Product Description: In this shocking true story, an ex-LAPD cop, Todd Roark, faces the death penalty for rape and kidnapping—crimes he didn't commit—in racially tense 1956 Los AngelesOnly on the surface was 1950s Los Angeles the model city depicted by Dragnet...read more

When the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the world lost one of the greatest moral authorities of the twentieth century. We would all benefit from hearing Martin's voice, if only he were alive today. . . . If anyone would have insight into Martin's thoughts and opinions, it would be Clarence B. Jones, King's personal lawyer and one of his closest principal advisers and confidants. Removing the mythic distance of forty years' time to reveal the flesh-and-blood man he knew as his friend, Jones ponders what the outspoken civil rights leader would say about the serious issues that bedevil contemporary America: Islamic terrorism and the war in Iraq, reparations for slavery, anti-Semitism, affirmative action, illegal immigration, and the state of African American leadership.

'A collection of essays by the former 'Cheers' star about what makes America the great nation that it is today, based on his journeys to factories and workplaces on the Travel Channel show 'John Ratzenberger's Made in America''--Provided by the publisher.

Presents the story of Jim Morris' departure from the minor leagues after a string of injuries, his career as a high school physics teacher, and his eventual return to the minors followed by an all-star career in the majors.

Traces the story of a brigadier-general and Vietnam soldier who endured the Jim Crow attitudes of the segregated South throughout his youth only to find himself struggling for survival at the side of his Ku Klux Klan-member captain, with whom he was downed for three weeks in the Vietnamese jungles. Reprint.

Traces the story of a brigadier-general and Vietnam soldier who endured the Jim Crow attitudes of the segregated south throughout his youth only to find himself struggling for survival at the side of his Ku Klux Klan-member captain, with whom he was downed for three weeks in the Vietnamese jungles. 40,000 first printing.

Academy Award-winning screenwriters Eric Roth, Alan Ball, Marc Norman, Tom Schulman, Kurt Luedtke, John Irving, and other notables discuss their craft as they offer personal insights and anecdotes about their successes, failures, goals, inspiration, and techniques of writing for film. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Presents the inspirational true story of Jim Morris's departure from the minor leagues after a string of injuries, his career as a high school physics teacher, and his eventual return to the minors followed by an all-star career in the majors.

Heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman describes his childhood, family, ring failures and successes, and how he reclaimed his title at the age of forty-five through determination and humor. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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A look at the complex and driven visionary who created 'Star Trek' gives a backstage portrait based on inside sources that reveals a flawed yet intensely creative personality

A biography of the creator, primary writer and narrator of 'The Twilight Zone' draws on interviews, revealing the tormented and doubtful side behind the gregarious public man

Presents problems and solutions through stories, for parents and children to read together as a springboard to discussing the changes, thoughts, and feelings of puberty

A biography of the creator, primary writer and narrator of 'The Twilight Zone' draws on interviews, revealing the tormented and doubtful side behind the gregarious public man

Ten young survivors of chemical dependence give harrowing firsthand accounts of ruined youth, the pain and destruction drugs inflicted on them as adolescents, and the continuing battle to stay clean

Tells parents how to identify and develop gifted children, and uses stories to show how these gifts can sometimes cause problems

An onand off-field portrait of the legendary end for the L.A. Rams describes his record-breaking career, his relentless drive to excel; his alcoholism, infidelity, and the marriage destroyed by his excesses, and Youngblood's football philosophies

Presents problems and solutions through stories, for parents and children to read together as a springboard to discussing the changes, thoughts, and feelings of puberty.

Identifies the various characteristics of people's handwriting that can reveal character and personality and explains, with illustrations, the professional analyst's methods of analyzing a subject's handwriting