Editorial Content for You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl
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Humor writer Celia Rivenbark has a new collection of essays, YOU DON’T SWEAT MUCH FOR A FAT GIRL, and it’s a rip-roaring read. I’m sure I looked like a nut laughing poolside while reading this book. What makes Rivenbark’s writing so entertaining is that it’s a lot like seeing a stand-up comedy act: she does an uncanny job of keeping the flow of comedy fresh.
"Rivenbark’s edgy humor pokes fun at how our nation embraces cuteness --- right down to cartoon bears showing how soft toilet paper can be."
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From the bestselling author of YOU CAN'T DRINK ALL DAY IF YOU DON'T START IN THE MORNING comes another collection of hilarious observations that will resonate with women, mothers and girlfriends everywhere.
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From the bestselling, award-winning author of YOU CAN'T DRINK ALL DAY IF YOU DON'T START IN THE MORNING comes another collection of hilarious observations that will resonate with women, mothers and girlfriends everywhere.
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From the bestselling, award-winning author of YOU CAN'T DRINK ALL DAY IF YOU DON'T START IN THE MORNING, comes another collection of hilarious observations that will resonate with women, mothers, and girlfriends everywhere
In her newest wickedly irreverent humor collection, Celia Rivenbark cracks up while getting her downward facing dog on, pines for a world in which every mom gets to behave like Betty Draper and wonders why everybody's so excited about the Science Fair when there aren't even any rides. In it you’ll find essays on such topics as:
Menopause Spurs Thoughts of Death and Turkey
I Dreamed a Dream That My Lashes Were Long
Twitter Woes: I’ve Got Plenty of Characters, Just No Character
Movie To-Do List: Cook Like Julia, Adopt Really Big Kid
Charlie Bit Your Finger? Good! And other thoughts on the virus that is YouTube
And much more! For any woman who longs for the good old days when Jane Fonda in legwarmers was the only one who saw you exercise, YOU DON’T SWEAT MUCH FOR A FAT GIRL is comfort food in book form.
Editorial Content for Bye Bye, Baby
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Nathan Heller is a Chicago-based private eye who, during the first two-thirds of the 20th century, slowly and steadily built his detective agency into the go-to house for the rich and famous. His exploits along the way have answered, or attempted to answer, such questions as: Who really kidnapped the Lindbergh baby? Who was responsible for assassinating Huey Long? What really happened to Amelia Earhart? Heller is a seemingly ubiquitous name-dropping private eye who is much less than three degrees of separation away from presidents, singers, mobsters, actresses and magazine moguls. Read More
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PI Nathan Heller returns in his first new novel in a decade, as Max Allan Collins brings to life a vivid star-studded cast, from JFK and RFK to Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford, from Jimmy Hoffa and Joe DiMaggio to Hugh Hefner and Sam Giancana.
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It’s 1962, and Twentieth Century Fox is threatening to fire Marilyn Monroe. The blond goddess hires Nate Heller, private eye to the stars, to tap her phone so she will have a record of their calls in case they take her to court. When Heller starts listening, he uncovers far more than nasty conversations. The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia --- even the Russians --- are involved in actions focused on Marilyn. She’s the quintessential American cultural icon, idolized by women, desired by men, but her private life is... complicated...and her connection to the Kennedys makes her an object of interest to some parties with sinister intentions.
Not long after Heller signs on, Marilyn winds up dead of a convenient overdose. The detective feels he owes her, and the Kennedys, with whom he busted up corrupt unions in the 1950s. But now, as Heller investigates all possible people --- famous, infamous, or deeply cloaked --- who might be responsible for Marilyn’s death, he realizes that what has become his most challenging assignment may also be the end of him.
PI Nathan Heller returns in his first new novel in a decade, as Max Allan Collins brings to life a vivid star-studded cast, from JFK and RFK to Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford, from Jimmy Hoffa and Joe DiMaggio to Hugh Hefner and Sam Giancana. BYE BYE, BABY is a Hollywood tale you never thought could happen…but probably did.
Content for Courage Beyond the Game
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A recent headline in the New York Times aptly described the current state of college football as a scandal-ridden, money-hungry and dysfunctional institution: “The Only Thing That Rules College Football is Anarchy.” The first decade of the 21st century has found the sport mired in scandals involving both players and coaches. The coveted Heisman Trophy, symbolic of the game’s greatest player, was surrendered by winner Reggie Bush following allegations of payment during his career at USC. Successful coaches have also been fired after being accused of malfeasance. Read More
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Jim Dent, the award-winning author of THE JUNCTION BOYS, returns with a powerful Texas story that transcends college football, displaying the courage and determination of one of the game"s most valiant players.
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Freddie Steinmark was an under-sized but scrappy young man when he arrived in Austin as a freshman at the University of Texas in 1967. Despite the pronouncement by many coaches that he was too small to play football at the college level, Freddie was a tenacious competitor who vowed to start every game as a varsity Longhorn.
