounds it. Chapter after chapter, he gives you a glimpse at what its really like to be "different".
Light This Candle
The Life and Times of Alan Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
lan Shepard was the brashest, cockiest, and most flamboyant of America’s original Mercury Seven, but he was also regarded as the best. Intense, colorful, and dramatic—the man who hit a golf ball on the moon—he was among the most private of America’s public figures and, until his death in 1998,...
Augie's Secrets
The Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
There's an old Yiddish saying: two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead. But two living people could keep a secret—as long as one of them was Augie.
Augie Ratner, the proprietor of Augie's Theater Lounge & Bar on Hennepin Avenue, was the unofficial mayor of Minneapolis's downtown...
by Terry Ambrose, JoAnn Bassett, Gail Baugniet
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
From the Big Island to Kauai, the far side of Maui to the bustling streets of Honolulu, experience paradise in all its glory...and darkness. This collection of ten stories brings out the beauty of the islands, the passion of the tropics, and, yes, murder. Join ten writers who love the islands and...
Happy Days Are Here Again
The 1932 Democratic Convention, the Emergence of FDR--and How America Was Changed Forever
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Political conventions in years past were more than pep rallies for preselected candidates -- they were suspenseful, no-holds-barred battles for the nomination. In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the man who would become one of America's most beloved presidents, was far from a shoo-in for the Democratic...
Vengeance Is Mine
The Scandalous Love Triangle That Triggered the Boyce-Sneed Feud
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
The 1912 Boyce-Sneed feud in West Texas began with a torrid sex scandal at the core of a love triangle, featuring Lena Snyder Sneed, the high-spirited, headstrong wife; Al Boyce, Jr., Lenas reckless, romantic lover; and John Beal Sneed, Lenas arrogant, grim, and vindictive husband, who responded to Lenas...
by Patricia O'Neal
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Walk in the footsteps of one family as they set off on a journey from the hills of Appalachia, travel through Tennessee and Virginia then finally settle in Kentucky. Share and enjoy events of their lives from one generation to another. Patricia tells of her childhood, the heartbreak and suffering...
The Story of Yiddish
How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Yiddish—an oft-considered "gutter" language—is an unlikely survivor of the ages, much like the Jews themselves. Its survival has been an incredible journey, especially considering how often Jews have tried to kill it themselves. Underlying Neal Karlen's unique, brashly entertaining,...