Rizzo: 141 books

Twenty-something Jenny Campbell's life has been a series of screw-ups, and the latest one endangered her little brother's life. But when she falls for sophisticated Gabe Harrison, she has a chance to turn her life around...if she can keep her past a secret.Gabe's career as a...

On October 12, 2011, Theo Epstein became the new Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations, flipping a switch on the lovable-loser franchise and initiating a plan to accomplish in Chicago what he'd succeeded in as general manager of the Boston Red Sox: ending a World Series drought. It would require...

Class Acts explores the development of lifestyle marketing from the 1960s to the 1990s. During this time, young men began manipulating their identities by taking on the mannerisms, culture, and fashion of the working class and poor. These style choices had contradictory meanings. At once they were...

The God Mars is a pulp-style science fiction series set in a rich world of varied cultures and colorful characters. The series plays out on a partially-terraformed Mars, a half-century after a man-made disaster cut thousands of colonists off from Earth, and the fear of a rampant nanotech plague discouraged...

Buffalo's appreciation for a frosty pint stretches back more than a century before anyone enjoyed a cold one with a basket of wings. By the middle of the 1800s, the industrial hub counted malt and beer among its most vital and satisfying products. Operations like Simon Pure Beer, Iroquois Beverage...

Il riciclato di lusso e la giovane biologa. Il ricco industriale di successo e il disoccupato. La trentenne brasiliana e il novantenne che non si rassegna a lasciare il Senato. Ci sono anche loro fra i vecchi e i nuovi protagonisti della politica che si aggirano dopo l'ultimo ciclone elettorale tra...

For the price of less-than a gallon of gas you can gain an edge that will put you ahead of the rest of the motorists vying for space on the highways of Southern California. This advantage extends to:local residents who've lived here for years and are grizzled veterans of the commute;new...

Much of the legend and the lore of the Old West involve gunslingers and gunfights. Most of the people who populated the new American frontier in the 19th century owned guns and used them to hunt and to protect themselves and their families. Despite the general perception, gunfights didn’t...

Grayman chronicles a daring and disturbing experiment to decisively end the tenacious threat of global terrorism. A group of powerful corporate and political players lever a desperate world to create a multinational force of “surgical” strike teams, authorized to cross borders and pursue targets...

Grayman is a dark and timely thriller with a science fiction flavor. It’s a merciless examination of what makes heroes (and villains) in the popular media, and how effectively they can be used to manipulate our wired world. Set in the near future, the five book series chronicles a daring...

This research paper reported on the results of three readability tests and an interest test, which were performed on four comic books. The four comic books were Superman, Wonder Woman, Fantastic Four, and The Amazing Spider-Man.

Set during Prohibition this is one of Buffalo, New York's most blood-soaked crime tales. This is the story of the bloody reign of Polish gangster John "Korney" Kwiatkowski, which ended with one of his friends in the electric chair. Before the end came, Korney masterminded robberies all over...

The daughter of a mommy blogger escapes fame—and gets even—in this “satirical exploration of the modern American family” (Publisher’s Weekly).   Before there were Real Housewives and Tiger Moms, there was Ruth Sternberg, the hugely popular First Mother of Mommy Blogging—or as Ruth’s...

Longing for Eden: Embracing God's vision in your marriage, is a newly released inspirational book that will challenge couples and inspire singles, to more clearly see God's intent for marriage. The authors write from thirty years of pastoral experience, much of which has been in the realm of marital...