Tom: 6300 books
Nixland
My Wild Ride in the Inner City Check Cashing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Tom Nix fought his way from the streets of San Pedro to create the biggest check cashing chain in Southern California. His company, Nix Check Cashing, became a valued and trusted institution among the underserved communities of South Central Los Angeles.
Talkin' Big
How an Iowa Farm Boy Beat the Odds to Found and Lead One of the World's Largest Brokerage Firms
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
In Talkin’ Big, Tom Dittmer—former CEO of Refco, the United States’ first world-renowned futures firms—recalls how with hard work, determination, optimism, and some good old-fashioned luck, he was able to able to achieve his greatness.
Growing up as a farm boy in small-town Iowa, Dittmer...
by Tom Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
"Takes you to the gristle-chewing tracks of the gnarly Emerald City before the first wave of Sub Pop loving kids arrived.” Chris Estey, KEXP Radio, Seattle
In American Junkie, Tom Hansen takes us non-stop into a land of desperate addicts, failed punk bands, and brushes with sad fame,...
The FitzPatrick Tapes
The Rise and Fall of One Man, One Bank, and One Country
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
The FitzPatrick Tapes: The sensational story of the man and the bank that brought Ireland low
One day in May 2009, Sean FitzPatrick - the disgraced former chief executive and chairman of Anglo Irish Bank - sat down to lunch in a Holiday Inn in Dublin. Across the table sat Tom Lyons, a business...
by Tom Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
“The two sides of Shaw . . . are at the center of . . . [this] compulsively readable biography.”—Daniel Akst, Wall Street Journal
During America’s Swing Era, no musician was more successful or controversial than Artie Shaw: the charismatic and opinionated clarinetist-bandleader whose...
The Importance of Being Barbra
The Brilliant, Tumultuous Career of Barbra Streisand
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Controversial, a global icon, a diva among divas---Barbra Streisand, the last genuinely unique show business personality of the twentieth century is the most honored entertainer in the world today. But along with the Tony, two Oscars, six Emmys, eight Grammys, ten Golden Globes, fifty gold albums,...
39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss
The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
A memoir from the Emmy-winning Saturday Night Live writer that is “funny, spiky, and twistedly entertaining” (Entertainment Weekly).
39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is a seriously funny and irreverent memoir that gives an insider’s view of the birth and rise of Saturday Night Live,...
by Tom Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
The Swing Movement -- all jazz hands and high-waisted pants -- advanced and receded in good order. I wrote this book to tell the other side of the story. I want you to know about the oddball collection of iconoclasts who got together and made the Squirrel Nut Zippers what they were: a combustible, improbable...
The Tunnels of Cu Chi
A Harrowing Account of America's Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
At the height of the Vietnam conflict, a complex system of secret underground tunnels sprawled from Cu Chi Province to the edge of Saigon. In these burrows, the Viet Cong cached their weapons, tended their wounded, and prepared to strike. They had only one enemy: U.S. soldiers small and wiry enough...
Glory Denied: The Vietnam Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War
The Vietnam Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Now hailed as a classic, one of the most unforgettable and heartbreaking books ever written about the Vietnam War.
Glory Denied is the harrowing and heroic story of Floyd "Jim" Thompson, captured in March 1964, who became the longest-held prisoner of war in American history. Tom Philpott...
Simon Wiesenthal
The Life and Legends
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
**With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations
Now in paperback, the first fully documented biography of the legendary Polish-born Nazi hunter—a revelatory account of a man whose life, though part invention, was wholly dedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible for their...
by Tom Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The first ever true story told by an MI5 officer - an explosive, shocking and honest account revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation.
'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.'
Recruited after the 7/7 attacks on London, Tom quickly...
The Silver Spitfire
The Legendary WWII RAF Fighter Pilot in his Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
A brilliantly vivid Second World War memoir by one of 'the Few' Spitfire fighter pilots.
Following the D-Day landings, Battle of Britain hero Tom Neil was assigned as an RAF liaison to an American fighter squadron. As the Allies pushed east, Neil commandeered an abandoned Spitfire as his own...
Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs)
The Making of England
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under savage assault from Viking hordes. But, after King Alfred ensured the survival of Wessex and his son Edward expanded it, his grandson Athelstan inherited the rule of both Mercia and Wessex, conquered Northumbria...