Beyonce Knowles

Kelendria Rowland

Michelle Williams

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

The Official Autobiography of Destiny's Child

It must be a part of human nature to love drama. We never would have sold as many records -- and we never would have been this popular -- if our member changes did not happen. Up until that point, we were squeaky-clean nice girls who couldn't get on the cover of any magazines. --Beyoncé Knowles They're beautiful, they're talented, they're bootylicious . . . From first kisses and broken hearts to pillow fights and legal battles to losing friends and finding strength in God, Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams share it all. Their example of survival has made Destiny's Child one of the most beloved, bestselling female groups ever. Here for the first time, the three share the struggles that have made them stronger, from Beyoncé's battles with weight loss and shyness, Kelly's coming to terms with growing up without a dad, and Michelle's triumph over grade-school bullies. They've grown up under the media microscope, and have had to deal with lineup changes and media rumors. Now they set the record straight. The demands and drama, the schedules and scrutiny -- from the tour bus to the dressing rooms to backstage at awards shows, Beyoncé, Kelly, and Michelle talk about what it takes to be successful. Whether it's changing outfits in the rain, changing their hair color, or changing a name, they've done it. Don't be mistaken, they're not a prefab group of young girls -- they're smart, independent women with a lot of soul. When these ladies had only minutes of studio time to work with Wyclef Jean to remix one of their songs, they didn't stress, they just started singing faster -- and the result was a unique sound that put them on the map. Everyone has caught on to the Destiny's Child groove -- Whitney Houston, Bono, and Michael Jackson have all given them props, and the King of Pop himself serenaded them with a rendition of “Bootylicious.” Beyoncé, Kelly, and Michelle take you behind the scenes of a video rehearsal at which Aaliyah rewound their practice music, to the set of Austin Powers 3, where a starstruck Beyoncé felt anything but foxy before auditioning for the part of Foxxy Cleopatra, and backstage at the Grammys, where a last-minute costume change fiasco nearly kept Michelle from going onstage. With total honesty, these soul survivors not only dish the details of their past, but share their hopes, plans, and dreams for the future.

Soul Survivors

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Global Sex Worker

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Surfing California

David West Reynolds

George Lucas

The Visual Dictionary

Text and illustrations present characters from episode I of "Star Wars" and the technology they use, including Qui-Gon Jinn and his wrist hologram projector, the space freighters of the Nemoidians, and the lightsabers of the Jedi Knights.

Star Wars Episode I

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Larry Elder

Has a personalized message by someone on the first page

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

From Rush Limbaugh to Howard Stern, America tunes in to its radio hosts both on the air and between covers, accepting them as truth-tellers without agendas, the perfect gadflies for the age of too much information. In an era where everyone seems bought and paid for, they cut through it all to tell it like it is. For Fall 2000 - just in time to enter the fray for the presidential election season-St. Martin's is happy to present the most unfettered voice of all, Larry Elder.Larry Elder has been igniting passions and conversations for five years at the top of the competitive drive-time radio heap, KABC in Los Angeles-the "Sage from South Central" punctures pretensions, refuses to accept the accepted wisdom, and puts everyone on notice that the status quo needs to be shaken up. From his outrage over the entrenched "victicrat" society and how it keeps believers spinning their wheels, to his trenchant observations on work, leadership, race, special interests, politics and more, Larry is a clarion voice that cuts through what the usual suspects say and hear."Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care crisis, unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions." - Larry ElderThe Ten Things You Can't Say In America:Blacks are More Racist than WhitesWhite Condescension is as Real as Black RacismThe Media Bias: It's Real, It's Widespread, It's DestructiveThe Glass Ceiling: Full of HolesAmerica's Greatest Problem: IllegitimacyThe Big Lie: Our Health Care CrisisThe Welfare State: Helping Us to DeathRepublican v. Democrat: Maybe a Dime's worth of Difference, One's for Big Government, One's for BiggerVietnam II: The War on Drugs, and We're Losing that One TooGun Control Advocates: Good Guys with Blood on Their Hands

The Ten Things You Can't Say in America

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Outrage

Donald S. Passman

This revised and updated edition provides crucial information on the industry's adaptations to today's technological advances and uncertain economy.

