Rudy Giuliani emerged from the smoke of 9/11 as the unquestioned hero of the day: America's Mayor, the father figure we could all rely on to be tough, to be wise, to do the right thing. In that uncertain time, it was a comfort to know that he was on the scene and in control, making the best of a dire situation.
But was he really?
Grand Illusion is the definitive report on Rudy Giuliani's role in 9/11—the true story of what happened that day and the first clear-eyed evaluation of Giuliani's role before, during, and after the disaster.
While the pictures of a soot-covered Giuliani making his way through the streets became very much a part of his personal mythology, they were also a symbol of one of his greatest failures. The mayor's performance, though marked by personal courage and grace under fire, followed two terms in office pursuing an utterly wrongheaded approach to the city's security against terrorism. Turning the mythology on its head, Grand Illusion reveals how Giuliani has revised his own history, casting himself as prescient terror hawk when in fact he ran his administration as if terrorist threats simply did not exist, too distracted by pet projects and turf wars to attend to vital precautions.
Authors Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins also provide the first authoritative view of the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, recounting the triumphs and missteps of the city's efforts to heal itself. With surprising new reporting about the victims, the villains, and the heroes, this is an eye-opening reassessment of one of the pivotal events—and politicians—of our time.

Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11

History

Barrett, Wayne

Collins, Dan

Americas

Harper

Following a stint as a Las Vegas showgirl and an early botched marriage, Lee Annis has finally found some definition and success as part of Anaconda, the band she fronts alongside the enigmatic Billy. But all is set to change as Billy announces that he's about to marry and pull the plug on the band and his life with Lee. Unable to shake off the bizarre, sometimes macabre, grip of the past, Lee resorts to the usual analgesics of sex and drugs, as she probes the true nature of her complex, troubled relationship with Billy.

How It Ends

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

RANDOM HOUSE UK

A former prosecutor and criminal defense lawyer takes readers behind the scenes of famous cases of the past decade while describing his own roles in such events as the "French Connection" heroin theft and the first conviction of a corrupt FBI agent.

In the Name of the Law: Confessions of a Trial Lawyer

Biographies & Memoirs

Puccio, Thomas P.

Professionals & Academics

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Three journalists combine their own observations with anecdotes from Koch's friends and critics to capture all the facets of the outspoken, enigmatic mayor

I, Koch: A Decidedly Unauthorized Biography of the Mayor of New York City, Edward I. Koch

Browne, Arthur

Goodwin, Michael

Regional U.S.

Dodd, Mead

Based on the 2001 Sundance Film Festival documentary, Southern Comfort follows the last year of Robert Eads, a transgender man in Georgia, as he is diagnosed with ovarian cancer. He surrounds himself with his chosen family, who are predominantly transgender, as they share monthly potluck meals. Like any family, they have their own trials and tribulations, but ultimately they all seek acceptence for who they are in their own skin.

Southern Comfort

Davis, Julianne Wick

Dramas & Plays

Concord Theatricals

No Chris Paul? No Walter Davis? What is this guy, blind? Brain-addled? Actually, he's neither. Dan Collins was already immersed in ACC basketball the day in 1971 he and the Carmichael Auditorium faithful lustily booed the visiting South Carolina Gamecocks, the conference villains of his student days. Since then, in his tenure at the Chapel Hill Newspaper and his 20-plus years as Wake Forest beat reporter for the Winston-Salem Journal, he has watched countless ACC games and interviewed and written about greats from Juan Dixon to Christian Laettner to Ralph Sampson to Michael Jordan. Collins devoted two years to devising a system to fairly select an ACC Basketball Hall of Fame. Most of his inductees have universal appeal from latter-day greats including Tyler Hansbrough and J. J. Redick to old-timers including Len Chappell and Ronnie Shavlik. But others are nearly forgotten gems, like Lou Pucillo, the five-nine high-school benchwarmer discovered playing against the Philadelphia School for the Blind and Deaf. The 78 illustrated player profiles in this book will prove an anecdote- and trivia-filled delight even to fans who think they know ACC basketball. Remember Tim Duncan's comment after Randolph Childress beaned a Duke fan with a postgame full-court heave?* Or David Thompson's legendary kindnesses to reporters, fans, and critics? Readers will especially enjoy the "Portico of Prominence" chapter, which recognizes players among them Paul and Davis who were undoubtedly great but didn't accumulate the credentials for admission to the Hall of Fame. Longtime ACC scribe Dan Collins's cards are on the table. Let the argument begin.

