Comme tout homme en fin de carrière, il en a vu et entendu !     Cette activité, la chine, est bien singulière, car elle fait appel au jardin secret de chacun. Ce recueil d’anecdotes est le fruit de la collaboration d' hommes et de femmes de terrain, de tous ages, de toutes conditions ! Avrilopiscicophile...campanophile…du bibliophile au " ce-que-vous-voulez-phile ", tout se ...

A true story of struggle, pain, deceit, manipulation, survival and the love of a mother for her children. Some memories stay in our hearts forever and some are left, best forgotten.

Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and...

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner investigate a cold case that gets very hot ... very fast.In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other clues are virtually nonexistent. Even a veteran cop would fin...

In the Colorado mountain town of Glenwood Springs not far from Aspen artist/photographer Gwyn Sanders discovers a cryptic letter her sister Kelly left behind. The victim of a deadly hit and run Kelly reveals she was sexually involved with her sisters boyfriend and is scared for her life. Both Gwyn and her remaining sister Linda have since married their boyfriends so either of their husbands could be guilty of murder. The sisters received a large inheritance before meeting these men and kno...

Billionaire oil trader Marc Rich for the first time talks at length about his private life (including his expensive divorce from wife Denise); his invention of the spot oil market, which made his fortune and changed the world economy; his lucrative and unpublicized dealings with Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran, Fidel Castro's Cuba, war-ravaged Angola, and apartheid South Africa; his quiet cooperation with the Israeli and U.S. governments (even after he was indicted for tax fraud by Rudy Guiliani...

Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography -- until now.Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family patriarch had written to his sons. "You will receive what now seems to be a large sum of money," Fred Koch cautioned. "It may either be a blessing or a curse."Fred's legacy...

Finance expert, bestselling author, and host of CNBC’s Mad Money Jim Cramer takes readers on a wild Wall Street ride—revealing how to play the game, who breaks the rules, and who gets hurt.Everyone on Wall Street knows Jim Cramer, and Cramer knows Wall Street better than anyone. Candid and outrageous, Confessions of a Street Addict takes readers on the wild ride that is Wall Street.Cramer details his life,...

Marty Sklar was hired by The Walt Disney Company after his junior year at UCLA, and began his Disney career at Disneyland in July 1955, the month before the park opened. He spent his first decade at Disney as "the kid," the very youngest of the creative team Walt had assembled at WED Enterprises. But despite his youth, his talents propelled him forward into substantial responsibility: he became Walt's speech writer, penned Walt's and Roy's messages in the company's annual report, composed ...

Circle of Greed is the epic story of the rise and fall of Bill Lerach, once the leading class action lawyer in America and now a convicted felon. For more than two decades, Lerach threatened, shook down and sued top Fortune 500 companies, including Disney, Apple, Time Warner, and—most famously—Enron. Now, the man who brought corporate moguls to their knees has fallen prey to the same corrupt impulses of his enemies, and is paying the price by serving time in federal prison....

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY HARPER’S BAZAAR • In this candid memoir, featuring a foreword by Barbra Streisand, renowned designer Donna Karan shares intimate details about her lonely childhood, her four-plus decades in the fashion industry, her two marriages, motherhood, and her ongoing quest for self-acceptance and spiritual peace.Donna Karan was born into the fashion business—her father was a tailor, and her mother was a showroom model and ...

Sheryl Sandberg helped Google and Facebook become two of the planet's largest, most valuable companies. At Facebook, she helps run the largest network of humans in history. This is the story of how a "bossy" little girl from North Miami rose to become one of the most successful and influential women in the world and a lightning rod for the emotional debate over gender issues in the workplace. "I'm deeply passionate about Facebook's mission," Sandberg says, "and I feel fortunate to be part ...