The Stars' Fault
10 best books like The Stars' Fault (John Box): Sand, Stop & Frisk, Five Days: Which Days Would You Choose?, The Day the President Was Shot: The Secret Service, the FBI, a Would-Be Killer, and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan, Lina and Serge: The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev, Freeway Rick Ross: The Untold Autobiography, All He Saw Was The Girl, True Stories from the Files of the FBI, The Last Disciple, Knottspeed
Author | Paul Majkut |
ISBN | 1499377339 |
SAND explores the sexual and religious roots of jihadist terrorism. It is a snapshot album of Saudi Arabia in the late 1980s, when contemporary jihadism sprouted in the sands of the Kingdom. It is a novel that is more than the sum of its parts, more than its plot: a mystery centered on a delusional, religious-police...
Author | Sheryl Sorrentino |
ISBN | 1507892322 |
As bouncer, it’s Paulie’s job to protect pole dancers, break up brawls, and pat down the illegal farm workers and drug dealers who patronize Insanidád, a roadside “gentlemen’s club” on the outskirts of Modesto, California. But Paulie won’t rest until he finds out who killed his brother,...
Author | Matt Micros |
ISBN | 0692206841 |
After a particularly frustrating day at work, high school math teacher, Mike Postman's afternoon walk along the Connecticut shoreline is interrupted by the screams of a boy who has fallen in off the pier and can't swim. Mike dives into the cold waters, saving the boy, but drowning himself in the process....
Author | Bill O'Reilly |
ISBN | 1627796991 |
The year was 1981. Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot after leaving a speaking engagement in Washington, D. C. The quick action of the Secret Service and medical professionals saved the president's life. Mere days after his near-death experience, Reagan's personal strength...
Author | Simon Morrison |
ISBN | 0547391315 |
Serge Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant composers yet is an enigma to historians and his fans. Why did he leave the West and move to the Soviet Union despite Stalin’s crimes? Why did his astonishing creativity in the 1930s soon dissolve into a far less inspiring output in...
Author | Rick Ross |
ISBN | 1499651538 |
Freeway Rick Ross: The Untold Autobiography is an intimate look at the day-to-day dealings of a drug kingpin in the heart of the ghetto. It's also the story of a boy born in poverty Texas who grew up in a single-parent household in the heart of South Central, who was pushed through the school system each...
Author | Peter Leonard |
ISBN | 1611880424 |
Rome:
McCabe and Chip, two American exchange students, are about to become embroiled with a violent street gang, a beautiful Italian girl, and a flawed kidnapping plan.
Detroit:
Sharon Vanelli’s affair with Joey Palermo, a Mafia enforcer, is about to be discovered by her husband,...
Author | W. Cleon Skousen |
ISBN | 1489503528 |
Be the FBI Agent in training under J. Edgar Hoover and run the gauntlet of Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson and the Barker Karpis Gang. Step back into downtown Chicago of the 1930s and retrace the steps of some of America's most notorious mobsters. True Stories from the Files of the FBI was written by...
Author | Hank Hanegraaff |
ISBN | 0842384383 |
What if the Antichrist has already been revealed? The first book in a gripping new series by best-selling authors Sigmund Brouwer and Hank Hanegraaff explores the lives of Christians who struggle to survive and spread the Gospel during the climactic turbulence of “the last days.” With the enemy...
Author | Jeff Johnson |
ISBN | 1681626667 |
Enigmatic, charming, and brutally resourceful, Knottspeed is a man on a mission. He also happens to be dead, but the rumors of his demise have been slightly exaggerated--by the man himself as the key to his plan.
A problem-solver, a finder of lost people and rare things, and an accomplished...
The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
Author | Irving Wallace |
ISBN | 1851522387 |
This encyclopedia looks at the sexual habits, deviations and quirks of nearly 200 famous, notorious or otherwise distinguished people from all walks of life. Each entry describes the subject's fame and achievements, and within this context examines their sexual activities. The entries are preceded...
Author | Alan Light |
ISBN | 1101904879 |
Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into a chart-topping chanteuse and committed civil rights activist.
From music journalist...
Holding Breath: A Memoir of AIDS' Wildfire Days
Author | Nancy Bevilaqua |
ISBN | 1480164518 |
When they met, David was a 41-year-old heroin addict, homeless and dying of AIDS. The author was a 27-year-old, self-absorbed, bar-hopping would-be poet--and his caseworker. In 1989, in New York City, there was nothing "manageable" about AIDS, and David would have only eight more months to live....
Author | Michael D'Antonio |
ISBN | 1250081394 |
In response to criticism and disappointment from the Left, A Consequential President offers a bold assessment of the lasting successes and major achievements of President Obama.
Had he only saved the U.S. economy with his economic recovery act and his program to restore the auto industry,...
Author | Barbara Payton |
ISBN | 0870671081 |
One of the great "lost" autobiographies of Hollywood Babylon history, I Am Not Ashamed is the memoir of Barbara Payton, the 1950s film noir star who acted alongside greats like Jimmy Cagney and Gregory Peck - only to be fired by the studios for her wild (and very public) love-life... and ultimately walk...
Author | Anne Heche |
ISBN | 0743424417 |
THE NATIONAL AND "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLERAs an actress, she lives in the world of illusion made to seem real. As a survivor of abuse, she's learned how to live in her own skin -- and face the reality of a broken past on her own terms.
Filled with unsparing candor and honesty, "Call Me Crazy" captures...
Author | Charles "Tex" Watson |
ISBN | 0800783611 |
"Will you die for me?" asked Charlie Manson. Once all-American hometown boy, Charles "Tex" Watson answered "Yes" and thus became hopelessly caught in the dizzying downward spiral into the Manson family and into the brutal role of Helter-Skelter executioner. Finally, on the verge of insanity, Tex...
Author | Tyler Stoddard Smith |
ISBN | 1440536058 |
Tyler Smith's fascinating and sometimes truly astonishing tales of streetwalkers, call girls, madams, pimps and rent boys are fundamentally true (a few, as he recognizes, fall into the category of cultural myths), and are not only interesting but also funny--often hilarious.
Have you...
Author | Mark Salisbury |
ISBN | 1557046999 |
A stunning visual companion to the newest film from Tim Burton ("The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"), featuring storyboards, movie stills, and Burton's own drawings.
"Corpse Bride" carries on in the dark, romantic tradition of Tim Burton's...
Author | Daniel Clausen |
ISBN | 1478314478 |
One night a foreign business analyst in Tokyo sits down in his spacious high rise apartment and begins typing something. The words pour out and exhaust him. He soon realizes that the words appearing on his laptop are memories of his first days in Nagasaki four years ago.
Nagasaki was a place full...
Author | Mary Harper Dick |
ISBN | 0578144794 |
The fun and magical way to potty train your child!
Readers' Favorite Book Award, Mom’s Choice Awards® Gold Recipient, and Mr. Dad Seal of Approval Winner!
Just as the Tooth Fairy turns losing a tooth into something exciting, the magic of the Poo Poo Fairy transforms potty training...
From Robert Kent, author of All Together Now, comes a new tale of terror. College student Brock Clouser is working a summer job delivering pizzas. During a run to the outskirts of Harrington, Indiana, he wrecks his car at an isolated country home. Though most everyone there has been violently murdered,...