Open Road: 9207 books
by Frank Deford
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
A globetrotting journalist goes on assignment for the Central Intelligence Agency
As the world’s premier tennis journalist, Ronnie Ratajczak has a plush life. Like the professional players about whom he writes, he spends his life on the road, hopping from one glamorous locale to another and...
Superstar
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
A bold and uncensored fictional account of the wild life at Andy Warhol’s world-famous Factory by a real-life superstar who witnessed it all
Author, video artist, underground film actor, and superstar, the incomparable Viva is arguably the most famous of Andy Warhol’s protégés, a mainstay...
by Kerry Newcomb
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
To stop a savage war from spreading west, two brothers stare down an army
The year is 1863. Even as the Union Army verges on total victory over the rebellious south, there are those in the North who clamor for a negotiated truce. Along a creek in the Indian Territories, North and South collide,...
by Patricia Wiles
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
All Kevin wants is to be like any other high school student and learn how to drive and hang out with his friends. But when your parents run a funeral home, it’s tough to have a normal life. And when you’re a Mormon living in the South, well, that just about triples your weirdness quotient. Especially...
On the Tour with Harry Sprague
Letters of a Golf Pro to His Sponsor
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
America’s greatest golf writer cracks wise in this humorous peek inside the life and mind of an up-and-coming young pro
If Hogan had to wait 15 years before winning the Open I guess even a natural athalete like me has to wait a couple of years huh?
Harry Sprague may not be the most...
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Poirot's First Case
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The debut of Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Agatha Christie and her remarkable Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot
Invalided home from the Western Front, Arthur Hastings arrives at Styles Court anticipating a relaxing sojourn in the English countryside. It turns out to be anything but....
by Marco Vassi
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
There is no better introduction to the world of Marco Vassi than his autobiography, The Stoned Apocalypse, a stirring and sensual work that is both unflinchingly honest and erotically charged. Did the sixties happen so Vassi could exist, or did Vassi define the decade? His journey across the country...
Metal Men
Marc Rich and the $10 Billion Scam
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
This true story of the multibillionaire who fled to Switzerland “reads like a mystery novel” (USA Today).
How did Marc Rich make over ten billion dollars while paying hardly any taxes? Journalist A. Craig Copetas infiltrated the inner circle of the commodities market and Rich’s associates...
Du Pont Dynasty
Behind the Nylon Curtain
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Award-winning journalist Gerard Colby takes readers behind the scenes of one of America’s most powerful and enduring corporations; now with a new introduction by the author
Their name is everywhere. America’s wealthiest industrial family by far and a vast financial power, the Du Ponts,...
Secret Formula
The Inside Story of How Coca-Cola Became the Best-Known Brand in the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
A "highly entertaining history [of] global hustling, cola wars and the marketing savvy that carved a niche for Coke in the American social psyche” (Publishers Weekly).
Secret Formula follows the colorful characters who turned a relic from the patent medicine era into a company worth...
Biography of an Idea
The Founding Principles of Public Relations
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The father of public relations looks back on a landmark life spent shaping trends, preferences, and general opinion
A twentieth-century marketing visionary, Edward L. Bernays brilliantly combined mastery of the social sciences with a keen understanding of human psychology to become one of his...
The Great Pierpont Morgan
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A revealing biography of J. P. Morgan, one of the most powerful and enigmatic financiers in history, from bestselling author Frederick Lewis Allen.
Celebrated as a titan of industry by some and decried as a monopolizing robber baron by others, John Pierpont Morgan was without a doubt a dominant...
Madboy: My Journey from Adboy to Adman
Beyond Mad Men: Tales from the Mad, Mad World of Advertising
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
A thrilling and irreverent memoir about the transformation of the advertising business from the 1980s to today
Richard Kirshenbaum was born to sell. Raised in a family of Long Island strivers, this future advertising titan was just a few years old when his grandfather first taught him that...
Great American Lives
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Brilliant, captivating, and unforgettable memoirs from four of the greatest minds in American history.
Penned between 1771 and 1790 and published after his death, The**Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of the most acclaimed and widely read personal histories ever written. From his youth...