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  • DARK STAR
    ELLIS AMBURN
    This biography reveals the rock music legend's dramatic life story, from his Texas youth and rise to stardom to his personal tragedies and untimely death. A true legend of American popular music, Roy Orbison perfected the soulful rock ballad, recording such perennial hits as "Only the Lonely" and "Crying." In Dark Star, biographer Ellis Amburn reveals the stories behind his ach...

    $329.00

  • PEARL
    ELLIS AMBURN
    The definitive biography of the 1960s music legend covers her trailblazing life from troubled childhood to iconic stardom to her tragically early death. A wild child of the Texas-Louisiana swamps, Janis Joplin wailed the blues like no one before had ever dared. She was the first rock star of the 1960s counterculture, a fashion trendsetter in San Francisco's back-to-the-roots mo...

    $299.00

  • EVERYBODY'S BEST FRIEND
    KEN ENGLADE
    The shocking 1997 murder that exposed a devoted Philadelphia husband as a cold-hearted killer, from the author of A Family Business and Hot Blood . "[Engalde is] one of the most astute observers of America's wild side." —Jack Olsen, New York Times –bestselling author Inside a beautiful house in Philadelphia's ritzy Main Line section lay the body of a young mother—dead of an app...

    $249.00

  • BEYOND REASON
    KEN ENGLADE
    The Woman: She was a beautiful, gifted descendant of Lady Astor. But Elizabeth Haysom was also a spoiled, willful daughter of privilege. The Lover: He was the brilliant young son of a German diplomat. But his love for Elizabeth would draw Jens Soering into a web of madness and murder. The Murder: When Elizabeth's parents were found savagely butchered in their elegant Virginia c...

    $249.00

  • HOT BLOOD
    KEN ENGLADE
    The disappearance of fabulously rich Chicago candy heiress Helen Brach and the suspicious deaths of a string of champion racehorses are linked in a celebrated scandal that has reverberated through every level of the glamorous enclaves of thoroughbred horse breeding. When widowed heiress Helen Brach suddenly disappeared on the morning of February 17, 1977, after a visit to the M...

    $249.00

  • BEST ENEMIES
    JANE HELLER
    Reunited, and it feels so bad… "A flat-out funny read" about a friendship gone off the rails from the New York Times-bestselling author ( Cosmopolitan).   Amy Sherman has a two-bedroom Manhattan apartment, a job as a publicity director at a major publishing house, and a romantic life that's…well, two out of three isn't bad. She's come a long way from playing second fiddle to sp...

    $109.00

  • HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN
    GERI SPIELER
    The authoritative true crime biography of a seemingly ordinary woman who nearly killed President Ford. President Gerald Ford suffered two attempts on his life during his term in office: one by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme of the Manson Family, and the other by a far less likely candidate—an average middle-aged mother of five—Sara Jane Moore. After thirty years of communication with...

    $229.00

  • INTO ENEMY WATERS
    ANDREW DUBBINS
    A veteran US frogman recounts his experiences in World War II and the risky pre-invasion missions of the Underwater Demolition Teams. ? Into Enemy Waters is the story of World War II's most elite and daring unit of warriors, the direct precursors to the Navy SEALs, told through the eyes of its last living member, ninety-five-year-old George Morgan. Morgan was just a wiry, seven...

    $229.00

  • SHO-TIME
    JEFF FLETCHER
    The story behind Major League Baseball's two-way playing phenomenon and his rise from early days in Japan to his historic 2021 MVP season. Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels is playing baseball like no other major leaguer since Babe Ruth. His dominance as a two-way player—an electric pitcher and an elite slugger—made him the 2021 American League Most Valuable Player, the o...

    $229.00

  • SWIMMING WITH THE BLOWFISH
    JIM SONEFELD
    Hootie & the Blowfish's drummer chronicles the band's rise, fall, and rebirth, as well as his path from addiction to recovery and a more fruitful life. For a time, there was no bigger band in the world than Hootie & the Blowfish—rock & roll's unexpected foil to the grunge music that dominated the early '90s airwaves.?In Swimming with the Blowfish, Jim?Sonefeld, drummer and one ...

