Describes how a forty-year-old, gay, successful professional experienced the ups and downs of parenting firsthand when he takes in his troubled teenage niece, Tiffany, offering a witty and compassiona
Provides an inspirational and illuminating study of nine women who transformed modern America through their battle against inequity and social injustice, including Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mother Jones,
A renowned film critic critically analyzes the influence of actor and filmmaker John Cassavetes on the evolution of American independent film, drawing on interviews with his wife, Gena Rowlands, as we
A provocative memoir and expose by the commanding offiver of Abu Ghraib prison offers an inside accounts of the shocking and shameful abuse of Iraqi prisoners, detailing the corruption she discovered
In 1882 New York City, police chief Caleb Spencer, Evening Post reporter Liz Smith, and mayor Teddy Roosevelt try to unravel the mystery of the world's most bizarre serial killer, Jack the Jolly Thwac
The actress and golfing enthusiast shares her experiences on the celebrity pro-am tournament circuit, her role as a token woman in a male-dominated world, insights into how women and men approach golf
Written in the form of a final letter to his young daughter, Jane, N. recalls his relationship with Margaret Towne and Margarettown, the upstate New York town to which she introduces him--one inhabita
Abruptly fired while pursuing a career-making story and scarred by a failed relationship, young journalist Adam Murphy is left adrift in West Hollywood, until he encounters mystery novelist James Wilt
A provocative and poignant novel captures the individual voices of a group of diverse and doomed people who come together in one historical moment in the Windows on the World restaurant on September 1
In Barbados to enjoy her romance with a dashing English lord, Jo Slater is stunned by the disappearance of Russell Cole, a wealthy art collector, from his yacht, and, back in New York, Jo is confronte
Working as a health-care analyst for Ohio Senator Robert Gary, idealistic young intern and hypochondriac Samantha Joyce struggles to balance her seventy-hour work week, a constantly shifting set of ne
The China-born center for the Houston Rockets chronicles his odyssey from his Shanghai youth, through his first year in the NBA and the challenges he has faced, to his role as an international sports
Blending elements of history, psychology, and storytelling, the author of Wrestling with Angels retells the stories of female characters from the Hebrew Bible--Leah, Rachel, Sarah, Rebeccah, Delilah,
A collection of hilarious, over-the-top essays by the independent film circuit's most famous director includes the very best of his columns from Arena magazine on the topics that are nearest and deare
During the worst years of official racism in South Africa, the story of one young girl came to symbolize the injustice, corruption, and arbitrary nature of apartheid. Born in 1955 to a pro-apartheid w
Focuses on the Limestone County, Alabama, lives altered and lost in April 1974, when more than one hundred tornadoes--six of them of the most powerful "F5" category of storms--swept across thirteen st
Among filmmakers and film buffs, Cassavetes is revered. A major star of live television in the 1950s, he stumbled accidentally into making his first film, Shadows, while leading an acting workshop--an
In a revealing memoir, the actress and former wife of boxer Mike Tyson describes the legacy of domestic violence that has haunted her family for three generations and her own struggle with the problem
