Will and Joel are two forty-three-year-olds in a New Jersey suburb on the verge of the millennium. Will is a married, middle-class soul in torment; Joel is a closet genius who sees the world as nobody else does. Will pities Joel; Joel pities Will. Then their twenty-fifth high school reunion changes everything. Two Guys from Verona is a mystery, but not in the conventional sense. Against the backdrop of an unraveling marriage, of romance old and new, and of a community losing its center, Will and Joel plumb the enigmas of sex, love, friendship, and time itself. As the world moves into the inconceivable realm of the 2000s, each man's life takes a turn into a world he never could have imagined.

Two Guys from Verona: A Novel of Suburbia

James Kaplan

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Pan Books

Dean and Me: A Love Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Jerry Lewis

Arts & Literature

Sinatra: The Chairman

Anchor

Play Nice But Win: A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader

Michael Dell

Portfolio

Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans & The Lost Empire of Cool

Canongate

Who was Frank Sinatra? And how did who he was lead to him creating such incomparable music? In FRANK, fans finally have a biography that goes more deeply into who he really was than any previous book about this extraordinary man. Sinatra was a bundle of contradictions. At once both spoiled and neglected by his tough, clever, insensitive parents, he grew up convinced of his special destiny and agonisingly lonely. He came to define modern manhood, yet in many ways he never grew up. In this book, we relive the years 1915 to 1954 in glistening detail, experiencing as if for the first time Sinatra's journey from the streets, his fall from the apex of celebrity, and his Oscar-winning return in From Here to Eternity. Here at last is the biographer who makes the reader feel what it was really like to be Frank Sinatra - with the biography that, finally, gets under his skin.

Frank: The Making of a Legend

Sphere Books

Frank: The Making of a Legend. by James Kaplan

SPHERE

Just in time for the Chairman’s centennial, the endlessly absorbing sequel to James Kaplan’s bestselling Frank: The Voice—which completes the definitive biography that Frank Sinatra, justly termed the “Entertainer of the Century,” deserves and requires. Like Peter Guralnick on Elvis, Kaplan goes behind the legend to give us the man in full, in his many guises and aspects: peerless singer, (sometimes) accomplished actor, business mogul, tireless lover, and associate of the powerful and infamous.     In 2010’s Frank: The Voice, James Kaplan, in rich, distinctive, compulsively readable prose, told the story of Frank Sinatra’s meteoric rise to fame, subsequent failures, and reinvention as a star of live performance and screen. The story of “Ol’ Blue Eyes” continues with Sinatra: The Chairman, picking up the day after he claimed his Academy Award in 1954 and had reestablished himself as the top recording artist. Sinatra’s life post-Oscar was astonishing in scope and achievement and, occasionally, scandal, including immortal recordings almost too numerous to count, affairs ditto, many memorable films (and more than a few stinkers), Rat Pack hijinks that mesmerized the world with their air of masculine privilege, and an intimate involvement at the intersection of politics and organized crime that continues to shock and astound with its hubris. James Kaplan has orchestrated the wildly disparate aspects of Frank Sinatra’s life and character into an American epic—a towering achievement in biography of a stature befitting its subject.

Finally, a book that makes identifying Fraternal Swords Simple and Easy!
More than 900 color photographs show you all the important details. Learn to tell rare swords from common ones. Nearly 600 swords are shown - all arranged by organization. Includes a directory of makers, organizations and insignia.
Find out why Norm Flayderman says: 'Certain to be of immediate and practical use to the reader...authoritative, remarkably extensive [and] a formidable guidebook.'
8.5x11 inches, coated paper, 600+ photographs.

The American Fraternal Sword; An Illustrated Reference Guide

John D. Hamilton

Joseph Marino

Reference

Andrew Mowbray Publishers, Inc.

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