Author: Philip Norman
Publisher: Ecco
Keywords: life, lennon, john
Number of Pages: 864
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 006075401X
ISBN-13: 9780060754013

For more than a quarter century, Philip Norman’s internationally bestselling Shout! has been unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now, at last, Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom belonging to the world’s most beloved pop group was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources, and with unprecedented access to all the major characters, here is the comprehensive and most revealing portrait of John Lennon that is ever likely to be published. This masterly biography takes a fresh and penetrating look at every aspect of Lennon’s mu

Author: Drew D. Hansen
Publisher: Ecco
Keywords: inspired, nation, speech, king, martin, luther, dream
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0060084766
ISBN-13: 9780060084769

A riveting account of the origins and legacy of "I Have a Dream" Forty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. electrified the nation when he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. King’s prophetic utterances started the long overdue process of changing America’s idea of itself. His words would enter the American lexicon, galvanizing the civil rights movement, becoming a touchstone for all that the country might someday achieve. The Dream is the first book about Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legendary "I Have a Dream" speech. Opening with an enth

Authors:Chuck Hagel, Peter Kaminsky,
Publisher: Ecco
Keywords: straight, answers, questions, tough, chapter, america
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-03-25
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0061436968
ISBN-13: 9780061436963

Senator Chuck Hagel has long been admired by his colleagues on both sides of the Senate floor for his honesty, integrity, and common-sense approach to the challenges of our times. The Los Angeles Times has praised his "bold positions on foreign policy and national security" and wondered, "What’s not to like?" In America: Our Next Chapter, Nebraska-born Hagel offers a hard-hitting examination of the current state of our nation and provides substantial, meaningful proposals that can guide America back onto the right path. In America: Our Next Chapter, Hagel speaks the truth as he sees i

Author: Bernd Heinrich
Publisher: Ecco
Keywords: bounty, season, world, summer
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-04-01
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0060742178
ISBN-13: 9780060742171

The highly anticipated, intimate, accessible, and eloquent illumination of animal survival in summer, from award-winning nature writer Bernd Heinrich, the bestselling author of Winter World.

Author: S.L. Price
Publisher: Ecco
Keywords: minor, league, america, mercy, death, game, life, heart
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0061671304
ISBN-13: 9780061671302

From the author of Pitching Around Fidel and Far Afield comes an account of the accidental death of minor league first base coach Mike Coolbaugh, illustrating the many ways in which baseball still has a hold on America. Heart of the Game centers on the death of Mike Coolbaugh, a minor league coach who was killed on a sweltering Sunday evening in Little Rock in July 2007 when a foul ball rocketed off Tino Sanchez’s bat. Coolbaugh died almost instantly, his body carted off the field of the Double-A Arkansas Travelers. He was thirty-five years old and the father of two; a third child was

Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: Ecco
Keywords: ballet, palace
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-06-05
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 157423028X
ISBN-13: 9781574230284

This is a collection of 175 previously unpublished works by Bukowski. It contains yarns about his childhood in the Depression and his early literary passions, his apprentice days as a hard-drinking, starving poetic aspirant, and his later years when he looks back at fate with defiance.

Author: David Wroblewski
Publisher: Ecco
Keywords: novel, sawtelle, edgar, story
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2008-06-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0061374229
ISBN-13: 9780061374227

Amazon Best of the Month, June 2008: It’s gutsy for a debut novelist to offer a modern take on Hamlet set in rural Wisconsin--particularly one in which the young hero, born mute, communicates with people, dogs, and the occasional ghost through his own mix of sign and body language. But David Wroblewski’s extraordinary way with language in The Story of Edgar Sawtelle immerses readers in a living, breathing world that is both fantastic and utterly believable. In selecting for temperament and a special intelligence, Edgar’s grandfather started a line of unusual dogs--the Sawtell