NONFICTION
Released: July 1, 2011
"Wry and rollicking, these escapades offer old-fashioned literary fun while somewhat taxing reader credulity and patience."
NONFICTION
Released: June 21, 2011
"A fast-paced, heart-racing nonfiction thriller, occasionally bloated by excessive drugs, blood and bullets."
Jorge Salcedo's clandestine transition from a notorious drug cartel's head of security to a DEA informant.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 14, 2011
"Both a gripping true-crime narrative and an astonishing portrait of fin de siècle yellow journalism."
Collins (English/Portland State Univ.; The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Changed the World, 2010, etc.) unpacks a sensational 1897 murder case that fascinated the public as it played out across the front pages of the New York City's leading newspapers: Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 14, 2011
"While somewhat unique, El Sicario's tale is also quite familiar—one in which the power of money, drugs and women all play a role in achieving the necessary numbness required to carry out unspeakable crimes."
A reformed assassin's tell-all of the horrors endured and executed throughout his years in the Mexican drug trade.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 14, 2011
"Despite the murky title, this is a beautifully composed, deeply felt journey inside Morocco."
An improbable pursuit of a strange murder in Casablanca segues into a moving study of cross-cultural friendship.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 31, 2011
"A valiant effort to determine truth, marred by clunky writing, repetition, poorly organized chapters and—despite primary research using court and prison records—over-reliance on superficial and less-than-accurate newspaper clippings."
NONFICTION
Released: May 31, 2011
"A wonderfully creative beginning to what promises to be a revitalizing history series."
Overlooked Gilded Age crooked financier Jim Fisk receives a compelling historical exhumation.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 17, 2011
"A feel-good narrative that underscores the brutal effects of poverty at home and injustice abroad."
Unusual split memoir of the intertwined lives of a reformed drug dealer and a misfit turned Africa diplomat.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 17, 2011
"Just the facts—and still a great story."
NONFICTION
Released: May 17, 2011
Examination of a 22-year-old crime that resulted in wrongful convictions of five adolescents.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 16, 2011
"By nature depressing, but shot through with rays of optimism."
NONFICTION
Released: May 10, 2011
"A riveting tale of an unusual abduction and a father's determination to regain rightful custody of his son."
With the assistance of veteran co-author Abraham (Billy: The Untold Story of a Young Billy Graham and the Test of Faith that Almost Changed Everything, 2008, etc.), Goldman tells the story of his six-year battle to regain custody of his son Sean.
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