"Centered around multi-million dollar stakes and a series of nationally televised poker tournaments, Fading Hearts on the River offers a story of odds-the odds of a newborn surviving severe jaundice, the odds of Congress passing a law that renders one's online gambling income in…
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In graphic novel format, tells the story of the author's father Vladek Spiegelman's experience as a Jew in Poland during the years leading up to and during the Second World War, along with the author's experiences growing up with the man in New York.
Tuesdays with Morrie meets F My Life in this hilarious coming-of-age book about a son's relationship with his foul-mouthed father by the 29-year-old comedy writer who created the massively popular Twitter feed of the same name.
Back to Bizkaia: a Basque-American memoir
by Szawiola, Kathleen, Juaristi, Vince J.
fromBasque series
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A memoir from the Newsweek foreign correspondent in which he explores his relationship with his father, a spy with the CIA whose murky past causes a lifetime of suspicion and deception.
A memoir from the Newsweek foreign correspondent in which he explores his relationship with his father, a spy with the CIA whose murky past causes a lifetime of suspicion and deception.
A memoir from the Newsweek foreign correspondent in which he explores his relationship with his father, a spy with the CIA whose murky past causes a lifetime of suspicion and deception.
A memoir from the Newsweek foreign correspondent in which he explores his relationship with his father, a spy with the CIA whose murky past causes a lifetime of suspicion and deception.
Chronicles the author's efforts to reconcile with his harsh fighter pilot father, who inspired "The Great Santini," recounting how at the end of his father's life, he defended the author from his critics while helping to heal family estrangements.
Sgt. Steve Maharidge, like many of his generation, hardly ever talked about the war. The only sign he'd served in it was a single black and white photograph of himself and another soldier tacked to the wall of his basement, where he would grind steel. After Steve Maharidge's dea…
A son's quest to find the surviving members of his father's Marine company leads to a deeper understanding of the devastating Pacific battles of WWII, and the haunted men who came home. --from publisher description.
"A wrenching memoir in which the creator of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, one of the most popular shows of all time, applies forensic techniques to his estranged father's suicide and his own unlikely rise in Hollywood"--