Rat Pack Confidential

Rat Pack Confidential
Author: Shawn Levy
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1841150010

A biography of the 'Rat Pack' - Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop, this is the brilliant story of their rise and fall, and their connections with the Kennedys and the Mafia.

God on Mute

God on Mute
Author: Pete Greig
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2011-04-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441266283

Pete Greig, the acclaimed author of Red Moon Rising, has written his most intensely personal and honest account yet in God on Mute, a book born out of his wife Samie's fight for her life and diagnosis of a debilitating brain tumor. Greig asks the timeless questions of what it means to suffer and to pray and to suffer through the silence because your prayers seem unanswered. This silence, Greig relates, is the hardest thing. The world collapses. Then all goes quiet. Words can't explain, don't fit, won't work. People avoid you and don't know what to say. So you turn to Him and you pray. You need Him more than ever before. But somehow . . . even God Himself seems on mute. In this heart-searching, honest, and deeply profound book, Pete Greig looks at the hard side of prayer, how to respond when there seem to be no answers, and how to cope with those who seek to interpret our experience for us. Here is a story of faith, hope, and love beyond all understanding.

Colorado's Carlino Brothers

Colorado's Carlino Brothers
Author: Sam Carlino
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2013-09-10
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1439668434

From 1922 to 1931, Pete and Sam Carlino controlled the flow of Prohibition alcohol from southern Colorado to Denver before their empire suffered a gruesome, bloody demise. The brothers battled their own kin in the Danna family to secure southern Colorado's bootleg liquor territory. Dozens perished in their rise to power. Eventually, mafia boss Nicola Gentile intervened to settle a dispute involving the brothers' associates. Pete Carlino's grandson, author Sam Carlino, uncovers intimate photos and new revelations, including confirmation that Pete Carlino met with Salvatore Maranzano in New York and that the death of both men on September 10, 1931, may not have been a coincidence.

Sammy Salami

Sammy Salami
Author: Jerry Smath
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780810993501

When chubby cat Sammy Salami's owner Pete goes missing, Sammy boards a train to look for him, is adopted by a passenger and has a nice vacation, but he continues to look for Pete.

Sammy and Pete

Sammy and Pete
Author: Claudia Bailey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 12
Release: 200?
Genre: Penguins
ISBN: 9780201329629

Pete, a young penguin, can't wait to teach Sammy, a newborn baby seal, how to play in the stream and slide on the ice. Includes a list of pattern words and vocabulary words.

Gone

Gone
Author: Michael Grant
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2009-05-19
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0061909645

The first in New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant's breathtaking dystopian sci-fi saga, Gone is a page-turning thriller that invokes the classic The Lord of the Flies along with the horror of Stephen King. In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young. There are teens, but not one single adult. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened. Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents—unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers—that grow stronger by the day. It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: on your birthday, you disappear just like everyone else. . . . “A potent mix of action and thoughtfulness—centered around good and evil, courage and cowardice—renders this a tour de force that will leave readers dazed, disturbed, and utterly breathless.” —ALA Booklist (starred review) Read the entire series: Gone Hunger Lies Plague Fear Light Monster Villain Hero

Jackhammer Sam

Jackhammer Sam
Author: Peter Mandel
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2011-11-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1596430346

A jackhammer operator boasts about his loud, sidewalk-blasting skills.

Underboss

Underboss
Author: Peter Maas
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 325
Release: 1999-01-27
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0060930969

Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defeat. In telling Gravano's story, Peter Maas brings us as never before into the innermost sanctums of the Cosa Nostra as if we were there ourselves--a secret underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, and deception, with the specter of violent death always waiting in the wings.

Pete Seeger in His Own Words

Pete Seeger in His Own Words
Author: Pete Seeger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317254287

Long an icon of American musical and political life, Pete Seeger has written eloquently in a diverse array of publications but nowhere is his life story more personally chronicled than in these, his private writings, documents and letters stored for decades in his family barn. Pete Seeger: His Life in His Own Words, collects Seeger's letters, notes, published articles, rough drafts, stories and poetry - creating the most intimate picture yet available of Seeger as a musician, an activist and a family man. The book covers the passions, personalities and experiences of a lifetime of struggle - from the pre-WWII labour movement and the Communist Party, to Woody Guthrie, the Civil Rights movement and the struggle against the war in Vietnam. The portrait that emerges is not of a saint, but a flesh-and-blood man, struggling to understand his time and his place.

Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll

Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
Author: Peter Guralnick
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 784
Release: 2015-11-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0316341843

From the author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography: Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. The music that he shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices passionately proclaiming the vitality of the American vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all, a new, integrated musical day. With extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending over a 25-year period with Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all the legendary Sun Records artists, Guralnick gives us an ardent, unrestrained portrait of an American original as compelling in his own right as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, or Thomas Edison.