No One Would Listen
by Harry Markopolos
Harry Markopolos and his team of financial sleuths discuss first-hand how they cracked the Madoff Ponzi scheme.
No One Would Listen (Wiley) is the exclusive story of the Harry Markopolos-lead investigation into Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme. While a lot has been written about Madoff's scam, few actually know how Markopolos and his team-affectionately called "The Fox Hounds" by Markopolos himself, uncovered what Madoff was doing years before this financial disaster reached its pinnacle. Unfortunately, no one listened, until the damage of the world's largest financial fraud ever was irreversible.
Despite repeated written and verbal warnings to the SEC by Harry Markopolos, Bernie Madoff was allowed to continue his operations. No One Would Listen paints a vivid portrait of Markopolos and his determined team of financial sleuths, and what impact they will have on financial markets and financial regulation for decades to come.
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My Journey with Farrah: A Story of Life, Love and Friendship
by Alana Stewart with Sheryl Berk
New York Times Bestseller
Alana Stewart offers the poignant story of her lifelong relationship with her best friend, Farrah Fawcett - and of Farrah’s amazing courage during the former Charlie’s Angels star’s heartbreaking battle with cancer. Telling the story of their friendship through Alana’s personal diary entries from the last three years, Alana shares her thoughts on the journey that she and Farrah embarked upon as they battled Farrah’s illness to the end. A beautiful celebration of life and love, of an amazing woman and an amazing friendship, My Journey with Farrah is a Hollywood true story unlike any other, and an unforgettable journey every reader will want to share.
Alana Stewart and Farrah Fawcett went through it all together. Friends for thirty years, they were an essential part of each other's lives since first meeting at a dinner party in the 1970s. But in the fall of 2006, a test of their friendship arose unlike any other they'd faced: Farrah was diagnosed with aggressive rectal cancer. She was determined to fight, and Alana was determined to help her. Together, they were relentless in their pursuit of a cure, traveling halfway around the world as they sought every mainstream, alternative, and experimental therapy available.
Now, in these intimate and personal diaries, Alana shares her thoughts on the events of the last three years, documenting the journey she and Farrah embarked on as they prayed for a miracle..
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One More Day Everywhere: Crossing 50 Borders on the Road to Global Understanding
by Glen Heggstad
In 2001, martial arts–trained biker Glen Heggstad began a journey from California to the tip of South America on his motorcycle and made it as far as Colombia, where he was kidnapped by local rebels and held captive. Undeterred by more than a month of traumatic incarceration, the “Striking Viking” finished his trip after being released. Three years later he set out into the world on his bike again, this time searching for truth on his own terms in a world that had become strangled by a climate of fear. Starting his trip in Japan, he traveled through Siberia, Mongolia, Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia, and Africa, stopping in more than 30 countries to deliver his message of the real United States, as he knew it. Unique stories and gritty adventure fill this quest for new sights and insights amongst extreme temperatures, knee-deep mud, bureaucratic roadblocks, health problems, and loneliness.
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Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles
by Dr. Keith Black with Arnold Mann
Renowned neurosurgeon Keith Black combines a dramatic narrative with fascinating scientific insights to create a compelling look at one man's journey into the brain.
Virtually every day, Dr. Keith Black, a world-renowned neurosurgeon and scientist, enters the treacherous territory he calls "tiger country": the unimaginably intricate and challenging act of performing brain surgery, where one wrong move, one small mistake, can mean the end of his patient's life. In Brain Surgeon, Dr. Black uses the extraordinarily dramatic stories of some of his patients to illustrate fascinating details of the brain's inner workings and the techniques he uses to extend lives at the outer edge of science. In this compelling narrative, he also offers readers a rare look inside the remarkable mind of a master surgeon who literally holds the lives of his patients in his hands and in his heart.
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October Sky
by Homer Hickam
A New York Times #1 bestseller and Universal feature film, now available on DVD and home video!