The ACC Basketball Book of Fame

Sports & Outdoors

Basketball

John F Blair Pub

Collins Educational.com and Dan Collins published the Award-Winning multimedia Sound Selling Audiobook which accommodates all learning styles and incorporates new age musical interludes to invigorate the mind. Their program produces real results, enhancing personal effectiveness in business, sales and life.

Sound Selling Audiobook: Clearer View of How to Reach Your Goals

Business & Money

Collins Educational Llc

Marketing & Sales

Straight from Hustler Magazine comes creator Dan Collins' Kirbyesque full-color masterpiece. When mild mannered Miles Long, dedicated gynecologist, is exposed to a radioactive pussy fart, he becomes Captain Hardon, champion of the sexually repressed. Battling the guilt mongers who rob us of our identities and bend our libidos to their will, he fights for truth, justice, and a little pussy, when he can get it!

Capt Hardon

Eros Comix

Based on the gold-standard currency of tradition and success, few college basketball programs are richer in history than Wake Forest University’s. This reissue of Tales from the Wake Forest Demon Deacons Locker Room, first published in 2004, traces that vibrant history from the birth of the league to the growing successes of the team today. An original member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Demon Deacons have provided the acclaimed league with much of its color and characternot to mention many of its colorful characters. Author Dan Collins provides stories about legendary players like Muggsy Bogues, the 5’3” guard who defied the description of basketball as a big man’s game, and the glory days of Tim Duncan, the onetime aspiring Olympic swimmer who grew up to become a five-time NBA champion and one of the greatest players in the game. The book looks at great coaches like Richard Crozier, the director of the university gymnasium who introduced basketball to Wake Forest; coach Murray Greason, whose love for the game of basketball was second only to his love for his beagle hounds; and coach Bones McKinney, the hyperactive Baptist minister whose dual, and at times dueling, religions were based on the Bible and basketball. Tales from the Wake Forest Demon Deacons Locker Room chronicles how Wake Forest basketball survived the university’s relocation from the quaint town of Wake Forest to the city of Winston-Salem, and how the university has thrived with the support of its devoted fans. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sportsbooks about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Tales from the Wake Forest Demon Deacons Locker Room: A Collection of the Greatest Demon Deacon Stories Ever Told (Tales from the Team)

Sports Publishing

I wrote this book as part of a personal journey to learn more about nutrition and fitness so that I could better understand the role nutrition plays in reshaping my body. Once I discovered the prevalent fitness concept of carbohydrate rich diets and workout routines centered around cardio training were simply wrong, it became my mission to spread the word - the truth about nutrition and fitness. The discovery that regularly eating large amounts of carbohydrates and how that directly affected my blood sugar management was the key to determining why my body created and retained body fat. This realization led me to design Eat More, Do Less, Get Fit to explain why the current and accepted misperceptions about nutrition and training are so wrong and what I believe to be the correct method to reshape your body. When it comes to training, I learned that it is not cardio, but progressive weight training that will reshape your body. Cardio only trains slow-twitch muscle while progressive weight training works your fast-twitch muscle. Fast-twitch muscle fiber is the only one of the two that can be grown which is necessary to reshaping your body. I am just a regular guy who has discovered what it really takes to reshape your body through nutrition & fitness training and it is not near as hard as what you have been led to believe. All you have to do is Eat More, Do Less, Get Fit

Eat More, Do Less, Get Fit: Health and Fitness for Everyone

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Nutrition

Palmetto Publishing Group

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