Biography and Memoir

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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Irondad Life: A Year of Bad Decisions and Questionable Motives―What I Learned on the Quest to Conquer Ironman Lake Placid

Publication Date: 05/04/2021

A hilarious look at the world of Ironman triathlons and how one man tries to juggle training with the demands of a busy family. Why do people race in Ironmans—a competition that was dreamed up by a U.S. Navy Officer after a beer-influenced debate over who were the fittest athletes—swimmers,…

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The Upstander: How Surviving the Holocaust Sparked Max Glauben’s Mission to Dismantle Hate

Publication Date: 03/30/2021

Holocaust survivor Max Glauben is on a mission—to outlast hate, to preserve memory, and to compel the world to embrace tolerance. The stench of decay pierced the air aboard the boxcar of trapped Jews. “Why me?” fifteen-year-old Max asked himself, as a convoy rumbled from the Warsaw Ghetto to Majdanek…

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Code Red Fallujah: A Doctor’s Memoir at War

Publication Date: 03/30/2021

Airstrikes rain down, Gatling guns pound, and snipers lurk in the distance—welcome to the combat aid station of a young doctor embedded with the heavily weaponized 1st Marines Division as the Battle of Fallujah boils over. On the night of April 4th, 2004, 1st Marine Expeditionary Forces launch a major…

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The Fight of My Life: The Coronavirus: A Dance with the Devil

Publication Date: 03/16/2021

From COVID-19, to President Trump, to the murder of George Floyd, to the controversial Black Lives Matter movement, 2020 was the year from hell. The Fight of My Life is a tale of survival in America in 2020 against two invisible and deadly enemies: the Coronavirus and racism. “I CAN’T…

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