Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

Using simple guidelines, professional color consultant Carole Jackson helps you choose the thirty shades that make you look smashing. COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL will also help you: develop your color personality; learn to perfect your make-up color; discover your clothing personality; use color to solve specific figure problems, and more, including full-color palettes containing the thirty shades for each season--pages... (more)

The Death of Innocence

by John Ramsey

The Death of Innocence is part memoir, part murder mystery...<It> paints more than a plausible picture of a family victimized at first by the horrific murder of a young girl and then by a relentless media and police campaign to smear their reputation and prove their guilt. As we read their account of the hellishness of their lives since their daughter's murder, we realize that nothing has been fair. • What... (more)

Rick Steves' European Christmas

by Rick Steves

From England to Norway, Burgundy to Bavaria, and Rome to the top of the Swiss Alps, Rick Steves’ European Christmas gets you a seat at the family feast, up in the loft with the finest choirs, and into the kitchen with grandma and her best-kept holiday secrets. With enchanting photos and more than a dozen recipes, this great gift book captures the spirit of the season perfectly. After producing a hundred travel... (more)

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life

by Susan Hertog

An illuminating portrait of Anne Morrow Lindbergh--loyal wife, devoted mother, pioneering aviator, and critically acclaimed author of the bestselling Gift from the Sea . Anne Morrow Lindbergh has been one of the most admired women and most popular writers of our time. Her Gift from the Sea is a perennial favorite. But the woman behind the public person has remained largely unknown. Drawing on five years of... (more)

The Snowflake

by Patricia Rasmussen, Kenneth George Libbrecht

WINNER, 2004 NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD! (Nature & Environment) Snowflakes may be an everyday, common subject, but you’ve never seen them like this! A collection of amazing photography of snow crystals using a unique system designed to take super-detailed micro images of these miniature ice masterpieces, "The Snowflake" is an extraordinary look at a seemingly ordinary object. The general public is... (more)

Fatal Vision

by Joe McGiniss

A study of a brutal multiple murder and its bizarre aftermath focuses on Jeffrey MacDonald, convicted in 1979 of the murders of his pregnant wife and two small daughters. Book available.

Murder in Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley?

Murder in Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley?

by Mark Fuhrman

In this powerful new book, expert investigator Mark Fuhrman, the controversial former LAPD homicide detective and author of the national bestseller Murder in Brentwood, uncovers explosive new information as he analyses the still unsolved murder of fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley, who was bludgeoned with a golf club on the grounds of her family's exclusive Greenwich, Connecticut, estate on October 30, 1975. ... (more)

60 Minutes: 25 Years of Television's Finest HourFrank Coffey

60 Minutes: 25 Years of Television's Finest Hour

by Frank Coffey

Murder in Brentwood

by Mark Fuhrman

People know Mark Fuhrman as the most pivotal witness of the O.J. Simpson trial. Now, readers can meet the real Mark Fuhrman, as he sets the record straight on the infamous trial of the century. Includes 16 pages of never-before-published court documents and evidence photos.

Peanuts treasury

by Charles M. Schulz

As the creator of Peanuts, the world's most widely read comic strip, Charles Schulz (1922-2000) touched the hearts and funny bones of millions of people, with his work appearing in more than two thousand newspapers around the world and translated into twenty-one languages. Through such lovable characters as Charlie Brown and Snoopy (not to mention the rest of the Peanuts gang), Schulz created, in the words of... (more)

M.I. Hummel: The Golden Anniversary Album

M.I. Hummel: The Golden Anniversary Album

by Robert L. Miller

Mockery of Justice: True Story of Sheppard Murder Case

Mockery of Justice: True Story of Sheppard Murder Case

by Cynthia L. Cooper

Although Dr. Sam Sheppard's conviction for the infamous and brutal 1954 murder of his wife Marilyn was overturned in the 1960s, the real killer has never been identified. In Mockery of Justice, his son Sam Reese Sheppard and attorney Cynthia L. Cooper reinvestigate the crime and find that vital evidence was fabricated, suppressed, or ignored by police. Drawing on recently recovered documents, Sheppard... (more)

For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice (Unabridged)

For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice (Unabridged)

by Sharon Rocha

Laci Rocha Peterson, 8 months pregnant, was last seen by her sister, Amy, in the late afternoon of December 23, 2002. She spoke to her mother, Sharon Rocha, at 8:30 p.m. that night. This would be the last time anyone from her immediate family ever spoke to her. A search began which lasted an agonizing four months. Sadly, Laci Peterson and her son Conner were found dead on the shores of San Francisco Bay on April... (more)

James Dean: Fifty Years Ago

by Dennis Stock

Like a restless ghost, James Dean (1921-1955) continues to haunt us. Though he died nearly 50 years ago, the enigmatic star of East of Eden, Rebel without a Cause , and Giant still symbolizes the mystery and torment of adolescence-an image that his sudden, violent death fixed forever in the public mind. Magnum photographer Dennis Stock met Dean in Hollywood in 1954 and began to capture him on camera. Shot... (more)

Color Me Beautiful's Looking Your Best: Color, Makeup and Style

Color Me Beautiful's Looking Your Best: Color, Makeup and Style

by Mary Spillane

The classic makeup and style book, now updated for the 1990s and expanded to 12 color palettes.

Shirley Temple: A Pictorial History of the World's Greatest Child Star

Shirley Temple: A Pictorial History of the World's Greatest Child Star

by Rita Dubas

Shirley Temple was a phenomenon, a child star whose talent and personality earned her a permanent place in Hollywood history. The extraordinary six-year-old entertainer struck a chord with audiences all over the globe. Her career sparked a marketing sensation, spurring the production of anything and everything bearing her image-from dolls to tin whistles-in all corners of the globe, both authorized and... (more)

THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS BLIND AMBITIONJohn Dean

THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS BLIND AMBITION

by John Dean

Beatrix Potter 1866-1943: The Artist and Her World

Beatrix Potter 1866-1943: The Artist and Her World

by Judy Taylor, Joyce Irene Whalley, Anne Stevenson Hobbs, Elizabeth M. Battrick

Full-color and b&w illustrations.

One Magical Sunday: (But Winning Isn't Everything)

One Magical Sunday: (But Winning Isn't Everything)

by Donald T. Phillips, Phil Mickelson

For years Phil Mickelson symbolized the classic runnerup in the golf world, always placing near the top of every tournament, always near the top of the money list, but never reaching the pinnacle of winning one of the Majors. Then finally, on one magical Sunday, Phil's dream came true as he sank an 18-foot putt on the 18th hole to win the 2004 Masters. Mickelson leapt into the air in total celebration--and an... (more)

Shelfari Book Activity

Tags: mixed bag of nonfiction faves

by Carole Jackson

by John Ramsey

by Rick Steves

by Susan Hertog

by Patricia Rasmussen, Kenneth George Libbrecht

by Joe McGiniss

by Mark Fuhrman

by Frank Coffey

by Mark Fuhrman

by Charles M. Schulz

by Robert L. Miller

by Cynthia L. Cooper

by Sharon Rocha

by Dennis Stock

by Mary Spillane

by Rita Dubas

by John Dean

by Judy Taylor, Joyce Irene Whalley, Anne Stevenson Hobbs, Elizabeth M. Battrick

by Donald T. Phillips, Phil Mickelson

by Warren G. Harris