Learning Curves in Business, Hits, Misses, and Home Runs : 21 Stories of Ann Arbor Area Business Leaders as Told to Jeff Mortimer

Mortimer, Jeff

Momentum Books

Italian Hall: The Official Transcript of the Coroner's Inquest

In his thought-provoking memoir, Turning White, Emmy Award-winning TV broadcaster Lee Thomas shares the physical and mental battle he is waging with vitiligo a skin disorder that is literally turning him white. 
 At age 25, Thomas had a dream job in a dream city as a feature/entertainment reporter for the ABC networks flagship TV station in New York. Then he discovered a few white spots on his scalp, the small beginnings of a disease that has spread to half his face -- a fact he covers with makeup when on camera. 
 As someone in the very public eye, vitiligo has transformed not only Thomas' color, but his life. "Even people who have known me for years avoid eye contact when they see my face without makeup for the first time," he writes. 
 Recently, Thomas turned the spotlight on himself during a special report for WJBK FOX 2 Detroit, where he is currently an entertainment reporter. 
 In Turning White, Thomas shares his journey to help people understand vitiligo, and to help others cope with the psychological war that comes from this life-changing disease.

Turning White: A Memoir of Change

Biographies & Memoirs

LEE, Thomas

Arts & Literature

Ladies and gentlemen...rev your engines for a joyride through auto show history. Dozens of photographs of human hood ornaments and fast cars will bring you back and drive you forward - from turn-of-the-century goddesses and 1950s sexpots to the sleek sophistication of today's auto show spokespeople.

Sirens of Chrome: The Enduring Allure of Auto Show Models

History

Margery Krevsky

Americas

Art of the Journey: One author, four distinct art forms; ideas that will inspire you and make you think. Art of the Journey can embolden you to embark on your own unique artistic adventure or other worthwhile pursuits. Art of the Journey is rich in diverse prose, poetry, and artistic expressions. Just as the prolific 20th century book, The Prophert, by Kahlil Gibran was the gift of choice by millions, Art of the Journey is destined to be found in classrooms, on coffee tables, and in office lobbies across America and beyond. The vision of its author is that it will be an instrument of inspiration for anyone, young or old, who yearns to express themselves through the written word and artistic creations. Don Tocco is a fortunate entrepreneur who followed his dreams from humble beginnings to becoming a business leader and popular speaker for youth across America and seventy countries. Tireless in his efforts to help anyone who aspires to discover their God-given talents, he offers Art of the Journey as an example of what is possible.

Art of the Journey: Original Poetry & Works of Art

Don Tocco

One author, four distinct art forms; ideas that will inspire you and make you think. Art of the Journey can embolden you to embark on your own unique artistic adventure or other worthwhile pursuits. Art of the Journey is rich in diverse prose, poetry, and artistic expressions. Just as the prolific 20th century book, The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran was the gift of choice by millions, Art of the Journey is destined to be found in classrooms, on coffee tables, and in office lobbies across America and beyond. The vision of its author is that it will be an instrument of inspiration for anyone, young or old, who yearns to express themselves through the written word and artistic creations. Don Tocco is a fortunate entrepreneur who followed his dreams from humble beginnings to becoming a business leader and popular speaker for youth across America and seventy countries. Tireless in his efforts to help anyone who aspires to discover their God-given talents, he offers Art of the Journey as an example of what is possible.

Art of the Journey

Arts & Photography

Riverside Lane

Black, Ginger

A mysterious American arrives in a quintessentially English village claiming to be on holiday but not all the residents are convinced by the handsome stranger's story. Behind perfect privets and brightly painted front doors, the lives of Riverside Lane’s residents slowly unravel, until it becomes apparent that the American may not be the only deceiver in their midst. Tension begins to mount in this quintessentially English community – now revealed to be a labyrinth of deception – and culminates in an unexpected death. The villagers threaten more than his anonymity with their mutterings and meddling and when religious zealot Ivy Midwinter challenges him in the church she learns that Luca Tempesta will stop at nothing to protect his secret. Set against the cinematic backdrop of a gastronomic village by the Thames, Riverside Lane is a thrilling, vivid page-turner that seeks to understand human behaviour hard-wired for desire, power, love and possession in a traditional society threatened by extraordinary challenges.

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Recovering from a nervous breakdown preceded by the death of his wife, Klaus Werner takes advice from a family friend and retreats to a monastery in the Algerian Sahara to sketch desert insects for a book. Upon arrival, however, he discovers a fresh crime scene: the monks have all been slaughtered as they went about their daily routine. Violent extremists, active in the area, are suspected. Numb and exhausted, Werner declines a police chief s offer of safe passage. Despite the shock of the murders, the desert seems to promise solace, a vast nullity against which Werner can take stock of himself and do his work. Yet, over the weeks and months that follow, his solitude is broken by a succession of encounters with travelling hermits, desert warriors, an attractive American palaeontologist and others, all strangely connected to him. Each appears to conceal some kind of secret; even the insects he has come to study are mysteriously deformed, embodying an awful, hidden reality ... Soon Werner is forced to confront the echoes of one of the darkest moments in modern history, and to come to terms with the deepest reaches of his own past. Deep Sahara is as suspenseful as it is a subtle exploration of one man s emotional resurgence, rendered sparingly and with great physical and psychological precision.

Deep Sahara

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Croxford, Leslie

Thrillers & Suspense

Twenty First Century Cotswolds, the first book from award-winning interior designer and spatial planner Pippa Paton, showcases the diversity of buildings in England’s famously bucolic Cotswolds region, as well as the ways people choose to live in them. An exploration of the breadth of styles that fall under the heading of contemporary design, Twenty First Century Cotswolds provides insight into how these beautiful buildings can be transformed sympathetically for life today. The habitable structures of the Cotswolds may be hundreds of years old, but the way we live has changed dramatically over the centuries. Today the predominant desire is for open-plan, multifunctional family homes, and for inhabiting living spaces in completely new ways. An underlying demand for functionality, communication, ease of living, high- end technology and luxurious amenities has also shaped the way homes are being designed – and redesigned. Twenty First Century Cotswolds demonstrates a less invasive, specialist approach to transforming properties with ancient character for contemporary living. The focus has shifted towards exposing, enhancing and protecting the historical features and materials of these buildings, and celebrating their individual nature.

Twenty First Century Cotswolds

Patton, Pippa

Architecture

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