Connie Martinson Talks Books

Index of terms in the Book Title field

• "Mr. King, you're having a heart attack" : how a heart attack and bypass surgery changed my life
  
• 'Tis
  
• A calculated risk
  
• A drinking life
  
• A fiddler's tale : how Hollywood and Vivaldi discovered me
  
• A good enough parent : a book on child-rearing
  
• A graveyard for lunatics : another tale of two cities
  
• A guidebook to learning : for a lifelong pursuit of wisdom
  
• A history of hope : when Americans have dared to dream of a better future
  
• A human being died that night : a South African story of forgiveness
  
• A lawyer's life
  
• A monk swimming
  
• A piece of cake
  
• A prayer for Owen Meany
  
• A thousand splendid suns
  
• A walk on the wild side
  
• A war of eyes and other stories
  
• About my life and the kept woman
  
• Act natural : how to speak to any audience
  
• African American art and artists
  
• Always running : la vida loca, gang days in L.A.
  
• America behind the color line : dialogues with African Americans
  
• American song : the complete musical theatre companion
  
• Amsterdam
  
• An end to evil : how to win the war on terror
  
• An intimate affair : women, lingerie, and sexuality
  
• An invented life : reflections on leadership and change
  
• An unfinished life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
  
• And not as a broken shard
  
• And the dead shall rise : the murder of Mary Phagan and the lynching of Leo Frank
  
• Are men necessary? : when sexes collide
  
• Are the stars out tonight? : the story of the famous Ambassador and Cocoanut Grove, "Hollywood's hotel"
  
• Are you afraid of the dark?
  
• Assisted loving : true tales of double dating with my dad
  
• At home : essays, 1982-1988
  
• Awaken the giant within : how to take immediate control of your mental, emotional, physical & financial destiny
  
• Balance of power : presidents and Congress from the era of McCarthy to the age of Gingrich
  
• Beating the odds : the untold story behind the rise of ABC
  
• Becoming Abigail
  
• Bee season
  
• Before I say good-bye
  
• Beyond belief : the American press and the coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945
  
• Biological weapons : from the invention of state-sponsored programs to contemporary bioterrorism
  
• Black man emerging : facing the past and seizing a future in America
  
• Bloomberg by Bloomberg
  
• Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue : a novel of pastry, guilt, and music
  
• Booknotes : America's finest authors on reading, writing, and the power of ideas
  
• Bradbury speaks : too soon from the cave, too far from the stars
  
• Bradbury stories : 100 of his most celebrated tales
  
• Budding prospects : a pastoral
  
• But seriously - : Steve Allen speaks his mind
  
• California : a history
  
• Captain for dark mornings : a true story
  
• Cat's eye
  
• Central Avenue sounds : jazz in Los Angeles
  
• Cherry
  
• China : fragile superpower
  
• Chinese lessons : five classmates and the story of the new China
  
• Chuck amuck : the life and times of an animated cartoonist
  
• Churchill : a life
  
• Chutzpah
  
• Cinnamon kiss
  
• Co-leaders : the power of great partnerships
  
• Comfort me with apples : more adventures at the table
  
• Coming of age : the story of our century by those who've lived it
  
• Command performance : an actress in the theater of politics
  
• Competing for the future
  
• Connective leadership : managing in a changing world
  
• Conservatives without conscience
  
• Constantine's sword : the church and the Jews
  
• Contrarian investing
  
• Cover your assets
  
• Cry of the peacock
  
• Death is a lonely business
  
• Deep water : the epic struggle over dams, displaced people, and the environment
  
• Defying the odds : sharing the lessons I learned as a pioneer entrepreneur
  
• Dreamer
  
• Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
  
• Earth in the balance : ecology and the human spirit
  
• East is East
  
• Emcee Monty Hall
  
• Even the hollow my body made is gone
  
• Every man a speculator : a history of Wall Street in American life
  
• Everything is illuminated
  
• Exodus 1947 : the ship that launched a nation
  
• Experience
  
• Fairy tales can come true : how a driven woman changed her destiny
  
• Family business
  
• Fanatics and fools : the game plan for winning back America
  
• Fearproof your life : how to thrive in a world addicted to fear
  
• Final dress
  
• Fledgling
  
• Football for young players and parents
  
• Free food for millionaires
  
• Fridays with art
  
• From the dust returned : a family remembrance
  
• From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes : the autobiography of Robert Clary
  
