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PERSONAL
Born May 16, 1971; son of Edward and Gail Rancic; married Giuliana DePandi (a television personality), 2007; children: Duke.
EDUCATION:Loyola University, B.S. (cum laude).
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CAREER
Author and motivational speaker. Host, We Mean Business, A&E, 2008, Kitchen Casino, Food Network, 2014. Co-host, In the Loop with iVillage, NBC Universal, 2007, America Now, 2010-11. Co-star, Giuliana and Bill, Style Network. Founder, Cigars around the World; co-founder, You and I Productions, 2008; board member, Mercy Home for Boys and Girls.
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Bill Rancic is best known for his role in the reality TV program The Apprentice. Rancic was the winner of the first season of the program, and was selected by host Donald Trump to oversee the construction of the Trump Tower Chicago.
You're Hired
He chronicled his success in the book You’re Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life. He pointed out that his interest in business and entrepreneurship dated back long before his television success on reality TV. “Rancic was determined to always [do] things he loved and never to work a 9-5 job,” declared Diane C. Donovan, writing in MBR Bookwatch. “After graduating cum laude from Loyola University,” explained the contributor of a short biographical statement appearing on the author’s eponymous home page, the Bill Rancic Website, he “went on to become a successful entrepreneur when he founded Cigars around the World, a monthly online subscription-based retailer that became a multi-million-dollar enterprise.”
You’re Hired sets out some of the lessons Rancic picked up from family, friends, and mentors throughout his life. “He synopsizes at the end of each chapter,” wrote Booklist reviewer Barbara Jacobs, “lessons he learned in work.” “Nearly every chapter,” stated a Publishers Weekly reviewer, “is loaded with advice … salted with a smattering of approaches Rancic picked up from his own reading.” He continued to proffer advice to would-be entrepreneurs in Beyond the Lemonade Stand: Starting Small to Make It Big!, which emphasizes “the importance of honesty, fairness, and helping others,” declared Emily Johnson in Children’s Digest, and he coauthored, with his wife Giuliana, a relationship book: I Do, Now What? Secrets, Stories, and Advice from a Madly-in-love Couple, which, said a California Bookwatch contributor, “present[s] their frank assessment of marriage.”
First Light
With his history of best-selling business and relationship advice book, Rancic “most likely wouldn’t have been pegged to be the next best-selling fiction writer of a romance novel, and he knows that,” said Gibson Johns on the AOL website. “But that didn’t stop him from writing it anyway.” The result is First Light. “The idea for First Light came to Rancic on a return flight from Alaska,” explained Kevin Nance in the Chicago Tribune. “’I started thinking, “What would happen if this plane went down?”’ he said in an interview. ‘In my mind, I outlined the whole scenario for what turned out to be First Light. I think people will definitely connect with the subject matter.’” “At the time we did not have a child but we were planning on starting a family soon and my mind started wandering. Everything changes when you become responsible for someone other than yourself,” Rancic said in an interview for the Signature website. “Now I have to think twice about how it will affect him. I travel a lot for my job and getting on planes isn’t as easy for me as it once was.”
First Light begins with a flashback. The novel, stated Michele Corriston in People Online, features “a young couple telling their ten-year-old son a story of surviving a plane crash from their past while on a family road trip.” The story relates how Daniel Albrecht and Kerry Eagan, both employees of an oil company operating in Alaska, take a plane to return home to Chicago. However, the plane goes down in a snow storm somewhere in the Canadian mountains. “Kerry is seriously injured in the accident,” explained a Fantastic Fiction website contributor, “and it soon becomes clear that search-and-rescue teams aren’t going to find the survivors in time to save her.” Daniel sets off to locate and return with help—but the odds of him succeeding before Kerry’s injuries kill her are slim at best. Will Daniel and Kerry survive? At the end, said Melissa Parcel on the RT Book Reviews website, Rancic’s first novel is “a heartfelt, touching family story about love and sacrifice.”
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Booklist, October 15, 2004, Barbara Jacobs, review of You’re Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life, p. 386.
California Bookwatch, December, 2010, review of I Do, Now What? Secrets, Stories, and Advice from a Madly-in-love Couple.
Chicago Tribune, October 25, 2016, Kevin Nance, “Bill Rancic Sheds ‘Light’ on First Novel.”
Children’s Digest, MayJune, 2006, Emily Johnson, review of Beyond the Lemonade Stand: Starting Small to Make It Big!, p. 18.
MBR Bookwatch, February, 2005, Diane C. Donovan, “HarperBusiness.”
Publishers Weekly, September 27, 2004, review of You’re Hired, p. 50; September 19, 2016, review of First Light, p. 55.
ONLINE
AOL, https://www.aol.com/ (November 8, 2016), Gibson Johns, “Bill Rancic Talks about Writing His First Novel, His Marriage with Giuliana and the Advice He Got from Donald Trump.”
Bill Rancic Website, http://billrancic.com (July 5, 2017), author profile.
Fantastic Fiction, https://www.fantasticfiction.com/ (July 5, 2017), review of First Light.
People Online, http://people.com/ (February 18, 2016), Michele Corriston, “Get All the Details on Bill Rancic’s Debut Novel, a `Story of Love, Survival and Hope.’”
RT Book Reviews, https://www.rtbookreviews.com/ (November 1, 2016), review of First Light.
Signature, http://www.signature-reads.com/ (October 31, 2016), Kristin Fritz, “Bill Rancic: On Fear, Fatherhood, and Fiction.”*
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Bill Rancic burst onto the national scene when he was hired by the winner of the first season of NBC’s breakthrough program “The Apprentice”.
Currently, Bill is speaking to businesses and organizations around the world on motivational and business topics.
