Mary Jordan

Amanda Berry

Gina DeJesus

Two victims of an infamous Cleveland kidnapper share the story of their abductions, their decade in captivity and their dramatic escape.

A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland

Hope

This revelatory biography of Melania Trump from Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporter Mary Jordan depicts a first lady who is far more influential in the White House than most people realize. Based on interviews with more than one hundred people in five countries, The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump draws an unprecedented portrait of the first lady. While her public image is of an aloof woman floating above the political gamesmanship of Washington, behind the scenes Melania Trump is not only part of President Trump’s inner circle, but for some key decisions she has been his single most influential adviser. Throughout her public life, Melania Trump has purposefully worked to remain mysterious. With the help of key people speaking publicly for the first time and never-before-seen documents and tapes, The Art of Her Deal looks beyond the surface image to find a determined immigrant and the life she had before she met Donald Trump. Mary Jordan traces Melania’s journey from Slovenia, where her family stood out for their nonconformity, to her days as a fledgling model known for steering clear of the industry’s hard-partying scene, to a tiny living space in Manhattan she shared platonically with a male photographer, to the long, complicated dating dance that finally resulted in her marriage to Trump. Jordan documents Melania’s key role in Trump’s political life before and at the White House, and shows why he trusts her instincts above all. The picture of Melania Trump that emerges in The Art of Her Deal is one of a woman who is savvy, steely, ambitious, deliberate, and who plays the long game. And while it is her husband who became famous for the phrase “the art of the deal,” it is she who has consistently used her leverage to get exactly what she wants. This is the story of the art of her deal.

The Untold Story of Melania Trump

The Art of Her Deal

In this “scrupulously reported biography” (NPR) Jordan documents how Melania Trump had discussing being First Lady nearly two decades before she landed in the White House and how she encouraged her husband to enter the race for president. Based on interviews with more than one hundred people in five countries, The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump is “an extraordinary work” (Salon) that draws an unprecedented portrait of the first lady. We see that behind the scenes Melania Trump is not only part of President Trump’s inner circle, but for some key decisions she has been his single most influential advisor. Jordan interviewed key people in Melania's close circle who speak publicly for the first time and uncovered never-before-seen photos and tapes of the tall woman with “tiger eyes,” as a judge in an early modeling contest said. The Art of Her Deal shows Melania’s ascent from a modest life, tracing her journey from childhood under a communist dictator to her complicated relationship with Donald Trump. The picture that emerges is “that the first lady is not a pawn but a player... and a woman able to get what she wants from one of the most powerful and transparently vain men in the world” (NPR). And while it is her husband who became famous for the phrase “the art of the deal,” this is the story of the art of her deal.

Kevin Sullivan

The #1 New York Times Bestseller A bestselling book that is inspiring the nation: “We have written here about terrible things that we never wanted to think about again . . . Now we want the world to know: we survived, we are free, we love life.” Two women kidnapped by infamous Cleveland school-bus driver Ariel Castro share the stories of their abductions, captivity, and dramatic escape On May 6, 2013, Amanda Berry made headlines around the world when she fled a Cleveland home and called 911, saying: “Help me, I’m Amanda Berry. . . . I’ve been kidnapped, and I’ve been missing for ten years.” A horrifying story rapidly unfolded. Ariel Castro, a local school bus driver, had separately lured Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight to his home, where he kept them chained. In the decade that followed, the three were raped, psychologically abused, and threatened with death. Berry had a daughter—Jocelyn—by their captor. Drawing upon their recollections and the diary kept by Amanda Berry, Berry and Gina DeJesus describe a tale of unimaginable torment, and Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporters Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan interweave the events within Castro’s house with original reporting on efforts to find the missing girls. The full story behind the headlines—including details never previously released on Castro’s life and motivations—Hope is a harrowing yet inspiring chronicle of two women whose courage, ingenuity, and resourcefulness ultimately delivered them back to their lives and families.

'We have written here about terrible things that we never wanted to think about again...Now we want the world to know: we survived, we are free, we love life.' On May 6, 2013, Amanda Berry made headlines around the world when she fled a Cleveland home and called 911, saying: "Help me, I'm Amanda Berry...I've been kidnapped, and I've been missing for ten years." A horrifying story rapidly unfolded. Ariel Castro, a local school bus driver, had separately lured Berry and two other young women, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, to his home, where he trapped them and kept them chained. In the decade that followed, the three girls were frequently raped, psychologically abused and threatened with death if they attempted to escape. Years after she was taken, Berry had a daughter by their captor, a child she bravely raised as normally as possible under impossible conditions. Drawing upon their recollections and the secret diary kept by Amanda Berry, Berry and Gina DeJesus describe the unimaginable torment they suffered and the strength and resourcefulness that enabled them to survive. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan interweave the events within Castro's house with original reporting on the efforts to find the missing girls. The full story behind the headlines - including details never previously released on Castro's life and motivations - Hope is a harrowing yet inspiring chronicle of two women whose courage and ingenuity ultimately delivered them back to their lives and families.

