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"A REAL-LIFE
CAT-AND-MOUSE TALE THAT KEEPS THE PAGES TURNING." Featured on A & E's City Confidential and Current Affair This riveting, true-crime story tracks the operations of multimillion-dollar yuppie drug ring run by a twenty-six year old dentist and two of his classmates. The three fell into drug dealing while college students as an easy way to make fast money an they soon learned to manage their underground enterprise as efficiently as any Fortune 500 firm. Awash in sex, drugs and money, they built a fifty-kilo-a-month cocaine conglomerate, buying and selling enough white powder to anesthetize thirteen Eastern seaboard states. Until the FBI cracked the ring, its kingpin, Larry Lavin, a model husband and father, was earning over a million bucks a year for his "services rendered." Written with the full cooperation of the FBI, Dr.Snow follows all the gritty dynamics of federal police work, vividly dramatizing the plotting, the action, the traps, the escapes, the harrowing chases of both the hunted and the hunters. It is the most shocking and compulsively fascinating true-crime thriller you are ever likely to read. To order go to Buybooksontheweb.com |
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Of the many relationships in a woman's life, the mystical connection between sisters is unique. Ten years ago, Carol Saline and Sharon J. Wohlmuth decided to collaborate on SISTERS, a poignant collection of photographs and essays that revealed the intensity of this special bond. In no way could the authors have imagined the effect this book would have as women took it into their homes and their hearts. Providing an outlet for all kinds of emotions that sisters had always felt but rarely expressed, SISTERS went on to sell more than a million copies. Credited by Newsweek for "starting the trend on books about platonic female intimacy," this groundbreaking volume made publishing history by becoming the first photo-essay book to hold positions on the New York Times bestseller list for 63 weeks. Today, SISTERS continues to evoke a warm response from women. Now, Carol Saline and Sharon J. Wohlmuth explore what a difference a decade can make, especially when it comes to family ties, in the newly revised SISTERS Tenth Anniversary Edition (Running Press; October 2004; $29.95), which features a new format and new photographs. Updating the stories and photographs of 13 sets of sisters from the book's original edition, the authors reveal the impact of life's many passages on this primary relationship. In the ensuing years, teenagers have grown into young adults whose childhood rivalries have given way to a new appreciation of one another as individuals. Sisters that were already best friends became even closer as they continued to mature and navigate marriage, children, and sometimes, divorce. Illness and age presented some sisters with challenges that brought out the very best in their relationship, while others were left with an unquenchable loss of a piece of themselves when one or more of their sisters died. As Saline and Wohlmuth write in the new introduction to SISTERS : "We were unprepared for how moving these reunions turned out to be. Each time the door opened and we embraced a sister who'd graced our book ten years ago, we were spiritually transported back to the intimacy of our earlier encounters...We were struck by how, in ten years, everything had changed - while nothing had changed at all." Page by page, SISTERS ' captivating black and white photographs and insightful narratives introduce a mix of well-known women - Coretta Scott King, Christy Turlington, and Wendy Wasserstein, and the sisters they grew up with - as well as: • The young girl photographed a decade ago tenderly cradling her newborn sister, now holds the laughing ten-year-old in her lap and talks about some of the lessons she has learned from her younger sibling; • Laura and Kristen Beck, who have found the closeness that they longed for as squabbling teenagers and agree that while friends come and go, sisters are a guaranteed constant; • The Glass sisters, who have experienced cancer and divorce over the past decade, reveal that sharing these dark times has given them a deeper emotional connection; Nancy Lemmerman, whose life for the past 63 years was impacted by her sister's handicap, discusses her surprising reaction to her sibling's recent death. The unifying theme throughout the portraits and stories in SISTERS is one of love and deepening gratitude for the good fortune of having one another for support. Never-before-seen outtakes from the original SISTERS photographic shoot are included in the book. With
the SISTERS Tenth Anniversary Edition ,
Carol Saline and Sharon J. Wohlmuth provide an emotional catalyst
for women everywhere to reflect upon their own changing lives and
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The intense emotional connection shared by mothers and daughters is the subject of Saline and Wohlmuth’s second book. Published by Doubleday in 1997, it immediately soared to NUMBER ONE on every national bestseller list: The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and Publisher’s Weekly. The bond between a mother and daughter stretches, bends, knots and twists but it never, ever breaks. This is a relationship awe-inspiring in its power, depth and complexity. The deeply personal yet surprisingly universal stories portrayed in the book take us from birth to death, from unconditional love to unresolved bickering and everything in between. Sharing their very private feelings are such public people as Cindy Crawford, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Margaret Atwood, Patti Austin, Lynn Redgrave, Cokie Roberts, Cathy Guisewite, Janet Leigh and Jamie Lee Curtis. There is also much wisdom to be found in the words of a 96 year old great-grandmother and her nine daughters, a mother and daughter who fled the war in Bosnia for an uncertain future in America, a woman who received a kidney transplant as a last gift from her dying mother, a lesbian couple and their daughter and a woman who had a daughter at age 52. Every woman is
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This eagerly awaited completion to Saline and Wohlmuth’s trilogy on relationships hit the book stores in 1998 and became their third best seller. If relatives are the family we are born with, friends are the family we choose. Best Friends captures the essence of the ties that can bind ever tighter than blood. These are the special people in our lives who celebrate our happiness, cushion our pain and love us because they want to, not because they have to. The friendships celebrated here cut across barriers of age, race, gender and religion and include men’s relationships as well as women’s. In the diverse group of 35 powerful essays and sensitive photographs collected in Best Friends, you will meet childhood girlfriends, Holocaust survivors, Vietnam war buddies, a successful novelist whose best friend in a nun and five men who’ve been inseparable pals for 75 years. We discover how friends meet, how they sometimes fight, how they reconcile and what it is that keeps them close over a lifetime. You will also get up close and personal with a group of celebrities--Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Angela Bassett, Naomi Judd, Larry King, Patti LaBelle, Andrea Mitchell, Morrie Schwartz, Kerri Strug, Gay Talese and John Hockenberry-- who reveal their intense friendships with people who would love them even if they weren’t famous. This is a perfect tribute to a critically important relationship and a ideal gift for anyone who has ever had a best friend.
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On April 8, 2005, women across the United States woke to find their lives being documented as part of a quest to find out who is the American woman is today. Across state and city borders, lines imparted by color and religion, a unifying message was found: Now more than ever, the American woman is nobody's woman but her own. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE AMERICAN WOMAN (Bulfinch Press; October 19, 2005; Hardcover; $35.00) by Sharon Wohlmuth, Carol Saline and Dawn Sheggeby, portrays women from all walks of life and all corners of the country captured living their lives on a single day. A major logistical undertaking involving over 50 of the nation's top female photographers (among them 11 Pulitzer Prize winners) and scores of subjects, the range of experiences showcased in this book is illuminating and will resonate with women everywhere. At once a document of diversity and change, the book also reflects how women and their needs are connected throughout the nation. "As we looked at the pictures and gathered the stories we noticed that, while women across the land speak in many accents and languages, more and more they are finding their own voices," says Saline in the introduction. "The idea of 'having it all' seems to have faded, replaced by a sense of finding a balance, and crafting a life that is personally fulfilling." Telling stories unique to American women today--a dozen of them written by Carol Saline in her trademark sensitive style -- A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE AMERICAN WOMAN is a visually and emotionally compelling book. Far from showing what divides women in the United States, it convincingly unites them as sisters, with common goals, hopes, and dreams. |
Dr. Snow
