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Speak Up with Confidence
How to Prepare, Learn, and Deliver Effective Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Public speaking is one of the most intimidating and important aspects of many jobs. As a one-time speechwriter for President Johnson, and in his current position as president of the Motion Picture Association of America, Jack Valenti has written and delivered speeches in all kinds of settings. Originally...
The Pride of the Yankees
Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
"I CONSIDER MYSELF THE LUCKIEST MAN ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH."
On July 4, 1939, baseball great Lou Gehrig delivered what has been called "baseball's Gettysburg Address" at Yankee Stadium and gave a speech that included the phrase that would become legendary. He died two...
Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The Glass Castle meets The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother in this dazzlingly honest and provocative family memoir by former child actress and current Fox Business Network anchor Melissa Francis.
When Melissa Francis was eight years old, she won the role of lifetime: playing Cassandra Cooper...
Standing Up to the Madness
Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Standing Up to the Madness not only is a timely, inspiring, and even revolutionary look at who wields the greatest power in America--everyday people who take a chance and stand up for what they believe in--but also offers advice on what you can do to help.
Where are the millions marching in...
by Eoin Colfer
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
And Another Thing ... will be the sixth novel in the now improbably named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Eight years after the death of its creator, Douglas Adams, the author's widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval for the project to be continued by the international number one bestselling...
The Brumby Mare
And other recollections of a Queensland bushman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Brumby Mare is an engaging collection of reminiscences about traditional Queensland stockmen and bush workers in the 1950s and 1960s, before the days of motorbikes and helicopters.
Brian Taylor knows and loves his country and his stories ring with the authority of experience. Some of the...
How Not to Make a Short Film
Secrets from a Sundance Programmer
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Anyone can make a short film, right? Just grab some friends and your handheld and you can do it in a weekend or two before being accepted to a slew of film festivals, right?
Wrong.
Roberta Munroe screened short film submissions at Sundance for five years, and is an award-winning short...
Being Oscar
From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Las Vegas
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In Being Oscar,one of America’s most celebrated criminal defense attorneys recounts the stories and cases of his epic life. The Mafia’s go-to defender, he has tried an estimated 300 criminal cases, and won most of them. His roster of clients reads like a history of organized crime: Meyer Lansky,...
by Quentin Kenihan
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Quentin Kenihan is living proof that superheroes don't need capes, just the right attitude. FOREWORD BY RAY MARTIN
When he was a kid, Quentin Kenihan loved Superman. Ironic, really. Quentin didn't need kryptonite to reveal his weakness - born with a rare bone disorder, osteogenesis imperfecta,...
Movie Freak
My Life Watching Movies
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Entertainment Weekly's controversial critic of more than two decades looks back at a life told through the films he loved and loathed.
Owen Gleiberman has spent his life watching movies-first at the drive-in, where his parents took him to see wildly inappropriate adult fare like Rosemary's...
A Skating Life
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
The dazzling smile, the signature haircut, the staple spin. "America's Sweetheart" Dorothy Hamill grew up on the ice, working toward the dream she was to accomplish by age nineteen: winning Olympic gold in figure skating. But life was not the picture of perfection it appeared to be. Dorothy...
by Helen Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Electra's family is falling apart. Her dad's moving out, her mum's given in to her daytime TV addiction, and her little brother (aka The Little Runt) has just been caught shoplifting. Even the guinea-pig's gone mental.
And all Electra can think about is whether green eyeliner compliments or...
Fully Functioning Human (Almost)
Living in an Online/Offline World
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
'I'm just a nitwit girl who's sort of stumbling through life learning that we all have our own roads to walk - but that it's still valuable, and rather lovely, to hear about other people's journeys...'
Filled with honesty, wit and wisdom, Fully Functioning Human (Almost) - part memoir, part...
Always Looking Up
The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around himself,...