Model Number: BBR1588360628DLDA
Author: PERRET, GEOFFREY
Previous biographies of John F. Kennedy have been based almost entirely on newspaper files and personal recollections. Geoffrey Perret's Jack is both the first comprehensive one-volume biography of JFK and the first account of his life based on the extensive and important documentary record that has ...more »
Model Number: BBHC0061195944DLDA
Author: Ansay, A. Manette
From childhood, acclaimed novelist A. Manette Ansay trained to become a concert pianist. But when she was nineteen, a mysterious muscle disorder forced her to give up the piano, and by twenty-one, she couldn't grip a pen or walk across a room. She entered a world of limbo, one in which no one could explain ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743434587DLDA
Author: Mendez, Antonio
Reviewed and released by the CIA, opening a window on the true-life world of espionage -- the elusive identities, the sophisticated gadgetry, the triple-think strategies -- Spy Dust reveals more about U.S. intelligence techniques abroad than any other published work of nonfiction. Moscow, 1988. The twilight ...more »
Model Number: BBR0375506438DLDA
Author: ALLEN, JENNIFER
George Allen was a top-ranked NFL coach throughout the sixties and seventies, coaching in turn the Chicago Bears, the Los Angeles Rams, and the Washington Redskins. Raised in a home dominated by her three football-obsessed older brothers and her father's relentless schedule, Jennifer Allen came of age ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743276426DLDA
Author: Skinner, Kiron K.
Ronald Reagan may have been the most prolific correspondent of any American president since Thomas Jefferson. The total number of letters written over his lifetime probably exceeds 10,000. Their breadth is equally astonishing -- with friends and family, with politicians, children, and other private citizens ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743424166DLDA
Author: Richmond, Lewis
For Lewis Richmond, a 52-year-old Buddhist teacher, a devastating brain injury brought a hard journey to recovery. Love, courage, and the Buddhist teachings that sustained him throughout his adult life guided him back to wellness -- and to rebirth and transformation. Here is one man's acceptance and ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743448111DLDA
Author: Sampson, Curt
All eat from the bowl of life. Tiger Woods just has a bigger spoon. So writes Curt Sampson in his ground-breaking account of the current state of golf. Tiger Woods has changed golf forever. His mix of power and skill combines with his extraordinary business savvy to make Woods the biggest global sports ...more »
Model Number: BBR9780440336129DLDA
Author: Masters, Alexander
In this extraordinary book, Alexander Masters has created a moving portrait of a troubled man, an unlikely friendship, and a desperate world few ever see. A gripping who-done-it journey back in time, it begins with Masters meeting a drunken Stuart lying on a sidewalk in Cambridge, England, and leads ...more »
Model Number: BBSS1416534105DLDA
Author: Maraniss, David
On New Year's Eve 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero's death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver food and medical supplies to Nicaragua after a devastating earthquake. David Maraniss now brings the great baseball player brilliantly ...more »
Model Number: BBAL0967915910DLDA
Author: Charnas, Suzy McKee
I am woven through your past, as you are through mine--and both of us through theirs, the sea-peoples'." Hugo- and Nebula Award-winner Charnas has written a book about humans, her own past, and how our lives have always been intertwined with the creatures of the seas. "Strange Seas" is ...more »