No matter how smart we believe ourselves to be, we're all susceptible to bullshit--and we all engage in it. While we may brush it off as harmless marketing sales speak or as humorous, embellished claims, it's actually much more dangerous and insidious. It's how Bernie Madoff successfully swindled billions of dollars from even the most experienced financial experts with his Ponzi scheme. It's how the protocols of Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward resulted...

Newlywed and Dead: Photographer Allie Adams is shocked when the groom at a wedding she is covering is shot dead. What's even worse, is she must convince Detective Sam Acosta that her brother isn't the killer. Dead Over Diamonds: Photographer Allie and Detective Sam's investigation into a priceless stolen necklace leads to danger and unexpected death. Exit, Stage Death: Allie and Sam navigate the world of amateur theatrics as they pursue the killer...

At age four, Molly Shannon's world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident with her father at the wheel. Held together by her tender and complicated relationship with her grieving father, Molly was raised in a permissive household where her gift for improvising and role-playing blossomed alongside the fearlessness that would lead her to become a celebrated actress. From there, Molly ventured into the wider...

To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner.

An Exhaustive, brilliantly researched survey of bias.

Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for his adopted father, Irish gangster John Rooney. When Sullivan's son, Mike Jr., witnesses one of his father's killings on Rooney's behalf, the gangster decides that his ward and his family are liabilities that must be removed. Sullivan tries to safeguard his son and get even with the man who betrayed him, while his son focuses on bonding with his emotionally distant father.

Describes the history of the rock group, from their formation in London in 1962 to their long-lived success for over fifty years.

"What makes the best the best? Ultimately the best are where they are because of the mindset, habits, and rituals they have-both in their respective "arenas," but also in private, during the unseen hours. Success isn't something that happens to you. It's something you attract and you create. Successful people do the little things better than everyone else because they know all the big things arise from them. The highest performers in all walks of...

Sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier. After the violent death of her father, Margo takes to the Stark River in her grandfather's rowboat, with only a few supplies and a biography of her hero Annie Oakley, in search of her mother. But the river, Margo's childhood paradise, is a dangerous place for a young woman traveling alone, and she must be strong to survive,...