It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia was slowly dying. Faced with an uncertain future, Homer Hickam nurtured a dream: to send rockets into outer space. The introspective son of the mine's superintendent and a mother determined to get him out of Coalwood forever, Homer fell in with a group of misfits who learned not only how to turn scraps of metal into sophisticated rockets, but how to sustain their hope in a town that swallowed its men alive. When the boys began to light up the tarry skies with their flaming projectiles and dreams of glory, Coalwood, and the Hickams, would never the same.
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Inside Delta Force
by Eric L. Haney
International Bestseller. Basis for the TV series The Unit.
No headlines truly reveal their missions, and no book has ever taken readers inside from one operative's perspective. They are Delta Force, modern warriors who are masters of espionage, fluent in foreign languages, and trained to outshoot, outthink and outsmart any enemy. For the first time, the public will have the opportunity to delve into the heart of this closed brotherhood, and learn about life inside, from the grueling selection process to the rigorous training to heart-stopping missions.
Written by Eric Haney, Command Sergeant Major (ret.), Inside Delta Force is paced like a thriller but revealing as only a memoir can be. Haney states, "Close brutal combat puts a callous layer on each individual who undergoes the experience. Some men become trapped in that hard protective shell, and for others, that coating becomes like a looking glass, highlighting and magnifying the things that are really important in life. Every sensation becomes precious and delicious."
Haney will, from an unprecedented perspective, bring to life the pain, brutal reality, and glory of a decade of service. This book is a must read for those eager to learn the truth behind the headlines.
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Dancing Naked In The Mind Field
by Kary Mullis with David Fisher
New York Times Notable Book
In Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, Mullis writes with passion and humor about a wide range of subjects: from poisonous spiders to the HIV virus and AIDS, from global warming to astrology, from the O.J. Simpson trial to how you can turn a light bulb on with your mind. A multi-dimensional playland of ideas, this book challenges us to questions the authority of scientific dogma even as it reveals the workings of an uncannily original scientific mind.
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Warrior King: The Triumph and Betrayal of an American Commander in Iraq
by Lt. Col. (Ret.) Nathan Sassaman and Joe Layden
Lt. Col. Nathan Sassaman was one of the most celebrated members of the United States military. With 800 soldiers under his command in the heart of the Sunni triangle in Iraq, his unit sought and eliminated terrorists and loyalists to Saddam Hussein while rebuilding the region’s infrastructure. In Iraq, Sassaman was known for his innovation and strategy, but in America, his reputation is awash in the nation’s dour memory of an Iraqi’s alleged drowning at the hands of Sassaman’s men. When the Army convicted three men for manslaughter and a fourth for assault, it was the first time troops serving in Iraq were charged with murdering a detainee. In this complex fight where Army leaders find themselves pinned against one another and the media’s hunger is satiated by taking down our own men, Nathan’s decision to cover for his men demonstrates much about the toll his war has taken on our nation.
Warrior King is a revealing and haunting memoir of both the brutality and the humanitarian efforts in Iraq, the power play between the troops’ ground work to the Pentagon, and why this war has gone horribly wrong.
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Detective
by Kathy Burke with Neal Hirschfeld
Detective has been optioned by Sony Television and Larkin-Goldstein Productions, and is currently in development with Sony Pictures.
Detective is the story of undercover cop Kathy Burke’s career. During her 23-year career on the New York City police force, Burke would become the most highly decorated female detective in the 160-year history of the department. Her success didn’t come without struggle from both criminals and from the members of her own department. Despite harassment from superior officers and her fellow cops, Burke was eventually assigned to working undercover as a member of the elite Major Case Squad, the squad that investigates the highest-profile cases in New York City.
Kathy Burke survived one of the worst traumas that can happen to a police officer - the shooting death of a partner while they were working on a case and then being the subject of false rumors blaming her for it. After recovering from her own injuries, Burke goes on to become a counselor with the New York City Police Department Self-Support Group - an organization for police officers who have been shot, stabbed, maimed or otherwise injured in the line of duty, and which played an important role in “debriefing” Ground Zero cops who didn’t know they even needed an outlet in order to heal.
