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BMF
The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
In the early 1990s, Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and his brother, Terry "Southwest T," rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history: the Black Mafia Family. After a decade in the drug game, the Flenorys had it all—a fleet...
by Retta
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In her hilarious book of essays*,* Parks and Recreation star Retta shares the stories that led to her success in Hollywood.
In So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know*,* Parks and Recreation star Retta takes us on her not-so-meteoric rise from roaches to riches (well, rich enough...
Before the Big Bang
The Prehistory of Our Universe
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
According to a recent survey, the most popular question about science from the general public was: what came before the Big Bang? We all know on some level what the Big Bang is, but we don't know how it became the accepted theory, or how we might know what came before. In Before the Big Bang, Brian...
How to Build a Time Machine
The Real Science of Time Travel
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
A pop science look at time travel technology, from Einstein to Ronald Mallett to present day experiments. Forget fiction: time travel is real.
In How to Build a Time Machine, Brian Clegg provides an understanding of what time is and how it can be manipulated. He explores the fascinating world...
Rock Bottom
Dark Moments In Music Babylon
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1996
The dark moments of rock history fascinate and tantalize like the pathos of Greek tragedy. The bottom sinks lower, the air seems colder, the bad endings--when they are bad--seem beyond bad. The unlucky practitioners of our most thriving form of communal experience seem to hit rock bottom in ways only...
by Tony Orlando, Patsi Bale Cox
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2003
He's known the world over for his heyday with Dawn, but that glittering 1970's whirl was just one chapter in Tony Orlando's rich life. Orlando began his showbiz career as a teen heartthrob with the single "Halfway to Paradise" and had a second successful act as a record company A&R man...
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Making of a Soul Music Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You: Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Making of a Soul Music Masterpiece presents the remarkable story of how The Queen of Soul created what Rolling Stone called “the greatest soul album ever made.”
The album she recorded that earned soul legend Aretha...
The Ghost Horse
A True Story of Love, Death, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In The Ghost Horse, Joe Layden tells the inspiring true tale of a one-eyed, club-footed thoroughbred racehorse and a journeyman trainer, Tim Snyder, who scraped together every penny he had to purchase the broken and unwanted filly. Snyder helped the horse overcome its deficiencies, eventually naming...
All About All About Eve
The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made!
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2001
To millions of fans, All About Eve represents all that's witty and wonderful in classic Hollywood movies. Its old-fashioned, larger-than-life stars--including Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, and Celeste Holm--found their best roles in Eve and its sophisticated dialogue has...
Global Girlfriends
How One Mom Made It Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Start small, dream big, change lives— how one woman harnessed the power of fair trade to help women in poverty help themselves
Seven years ago, Stacey Edgar had a $2,000 tax return and a deep desire to help provide economic security for women in need. She knew that of the 1.3 billion people...
Take This Book to Work
How to Ask for (and Get) Money, Fulfillment, and Advancement
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Expert advice from Women For Hire, the leading recruitment services firm for professional women
Asking the essential question at the right moment is a skill, one that any woman can master quickly. And it is a powerful tool that can get women more of everything they want in the workplace. Take...
The Supermodel and the Brillo Box
Back Stories and Peculiar Economics from the World of Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Acquiring contemporary art is about passion and lust, but it is also about branding, about the back story that comes with the art, about the relationship of money and status, and, sometimes, about celebrity. The Supermodel and the Brillo Box follows Don Thompson's 2008 bestseller The $12 Million Stuffed...
War Dogs
Tales of Canine Heroism, History, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
*A New York Times Best Seller*
Under the cover of night, deep in the desert of Afghanistan, a US Army handler led a Special Forces patrol with his military working dog. Without warning an insurgent popped up, his weapon raised. At the handler's command, the dog charged their attacker. There...
by Vic Damone, David Chanoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Born Vito Farinola in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn in 1928, Vic worked as an usher at the fabled Paramount Theatre before realizing a dream by shooting to the top of the Billboard Chart in 1947 with his first hit "I Have But One Heart." He was mentored by everyone from Perry Como to Tommy Dorsey....