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The author examines the events of his life and his evolving relationship with his parents, from his upbringing in a devout Catholic home, to his marriage to a Protestant woman, and finally his father’s diagnosis with leukemia.

An American Idol judge outlines a program for achieving fitness through a strategic plan of diet and exercise gleaned from his own weight-loss journey, which he reveals was a haphazard struggle with numerous fad diets and gastric bypass surgery before he identified a healthy program that worked for him.

The stand-up comedian draws on the trials and tribulations of his own life—from drug addiction and obesity to fights with his mother and his early career driving a Jersey cab—to share a collection of painfully hilarious true stories.

An analysis of five financial upheavals in recent history includes coverage of the 1987 stock market crash, the internet bubble, and the current sub-prime mortgage crisis, in an anecdotal report that reveals how public knowledge differed from what was actually taking place.

A member of the popular country music group Alabama traces his youth on a small sharecropper farm and the ways in which his faith enabled him to avoid the temptations of his successful life, in an account that also traces the story of the band.

Featuring more than two hundred all-new recipes, a lively, richly illustrated cookbook from the author of Yum-O! The Family Cookbook presents a selection of favorite 30-Minute meals, vegetarian dishes, holiday menus, dinners-for-one, kosher meals, rollover menus, and more.

The comedian presents a humorous collection of letters, organized into such catagories as “Letters to People I Know,” “Letters to People Who Used to Be Alive,” and “Letters to People Who Are Important but Don’t Want to Know Me.”

A portrait of the life and career of investment guru Warren Buffett sheds new light on the man, as well as on the work, ideas, business principles, strategies, and no-nonsense insights that have guided his phenomenally successful business endeavors.

This book is a season in the life of Tiger Woods. Bob Smiley was not happy about his golf game. He decided to follow the game’s greatest player for an entire season to absorb all that he could.

The outspoken business maverick and philanthropist shares the story of his successful life, from the surprise success of CNN and the drama of the AOL/Time Warner deal to his ownership of the Atlanta Braves and his relationships with wife Jane Fonda and his children.