The award-winning author and philanthropist, Mary Jordan, presents her two bestselling international ebooks Destiny of Choice and Choice of Destiny in a single printed volume - Destiny of Choice. With over 600 reviews with an overall rating of 4+ out of 5 stars, readers will read one of the most liked books based on true events and organised crime in the last several years. Readers' reviews: 5.0 out of 5 stars ☆☆Gripping, touching, interesting☆☆ "A very harrowing but equally gripping and interesting read. I was desperately rooting for Ionna and wanting all to be well for her, especially towards the end. How can someone so young survive so much.... .A book quite impossible to put down. Looking forward to the sequel. Excellent and recommended." 5.0 out of 5 stars BRILLIANT!!!!! "What strength of character the author has, her positivity shone through!! This booked gripped me from start to Finnish, am looking forward to book 2 & so hope her life has turned around. It's so hard to imagine at such a young how she coped! A really good read you won't be disappointed!!" 5.0 out of 5 stars Glued!!! "Loved the first book, had to buy the second right away. I couldn't put it down, I even dreamed about it! Wondering what was going to happen next. What a fantastic ending, just how I hoped it would be. I could read her stories forever." 5.0 out of 5 stars Part 2 amazing "Loved part 2 what a wonderful story I couldn't put it down. I don't think I've enjoyed a book so much. A thrilling story" OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS "The serene, beautiful family happiness of Ioana Severini is shattered into pieces. Shadows of the past are cast over her well-structured life and threaten to destroy her family. Her soul is gripped deeply and irrevocably by the traumas she suffered as a child. Her tyrannical father with his violent methods of upbringing forced her to run away when she was still a young child. Life on the street was all she had, but it was not safe. At the tender age of twelve, Ioana falls into the hands of the underground. Theft, prostitution and the battle for survival. She is a rebel but possesses an amazing instinct for survival. She grows up ahead of her years with wisdom, practicality and sometimes aggression. These qualities, as well as her lucky star, help her escape alive from the human traffickers. All this leaves a lasting mark on her psyche, but she will need her fighting spirit and unbroken will to control her own destiny to save not only herself but her wonderful children."

I was Beaten by My Father as a Slave. I Escaped from Home at the Age of 12. I Stole to Live. I was Trafficked. I Survived.

Destiny of Choice

The winners of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting tell the astonishing story of Mary Clarke. At the age of fifty, Clarke left her comfortable life in suburban Los Angeles to follow a spiritual calling to care for the prisoners in one of Mexico's most notorious jails. She actually moved into a cell to live among drug king pins and petty thieves. She has led many of them through profound spiritual transformations in which they turned away from their lives of crime, and has deeply touched the lives of all who have witnessed the depth of her compassion. Donning a nun's habit, she became Mother Antonia, renowned as "the prison angel," and has now organized a new community of sisters-the Servants of the Eleventh Hour—widows and divorced women seeking new meaning in their lives. "We had never heard a story like hers," Jordan and Sullivan write, "a story of such powerful goodness." Born in Beverly Hills, Clarke was raised around the glamour of Hollywood and looked like a star herself, a beautiful blonde reminiscent of Grace Kelly. The choreographer Busby Berkeley spotted her at a restaurant and offered her a job, but Mary's dream was to be a happy wife and mother. She raised seven children, but her two unfulfilling marriages ended in divorce. Then in the late 1960s, in midlife, she began devoting herself to charity work, realizing she had an extraordinary talent for drumming up donations for the sick and poor. On one charity mission across the Mexican border to the drug-trafficking capitol of Tijuana, she visited La Mesa prison and experienced an intense feeling that she had found her true life's work. As she recalls, "I felt like I had come home." Receiving the blessings of the Catholic Church for her mission, on March 19, 1977, at the age of fifty, she moved into a cell in La Mesa, sleeping on a bunk with female prisoners above and below her. Nearly twenty-eight years later she is still living in that cell, and the remarkable power of her spiritual counseling to the prisoners has become legendary. The story of both one woman's profound journey of discovery and growth and of the deep spiritual awakenings she has called forth in so many lost souls, The Prison Angel is an astonishing testament to the powers of personal transformation.

Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail

The Prison Angel

Judy Carole Kauffmann

The period following the death of a loved one can be a time of great turmoil. This sensitive book acts as a supportive road map through the initial period of loss, and through the weeks and months that follow. The authors address not only the emotional and spiritual aspects of bereavement, but also important and often overlooked practical considerations such as dealing with wills and other paperwork, disposing of personal possessions, making arrangements for funerals and memorial services, coping with the anniversaries of a death and resolving family conflict. Drawing on many real examples, they offer compassionate, realistic advice on dealing with guilt and other negative emotions, as well as helpful guidance on how and when to break the news of a death to others, including to children, people with learning disabilities and people with dementia. This will be an invaluable guide for anyone who has experienced, or who is facing, a bereavement. It will also be of interest to professionals involved in supporting those who are bereaved, both as a source of helpful information and as a resource to recommend to clients.

Beyond Tomorrow

The Essential Guide to Life After Bereavement

Această carte este biografia neoficială a Melaniei Trump, Prima Doamnă a SUA, și bestseller the New York Times. A fost publicată în iunie 2020, în SUA. De-a lungul vieții sale publice, Melania Trump și-a construit cu mare pricepere personalitatea enigmatică și imaginea misterioasă. Cu sprijinul unor persoane importante, care au vorbit public pentru prima oară, și folosindu-se de documente și înregistrări inedite, autoare cărții ARTA EI DE A REUȘI. POVESTEA NESPUSĂ A MELANIEI TRUMP ne invită să privim dincolo de aparențe. Vom descoperi o femeie sigură pe sine și de o inteligență uimitoare, care a ajuns Prima Doamnă a Americii și un adevărat Pop Icon. Mary Jordan schițează călătoria Melaniei de la viața în Slovenia, unde familia s-a remarcat prin nonconformism, trecând prin perioada în care era tânăr model în plină ascensiune – când evită să meargă la obositoarele petreceri organizate de mai-marii industriei de fashion și împărțea o garsonieră micuță din Manhattan cu un prieten fotograf – și până la începuturile relației cu Donald Trump, legătură ce a dus, până la urmă, la căsătoria cu viitorul președinte. Autoarea a strâns dovezi care ne arată ce rol important a avut Melania în viața politică a lui Trump (înainte și după ajungerea la Casa Albă). În plus, explică motivele pentru care cel de-al 45-lea președinte al SUA mizează pe instinctul ei politic mai mult decât pe al oricărei alte persoane.

Povestea nespusă a Melaniei Trump

Arta ei de a reuși

Washington Post journalists Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan present an account of the investigation, impeachment, and acquittal of Donald Trump, a political drama that challenged American democracy itself.

One Started with a Phone Call. The Other with a Deadly Riot. Here is the Story.

Trump's Trials

A compelling and masterful account, based on fresh reporting, of the investigation, impeachment, and acquittal of President Donald Trump, a ferocious political drama that challenged American democracy itself. In the spring of 2019, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi did not favor pursuing Trump’s impeachment. Her view was: “He’s just not worth it.” But by September, after a whistleblower complaint suggesting that Trump had used his office for his political benefit, Pelosi decided to risk it. The impeachment inquiry led to charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, a gamble that ultimately meant Trump would be the first impeached president on the ballot in US history. Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporters Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan have crafted a powerful, intimate narrative that concentrates on the characters as well as the dramatic events, braiding them together to provide a remarkable understanding of what happened and why. Drawing on the deep reporting of Post journalists as well as new interviews, Sullivan and Jordan deliver a crisp page-turner with exquisite detail and scenes. They put readers in the room for both sides of the now-famous phone call between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25, 2019, revealing the in-the-moment reactions of those listening to the call in Washington, as well as the tension in Kyiv, as aides passed notes to Zelensky while he was talking to Trump. Sullivan and Jordan deftly illuminate the aims and calculations of key figures. Pelosi’s evolution from no to yes. Trump’s mounting fury as “the I-word” became inevitable. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell firmly telling Trump on the phone about the Senate trial: You need to trust me. Trump on Trial teems with unexpected moments. House member Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat, alone at the National Archives, walking amid the nation’s founding documents, weighing her vote on impeachment. Fiery Republican congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida, a favorite Trump warrior, deciding to lead the storming of the secure room in the US Capitol basement, where witnesses were testifying. The authors paint vivid portraits of the men and women branded by the president’s supporters as foes from the “deep state”: Ukraine experts Fiona Hill and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman; ambassadors Marie Yovanovitch and William Taylor. The narrative spools out amid Trump’s nonstop tweeting and the infinite echo chamber of social media, which amplified both parties’ messages in ways unknown during past impeachments. Sullivan and Jordan, aided by editor Steve Luxenberg, follow the story into the aftermath of Trump’s acquittal and the president’s payback for those whom he believed had betrayed him. The retributions took place as the nation reeled from a devastating pandemic and widespread protests about racial injustice, with another trial looming: the 2020 election.

Mary Jordan

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