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One of the Best Books of the Year The Washington Post - Los Angeles Times - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The story of Frank Sinatra's second act, Sinatra finds the Chairman on top of the world, riding high after an Oscar victory--and firmly reestablished as the top recording artist of his day. Following Sinatra from the mid-1950s to his death in 1998, Kaplan uncovers the man behind the myth, revealing by turns the peerless singer, the (sometimes...

Tides change for two male friends when they meet at their 25th high school reunion to discover one is facing death and the other one is experiencing life for the first time.

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Era una fede, una trasgressione senza anagrafe, non potevi non guardarlo. SuperBrat, il supermoccioso, genio (molto) e sregolatezza (non di meno). Leggendari i suoi colpi, rasoiate o carezze. Altrettanto la sua irascibilità, le sfuriate contro arbitri, avversari, giudici di linea, a volte spettatori. Broncio perenne e la miccia dell'isteria sempre sul punto di prendere fuoco, per ogni ingiustizia vera o presunta. Come quando a Wimbledon urlò r...

Recipient of the Independent Publishers Award for Historical Fiction (Gold Medal), the Foreword Book of the Year Award for Historical Fiction (Bronze Medal), and an honorable mention in the category of General Fiction for the Eric Hoffer Award.Luis de Santángel, chancellor to the court and longtime friend of the lusty King Ferdinand, has had enough of the Spanish Inquisition. As the power of Inquisitor General Tomás de Torquemada grows, so doe...

Poetry. "Here, finally, is a book of poetry that reads like a book! There is such adroitness of craft and sequence - each poem lit by Janet Kaplan's steady spirit of intelligence - that the reader can enter a poem of a difficult, even treacherous, nature and still experience real discovery and delight. The Groundnote moves in and out of shadow and myth, the human condition in its ringing specifics and in paradigms, but the plot of this book is...