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A Swingin' Show-biz Saga
Written by Paul Shaffer and David Ritz
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $26.00
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and... Read more >

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My Story
Written by Lang Lang and David Ritz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $16.00
“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as... Read more >

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A Swingin' Showbiz Saga
Written by Paul Shaffer and David Ritz
Read by Paul Shaffer
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $35.00
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and... Read more >

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Written by Billie Holiday and William Dufty
Foreword by David Ritz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 25, 2006
Price: $15.95
Lady Sings the Blues is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred autobiography of Billie Holiday, the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation. Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Holiday’s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and... Read more >
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Written by Priscilla Presley and Lisa Marie Presley
Edited by David Ritz
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $24.95
For the first time, the inside story of legendary entertainer Elvis Presley’s life as a husband, father, son, cousin, friend, spiritual seeker — Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley, and other family members, come together to memorialize our greatest star in this stunningly illustrated companion to a major television special and longer-form... Read more >

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My Story
Written by Lang Lang and David Ritz
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2008
Price: $24.95
“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as... Read more >

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My Life, My Beats
Written by Grandmaster Flash and David Ritz
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $22.95
A no-holds-barred memoir from the primary architect of hip hop and one of the culture's most revered music icons—both the tale of his life and legacy and a testament to dogged determination.
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five fomented the musical revolution known as hip hop. Theirs was a groundbreaking union between...
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Written by Gary Sheffield and David Ritz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $13.95
I love this game
Love the feel of the bat in my hand, the grass under my feet, the shouts of encouragement as I step into the box. I draw strength from the fans and play my heart out for them.
I just wish those who control the game had more respect for... Read more >

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A Novel
Written by Mable John and David Ritz
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2006
Price: $12.95
Albertina Merci, a talented R&B singer, toured with Ray Charles, James Brown, and Wilson Pickett—until the fateful night her voice gave out in front of a sold-out crowd. Encouraged by her fans, she offered a little speech in praise of Jesus instead of a song. Her spontaneous words became the seed... Read more >

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A Novel
Written by Mable John and David Ritz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $19.00
Pastor Albertina Merci, the former blues singer turned minister, juggles rap, romance, family, and faith in the third book in this delightful series.
The unexpected arrival of fifteen-year-old rapper J Love hits Pastor Merci with the force of a whirlwind. When J’s mother is killed in a tragic bus accident, Albertina is...

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An Albertina Merci Novel
Written by Mable John and David Ritz
Format: Trade Paperback, 254 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $15.00
Albertina Merci is back in this delightful second book featuring everyone’s favorite blues singer turned evangelist!
After Albertina’s dear friend Mr. Mario, the owner of Mr. Mario’s Downhome Café, has a heart attack and then loses his wife to diabetes, he decides that his lifetime love of soul food is over for...
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Written by Gary Sheffield and David Ritz
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 3, 2007
Price: $13.95
Becoming a Major League ballplayer for Dwight and me, that was the dream.
Dwight is Dwight Gooden. Most people know him for winning the Cy Young Award. To me, though, he’s family, an uncle, but at four years older, really a brother. I can still remember those games of catch with Dwight... Read more >
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A Novel
Written by Mable John and David Ritz
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.95
Albertina Merci, a talented R&B singer, toured with Ray Charles, James Brown, and Wilson Pickett—until the fateful night her voice gave out in front of a sold-out crowd. Encouraged by her fans, she offered a little speech in praise of Jesus instead of a song. Her spontaneous words became the seed... Read more >
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My Story
Written by Lang Lang and David Ritz
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2008
Price: $16.00
“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as... Read more >
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A Swingin' Show-biz Saga
Written by Paul Shaffer and David Ritz
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $26.00
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and... Read more >
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The Odyssey of a Monstrous Music Mogul in an Age of Excess
Written by Walter Yetnikoff and David Ritz
Read by Walter Yetnikoff
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 2, 2004
Price: $12.95
he music industry’s most outspoken, outrageous, and phenomenally successful executive delivers a rollicking memoir of pop music’s heyday.
During the 1970s and '80s the music business was dominated by a few major labels and artists such as Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Barbra Streisand...
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The Odyssey of a Monstrous Music Mogul in an Age of Excess
Written by Walter Yetnikoff and David Ritz
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 2, 2004
Price: $14.95
he music industry’s most outspoken, outrageous, and phenomenally successful executive delivers a rollicking memoir of pop music’s heyday.
During the 1970s and '80s the music business was dominated by a few major labels and artists such as Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Barbra Streisand...
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An Albertina Merci Novel
Written by Mable John and David Ritz
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $15.00
Albertina Merci is back in this delightful second book featuring everyone’s favorite blues singer turned evangelist!
After Albertina’s dear friend Mr. Mario, the owner of Mr. Mario’s Downhome Café, has a heart attack and then loses his wife to diabetes, he decides that his lifetime love of soul food is over for... Read more >
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My Life, My Beats
Written by Grandmaster Flash and David Ritz
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $22.95
A no-holds-barred memoir from the primary architect of hip hop and one of the culture's most revered music icons—both the tale of his life and legacy and a testament to dogged determination.
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five fomented the musical revolution known as hip hop. Theirs was a groundbreaking union between... Read more >
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A Novel
Written by Mable John and David Ritz
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $19.00
Pastor Albertina Merci, the former blues singer turned minister, juggles rap, romance, family, and faith in the third book in this delightful series.
The unexpected arrival of fifteen-year-old rapper J Love hits Pastor Merci with the force of a whirlwind. When J’s mother is killed in a tragic bus accident, Albertina is... Read more >

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My Story
Written by Lang Lang and David Ritz
Read by Feodor Chin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $17.50
“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as... Read more >

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A Swingin' Showbiz Saga
Written by Paul Shaffer and David Ritz
Read by Paul Shaffer
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $17.50
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and... Read more >