• Front and center
  
• Fugitive nights
  
• Full-time wife
  
• Generation Rx : how prescription drugs are altering American lives, minds, and bodies
  
• God knows
  
• God's leading lady : out of the shadows and into the light
  
• Gods go begging
  
• Good-bye to the mermaids : a childhood lost in Hitler's Berlin
  
• Graveyard dust
  
• Green shadows, white whale
  
• Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies
  
• Heaven and hell to play with : the filming of The night of the hunter
  
• Heir to the glimmering world
  
• Her mother's daughter : a memoir of the mother I never knew and of my daughter, Courtney Love
  
• Heroes and hustlers, hard hats and holy men : inside the new Israel
  
• High noon in the Cold War : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
  
• Hollywood : a novel of America in the 1920s
  
• Hollywood husbands
  
• Hollywood Station
  
• Hollywood wives
  
• House of many gods
  
• House of sand and fog
  
• House of war : the Pentagon and the disastrous rise of American power
  
• How to pick a peach : the search for flavor from farm to table
  
• I shall not be moved
  
• In the forest
  
• In the hope of rising again
  
• In the shadow of his wings
  
• Include me out : my life from Goldwyn to Broadway
  
• Intellect : mind over matter
  
• Intertwined lives : Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and their circle
  
• Intervals
  
• Into a Paris quartier : Reine Margot's Chapel and other haunts of St.-Germain
  
• Inventing memory : a novel of mothers and daughters
  
• It wasn't all velvet
  
• It's only a movie : Alfred Hitchcock, a personal biography
  
• James Clavell's Gai-Jin
  
• Jews : the essence and character of a people
  
• Jim Henson : the works : the art, the magic, the imagination
  
• July, July
  
• Karsh : a fifty-year retrospective
  
• Kate remembered
  
• King David : the real life of the man who ruled Israel
  
• Last of the breed
  
• Lauritz Melchior : The golden years of Bayreuth
  
• Layover
  
• Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt way : timeless strategies from the first lady of courage
  
• Leap of faith : memoirs of an unexpected life
  
• Let's all kill Constance
  
• Life is a series of presentations : 8 ways to punch up your people skills at work, at home, anytime, anywhere
  
• Life studies
  
• Like son
  
• Lincoln
  
• Lindbergh
  
• Live from Golgotha
  
• Living history : a memoir
  
• Locked rooms : a Mary Russell novel
  
• Love is murder
  
• Making a literary life : Advice for writers and other dreamers
  
• Making loss matter : creating meaning in difficult times
  
• Making schools work : a revolutionary plan to get your children the education they need
  
• Management
  
• Manzanar
  
• Massacre in Beijing : China's struggle for democracy
  
• Matisse and Picasso : a friendship in art
  
• Max and Helen
  
• Men from earth
  
• Messenger of truth : a Maisie Dobbs novel
  
• Middle passage
  
• Misdemeanor man
  
• Missile envy : the arms race and nuclear war
  
• Monster : living off the big screen
  
• Mornings on horseback : the story of an extraordinary family, a vanished way of life, and the unique child who became Theodore R
  
• My dinner of herbs
  
• My father, my president : a personal account of the life of George H.W. Bush
  
• My life as a furry red monster : what being Elmo has taught me about life, love, and laughing out loud
  
• My own country : a doctor's story of a town and its people in the age of AIDS
  
• My personal best : life lessons from an all-American journey
  
• Nasty : my family and other glamorous varmints
  
• Native Americans : five centuries of changing images
  
• Navigating the badlands : thriving in the decade of radical transformation
  
• Necessary losses : the loves, illusions, dependencies and impossible expectations that all of us have to give up in order to gro
  
• Next : the future just happened
  
• Nice girls don't get the corner office : 101 unconscious mistakes women make that sabotage their careers
  
