Model Number: BBR1588363279DLDA
Author: Summer, Donna
Ordinary Girl is legendary singer-songwriter Donna Summer's delightfully candid memoir about her journey from singing in a Boston church to her unexpected reign as the Queen of Disco--and the tragedy and spiritual rebirth that followed. Donna Summer was born on New Year's Eve in Boston. Her childhood ...more »
Model Number: BBS0312705530DLDA
Author: Bierce, Ambrose
Ambrose Bierce didn't just write about the Civil War--he lived through it, on the battlefields and along the picket lines. In so doing he gave birth to a chronicle of men at war previously unseen in the American literary canon. That some of these stories verge on the supernatural, others on factual chronicle ...more »
Model Number: BBR9780307346063DLDA
Author: Godfrey-June, Jean
Everybody loves beauty products. Even if you think you know nothing about them, or even if you think you hate them, you actually know plenty about them and, in fact, have several of them that you love. You have major opinions that lie barely beneath the surface. Women whomodestly/moralistically claim ...more »
Model Number: BBR0375423427DLDA
Author: BROCKMAN, JOHN
A fascinating collection of essays from twenty-seven of the world's most interesting scientists about the moments and events in their childhoods that set them on the paths that would define their lives. What makes a child decide to become a scientist? oFor Robert Sapolsky--Stanford professor of biology ...more »
Model Number: BBSS1416516026DLDA
Author: Parks, Gordon
Gordon Parks, acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, and author of fiction and nonfiction, has participated in, been witness to, and documented many of the major events in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries. Born in Fort Scott, Kansas, on November 30, 1912, he left home at age fifteen ...more »
Model Number: BBSS0743282000DLDA
Author: McCourt, Frank
Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize -- winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came 'Tis, his glorious account of his early years in New York. Now, here at ...more »
Model Number: BBR1588363384DLDA
Author: RUBIN, ROBERT
Robert E. Rubin spent twenty-six years at Goldman Sachs, rising to co-senior partner, before becoming director of the White House National Economic Council from 1993 to 1995, and U.S. Treasury Secretary from 1995 to 1999. He is currently a director of Citigroup. He and his wife, Judy, live in New York ...more »
Model Number: BBS0312711239DLDA
Author: Bok, Francis with Edward Tivnan
In 1986, as part of the crusade to make the Sudan one Muslim nation, Islamic militia from the north raided a marketplace in the Christian south, slaughtered villagers and abducted small children--including the then seven-year old Francis Bok. Bok's captor was a wealthy Muslim farmer, who kept him as ...more »
Model Number: BBR1400042615DLDA
Author: BRAGG, RICK
Rick Bragg is the author of two best-selling books, Ava s Man and All Over but the Shoutin . He divides his time between New Orleans and his native Alabama. From the Hardcover edition. more »
Model Number: BBSS0743213432DLDA
Author: Donald, David Herbert
Here is an intimate glimpse of the sixteenth president as husband and father -- a cheerful man when he played with his children; a desolate man struck down with grief at the death of his son. The desperately busy and distracted man who managed one of the most difficult periods in American history was ...more »