Breaking OUT of Show Business
Publication Date: 03/15/2015
Television Production Assistant, turned stage tech, turned host, turned puppeteer, turned comedian, turned author, turned director... MICHAEL PAUL ZIEGFELD’s career has been only a series of successful one-offs. On the eve of packing it in, he was asked to write this book about what he discovered, by not being discovered.…
Straight Walk: A Supermodel’s Journey to Finding Her Truth
Publication Date: 02/10/2015
As a child, Patricia Velasquez watched her mother struggle to make ends meet and put food on the table for their large family. In her unprivileged community in Venezuela, food and water were scarce. It pained her to see her mother work so hard, often denying herself food or clothing…
We’re Just Not That Into You: Dating Disasters from the Trenches
Publication Date: 02/10/2015
Dancing with the Stars pro Karina Smirnoff believed her then-boyfriend when he said that the bag of condoms she found in his suitcase belonged to a buddy of his—that he was “holding them for him.” He wasn’t. In We’re Just Not Into You, Karina and her best friend and manager,…
An Honorable Life
Publication Date: 02/10/2015
Honor is a teenage singer and songwriter who loves music. When a long undiagnosed stomach ailment lands her in the hospital, no one could have imagined that her diagnosis would be cancer. After a hospital technician hears her magnificent voice, Honor shares with him her dream of becoming famous. While…
Hauling Ash
Publication Date: 01/27/2015
At the behest of his dead uncle’s spirit, Otto Waldorf seeks out a hidden fortune, only to end up with a quarter million of the mafia’s money. With both the mob and the FBI on his tail, this lonely mortician flees the country with money in tow, boarding a cruise…
Skill
Publication Date: 01/27/2015
What would you do if you were jogging through the woods and found a bloody duffel bag stuffed with 1.2 million in cash? If you’re high school teacher Stephen Long, you know that kind of money could change your life. So you take the money and run. Literally. But the…
Aftermath: Rebuilding Global Security After a Century of Warfare
Publication Date: 11/23/2014
Why have there been so many violent conflicts in 2014? Aftermath offers an insider’s view of how each conflict started, what it means, and the common thread driving increased warfare around the world. By giving voice to the experiences of a new generation of veterans Aftermath provides a novel framework…
The Mayor
Publication Date: 09/30/2014
The only Republican to be elected mayor in Los Angeles in the last 40 years, the core of Richard J. Riordan’s success as a politician, philanthropist, and businessman has always been empowering people and getting things done with clear-eyed, compassionate pragmatism. In this book, he shares how he brilliantly turned…
Will America Fail?
Publication Date: 09/30/2014
Will America fail? Have the values of our Founders become obsolete? Will the 21st Century belong to China? Is the next generation prepared to lead? In a surprisingly optimistic book, the 29 year-old creator of If I Wanted America to Fail—the massively popular viral video that became an overnight phenomenon—digs…
Hard Carbon
Publication Date: 09/30/2014
Ivan “The Butcher” Bulovski, is the ruthless head of the Russian Mob in Moscow—an organization more powerful than some countries. His scientists have succeeded in creating the next generation of supercomputers that will be used for the largest crime in world history—a bank heist worth billions. The FBI are close,…