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There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale
by Sean Astin with Joe Layden
New York Times Bestseller
The Lord of the Rings is one of the most successful film trilogies in
cinematic history. Nominated for more than 18 Academy Awards, The Lord of
the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers stand as two of the highest grossing films in box office history.
Though each Lord of the Rings DVD includes a special behind the scenes look
at the making of the film -- showing some of the techniques and artistry
employed to bring Tolkien's vision to life -- the real story of what took
place on the set, the harrowing ordeals of the actors and some of the
unspoken controversy that occurred between the cast and studio has never
been heard, until now. There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale is the complete
memoir of Sean Astin, who plays Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings
trilogy. His experience and candid retelling of events is unparalleled. More
than a companion guide to the film, this book is filled with stories from
the set and of the actors involved that have never been told before.
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Wendy's Got the Heat
by Wendy Williams
New York Times bestseller
Known as a "shock jock diva" and "a radio gossip guru," Wendy Williams has had a following in the nation's number one media market, New York City, and across the nation from the time she became a top-rated radio personality and "It Girl" in the mid-1990s. Whether she's doing color commentary for the VH1 Fashion Awards or giving advice on her daily drive-time show on New York's WBLS, her fans know that Wendy's Got the Heat.
She's the kind of media personality that artists love because she builds them up and fear because she can bring them down. She has interviewed many of the biggest names in entertainment, including Jennifer Lopez, Whitney Houston, Queen Latifah and many more, and is known for her ability to disarm and get them to reveal their secrets. Known also as the "biggest mouth in New York," she is candid as well in discussing her own drama-filled life, including her public struggles to recover from drug addiction, her miscarriages, being forced out of her job and then re-hired to a top spot in radio.
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A Smile as Big as the Moon
by Mike Kersjes with Joe Layden
Mike Kersjes always believed that his students could do anything - even attend the prestigious Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama, where some of America's best and brightest high school student compete in a variety of activities similar to those experienced by NASA astronauts training for space shuttle missions. The challenge was convincing else that the kids in his special education class, with disabilities including Tourette's syndrome, Down's Syndrome, dyslexia, eating disorders, and a variety of emotional problems, would benefit from the experience and succeed. With remarkable persistence, Kersjes broke down one barrier after another, from his own principal's office to the inner sanctum of NASA, until Space Camp finally opened its doors. After nine months of rigorous preparation, Kersjes's class arrived at Space Camp, where they turned in a performance beyond everyone's expectations.
A Smile as Big as the Moon is being made into a feature film by Jerry Bruckheimer productions.
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The Rock Says: The Most Electrifying Man in Sports-Entertainment
by Dwayne Johnson with Joe Layden
New York Times Bestseller
In this action-packed, revealing and outrageously funny memoir, WWE Superstar Dwayne Johnson (a.k.a. The Rock) recounts his life in and out of the ring with unapologetic honesty and inimitable style. From his boyhood days traveling around the world with his father (professional wrestler Rocky Johnson) to his years as a football player at the University of Miami to his meteoric rise through the ranks of the Federation, The Rock Says. . . chronicles in vivid detail the life story of one of sports-entertainment's most innovative and best-loved personalities.
The Rock takes fans on a guided tour of big-time professional wrestling, a highly competitive business in which a handful of gifted and lucky performers dominate, and all others dream of a moment in the spotlight. He provides a breathtaking, minute-by-minute account of Wrestle Mania, the Super Bowl of pro wrestling, including an intimate backstage look at rehearsals with his opponent, Stone Cold Steve Austin. And he discusses in heartfelt detail the loss of his friend and co-worker, Owen Hart. Filled with genuinely touching stories of love and strife, hilarious anecdotes and dozens of previously unpublished photographs from Johnson's personal collection, The Rock Says. . . is -- as The Rock himself might put it -- "the coolest thing since the other side of the pillow if you smell what The Rock is cookin'."
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