Tim Parks

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Takes a lighthearted look at Italian family life with an eye for detail and character that reveals the nature of relationships and culminates in a beach holiday epitomizing the best in Italian life

An Italian Education

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Shirley MacLaine

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Hollywood Memoir

The actress and author looks back on her forty years in show business, from her arrival in Hollywood as a dancer to her work in films with Jerry Lewis and Frank Sinatra to her love affairs. 125,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo. First serial, Vanity Fair.

My Lucky Stars

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Robert Goddard

Fifty years after Tristram Abberly's death in the Spanish Civil War, his sister, Beatrix, is murdered and their niece, Charlotte, inherits the legendary Abberly estate and its long-hidden secrets of deception and passion. 25,000 first printing.

Hand in Glove

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Richard P. McBrien

The Pontiffs from St. Peter to John Paul II

Lives of the Pope is the most thorough, vivid, and fascinating history of the papacy available. Renowned Catholic commentator Richard McBrien offers a fresh, intelligent look at each of the 262 popes, including:-The Apostle Peter, the first pope, in his singular role as Vicar of ChristFormosus, the pope whose corpse was exhumed, dressed in full vestments, and subjected to a mock trial for papal misdeedsBoniface, elected pope after having been defrocked twice for immoralityJohn XXIII, perhaps the most beloved pope in all of historyLives of the Popes provides chronologically arranged biographies of the pontiffs, revealing the full sweep of the papacy. Each entry contains essential information on a pontiff's life, major writings, controversies, and deeds both great and evil. McBrien eloquently and powerfully brings to life the unique stories of the popes and reveals how they transformed Christianity and the world.John Paul II, the present Bishop of Rome

Lives of the Popes

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Studs Terkel

Growing up in the Twentieth Century

Traces the transformations in vocation and lifestyle in America during the twentieth century through the experiences of a very diverse group of elderly men and women

Coming of Age

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Betty Boyd Caroli

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Draws from letters, memoirs, and interviews to chronicle the lives of nine women from the Roosevelt clan, covering a period of 150 years; discussing their activities as wives, mothers, authors, campaigners, and socialites.

The Roosevelt Women

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Dominick Dunne

Crimes, Trials, and Punishments

For more than two decades,Vanity Fairhas published Dominick Dunne's brilliant, revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes, trials, and punishments of our time. The pursuit of justice has become his passion — a passion that began during the trial of the man who murdered Dunne's daughter and who was sentenced to six and a half years and released in less than three. Dunne's account of that trial and its shocking result became the first of his many classic essays on justice. Dominick Dunne's essays do much more than simply describe; his investigations have shed new light on those crimes and their perpetrators — and demonstrated how it is possible for some to skirt, even flout, the law. His persistence and personal involvement in the matter of Martha Moxley's murder was an important catalyst in bringing a dormant case back to life. Here in one volume are Dominick Dunne's mesmerizing tales of justice denied and justice affirmed. Whether writing of Vicki Morgan's hideous death; Claus von Bülow's romp through two trials; the media frenzy of Los Angeles in the age of O.J. Simpson; the death by fire of multibillionaire banker Edmund Safra in Monaco; or the ominous silence surrounding the death of Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Connecticut, and the indictment — decades later — of Michael Skakel, Dominick Dunne tells it honestly and tells it from his unique perspective. His search for the truth is relentless. His courage and his storytelling skills shine from every page.

Justice

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Sally Bedell Smith

The Private World of the Kennedy White House

In GRACE & POWER: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight. Having interviewed scores of Kennedy intimates, including many who have never spoken before, and drawing on letters and personal papers made available for the first time, Smith paints a richly detailed picture of the personal relationships behind the high purpose and poiltical drama of the twentieth century's most storied presidency. At the dawn of the 1960s, a forty-three-year-old president and his thirty-one-year-old first lady – the youngest couple ever to occupy the White House – captivated the world with their easy elegance and their cool conviction that anything was possible. Jack and Jackie Kennedy gathered around them an intensely loyal and brillant coterie of intellectuals, journalists, diplomats, international jet-setters and artists. Perhaps as never before, Washington was sharply divided between the “ins” and the “outs.” In his public life, JFK created a New Frontier, stared down the Soviets, and devoted himself to his wife and children. As first lady, Jackie mesmerized foreign leaders and the American people with her style and sophistication, creating a White House renowned for its beauty and culture. Smith brilliantly recreates the glamorous pageant of the Kennedy years, as well as the daily texture of the Kennedys’ marriage, friendships, political associations, and, in Jack’s case, multiple love affairs. Smith’s striking revelations include new information about what drew Jack to his numerous mistresses – and what effects the relationships ultimately had on the women; about the rivalries and resentments among Kennedy’s advisers; and about the poignant days before and after Kennedy’s assassination. Smith has fashioned a vivid and nuanced portrait not only of two extraordinary individuals but of a new age that sprang to life around them. Shimmering with intelligence and detail, GRACE AND POWER is history at its finest.

Grace and Power

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Hilary Thayer Hamann

Beyond the riveting and cinematic story of a young artist'ss awakening and her enduring love for a professional fighter, Anthropology of an American Girl provides an intelligent assessment of the essence of being an American in contemporary culture.

