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Released: March 5, 2013
"A sensitive look at the cultural impact of the man who once was "the face of Judaism in America.""
A veteran sportswriter fondly recalls the life of "the greatest Jewish ballplayer of all time."
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NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"A quick, negative-to-achieve manifesto that initially sounds like a bummer but turns out to be brightly anecdotal."
With the assistance of co-author Hammel (
The Bill Cook Story: Ready, Fire, Aim!, 2008, etc.), legendary college-basketball coach Knight (
Knight: My Story, 2002), known for his anger management issues, sings the praises of negativity.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 5, 2013
"The master of emotional jousting on the court speaks candidly of life challenges off of it--a must-read for basketball junkies, sport fans and any whose lives have been touched by incurable illness."
The NCAA's winningest basketball coach opens up about private and public contests that have defined her.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 26, 2013
"The Stones' dog-eared story is better told in a dozen other accounts."
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Released: Feb. 26, 2013
"Both the light and dark sides of the man who made the country both laugh and gag."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 26, 2013
"A great choice for Gran devotees or World War II enthusiasts, but too limited in scope for general readers."
Highlights from the life of singer Vera Gran (1916–2007) give a deeper look into the cost of surviving the Holocaust and the struggles that haunt those who did.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 26, 2013
"Blending cultural history with biography, memoir and travelogue, Wall's carefully balanced book is, in itself, a successful tightrope traverse."
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Released: Feb. 19, 2013
"A well-paced, thoughtful examination of a singular corpus of work that influenced film portrayals of violence in subsequent decades."
A generous biography of Oscar-winning actor Lee Marvin (1924–1987), best known for his roles in
The Dirty Dozen and
Point Blank.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 19, 2013
"A thoroughly researched, clearly written account of an obsessive search through the tangled borderland of fact and fiction, legend and myth."
A gracefully presented narrative of the 1956 John Ford film
The Searchers, which was based on a 1954 novel that was based on an actual Comanche kidnapping of a white girl in 1836.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 19, 2013
"A small-town-kid-in-a-big-city memoir that mostly shines with borrowed star power but glows every now and then with its own candor and heart."
An Emmy Award–winning CNN producer shares an occasionally humorous peek into his star-studded, behind-the-scenes life in broadcasting.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 19, 2013
"Academics steeped in the work of Pierre Bourdieu will get the most out of this, yet film fans will also find some revelation."
Some incisive insight into independent films framed within a Marxist ethnographic critique that is occasionally impenetrable.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 15, 2013
"May serve as a useful handbook for digital media strategists and marketers, but this dense tome will take a major effort for nonspecialists to fully understand."
A wide-ranging examination of the contemporary media environment as individuals increasingly control their own creation of content.
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