A heart-breaking true story of a young girl's childhoodshattered by her abusive father

Product De*ion Beginning with Bruce Lee'shigh school years in Hong Kong, this collection of correspondenceoffers readers an intimate glimpse into the life of Lee as artist,husband, father, and friend. 60 illustrations. From the Inside Flap

In Lady Blue Eyes, Barbara Sinatra's firstpubliclove letter to the husband she adored, she celebratesthesensational singer, possessive mate, sexy heart-throb, and devotedfriend that she found in Frank.For more than two decades, Barbarawas always byhis side, traveling the globe and hostingglitteringevents for their famous friends, including presi-dents,kings, queens, Hollywood royalty, and musi-cal legends. Among themwere Sammy Davis Jr.,Princess Grace of Monaco, Bob Dylan, andRonaldReagan. Each night, as Frank publicly wooed hisbride withlove songs from a concert stage, she'd fallin love with him allover again.

Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popularattractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker inthe world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, orMussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racingestablishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorsewith the sad tail. Three men changed Seabiscuit’s fortunes: Charles Howard was a onetime bicycle repairman who introduced theautomobile to the western United States and became an overnightmillionaire. When he needed a trainer for his new racehorses, hehired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from the Coloradoplains. Smith urged Howard to buy Seabiscuit for a bargain-basementprice, then hired as his jockey Red Pollard, a failed boxer who wasblind in one eye, half-crippled, and prone to quoting passages fromRalph Waldo Emerson. Over four years, these unlikely partnerssurvived a phenomenal run of bad fortune, conspiracy, and severeinjury to transform Seabiscuit from a neurotic, pathologicallyindolent also-

In Flash of Genius, John Seabrook explores the moment when inspiration strikes in an otherwise average life, and what happens when that idea moves out into the larger culture and takes on a life—and commercial possibilities—of its own. The title piece in this collection is the David v. Goliath story of Bob Kearns, a professor and inventor who came up with something we all use every chance we get: the intermittent windshield wiper. When Kearns’ patents were infringed, he fought General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, and eventually prevailed in a classic American story of never giving up, never backing down. Seabrook has been fascinated by stories of invention and entrepreneurship since childhood, when he grew up with an uncle who invented something as ubiquitous as Bob Kearns’ wipers: boil-in-bag vegetables. In Flash of Genius, Seabrook also writes about his family’s invention and about thirteen other iconoclastic visions that turned into the stuff of every day.

The lavishly illustrated, sparkling portrait of the pioneering arbiter of style, the creator of the New Look, with an introduction by John Galliano Christian Dior, the legendary French fashion designer, caused a worldwide sensation in 1947, in a Paris still groping to recover from the devastations of wartime occupation. Reintroducing the flowing, ankle-length skirt, Dior gave women back their long-lost sense of freedom, femininity, and joie de vivre. Dior's collection with its pinched waste and generous folds of fabric, was dubbed the "New Look" by the press, especially the American fashion journalists. Dior was crowned "The King of Fashion," and he immediately reestablished Paris as the center of the fashion world. With elegance, precision, and impeccable research, Marie- France Pochna recreates this one-of-a-kind world of glamour and luxury and situates Dior's fairy-tale career in the rich tapestry of Paris cultural life.

Warren Buffett's wit and wisdom is a roadmap for those lookingto succeed in business, investing, and life. This title is intendedfor those who want to improve their investing skills. It outlinesBuffett's philosophy and techniques

Acclaimed British historian Anthony Everitt delivers a compelling account of the former orphan who became Roman emperor in A.D. 117 after the death of his guardian Trajan. Hadrian strengthened Rome by ending territorial expansion and fortifying existing borders. And - except for the uprising he triggered in Judea - his strength-based diplomacy brought peace to the realm after a century of warfare.

In Franklin and Lucy, acclaimed author and historian Joseph E.Persico explores FDR’s romance with Lucy Rutherfurd. Persico’sprovocative conclusions about their relationship are informed by arevealing range of sources, including never-before-publishedletters and documents from Lucy Rutherfurd’s estate that attest tothe intensity of the affair, which lasted much longer than waspreviously acknowledged. FDR’s connection with Lucy also creates anopportunity for Persico to take a more penetrating look at theother women in FDR’s life. We come to see more clearly how FDR’sinfidelity contributed to Eleanor Roosevelt’s eventualtransformation from a repressed Victorian to perhaps the greatestAmerican woman of her century; how FDR’s strong-willed motherhelped to strengthen his resolve in overcoming personal and publicadversity; and how both paramours and platonic friends completedthe world that FDR inhabited. In focusing on Lucy Rutherfurd andthe other women who mattered to Roosevelt, Persico renders

Michael J. Neufeld, curator and space historian at theSmithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, delivers a brilliantlynuanced biography of Wernher von Braun. Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathersof the U.S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source ofconsistent fascination. Glorified as a visionary and vilified as awar criminal, he was a man of profound moral complexities, whoseintelligence and charisma were coupled with an enormous and, somewould say, blinding ambition. Based on new sources, Neufeld'sbiography delivers a meticulously researched and authoritativeportrait of the creator of the V-2 rocket and his times, detailinghow he was a man caught between morality and progress, between hisdreams of the heavens and the earthbound realities of his life.

