Books from Hachette+ORM
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Andy Kaufman Revealed!: Best Friend Tells All
By Bob ZmudaI remembered a bluntly funny quote from Dustin Hoffman in Time magazine back in the '60s when asked what he saw as some of the drawbacks of being a celebrity. His answer: “It makes it tougher to pick up hookers on Fifth Avenue.
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Why? Because We Still Like You: An Oral History of the Mickey Mouse Club
By Jennifer ArmstrongNow they faced new director Sidney Miller, a dark, sinewy, brash former actor who had, of late, been working with Donald O'Connor on The Colgate Comedy Hour and on O'Connor's own show. Miller had now come to make The Mickey Mouse Club ...
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The Perfect Store: Inside Ebay
By Adam CohenBut Mark Hughes, Half's head marketer, started looking on Yahoo! and MapQuest for towns with names suitably close to Half. After rejecting Halfa, Iowa, he decided that Halfway, Oregon (population 345), was the best prospect.
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The Summer We Got Saved: A Novel
By Pat Cunningham Devoto. . This is a wonderfully poignant, funny, and intelligent book about coming-of-age and wisdom.
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My Last Days as Roy Rogers: A Novel
By Pat Cunningham Devoto“Like To Kill a Mockingbird, this book paints a distinctly Southern picture of friendship, justice, and the bond between outcasts.” —St.
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Renegade
By Nancy NorthcottThe car surged onto her neighbor's lawn with a roar, and a bolt of blue-white energy shot past the rear bumper. “I'm going to the road. The ground's too uneven for us to make time here.” “I'll keep the screen up so they can't peg us ...
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Pacific Air: How Fearless Flyboys, Peerless Aircraft, and Fast Flattops Conquered the Skies in the War with Japan
By David SearsLed by CAG-10 Commander Richard K. Gaines, the strike force comprised nine TBFs (including the one piloted by Gaines); three SBDs; and Jimmy Flatley's eight VF-10 F4Fs, each equipped with an auxiliary fuel tank.
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Tempest at Ox Hill: The Battle of Chantilly
By David A. WelkerWoodward, Evan Morrison and Stanley W. Zamonski, eds. Our Campaigns; the Second Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers, 18611864. Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 1995. Unpublished Works Belcher, Horatio G. Diary.
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After the War Zone: A Practical Guide for Returning Troops and Their Families
By Matthew J. Friedman, Laurie B. SloneKoren, D.,Y. Hilel, N. Idar, D. Hemel, and E. M. Klein. “Combat Stress Management: The Interplay between Combat, Physical Injury, and Psychological Trauma.” In Combat Stress Injury: Theory, Research, and Management, ed.
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Roast Chicken and Other Stories
By Simon HopkinsonIrresistible recipes in this book include Eggs Florentine, Chocolate Tart, Poached Salmon with Beurre Blanc, and, of course, the book’s namesake recipe, Roast Chicken.
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Lost and Found
By Carolyn ParkhurstThey have all been selected to compete on Lost and Found, a daring new reality-adventure show. In teams of two, they will race across the globe—from Egypt to England, Japan to Sweden—to battle for a million-dollar prize.
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The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust
By Heather PringleKirk, George E. The Middle East in the War. London: Oxford University Press, 1952. Kiss, Edmund. “Die Kordillerenkolonien der Atlantiden.” Schlüssel zum Weltgeschehen 8/9 (1931): 256-265. ———. “Nordische Baukunst in Bolivien?
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Fat Free, Flavor Full: Dr. Gabe Mirkin's Guide to Losing Weight and Living Longer
By Gabe Mirkin, Diana RichPho. with. Giant. Prawns. Visits to a local Vietnamese restaurant inspired this recipe ... cabbage Giant prawns (allow 1 to 2 per person) Banh Pho (Vietnamese noodles), fresh or dried 1 cup bean sprouts 1⁄2 cup cilantro leaves, chopped If.
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Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg
By Christopher OgdenAs soon as the Miami Beach council voted to outlaw gambling , the Tribune revealed that council member Art Childers had voted for the ban because his gambling club , the Royal Palm , was not on the beach and would benefit from the ban .
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American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day
By Robert CoramOne of Sherwood's closest friends was Bob McMahon, another Vietnam combat veteran who was a Democrat and the mayor of Media, Pennsylvania. McMahon told Sherwood to stop talking and to do the job himself. Sherwood's ideas revolved around ...
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Murder in the Hearse Degree: A Novel
By Tim CockeyThe McCormick Spice factory used to be over there, where that brick crap is now.” I remembered. The air used to smell like a combination of cinammon and pepper. It used to make my mother sneeze. Pete went on. “Susan was a schoolteacher ...
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Derailed
By James Siegelcalled Tom Mooney and told him I wanted to talk to him about something. About music production. ... But maybe I'd been too blunt, because Mooney suddenly edged back in his chair. Was it possible there was a kind of code you were ...
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Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush
By John W. DeanThe Secret Presidency of George W. Bush John W. Dean. added for both.) 14. Karen DeYoung, “Bush Cites Urgent Iraqi Threat,” ... See Charles J. Hadley, “Powell's Case for Iraq War Falls Apart 6 Months Later,” Associated Press (Aug.
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The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt for Justice
By Chad Millman“A gripping account” of German spies, a massive explosion in New York Harbor, and the hunt for the conspirators (The New York Times).
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Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure,...
By Zac UngerHere you had a perfectly nice little spit of land that polar bears had happily occupied for thousands of years. ... In their infinite wisdom, the town residents created a bear patrol, because they liked bears, but they just didn't like ...