By the start of the 1969 season, Freddie was making his mark on the college gridiron and national stage as UT’s star safety, but he’d also developed a crippling pain in his thigh that worried his high school sweetheart, Linda. Despite the increasingly debilitating pain, Freddie continued to play throughout the season, helping the Longhorns to rip through opponents like pulpwood. His final game was for the national championship at the end of 1969, when the Longhorns rallied to beat Arkansas in a legendary game that has become known as “the Game of the Century.”
Tragically, bone cancer took Freddie off the field when nothing else could. But nothing could extinguish his irrepressible spirit or keep him away from the game. Although his struggle with cancer would be short-lived, Freddie’s fight would inspire the nation as well as thousands of cancer victims, earning him a special citation from President Richard Nixon. Today, a photo of Freddie hangs in the tunnel at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, where players touch it before games en route to the field. With this moving story, a BRIAN'S SONG for college football, Jim Dent once again brings readers to cheers and tears with a truly American tale of resolution and bravery in the face of the worst odds.
Editorial Content for Becoming Marie Antoinette
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Marie Antoinette has long been a favorite character of mine in historical fiction. There’s the French court, the elaborate pomp and circumstance, and the setting --- Versailles. In BECOMING MARIE ANTOINETTE, Juliet Grey takes us past the court window dressings, introducing us to a young girl struggling to fit in and be someone much more French than her Austrian roots allow.
"While this Marie Antoinette isn’t the refined and glamorous woman of most historical fiction, she’s certainly a lovable character, most of which is due to her age."
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Raised alongside her numerous brothers and sisters by the formidable empress of Austria, 10-year-old Maria Antonia knew that her idyllic existence would one day be sacrificed to her mother’s political ambitions. What she never anticipated was that the day would come so soon.
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This first installment in a new trilogy follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian archduchess into the reckless, powerful, beautiful queen Marie Antoinette.
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Why must it be me? I wondered. When I am so clearly inadequate to my destiny?
Raised alongside her numerous brothers and sisters by the formidable empress of Austria, 10-year-old Maria Antonia knew that her idyllic existence would one day be sacrificed to her mother’s political ambitions. What she never anticipated was that the day in question would come so soon.
Before she can journey from sunlit picnics with her sisters in Vienna to the glitter, glamour, and gossip of Versailles, Antonia must change everything about herself in order to be accepted as dauphine of France and the wife of the awkward teenage boy who will one day be Louis XVI. Yet nothing can prepare her for the ingenuity and influence it will take to become queen.
Filled with smart history, treacherous rivalries, lavish clothes, and sparkling jewels, BECOMING MARIE ANTOINETTE will utterly captivate fiction and history lovers alike.
Editorial Content for Thirteen Million Dollar Pop
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David Levien has been mining the dark criminal underbelly of Indianapolis in a series of books featuring a solo private investigator named Frank Behr. Behr is a big, tough guy, instinctively smart and imminently capable, whose tragic flaw and greatest strength is his inability to color inside the lines. CITY OF THE SUN and WHERE THE DEAD LAY, the first two books in the series, introduced and explored Behr’s strengths and weaknesses against the backdrop of urban crime. Read More
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The bestselling author of CITY OF THE SUN returns with a relentlessly taut new novel featuring enigmatic private investigator Frank Behr and the American heartland setting that has won David Levien critical acclaim.
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The bestselling author of CITY OF THE SUN returns with a relentlessly taut new novel featuring enigmatic private investigator Frank Behr and the American heartland setting that has won David Levien critical acclaim.
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In an Indianapolis underground parking structure, Frank Behr is on an executive protection detail for Bernard “Bernie Cool” Kolodnik, a hard-driving business mogul on the verge of making a move into big-time Indiana politics. Behr is working for an exclusive investigation company, and it’s an uncomfortable fit, both literally and philosophically. The uneasy stability is quickly rocked by a burst of automatic weapons fire as an attempt is made on the prominent client, and Behr manages to protect him and repel the attackers. Though Behr is celebrated for his heroism, he can’t help but investigate what happened in that garage --- and why the Indianapolis cops seem to be burying the incident.
As David Levien has masterfully done in his previous novels, he weaves a crime story that is teeming with real characters and electric energy --- centered on the brooding psyche of Frank Behr. THIRTEEN MILLION DOLLAR POP is unyieldingly compelling and will give readers yet another reason to enlist with this superbly talented writer.
Editorial Content for Stealing Mona Lisa
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1925. It has been 15 years since the theft of the Mona Lisa from its perch on a wall at the Louvre. The marquis Eduardo de Valfierno lies on his deathbed as he tells a young reporter a riveting tale of how he plotted that theft.
STEALING MONA LISA is an opulent retelling of the Valfierno myth, with action galore and twists in abundance.
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What happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting?
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What happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting?
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What happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting?
