Crown: 5430 books
Jesus, Entrepreneur
Using Ancient Wisdom to Launch and Live Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
He didn’t work for money. He was willing to walk away. He invested his emotions wisely. He did sweat the small stuff.
Beyond work, beyond entrepreneurism, there is “spiritreneurism”—work that allows you to do well by doing right. In Jesus, Entrepreneur, Laurie Beth Jones, bestselling...
The Enough Moment
Fighting to End Africa's Worst Human Rights Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
**Had Enough?
Join activists, organizations, and celebrities to fight human rights crimes in Africa.**
Human rights activist John Prendergast and Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle bring us an empowering and hopeful new book, as they reveal the steps being taken by engaged citizens—"Upstanders"—famous...
Orangutan
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Few people who have been slave to an addiction as vicious, as destructive, and as unrelenting as Colin Broderick's have lived to tell their tale. Fewer still have emerged from the darkest depths of alcoholism—from the perpetual fistfights and muggings, car crashes and blackouts—to tell the harrowing...
More Davids Than Goliaths
A Political Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Harold Ford Jr. has long distinguished himself as a charismatic, results-oriented politician with fresh ideas. His career began at age 26 after he won his father’s Congressional seat, serving his Tennessee district for ten years. He stepped into the national spotlight with his electric keynote at...
Going Red
The Two Million Voters Who Will Elect the Next President--and How Conservatives Can Win Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
**The 2016 election is conservatives’ last, best chance to take back the country. How can they win? **
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The answer, conservative columnist and analyst Ed Morrissey says, depends on seven battleground counties in swing states Republicans must win. Each county pulled for Obama in one or both...
by Anthony Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
The largest company in the world by far, Wal-Mart takes in revenues in excess of $280 billion, employs 1.4 million American workers, and controls a large share of the business done by almost every U.S. consumer-product company. More than 138 million shoppers visit one of its 5,300 stores each week....
Charm City
A Walk Through Baltimore
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
With a writer’s keen eye, a longtime resident’s familiarity, and his own sly wit, acclaimed novelist Madison Smartt Bell leads us on a walk through his adopted hometown of Baltimore, a city where crab cakes, Edgar Allan Poe, hair extensions, and John Waters movies somehow coexist. From its founding...
Too Much, Too Late
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Reunited more than a decade after their brief flirtation with fame in the early 1990s, the middle-aged members of the Ohio-based Jane Ashers suddenly find themselves hitting the big time, with a new record deal, a hit single, fame, fans, and a tour, that transforms their dream into a nightmare of colliding egos, family pressures, and too much success too late.
The Woman Who Would Be King
Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power.
Hatshepsut—the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne—was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father’s family. Her failure to...
Don't Be That Guy
A Collection of 60 Annoying Guys We All Know and Wish We Didn't
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Have you ever heard a guy say, “We’re pregnant,” and wanted to hurt him?
Do you have a friend who insists a stripper was into him every time you leave a strip club?
Do you know a guy who emails you the kind of porn that makes you want to cry then vomit?
These are just a few of the many guys you’ll find in Don’t Be That Guy.
Whitey
The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
From the bestselling authors of Black Mass comes the definitive biography of Whitey Bulger, the most brutal and sadistic crime boss since Al Capone.
Drawing on a trove of sealed files and previously classified material, Whitey digs deep into the mind of James J. “Whitey” Bulger, the crime...
The Grownup
A Story by the Author of Gone Girl
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Gillian Flynn’s Edgar Award-winning homage to the classic ghost story, published for the first time as a standalone.
A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when...
Big Bosoms and Square Jaws
The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
What do you need to make money making movies? The answer, according to cult hero, creator of the sexploitation film, and the man the Wall Street Journal once dubbed the King Leer of Hollywood, Russ Meyer, is: “big bosoms and square jaws.” In the first candid and fiendishly researched account of...
Chasing Phil
The Adventures of Two Undercover Agents with the World's Most Charming Con Man
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A thrilling true crime caper, bursting with colorful characters and awash in ‘70s glamour, that spotlights the FBI's first white-collar undercover sting
1977, the Thunderbird Motel. J.J. Wedick and Jack Brennan—two fresh-faced, maverick FBI agents—were about to embark on one of their agency's...