    $229.00

  • ESCAPING GRAVITY
    LORI GARVER
    A former NASA deputy administrator recounts how she battled greed and corruption to revolutionize the agency and usher in a new space age. Escaping Gravity is former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver's firsthand account of how a handful of revolutionaries overcame the political patronage and bureaucracy that threatened the space agency. The success of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Je...

    $229.00

  • AMERICAN HIRO
    JACK MCCALLUM
    An in-depth biography of the famed Japanese American restaurateur, his rags to riches story, his determination in business, and his zest for life. "Traveling the world with my father, watching him interact with people, famous and ordinary, observing up close his balls-out sense of adventure, and having a larger-than-life personality to live up to had a profound effect on me and...

    $229.00

  • MADMAN IN THE WOODS
    JAMIE GEHRING
    One woman's haunting sixteen-year account of her youth when she and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. As a child in Lincoln, Montana, Jamie Gehring and her family shared their land, their home, and their dinner table with a hermit with a penchant for murder. But they had no idea that the odd recluse living in the adjacent cabin was anything mo...

    $179.00

  • AN UNFINISHED CANVAS
    MICHAEL GLASGOW / PHYLLIS GOBBELL
    This true crime saga reveals the case of a missing Nashville woman, a husband on the run, and a rare cold case murder conviction. Janet March had it all: a corporate lawyer husband, two beautiful children, a promising career as an artist, and a dream house she designed herself. But behind closed doors, her husband led a destructive double life. On August 16, 1996, Janet had an ...

    $229.00

  • DANCING WITH DEATH
    SHANNA HOGAN
    A former stripper turned suburban housewife is exposed as a brutal killer in this shocking true crime tale of a loving husband beheaded in Phoenix. Phoenix, Arizona, 2004. Marjorie Orbin filed a missing person's report on her husband, Jay. She claimed that the successful art dealer had left town on business after celebrating their son's birthday more than a month before. But no...

    $179.00

  • THE DEATH SHIFT
    PETER ELKIND
    The true story of a killer nurse whose crimes were hidden by a hospital for years. It's 1980, and Genene Jones is working the 3 to 11 PM shift in the pediatric ICU in San Antonio's county hospital. As the weeks go by, infants under her care begin experiencing unexpected complications—and dying—in alarming numbers, prompting rumors that there is a murderer among the staff. Her e...

    $109.00

  • BLOWN TO HELL
    WALTER PINCUS
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist exposes the sixty-seven US nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands that decimated a people and their land. The most important place in American nuclear history are the Marshall Islands—an idyllic Pacific paradise that served as the staging ground for over sixty US nuclear tests. It was here, from 1946 to 1958, that America perfected the weapon ...

    $329.00

  • WOMEN WHO LOVE MEN WHO KILL
    SHEILA ISENBERG
    The "engrossing, thoroughly researched look at women who are in romantic relationships with incarcerated men"—fully updated with twenty-first-century cases ( Publishers Weekly).   In 1991, Sheila Isenberg's classic study Women Who Love Men Who Kill asked the provocative question, "Why do women fall in love with convicted murderers?" Now, Isenberg returns to the same question in...

    $229.00

  • THE CENTRIST SOLUTION
    JOSEPH I. LIEBERMAN
    The four-term senator shares behind-the-scenes stories illustrating the lost art of aisle-crossing—and how to make American democracy function again. Senator Joseph Lieberman offers a master class in effective government by revealing events from his forty years in elective office—which spanned from the Vietnam War era to the Obama presidency—and shining a light on historic acts...

    $249.00

  • THE NEW BORDER WARS
    KLAUS DODDS
    An enlightening look at contemporary border tensions—from the Gaza Strip to the space race—by one of the world's leading experts in geopolitics. Border expert Klaus Dodds journeys into the geopolitical clashes of tomorrow in an eye-opening tour of border walls both literal and figurative. In the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and elsewhere, the tension inherent to trying to divi...

    $229.00

  • THE PRISON GUARD'S DAUGHTER
    DEANNE QUINN MILLER
    In this moving memoir, a woman recounts her search for truth and justice regarding her father's murder during America's deadliest prison riot. Deanne Quinn Miller was five years old when her father—William "Billy" Quinn—was murdered in the first minutes of the Attica Prison Riot, the only corrections officer to die at the hands of inmates. But how did he die? Who were the kille...

