Bancroft Press: 76 books

Vintage Reading brings eighty of the world's most unforgettable books out from behind the high castle walls, lowers the drawbridge, and welcomes readers inside. With lively and concise commentary, award-winning author Robert Kanigel throws an arm around the reader and becomes the tour guide to classics,...

Written for readers who are novice investors, The Whole Kitt & Caboodle combines Laubach's own experience as a broker and educator in the setting of a novel. Readers follow the adventures of investment rookie Missy Kitt as she seeks employment from a down-and-out brokerage house and its floundering...

In 1903, five truly brilliant young inventors, the children of the world's most important scientists, are taken from their lives and their parents by the mysterious men in black. They take twelve-year-old Jasper and six-year-old Lucy Modest from London, England; nine-year-old Wallace Banneker from New...

Syndey Vail, once a beautiful soap opera star, enters lawyer-cum-detective Shep Harrington's life in a cloud of dust and vanishes just as quickly, leaving behind two very different but strangely connected things: a chimpanzee and a murder. The chimpanzee is the young Kikora, whom Sydney liberated...

In 1995 Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell lured by the promise of a new stadium shocked football fans with his decision to move to Baltimore. Now one of the few journalists to cover the business of sports the Baltimore Sun's Jon Morgan chronicles the move explains why more are to come-and why it...

Jackie O: On the Couch is the story of Jackie Kennedy Onassis as she might have written it. This is not just another biography. For the first time Jackie O: On the Couch highlights Jackie's life from her own perspective as imagined by author Dr. Alma Bond a psychoanalyst and long-time student of...

There is much written, rumored, told, and retold about Marilyn Monroe, but the most unusual and remarkable fact about her is this: In person as well in her films, she appeared to be outright luminous―enveloped by a glow, like a firefly in the dark.Even Laurence Olivier, who costarred with Marilyn in...

The country might be going to hell in a hand-basket but dont close the garage doors and sit there with the engine running until you read this collection of sardonic off-the-wall pieces on modern life by one of Americas best humorists. Described as another Dave Barry only with a lot less going for him Baltimore Sun columnist Kevin Cowherd sizzles as he tackles the travails of everyday life.

The first book by Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach is an intimate, personal collection of essays, remembrances, and columns that follows in the creative nonfiction tradition of Anna Quindlen and May Sarton. While it recounts the experience and observations of a divorced, working mother, it expresses...

When it comes to surviving the joys of parenthood take Sandi Kahn Shelton's advice: You Might As Well Laugh. In this hilarious collection of essays and columns Shelton offers humor as the best therapy for post-modern parenting. From lost keys and broken appliances to chicken pox and outrageous homework...

Humiliated at the Bay of Pigs, John and Robert Kennedy sought desperately to eliminate Castro. Their strategies for overthrowing the Cuban leader were so elaborate and bizarre, they could only engender paranoia. Castro openly threatened to retaliate. Pro-Castro agitator Lee Harvey Oswald learned that...

A contemporary Washington mystery with a high tech, China twist...A brilliantly-conceived spy novel introducing seven engaging characters whose lives are transformed by crisis. It begins as a drinking club in an academic backwater on the Stanford University campus of the late 1970s. A post-Nixon/post-Mao...

Inspirational Fiction When given full freedom, many men will piddle.So it is for middle-aged college professor Adam Cherry on Fathers Day. Alone for the day on his newly purchased horse farm in the Midwest, his two daughters and wife away or abroad, Adam finds excitement in an entire day to...

The Fast Track 50: The Get-Ahead Guide for Temporary Employees is a simple system, designed by Tim Whitney, an in-the-trenches procurer of temp services and founder of the organization Tips for Temps. Whitney is an experienced business executive with an MBA in team-building, and his 50 tips, informed...