Jim Meskimen

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Billion Dollar Painter

Billion Dollar Painter

The unbelievable true story of artist Thomas Kinkade, self-described "Painter of Light," and the dramatic rise—and fall—of his billion-dollar gallery and licensing businessHe was just one man, but Thomas Kinkade ultimately made more money from his art...

Cardboard Gods is the memoir of Josh Wilker, a brilliant writer who has marked the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. It also captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it...

Conduct Unbecoming

Conduct Unbecoming

In Conduct Unbecoming, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Patterson, New York Times bestselling author and former senior military aide to President Clinton, exposes how President Barack Obama’s national security policies are weakening our military and...

Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me

Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me

Howard Bloom—called “the greatest press agent that rock and roll has ever known” by Derek Sutton, the former manager of Styx, Ten Years After, and Jethro Tull—is a science nerd who knew nothing about popular music. But he founded the biggest PR firm...

Gwendalynn Anders, a mid-Western girl who’s never seen the ocean, wonders what was in that joint she smoked a week before waking up on Elysiana and why it feels like the trip will last the entire summer of 1969.Jack Halcyon, living atop an abandoned...

Forged through Fire

Forged through Fire

When Mark McDonough was a teen, a catastrophic fire claimed the lives of his mother and younger brother. It also left Mark with burns on over sixty-five percent of his body. During a long and painful recovery, his faltering faith in God was...

I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place

I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place

A memoir of the haunting and redemptive events of the acclaimed writer's life—the betrayal of a con-man father; a murder-suicide in his family's house; the presence of an oystercatcher—each one, as the saying goes, stranger than fictionAs with many of...

Juliet’s Answer

Juliet’s Answer

When Glenn Dixon is spurned by love, he packs his bags for Verona, Italy. Once there, he volunteers to answer the thousands of letters that arrive addressed to Juliet—letters sent from lovelorn people all over the world to Juliet’s hometown, people...

A taut literary thriller set along the northern border, North Country explores the monsters frozen in the depths of the human soul.North Chazy, New York, is the heart of the North Country, a frigid region nestled against the Canadian border,...

Meet Lia, a brilliant doctor aboard the starship Arcturus somewhere in the sprawling expanse of the galaxy, where humanity teeters on the edge of evolution. The legacy of her father, a pioneering inventor, looms over her as she tends to the health of...

Silences So Deep

Silences So Deep

A memoir of a composer’s life in the Alaskan wilderness and a meditation on making art in a landscape acutely threatened by climate change.In the summer of 1975, the composer John Luther Adams, then a twenty-two-year-old graduate of CalArts, boarded a...

Sins of Our Fathers

Sins of Our Fathers

From the screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated House of Sand and Fog comes a fierce, elegant page-turner about race, money, and the American Dream.JW is a small-town banker; his specialty, teaching other bankers in towns near Indian reservations how to...

David Randall is a lively, carefree fellow with a talent for finding things. His perfect family life is derailed when he loses his little daughter, Lindsey, in a car accident. He is haunted by her in his dreams, fearful that she blames him. Randall,...

That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick

That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick

The untold story behind a revolution in American comedyLabor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called the National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with a loose...

The Academy and the Award

The Academy and the Award

The first behind-the-scenes history of the organization behind the Academy AwardsFor all the near-fanatic attention brought each year to the Academy Awards, the organization that dispenses those awards—the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...

The Drudge Revolution

The Drudge Revolution

The internet blogger equipped with no more than a high school education has been credited for everything from the impeachment of President Bill Clinton to the death of print news and the election of President Donald Trump. Carl Bernstein went so far...

The Ghost Clause

The Ghost Clause

National Book Award Finalist Howard Norman delivers another provocative, haunting novel, this time set in a Vermont village and featuring a missing child, a newly married private detective, and a highly relatable ghost.Simon Inescort is no longer...

A young sheriff and a hardened killer form an uneasy and complicated bond in this mesmerizing first novel set on the plains of Montana.Steeped in a lonesome Montana landscape as unyielding and raw as it is beautiful, Kim Zupan's The Ploughmen is a new...

The Story of Silver

The Story of Silver

How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American...