New Releases by Chris Roberts

The hotel sector is highlighted by pioneers Conrad Hilton, Howard Johnson, Richard Kessler, J.W. Marriott, Isadore Sharp, Kemmons Wilson in the U.S. and Che-Woo Lui of China and Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh of India (Oberi Group). The food service sector highlights the quick service segment. Also represented are the casino resort segment, the club segment, the cruise sector and the hotel investment segment.

From Girl Scout to grocery store clerk, firearms instructor to special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and eventually to freelance writer, Chris Roberts chronicles her true-life adventures and misadventures, courting rituals and second chances, extra heartbeats and lessons learned. In this candid and witty collection of essays, Roberts recaps her first fifty years with wry humor, looking back on her blue-collar upbringing in a troubled home, where she and her brothers banded together to survive a violent father and an alcoholic mother. At the age of seventeen, Roberts fell into a career in federal law enforcement and found herself in a place where women were not welcome and where co-workers could be as hostile as the criminals she investigated. Roberts pinpoints the ridiculous amidst the sublime and the dignified in the downright embarrassing as she recounts a fated meeting with the man who would become her husband, the forty-three-second shortcoming that kept her out of the FBI, a late-in-life introduction to motherhood, and the burial of her mother''s ashes at sea. Whether she''s traveling to Egypt or changing the light bulb on an appliance, Roberts brings us into her world, where anything that can go wrong probably will and where laughter usually saves the day.

The Absolute Must Have Karaoke Handbook to Unlimited Tons of Fun with Income! Secrets to get your karake business up and running and make money...How to get jobs and what to charge...How to find your way to the karaoke bank...Tools and Techniques...Create extra money with your own store...Contracts, Business Cards, and Fliers...Host a show and perform...Perform as a Tribute Artist...Karaoke Music Copyright Questions and Answers and much more!

Born in 1985 in New York, Johansson has already achieved a cinematic career of stellar proportion. Searching for the essence of her luminous star quality, this book takes a critical look at her work, and traces her transformation from talented child actress to Hollywood icon.

Revealing the seamy and quirky stories behind favorite nursery rhymes, London librarian Roberts traces the origins of the subtle phrases and antiquated references, unearthing religious hatred, political subversion, and sexual innuendo.

Kale is a teenager like any other. He''s rapidly growing out of his clothes, his body is changing in strange new ways and it seems like his life consists of nothing but chores. It''s a fairly normal life, until a strange storm whisks away all that he knows and loves. Riding on the wind is an evil so sinister that Kale can hardly fathom the things he is forced to see. And then, while struggling to make sense of the terror around him, he is charged by an angel of the Lord to find the Armor of Light: a legendary collection of weapons that is rumored to be powerful enough to send the Prince of Wind and his minions back to where they came from.

A witty and informative look at the history of London''s bridges

Join Chris Roberts, the voice of the Bruins, as he recounts the highlights of this great team.

I bet it is hard to run the world." "How much money do you make? A million?" "Are you famous all over the world, or just in America?" When 150 school children, ages six through twelve, sit down to write letters to the President, the resulting correspondence is a candid mix of sage advice, serious concern, and hilariously funny observations about the office of the President and the goings-on at Capitol Hill. From sea to shining sea, and collected by Chris Roberts over the past three years, these letters are filled to brimming with pointed questions, thoughtful musings, and personal reflections about the role of the President, and the place of America in the mind of its most quizzical young citizens. Chris Roberts has been collecting children''s letters to leading world figures for over seven years. His first collection, Dear Primer Minister, was met with rave reviews, including applause from the Prime Minister of Canada himself. For this collection, the author has compiled letters from the archives of such Presidents as John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, and George Bush.

Describes the individual members of the hip-hop band, the Fugees, how the group was formed, and the growth of their popularity.