Anthropology of an American Girl

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The duck commander family

Joe Eszterhas

The setting . . . Washington, Hollywood, and the landscape of the American Republic. The writer . . . Joe Eszterhas, ex-Rolling Stonereporter, National Book Award nominee forCharlie Simpson's Apocalypse,and screenwriter of such blockbusters asBasic InstinctandJagged Edge. The stars . . . Bill and Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Al Gore, John McCain, Ken Starr, and Monica Lewinsky. The supporting players . . . Warren Beatty, James Carville, Sharon Stone, Larry Flynt, Vernon Jordan, Linda Tripp, Matt Drudge, and Bob Packwood (with cameos by Richard Nixon and Farrah Fawcett, Eleanor Roosevelt and David Geffen, Robert Evans and Richard Gere). The story . . . The most basic, and basest, in many years -- an up-close and personal look at the people who run our world. A tale filled with humor, tragedy and romance; suspense, absurdity and high drama; and, of course, lots and lots of sex. InAmerican Rhapsody, Eszterhas combines comprehensive research with insight, honesty, and astute observation to reveal ultimate truths. This is a book that flouts virtually every rule, yet joins a rich journalistic tradition distinguished by such writers as Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe. A brilliant, unnerving, hugely entertaining look at our political culture, our heroes and villains,American Rhapsodywill delight some and outrage others, but it will not be ignored.  What Joe Eszterhas has produced is a penetrating and devastating panorama of all of us, a fun-house mirror held up to our own morals, hypocrisies and desires. From the Hardcover edition.

American Rhapsody

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Ruth Padel

A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers

Describes the author's journeys in eleven countries in search of the elusive tiger, meeting conservationists and learning about the problems of endangered species in general.

Tigers in Red Weather

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Tina Sinatra

Jeff Coplon

How to Make It As a Hollywood Assistant

A portrait of Frank Sinatra by daughter Tina focuses on his marriage to Barbara Marx Sinatra and his later years.

My Father's Daughter

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Rosemary Altea

Lessons, Insights and Healing from "the Voice of the Spirit World"

Lessons, insights & healing from "The voice of the spirit world"

Proud Spirit

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John L. Allen

Archbishop Timothy Dolan in Conversation with John L. Allen Jr.

A Vatican correspondent and analyst draws on lengthy exclusive interviews to survey the achievements of New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan while assessing his candidacy for cardinalship and the papacy.

A People of Hope

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Claire Gaudiani

David Graham Burnett

How Women Social Entrepreneurs Built the American Dream

Argues that a diverse group of women entrepreneurs are responsible for organizing local associations and began the original women's movement in America.

Daughters of the Declaration

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Craig Shirley

31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World

Chronicles the decisive month in American history, where the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor facilitated the entrance of the United States into World War II, and details the economic, social, and political climate of the country during that time.

December 1941

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Larry Tye

The Life and Times of an American Legend

Tye presents the definitive biography of Satchel Paige, an African-American pitcher in a segregated America, and his story of struggle and triumph.

Satchel

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A woman named jackie

Matt Taibbi

American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Fueled by in-depth reporting, an investigative journalist and New York Times best-selling author explores America's widening wealth gap that is not only reshaping our economic life, but changing our core sense of right and wrong. 50,000 first printing.

The Divide

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Joseph S. Nye

Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone

What role should America play in the world? What key challenges face us in the century to come, and how should we define our national interests? These questions have been given electrifying new significance in the wake of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001.Not since Rome has any nation had so much economic, cultural, and military power, but that power is still not enough to solve global problems like terrorism, environmental degradation, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction without involving other nations. In The Paradox ofAmerican Power, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. focuses on the rise of these and other new challenges and explains clearly why America must adopt a more cooperative engagement with the rest of the world.The threat of terrorism, Nye argues, is merely the most alarming example of why we must engage in constructive relations with other nations weak and strong. Now more than ever, as technology spreads and non-governmental organizations ranging from transnational corporations to terroristsincrease their power, American leadership must reorient itself toward the global community. Further, for many key issues--from international financial stability to drug smuggling and global climate change to terrorism--military power alone cannot ensure success and at times may undermine rather thanenhance our objectives. Nye argues convincingly that in the coming century the U.S. will rely less on our military might and more on the power that derives from the appeal of our culture, values and institutions, what he calls our "soft power." But this soft power cannot flourish in a climate inwhich the U.S. is viewed as selfish and motivated only by self-interest.The Paradox of American Power contains the essential roadmap for maintaining America's power and reducing its vulnerability in the years to come. Sure to be controversial, it's a must read for anyone wishing to understand the complicated world in which we suddenly find ourselves.

The Paradox of American Power

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Jude Callirgos

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A True and Uncensored Story of Survival

Breast Left Unsaid

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P. Fromm

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Whale Tales

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Maxine Hong Kingston

Autobiographical accounts and fictional writing by veterans and other trauma victims, including survivors of gang violence, domestic violence, and drug abuse.

Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace

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Thomas Rezza

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