Bauer Communications Inc : 31 books

When Rob Lytle died at age 56, three decades after his football stardom at the University of Michigan ended and his professional career with the Denver Broncos began, his son Kelly Lytle poured his mix of grief, adulation, regret, gratitude, and even criticism into a series of letters to the man he...

Haunted by his first trial loss and the resulting devastation of a client, attorney J. Carson Tucker faces the most daunting case of his career: a claim that an executive has forced an employee, wife and mother into sexual slavery, while simultaneously advising a judge whose stunning young wife may...

The Lake Effect touches on that poignant event in everyone’s life when they transition into adulthood. At some point in a person’s life, between ages 22 and 32, there is a seminal event that makes you who you are. Blake craftily weaves multiple scenarios from a formerly close-knit group of...

A very honest, down home story about the struggle of a man sentenced to two years in a Texas Prison, forced to live amongst hardened criminals. The story follows his time in the prison, listening and learning from his fellow inmates, helping him grow as a person and dealing with the struggles that...

By William Samelson, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Korean War Vet. and Holocaust survivor. In this remarkable book, William Samelson points out in minute detail the sequence of events during and after the Second World War and the Holocaust. He penetrates into the hearts of individual lives, the...

Since I started my sportswriting career at age 15, I’ve been fascinated with Fort Wayne’s sports history. I remember my dad telling me stories about the Daisies and the Pistons, and the more I talked with people like Hilliard Gates, Carl Bennett, Bud Gallmeier, Don Graham, Len Davis, Phil Olofson,...

What if Alexis de Tocqueville were fluent in Mandarin and traveling through China by backpack and bullet train? He would record every encounter and analyze China’s national character with remarkable lucidity. He would produce a book full of telling insights that functioned like a five-dimensional...

In 1939, Samelson, now a professor at Trinity University (Tex.), was an 11-year old violin prodigy living in Poland. A year later, he had a secret bar mitzvah in a Nazi labor camp. His mother and sister had been sent to their deaths; he and his brother escaped and became members of a group of partisans....

The workplace is a strange and complex universe for many of today's young people who enter it without the basic skills they need to operate effectively in their new environment. This book presents practical advice on how to handle countless workplace and business/social situations, with tips on resume preparation, interviewing, professional etiquette, setting priorities, and more.

Greed and Dreams is first and foremost a true story. This book, in many ways, reads as a script. Bearing a likeness in its moral examination and social frankness to American Beauty and The Insider, it retains a self-sacrificing, gossip-ridden humor that is reminiscent of Thank You for Smoking...

Rusty Crooked Nails has been edited by Bill Thompson, the renowned editor of both John Grisham’s and Stephen King’s first books. Set in the 1800’s, Rusty Crooked Nails follows the trials and tribulations of a pair of orphans a generation apart who were both abandoned at...

A man who seemingly had everything…A Wall Street Commodities and Oil Trader living the good life. But the pressures of it all caught up to him and pushed him over the cliff. He became a bank robber, hitting 10 banks over the period of 4 months in 2004.Crimes and Secrets of a Desperate Dad gives...

Andrew Finnegan’s 14-year old life is simple living in the city with his father. His days consist of doing homework, working out, and playing video games. Since his mother passed away giving birth to him, Andrew never met her or her reclusive family. They operate a small-town nature preserve far...

Grandad’s Stories has been edited by Bill Thompson, the renowned editor of both John Grisham’s and Stephen King’s first books. Grandad’s Stories are easy-to-read, fun, and exciting tales about children making their way through the wondrous, big, busy world. The author slows...