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Flip
The Inside Story of TV's First Black Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
The first biography of the beloved entertainer who broke the prime-time color barrier
When The Flip Wilson Show debuted in 1970, black faces were still rare on television and black hosts nonexistent. Then came Flip—to instant acclaim. His show dueled Marcus Welby, M.D. for the top spot in the...
The Art and Craft of Feature Writing
Based on The Wall Street Journal Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 1988
Storytelling—how to catch and hold a reader’s interest through artful narration of factual material
William E. Blundell, one of the best writers on one of America's best-written papers—The Wall Street Journal—has put his famous Journal Feature-Writing Seminars into this step-by-step...
by Al Franken
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
**The #1 New York Times bestseller by Senator Al Franken, author of Giant of the Senate
Senator Al Franken’s landmark bestseller, Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, was praised as a “bitterly funny assault” (The New York Times) that rang...
Love & War
Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
**New York Times bestseller
Twenty years after the publication of the bestselling All’s Fair, James Carville and Mary Matalin look at how they—and America—have changed in the last two decades.**
James Carville and Mary Matalin have long held the mantle of the nation’s most ideologically...
The World in 2050
Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
A vivid forecast of our planet in the year 2050 by a rising star in geoscience, distilling cutting-edge research into four global forces: demographic trends, natural resource demand, climate change, and globalization.
The world's population is exploding, wild species are vanishing, our environment...
How to Ruin Everything
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
**A New York Times Bestseller
"Funny, subversive, and able to excavate such brutally honest sentences that you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition."
—Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer and lyricist of In the Heights and Hamilton: An American Musical**
Are you a sensible,...
Sowbelly
The Obsessive Quest for the World-Record Largemouth Bass
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
In 1932, a farmer named George Washington Perry decided it was too rainy to plow and went fishing. That day, George landed the largest largemouth ever recorded—twenty-two pounds four ounces. The fish has inspired and frustrated hundreds of anglers for decades. They’ve dedicated their lives to...
Lies
And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2004
The #1 New York Times bestseller by Senator Al Franken, author of Giant of the Senate
Al Franken, one of our “savviest satirists” (People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of “slander,” “bias,” and even “treason.” He has examined the...
by Dave Pelzer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
As nearly four million readers have learned from his three previous books, Dave Pelzer doesn't believe in feeling sorry for himself. Abused mercilessly by his mother as a child, Dave has taken everything that happened to him and turned it into something positive so that he can help others. Now happily...
Innovate Like Edison
The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Read Sarah Miller Caldicott's posts on the Penguin Blog.
Michael J. Gelb, author of the international bestseller How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, and Sarah Miller Caldicott, a descendant of Thomas Edison, introduce a revolutionary new system for successful innovation.
Bestselling...
Moon River and Me
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A remarkable memoir by one of the most popular and beloved entertainers of the twentieth century
When in the mid-1950s Andy Williams reached a low point in his career, singing in dives to ever-smaller audiences, the young man from Wall Lake, Iowa, had no inkling of the success he would one...
A Woman Like Me
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Acclaimed R&B singer Bettye LaVette celebrates her storied career in show business with her stunning memoir, A Woman Like Me, and her new album, Thankful N' Thoughtful.
As a teenager in Detroit, Bettye LaVette had a hit single with “My Man—He’s a Lovin’ Man.” By the time she was...
Would You Rather...
Over 200 Absolutely Absurd Dilemmas to Ponder
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
In an hysterical blend of absurdity, wit, and pop culture comes Would You Rather..., a collection of laugh-out-loud funny, irreverent and irresistibly thought-provoking dilemmas. Readers are stumped with questions like:
-Would you rather watch a porn movie with your parents, or watch a porn...
by Andrea Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
For readers of Rupi Kaur (Milk and Honey) and Cheryl Strayed, a book small enough to carry with you, with messages big enough to stay with you, from one of the most quotable and influential poets of our time.
Andrea Gibson explores themes of love, gender, politics, sexuality, family, and forgiveness...