Sidney Poitier
Montaro Caine, CEO of the Fitzer Corporation, is losing control of the company he built just as his...
The follow-up to THE MEASURE OF A MAN, Sidney Poitier’s bestselling memoir that was also a popular selection for Oprah’s Book club!
Sidney Poitier shares both personal stories and inspirational advice through the format of letters written to his great-granddaughter. He offers the perspective and wisdom gained through his remarkable life, and discusses the importance of his family throughout.
"I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite the contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in selfquestioning. In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long and complicated life, with many twists and turns, how well I've done at measuring up to the values I myself have set."
In this luminous memoir, a true American
...Read by Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Kathleen Turner, and Matthew Broderick
Here are the immortals of Olympus—the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece—as freshly described as if they were alive today.
Mighty Zeus with his fistful of thunderbolts; mischievous little Hermes; grey-eyed Athena, godess of wisdom; Asclepius, the first physician; Orpheus and his beloved Euridice; Helios the sun, crossing the heavens in his fiery