    $229.00

  • AN INCONVENIENT MINORITY
    KENNY XU
    "A strident critique of critical race theory" that examines how policies of diversity and inclusion have ill-served Asian Americans ( Kirkus Reviews). From a journalist on the frontlines of the Students for Fair Admission (SFFA) v. Harvard case comes a probing examination of affirmative action, the false narrative of American meritocracy, and the attack on Asian American excell...

    $229.00

  • LINCOLNOMICS
    JOHN F. WASIK
    Lincolnomics puts The Great Emancipator in his other rightful place as The Great Builder of American infrastructure, revealing Lincoln’s untold legacy as the developer of an economic ladder to democracy through national transportation, public education, and market access The only biography of its kind, Lincolnomics freshly explores the foundational ideas and policies on infrast...

    $229.00

  • ROCK STARS ON THE RECORD
    ERIC SPITZNAGEL
    An all-star lineup of rock-n-rollers—from Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell to Suzi Quatro and Verdine White of Earth, Wind & Fire—relay the uproariously wild, sentimental, and unexpected pre-stardom stories behind their favorite records. Rock Stars on the Record is a collection of first-hand tales by artists of all ages, backgrounds, and musical influences, remembering the mean...

    $229.00

  • THE SPOTIFY PLAY
    SVEN CARLSSON / JONAS LEIJONHUFVUD
    "Two excellent Swedish journalists recount the historic rise of the company that changed modern music not just as a riveting business tale, but as a lesson in tech geopolitics. Spotify’s Daniel Ek shows why Silicon Valley does not always win.”—David Kirkpatrick, New York Times bestselling author of The Facebook Effect Steve Jobs tried to stop this moment from ever happening. Go...

    $229.00

  • THE FAMILY NEST EGG
    LAURA MEIER
    “Laura Meier’s The Family Nest Egg gives parents the tools they need to find confidence, stop worrying, and secure the financial future for their loved ones. . . . a trustworthy resource.” —Barbara Corcoran, Founder of the Corcoran Group and Shark on ABC's Shark Tank Earn and save more money while protecting your finances and your family Wouldn’t it be great if life were perfec...

    $229.00

  • FEARFUL SYMMETRIES
    THOMAS F. MONTELEONE
    The Bram Stoker Award–winning short story collection. "These solidly crafted tales consistently evoke an enjoyably unsettling mood of horror." — Publishers Weekly   Thomas F. Monteleone displays his mastery of the horror genre in the selected short fiction of Fearful Symmetries, collected works spanning more than twenty years of his career. Revel in the deftly deployed classic ...

    $119.00

  • SUBMERGED
    THOMAS F. MONTELEONE
    "An epic thriller about a secret Nazi submarine and its mission . . . a tasty combination of Ken Follett and Clive Cussler" from the award-winning author ( The Novel Pursuit).   Cruising from the sub pens of Trondheim under the cover of darkness—undetected by the sonar scans of Allied enemies—Kapitaenleutnant Erich Heinz Bruckner leads the experimental submarine U-5001 in a las...

    $119.00

  • NIGHT THINGS
    THOMAS F. MONTELEONE
    Classic horror from the six-time Bram Stoker Award winner. "Tension, suspense, and solid scares . . . written by an acknowledged master of the genre." — Cemetery Dance   Residents of the little town of Conora, New Mexico, are none too concerned when a local construction crew unearths a Native American burial ground; after all, Sheriff Miguel Lopez, shopkeeper Lori Danek, newspa...

    $119.00

  • NIGHT TRAIN
    THOMAS F. MONTELEONE
    "An epic novel with enough terrifying adventure to accommodate at least a few sleepless nights. All aboard—and highly recommended!" — Dark Bites   Under the subways' roar, out of the deep, wet caves, comes the fury from Hell . . .   . . . to be met by an unlikely troupe ready to save the lives and soul of their city. In the bedrock beneath New York, beautiful news reporter Lya ...

    $119.00