• No apologies
  
• No country for young men
  
• No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II
  
• Noise
  
• Norman Corwin's letters
  
• Not a happy camper
  
• Not quite a memoir : of films, books, the world
  
• Now and then : from Coney Island to here
  
• Now Sheba sings the song
  
• Oaxaca journal
  
• Obscene in the extreme : the burning and banning of John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath
  
• On camera : my 10,000 hours on television
  
• Once upon a quinceañera : coming of age in the USA
  
• Open wide : how Hollywood box office became a national obsession
  
• Osama : the making of a terrorist
  
• Oscar season
  
• Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
  
• P.G. county
  
• Panther in the basement
  
• Parting the waters : America in the King years, 1954-63
  
• Pastora
  
• Paula
  
• Pearl
  
• Pebbles in the roadway : tales and essays, bits and pieces
  
• Peony in love
  
• Perfect pitch : a life story
  
• Picture this
  
• Pillar of fire : America in the King years, 1963-65
  
• Pillars of the earth
  
• Places in the bone
  
• Playland
  
• Pledge of allegiance
  
• Point to point navigation
  
• Porch stories : a grandmother's guide to happiness
  
• President Nixon : alone in the White House
  
• President Reagan : the triumph of imagination
  
• Pushkin and the Queen of Spades
  
• Quilting the black-eyed pea : poems and not quite poems
  
• R. Buckminster Fuller : an autobiographical monologue/scenario
  
• Rabin : our life, his legacy
  
• Raw
  
• Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
  
• Reclaiming adolescents : a return to the village state of mind
  
• Reforming education : the opening of the American mind
  
• Remembering America : a voice from the sixties
  
• Revolutionary wealth
  
• Rewrites
  
• Rich dreams
  
• Right to exist : a moral defense of Israel's wars
  
• Ring of fire : an Indonesian odyssey
  
• Rock star
  
• Rosa Parks : my story
  
• Sandstorms : days and nights in Arabia
  
• Sapphics against anger and other poems
  
• Sarah : mother of nations
  
• Science friction : where the known meets the unknown
  
• Secret father
  
• Seizure
  
• Shari Lewis presents Abracadabra! : magic and other tricks
  
• Shattered Dreams, Broken Promises: The Cost of Coming to America
  
• Singing in the comeback choir
  
• Slaves in the family
  
• Sleepaway school : stories from a boy's life
  
• Snobs
  
• So far so good : the first 94 years
  
• Soldier : a poet's childhood
  
• Sorcerer's apprentice : my life with Carlos Castaneda
  
• Soul food : inspirational stories for African Americans
  
• Space walk
  
• Stars in my eyes
  
• Strangers
  
• Strikeout : the story of Denny McLain
  
• Sunday you learn how to box
  
• Sunset over chocolate mountains
  
• Swing : a mystery
  
• Swordfish : a true story of ambition, savagery, and betrayal
  
• T.C. Boyle stories : the collected stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle
  
• Take two : a life in movies and politics
  
• Tale of 2cities : an American joyride on multiple tracks
  
• Talking with Michener
  
• The advocate's devil
  
• The age of paradox
  
• The all-American cowboy grill
  
• The allure of toxic leaders : why we follow destructive bosses and corrupt politicians - and how we can survive them
  
• The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
  
• The American Film Institute desk reference
  
• The Anarchists' Convention
  
• The ascendance of Israel's radical right
  
• The bee on the comb
  
• The best intentions : Kofi Annan and the UN in the era of American world power
  
• The best of Plimpton
  
• The blue bowl
  
• The book of Abraham
  
• The Bradbury chronicles : the life of Ray Bradbury
  
• The buried mirror : reflections on Spain and the New World
  
• The butcher of Beverly Hills
  
• The canal house
  
• The center cannot hold : my journey through madness
  
• The Christmas house : how one man's dream changed the way we celebrate Christmas
  
• The colony of unrequited dreams
  
• The connective edge : leading in an interdependent world
  
• The cyclist
  
• The death of the West : how dying populations and immigrant invasions imperil our country and civilization
  
• The devil's guide to Hollywood : the screenwriter as God!
  