An astonishing and at times outright comic memoir that marksthe brilliant debut of a writer raised in a creative, bohemianhousehold characterized by extreme privilege tinged withneglect. Born into one of the most celebrated Anglo-Irish families, theGuinnesses, Ivana Lowell tells a stunning story of coming to termswith her blue-blood heritage and her own childhood traumas. It isalso the story of her intense relationship with her formidablyintelligent and complicated mother, the writer Caroline Blackwood.A keen observer with an incisive eye, a wicked sense of humor, andno self-pity, Lowell sets a wide range of scenes with a trulyunexpected, almost madcap cast of characters, introducing us tosuch eccentric figures as her maternal grandmother, Maureen, theMarchioness of Dufferin and Ava. She takes us from themarchioness’s annual ball for her idol and old friend, the QueenMother, to Maureen’s stately Irish home, Clandeboye (where themarchioness hopes to die), to summers in Dufferin’s villa inSar

Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a grayduffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling acrossAmerica. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sittingnext to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named ThomasHarvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- thensimply removed the brain and took it home. And kept it for overforty years. On a cold February day, the two men and the brain leave NewJersey and light out on I-70 for sunny California, where Einstein'sperplexed granddaughter, Evelyn, awaits. And riding along as theimaginary fourth passenger is Einstein himself, an id-drivengenius, the original galactic slacker with his head in the stars.Part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part biography, andpart meditation, Driving Mr. Albert is one of the most unique roadtrips in modern literature.

One day in late 1906, seventy-one-year-old Mark Twain attendeda meeting on copyright law at the Library of Congress. The arrivalof the famous author caused the usual stir—but then Twain took offhis overcoat to reveal a "snow-white" tailored suit and scandalizedthe room. His shocking outfit appalled and delighted hiscontemporaries, but far more than that, as Pulitzer Prize finalistMichael Shelden shows in this wonderful new biography, Twain hadbrilliantly staged this act of showmanship to cement his image, andhis personal legend, in the public's imagination. That afternoon inWashington, less than four years before his death, marked thebeginning of a vibrant, tumultuous period in Twain's life thatwould shape much of the now-famous image by which he has come to beknown—America's indomitable icon, the Man in White. Although Mark Twain has long been one of our most belovedliterary figures—Time magazine has declared him "our originalsuperstar"—his final years have been largely misunderstood. D

The God of Thunder returns in the New York Times Bestseller –Now in paperback and hotter than hell! * More insight from the Demon – Including the making of Destroyerand the truth behind the greatest rock band in the world * Look for all four special collector's covers * And more photos You wanted the truth, you got the truth—the hottest book in theworld! Fueled by an explosive mix of makeup, costumes, and attitude, KISSburst onto the music scene thirty years ago and has become a rockinstitution. The band has sold more than eighty million records,has broken every concert attendance record set by Elvis Presley andthe Beatles, stands behind the Beatles alone in number of goldrecords from any group in history, and has spawned more than 2,500licenses. There would have been no KISS without Gene Simmons, the outrageousstar whose superlong tongue, legendary sexual exploits, and demonicmakeup have made him a rock icon. KISS and Make-Up is the wild,shocking, unbelievable story, from the man himself, about how an

Ronald Reagan’s eight years in the White House had as much impact throughout the world as have any American president’s terms before or since. For five and a half of those years, from June 1983 until Reagan’s last day in office, official White House photographer Pete Souza was the president’s virtual shadow. Souza’s unlimited access to the president helped him chronicle one of the most eventful periods in modern history with startling detail and unequalled passion. Souza and his cameras were present during some of the most significant events in world politics, and his personal relationship with the president also allowed him into the most intimate reaches of Reagan’s world. From the president’s angry utterance to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev following the failed 1986 summit meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, to his playfully tossing a paper airplane off a hotel balcony, Images of Greatness poignantly captures the drama and impact of Reagan’s presidency as well as the humor and compassion that

First introduced to the world in her sons’ now-classicmemoirs—Augusten Burroughs’s Running with Scissors and John ElderRobison’s Look Me in the Eye—Margaret Robison now tells her ownhaunting and lyrical story. A poet and teacher by profession,Robison describes her Southern Gothic childhood, her marriage to ahandsome, brilliant man who became a split-personality alcoholicand abusive husband, the challenges she faced raising two childrenwhile having psychotic breakdowns of her own, and her struggle toregain her sanity. Robison grew up in southern Georgia, where the fa?ade of 1950spropriety masked all sorts of demons, including alcoholism,misogyny, repressed homosexuality, and suicide. She met herhusband, John Robison, in college, and together they moved upnorth, where John embarked upon a successful academic career andMargaret brought up the children and worked on her art and poetry.Yet her husband’s alcoholism and her collapse into psychosis, andthe eventual disintegration of their mar

Neil Young is one of rock and roll’s most important andenigmatic figures, a legend from the sixties who is still hugelyinfluential today. He has never granted a writer access to hisinner life – until now. Based on six years of interviews with morethan three hundred of Young’s associates, and on more than fiftyhours of interviews with Young himself, Shakey is a fascinating,prodigious account of the singer’s life and career. Jimmy McDonoughfollows Young from his childhood in Canada to his cofounding ofBuffalo Springfield to the huge success of Crosby, Stills, Nash andYoung to his comeback in the nineties. Filled withnever-before-published words directly from the artist himself,Shakey is an essential addition to the top shelf of rockbiographies.