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Vincente Minnelli
Hollywood's Dark Dreamer
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Vincente Minnelli, Hollywood's Dark Dreamer is the first full-length biography of Vincente Minnelli, one of the most legendary and influential directors in the twentieth century, encompassing his life, his art, and his artistry. Minnelli started out as a set and costume designer in New York, where...
Angel of Vengeance
The Girl Who Shot the Governor of St. Petersburg and Sparked the Age of Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
In the Russian winter of 1878 a shy, aristocratic young woman named Vera Zasulich walked into the office of the governor of St. Petersburg, pulled a revolver from underneath her shawl, and shot General Fedor Trepov point blank. "Revenge!," she cried, for the governor's brutal treatment of...
Nostradamus
How an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
We all know the name Nostradamus, but who was he really? Why did his predictions become so influential in Renaissance Europe and then keep resurfacing for nearly five centuries? And what does Nostradamus's endurance in the West say about us and our own world?
In Nostradamus: How an Obscure...
Standing on Holy Ground
A Triumph over Hate Crime in the Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2002
A sweeping epidemic of hate crime targeted over one hundred Southern Black Churches between 1995 and 1996, leaving them in charred ruins. St. John Baptist Church in Dixiana, South Carolina, was one of the first destroyed. This small, isolated church had faced dark times before. It had been viciously...
The Burning Time
Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew's Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful and it became the location of London's most famous meat market. Yet in Tudor England, Smithfield had another, more...
Salthill
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
One evening in 1946, a hungry stranger joins the family at Salthill, a horse ranch in the Skillihawk Valley in British Columbia. Grey St. Oegger welcomes the young African-American, who gives his name as simply Harris, in for a meal. But after dinner, when he sees Harris's affinity for horses, he...
Catherine the Great
Love, Sex, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
Dutiful daughter, frustrated wife, passionate lover, domineering mother, doting grandmother, devoted friend, tireless legislator, generous patron of artists and philosophers—the Empress Catherine II, the Great, was all these things, and more. Her reign, the longest in Russian Imperial history, lasted...
The Storyteller's Secret
From TED Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch On and Others Don't
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
How did a Venice Beach T-shirt vendor become television's most successful producer? How did an entrepreneur who started in a garage create the most iconic product launches in business history? How did a timid pastor's son overcome a paralyzing fear of public speaking to captivate sold-out crowds at...
Dear Mrs. Kennedy
The World Shares Its Grief, Letters November 1963
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
From the bestselling author of Kennedy Weddings and Diana and Jackie comes a powerful and moving collection of the condolence letters Jacqueline Kennedy received after the assassination of John F. Kennedy
In the weeks and months following the assassination of her husband, First Lady Jacqueline...
The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen
The Last Twenty-Five Years of the Broadway Musical
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
For Ethan Mordden, the closing night of the hit musical, 42nd St. sounded the death knell of the art form of the Broadway musical. After that, big orchestras, real voices, recognizable books and intelligent lyrics went out the window in favor of cats, helicopters, yodeling Frenchmen, and the roof...
Before the Parade Passes By
Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
During the Golden Age of the Broadway musical, few director-choreographers could infuse a new musical with dance and movement in quite the way Gower Champion could. From his earliest Broadway success with Bye Bye Birdie to his triumphant and bittersweet valedictory, 42nd Street, musicals directed...
The Stranger She Loved
A Mormon Doctor, His Beautiful Wife, and an Almost Perfect Murder
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In 2007, Dr. Martin MacNeill—a doctor, lawyer, and Mormon bishop—discovered his wife of 30 years dead in the bathtub of their Pleasant Grove, Utah home, her face bearing the scars of a facelift he persuaded her to undergo just a week prior.
At first the death of 50-year-old Michele MacNeill, a...
Modern American Snipers
From The Legend to The Reaper---on the Battlefield with Special Operations Snipers
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Most people think of snipers as shooters perched in urban hides, dealing out death unseen from a considerable distance. But this description barely scratches the surface. Special operations snipers are men with stacked skill sets who have the ability to turn the tide of battles, even when they aren't...
Bounty Hunter 4/3
From the Bronx to Marine Scout Sniper
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The memoir of Jason Delgado, a US Marine scout sniper and MARSOC's first lead sniper instructor.
The fight for Jason Delgado's life and soul began when he was just a boy. He ultimately escaped the death and drugs of a crime-riddled Bronx by way of the United States Marine Corps. However, after...