• The Diana chronicles
  
• The fall of light
  
• The fifth son
  
• The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys
  
• The garden of last days
  
• The grand slam : Bobby Jones, America, and the story of golf
  
• The great shame : and the triumph of the Irish in the English-speaking world
  
• The haunted mesa
  
• The heart's desire
  
• The history of love
  
• The house beautiful : a novel of high ideals, low morals, and lower rent
  
• The iron tracks
  
• The killing man
  
• The kitchen god's wife
  
• The knowledge book : everything you need to know to get by in the 21st Century
  
• The last man on the moon : astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's race in space
  
• The late show : a semiwild but practical survival plan for women over 50
  
• The light of evening
  
• The lonesome gods
  
• The long walk
  
• The lost girls
  
• The lost world of Pompeii
  
• The man who stayed behind
  
• The marriage problem : how our culture has weakened families
  
• The memory book of Starr Faithfull
  
• The naked heart
  
• The Nation, 1865-1990 : selections from the independent magazine of politics and culture
  
• The new annotated Sherlock Holmes
  
• The new diplomacy : international affairs in the modern age
  
• The new new thing : a Silicon Valley story
  
• The nightmare years, 1930-1940
  
• The official sexually correct dictionary and dating guide
  
• The other side of the rainbow : behind the scenes on the Judy Garland television series
  
• The passionate collector : eighty years in the world of art
  
• The Predators' Ball : the junk-bond raiders and the man who staked them
  
• The princes of Ireland : the Dublin saga
  
• The reluctant Tuscan
  
• The return of the player
  
• The same sea
  
• The sands of time
  
• The secret scroll
  
• The selected poems of Nikki Giovanni
  
• The soul of capitalism : opening paths to a moral economy
  
• The stories of Eva Luna
  
• The stories of Ray Bradbury
  
• The system : an insider's life in Soviet politics
  
• The tiny one
  
• The unconscious actor : out of control, in full command : the art of performance in acting and in life
  
• The vampire Lestat
  
• The way we lived then : recollections of a well-known name dropper
  
• The well of lost plots
  
• The whims of fortune : the memoirs of Guy de Rothschild
  
• The winged energy of delight : selected translations
  
• Thirteen senses
  
• This boy's life : a memoir
  
• Three daughters
  
• Through a glass darkly
  
• Through the ivory gate
  
• Thurgood Marshall : American revolutionary
  
• Time is all we have : four weeks at the Betty Ford Center
  
• Tomorrow they will kiss
  
• Tony & me : a story of friendship
  
• Too soon to tell
  
• Tough guys don't dance
  
• Transparency : how leaders create a culture of candor
  
• Traps, the drum wonder : the life of Buddy Rich
  
• Under radar
  
• Van Gogh and Gauguin : the search for sacred art
  
• Wait till next year
  
• Waiting to exhale
  
• Waldheim : the missing years
  
• War and anti-war : survival at the dawn of the 21st century
  
• Washington goes to war
  
• Watch me fly : what I learned on the way to becoming the woman I was meant to be
  
• West of Jesus : surfing, science, and the origins of belief
  
• What came before he shot her
  
• What did I do? : the unauthorized autobiography
  
• What makes Sammy run?
  
• What my mother doesn’t know
  
• What Were You Thinking?? : $600-Per - Hour Legal Advice on Relationships, Marriage and Divorce
  
• When did you stop loving me?
  
• When Hollywood had a king : the reign of Lew Wasserman, who leveraged talent into power and influence
  
• Where the money is : true tales from the bank robbery capital of the world
  
• Where we are now : notes from Los Angeles
  
• Where we stand : 30 reasons for loving our country
  
• Where white men fear to tread : the autobiography of Russell Means
  
• While Reagan slept
  
• White oleander
  
• White teeth
  
• White's rules : saving our schools one kid at a time
  
• Why I am a Catholic
  
• Woman: men and women can no longer co-exist
  
• Wonder boys
  
• Working for love
  
• World class : thriving locally in the global economy
  
• World's end
  
• Worth dying for
  
• Write screenplays that sell : the Ackerman way
  
• Yellow dog
  
• Zeke and Ned