Biography and Memoir

Clarence Thomas: The Things He Learned

Publication Date: 08/03/2021

Clarence Thomas is a Justice of the Supreme Court, one of America’s most important jobs—but he was once a kid just like you! Building houses, planting a vegetable garden, driving his grandfather’s truck, and helping those in need…these are just a few things Clarence Thomas learned while growing up in…

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There Will Be Lobster: Memoir of a Midlife Crisis

Publication Date: 07/20/2021

You know her. You’ve seen her. You may even see yourself in her. If you’re arriving to the midlife crisis party—the one that’s serving low self-esteem, desperation, unreliable behavior, forgetfulness, carelessness, and the loneliness of loss—the stories and anecdotes in this memoir will assure you that you are not alone.…

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Barack Obama’s Promised Land: Deplorables Need Not Apply

Publication Date: 07/06/2021

Black Americans hoped Barack Obama would lead them to the “Promised Land,” and white Americans hoped he would reconcile the races, but by failing to understand his country or himself, Obama pulled the nation apart. In his introduction to the world at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, then state senator…

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Dinner With Eleanor

Publication Date: 06/29/2021

The saga of two strong women who built lives in America—culminating in a fateful dinner with Eleanor Roosevelt. Dinner With Eleanor is the story of Helen Niemtzow Pratt. In the early part of the twentieth century, Helen’s grandmother, Hannah, is disgraced after a divorce. She leaves the comfort of her…

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Citizen Trump: A One Man Show

Publication Date: 06/15/2021

“Trump knew from early on that he who controls the story controls the world.” Writer/director Robert Orlando, locked down during the Covid-19 pandemic, learned Citizen Kane was Trump’s favorite film, and the parallels were astonishing. Both Kane and Trump are swaggering masters of media, and both claim to stand for the working…

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Half of a Whole: My Fight for a Separate Life

Publication Date: 06/08/2021

Half of a Whole explores the intimate bond between a twin brother and sister, the cruel consequences that occur when one of them becomes mentally ill, and the courage required to break away when love is not enough. Just when Marilyn Peterson Haus thought she had escaped life as the child…

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Collateral Damage: The Mysterious Deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen, and the Ties that Bind Them to Robert Kennedy and the JFK Assassination

Publication Date: 06/01/2021

If there had been no cover-up of Robert Kennedy’s complicity in the murder of Marilyn Monroe in 1962 and he had been prosecuted based on compelling evidence at the time, the assassination of JFK by Bobby’s enemies would not have happened—changing the course of history and preventing the murder of…

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From the Bench to the Boardroom: My Journey from Underdog Athlete to Turnaround CEO

Publication Date: 05/25/2021

An inspirational, motivational book that chronicles Michael MacDonald’s transformation from a scholarship player at Rutgers’ high-level Division I basketball program to a highly successful executive at Xerox and then chairman and CEO of Medifast. “From the Bench to the Boardroom, Michael MacDonald shares his journey from his college basketball career…

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Holocaust Holiday: One Family’s Descent into Genocide Memory Hell

Publication Date: 05/18/2021

In this alternately humorous and horrifying memoir, a Jewish father drags his reluctant children around Europe on a hard-charging tour of Holocaust sites and memorials in order to impress on them the profound evil of Hitler’s war against the Jews and the importance of combatting genocide. In 2017, renowned author…

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Exhale: Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant

Publication Date: 05/11/2021

Exhale is the riveting memoir of a top transplant doctor who rode the emotional rollercoaster of saving and losing lives—until it was time to step back and reassess his own life. A young father with a rare form of lung cancer who has been turned down for a transplant by…

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