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Written by Artie Lange and Anthony Bozza
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $24.95
Outrageous, raw, and painfully funny true stories straight from the life of the actor, comedian, and much-loved cast member of The Howard Stern Show—with a foreword by Howard Stern.
When Artie Lange joined the permanent cast of The Howard Stern Show in 2001, it was possibly the greatest thing ever to happen...
Andrew Jackson in the White House
Written by Jon Meacham
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $30.00
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power... Read more >
The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Written by H.W. Brands
Format: Hardcover, 896 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $35.00
A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike. Traitor to His Class sheds new light on FDR's formative years, his remarkable willingness to champion the concerns of the poor and disenfranchised, his combination of political genius, firm...
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A Spiritual Confession
Written by Anne Rice
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $24.00
In 2005, Anne Rice startled her readers with her novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, and by revealing that, after years as an atheist, she had returned to her Catholic faith.
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana followed.
And now, in her powerful and haunting memoir, Rice tells the story of...
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $24.95
Two years after the best-selling Arthur & George, Julian Barnes gives us a memoir on mortality that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of...
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The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando
Written by Stefan Kanfer
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $26.95
For everything we know about Brando as a man as well as an actor and artist, he remains a fascination. What are we to make of someone whose life, both personal and professional, hit such dazzling highs and such abysmal lows? Stefan Kanfer answers this question, in the process giving us...
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A Memoir
Written by Christopher Plummer
Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $29.95
A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life! By one of today’s greatest living actors.
He was born a Canadian on a Friday the thirteenth in 1929—the year of the Crash. His boyhood was one of privilege: an ancestor was a Governor General; his great-grandfather Sir John Abbott was...
Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War
Written by Michael Neufeld
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $18.95
Michael J. Neufeld, curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of Wernher von Braun.
Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source of consistent fascination. Glorified... Read more >
Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!
Written by Art Spiegelman
Format: Hardcover, 72 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $27.50
The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form...and how it formed him!
This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, creating vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped Art Spiegelman. It traces the artist's evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy in Rego Park... Read more >
The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
Written by Patrick French
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $30.00
Since V. S. Naipaul left his Caribbean birthplace at the age of seventeen, his improbable life has followed the global movement of peoples, whose preeminent literary chronicler he has become. In The World Is What It Is, Patrick French offers the first authoritative biography of the controversial Nobel laureate, whose only...
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