All You Need to Know about the Music Business

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Bob Gibson

Reggie Jackson

Lonnie Wheeler

A Hall of Fame Pitcher and a Hall of Fame Hitter Talk about How the Game Is Played

Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to understand America's pastime from their unique insider perspective.

Legendary. Insightful. Uncompromising. Candid. Uncensored.

Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortunately never faced each other on the field. But now, inSixty Feet, Six Inches, these two legends open up in fascinating detail about the game they love and how it was, is, and should be played. Their one-of-a-kind insider stories recall a who's who of baseball nobility, including Willie Mays, Alex Rodriguez, Hank Aaron, Albert Pujols, Billy Martin, and Joe Torre. This is an unforgettable baseball history by two of its most influential superstars.


From the Hardcover edition.

Sixty Feet, Six Inches

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Richard A. Lupoff

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Judge these books by their covers! Get immersed in the definitive visual history of pulp fiction paperbacks from 1940 to 1970. The Art of Pulp Fiction: An Illustrated History of Vintage Paperbacks chronicles the history of pocket-sized paperbound books designed for mass-market consumption, specifically concentrating on the period from 1940 to 1970. These three decades saw paperbacks eclipse cheap pulp magazines and expensive clothbound books as the most popular delivery vehicle for escapist fiction. To catch the eyes of potential buyers they were adorned with covers that were invariably vibrant, frequently garish, and occasionally lurid. Today the early paperbacks--like the earlier pulps, inexpensively produced and considered disposable by casual readers--are treasured collector's items. Award-winning editor Ed Hulse (The Art of the Pulps and The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction) comprehensively covers the pulp-fiction paperback's heyday. Hulse writes the individual chapter introductions and the captions, while a team of genre specialists and art aficionados contribute the special features included in each chapter. These focus on particularly important authors, artists, publishers, and sub-genres. Illustrated with more than 500 memorable covers and original cover paintings. Hulse's extensive captions, meanwhile, offer a running commentary on this significant genre, and also contain many obscure but entertaining factoids. Images used in The Art of Pulp Fiction have been sourced from the largest American paperback collections in private hands, and have been curated with rarity in mind, as well as graphic appeal. Consequently, many covers are reproduced here for the first time since the books were first issued. With an overall Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff, novelist, essayist, pop-culture historian, and author of The Great American Paperback (2001).

The Art of Pulp Fiction: an Illustrated History of Vintage Paperbacks

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Jessica Canseco

Confessions of a Former Baseball Wife

When nineteen-year-old Hooters trainee Jessica Sekely meets Jose Canseco -- one of the most famous baseball players of his time -- she falls in love with the slugger and everything about him. He is larger than life, from his bulging muscles and multimillion-dollar contract to his huge homes and hot cars. And he is as handsome a man as she has ever seen. But his sprawling house in Florida becomes her gilded cage when Jose is on the road, hitting home runs and bedding women in American League cities from Anaheim to Boston. Jessica blames herself and does everything she can to keep Jose faithful--nose jobs, new breast implants, and even going so far as to bring other women into their home for threesomes. But it wasn't enough. It was never enough.

Through it all, she breaks through the icy stares of the wives and girlfriends of Jose's teammates and learns to honor the code of the baseball sorority -- If you see a ballplayer with another woman, keep your mouth shut!

While Jose, author of Juiced -- the #1 New York Times bestseller about steroids in baseball -- seems intent on self-destruction, Jessica willingly goes along for the ride. Their turbulent relationship careens from steroids to pregnancy, from marriage to the birth of a precious baby daughter, from private investigators to divorce attorneys -- with a black eye. This is the story of a beautiful young woman who falls in love with a hugely successful professional athlete, and who becomes addicted to him and to everything that his success seems to represent. It is also the story of a woman who spends the better part of ten years trying to beat that addiction, and who finds her true self in the process. Jessica Canseco's story is for every woman who has ever fallen for the wrong man. But unlike many such tales, this one has a happy ending.

Juicy

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Sam Smith

The Inside Story of a Turbulent Season with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls

Provides a provocative study of the image of Michael Jordan, revealing his stormy relationships with his coaches and teammates, his obsession with becoming the leading scorer, and his petty feuds with other NBA stars

The Jordan Rules

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Carlos De Abreu

Howard J. Smith

How to Sell Your Idea, Story Book, Screenplay

Now, for the first time, if you have an idea, story, manuscripts, book, or screenplay, you can gain direct access to mainstream Hollywood, This book will provide you with the keys that unlock the doors to Hollywood, introducing you to industry professionals who can assist you in finding, packaging, and selling your dream project.

Opening the Doors to Hollywood

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The Atlas of Mysterious Places

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Sean Lahman

A Hardcore Fan's Guide to All-Time Player Rankings

Using metrics of his own design, the author ranks the best professional football players of all time by position, along with providing rankings for the greatest coaches of all time.

The Pro Football Historical Abstract

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The Paramount Story

Stephen J. Spignesi

Michael Lewis

Slight tear on dust cover otherwise book is brand new 

A Passionate Fan's Guide

100 Best Beatles Songs

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The Rothschilds

King Cohn

Veronica Roth

The explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that captivated millions of readers and film fans in Divergent and Insurgent. One choice will define you. What if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? Told from a riveting dual perspective, this third installment in the series follows Tris and Tobias as they battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature—and their selves—while facing impossible choices of courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love. And don't miss The Fates Divide, Veronica Roth's powerful sequel to the bestselling Carve the Mark!

Allegiant

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John L. Mariotti

Damage to the dust cover but book itself is in like new condition. Overall excellent. 

Why Too Many Products, Markets, and Customers Are Crippling Your Economy, and What to Do about It

Mercedes has made a recent move to cut complexity: Designers who were previously allowed to design cars from the ground up are now required to choose from a common set of modules (BusinessWeek, Nov. 2, 2006) * Wal*Mart has recently exited Korea and Germany, citing its inability to deal with the many differences in the retail environment there * The business community is starting to realize that simplicity, not complexity, is marketable--as evidenced by the phenomenal success of the iPod and Google's search engine. Many companies today are in crisis. Most troubling of all is that many of them aren't even aware they are in jeopardy. In their quest to attain double-digit growth in single digit markets, companies have frantically created more products, customers, markets, suppliers, services, and locations. Yet all of this complexity adds costs. Thus, as topline revenues go up, bottomline profits go down--often precipitously. Worse yet, none of today's accounting systems identify complexity costs until a company is on the edge--without understanding how they got there. The Complexity Crisis, by John L. Mariotti--the former president of Rubbermaid Office Products Group--shows readers how to track complexity and reduce or eliminate it--or alter processes to accommodate complexity that truly adds value to the business. Filled with examples of companies who have successfully conquered complexity, The Complexity Crisis shows readers how to institute new metrics and modifications to existing cost and management control systems so they can choose when to cut complexity out and when to capitalize on it. AUTHOR: John L. Mariotti (Powell, OH) is the President/CEO & Founder of The Enterprise Group, a coalition of timeshared executive advisors, which he founded in 1994. Prior to this, Mr. Mariotti was President of Rubbermaid Office Products Group. Before joining Rubbermaid, Mariotti led Huffy Bicycles as its President, to the preeminent position of industry leader in the U.S. He was Management Columnist and a Contributing Editor for IndustryWeek magazine for five years. Articles and interviews about his business career have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Boardroom Reports, IndustryWeek, BusinessWeek, and many more. He's been a guest on CNBC's Today's Business and Power Lunch shows.

The Complexity Crisis

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