Bill makes regular appearances on numerous daytime broadcast and cable television programs such as Today, The View, Rachael Ray and various CNBC programs to talk to viewers about business and entrepreneurship. He also regularly appears in many major national, regional and local print outlets throughout the country.
A published author of a New York Times best-selling book, Bill wrote You're Hired: How To Succeed In Business And Life. This book chronicles Bill's successful life, experience and proven advice. He continued to make a name for himself as an author by writing Beyond the Lemonade Stand to help educate and motivate young people worldwide about the value of money and how to leverage skills, talents and abilities at an early age. All proceeds from the sale of this book have gone to charity. Bill has also co-authored I Do…Now What with his wife Giuliana Rancic where they share secrets to everlasting love.
After graduating cum laude from Loyola University, Bill went on to become a successful entrepreneur when he founded Cigars Around The World, a monthly online subscription-based retailer that became a multi-million dollar enterprise.
Today he is a highly sought after motivational speakers on the subject of entrepreneurship and business. Bill shares his entertaining lessons that vary from a pancake business he started with his grandmother at age 10 to his current ventures as small business spokesman, restaurant owner and real estate developer.
Highly engaged in charitable activities, Bill completed several trips to Haiti, building homes for victims of the earthquake. He is also an active board member for the Mercy Home for Boys and Girls.
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Bill Rancic recently took a surprising career turn: He wrote a romance novel.
Rancic -- known primarily for being the first winner of "The Apprentice," an accomplished businessman and the husband of television personality Giuliana Rancic -- most likely wouldn't have been pegged to be the next best-selling fiction writer of a romance novel, and he knows that. But that didn't stop him from writing it anyway.
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The New York Times best-selling author's first fiction book, "First Light," which was based on his relationship with Giuliana, hit bookshelves on November 1, and it's been very well-received by critics.
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"I went in with my eyes wide-open because I knew people would critique this a little more than they would probably a traditional writer," he told me during an exclusive Facebook Live interview. "You know, I've written books before, but those were business books -- they weren't fiction."
"This book has to be better than your traditional romance novel because people are going to question it a bit more," he explained.
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That willingness to go above and beyond to prove naysayers wrong is something that Rancic has taken with him throughout all of his business endeavors, especially his restaurant group RPM, which has establishments in Chicago and Washington, DC.
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When asked about his experience on "The Apprentice," Rancic was frank and open to talk about Donald Trump, the host of the reality series that he won in 2004.
"That was an experience that changed my life," he told me. "And I will always recognize that, but I think that you have to think big, and that was something that he taught me."
Check out my full conversation with Bill Rancic about "First Light" below:
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After writing three self-help books about business and marriage, Bill Rancic has sold his debut novel.
G.P. Putnam’s Sons has acquired the Apprentice winner’s First Light, set to hild shelves Nov. 1, the publisher announced Thursday exclusively to PEOPLE.
First Light chronicles a young couple telling their 10-year-old son a story of surviving a plane crash from their past while on a family road trip.
“First Light pulls from my own life experiences to tell a fictional story of love, survival and hope,” said Bill Rancic in a statement. “My desire is that people finish this book feeling empowered to tackle life’s countless challenges and obstacles. I believe through determination and faith anything can be achieved no matter how insurmountable the odds may appear. It was an incredible, cathartic experience writing my first novel, and I hope everyone finds the same inspiration and thrill while reading it that I had while putting it together.”
The entrepreneur has quite a love story of his own: He’s married to E! host Giuliana Rancic, whom he met during an interview, and they have a 3-year-old son, Duke.
The couple has stayed strong throughout Giuliana’s cancer battle and infertility struggles while trying to conceive a second child via surrogate.
“In times like this we rely on our faith,” Bill told PEOPLE in 2014. “Once the tears went away, we started to look towards the future.”
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Bill Rancic, still best known as the handsome Chicagoan who won the first season of "The Apprentice" and later worked for that show's host, Donald Trump, is no stranger to the world of books.
Rancic has written a memoir/self-help book, "You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life From the Winner of 'The Apprentice'" (2004), "Beyond the Lemonade Stand" (2005) and, with his wife, Giuliana Rancic of the E! network, "I Do, Now What?: Secrets, Stories and Advice From a Madly-in-Love Couple" (2010).
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Now the author has taken on his biggest literary challenge yet: a novel. "First Light," to be published by Putnam on Tuesday, follows the adventures of Daniel and Kerry, a young couple from Chicago whose plane crashes into a snowy mountainside in the Yukon Territory of Alaska.
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Daniel ventures out to find help for his injured wife and the rest of the surviving passengers, but his efforts are complicated by his boss, described as "a stubborn man more interested in results than taking care of people." (Hmm.) The Chicago-based Booklist has offered an early rave, calling the novel "a captivating and harrowing debut . . . (that) is, at its core, a story of love and family, told within an engrossing page-turner about endurance and hope."
The idea for "First Light" came to Rancic on a return flight from Alaska.
"I started thinking, 'What would happen if this plane went down?'" he said in an interview. "In my mind, I outlined the whole scenario for what turned out to be 'First Light.' I think people will definitely connect with the subject matter."
Writing a novel, of course, is far different — most would say far more difficult — than writing a memoir or self-help book. But Rancic, who also works as a motivational speaker and restaurateur (he owns RPM Steak and RPM Italian in Chicago), had always wanted to give the genre a shot.
"I fell in love with fictional writing in high school when I had a teacher who encouraged me to push myself creatively," he says. "My mom always had a novel in her hand and projected her love of reading on my sisters and me. I like to challenge myself, and writing a novel was a stretch from the other books I've written."
With stretching comes pressure. "I think I felt more pressure because I knew going in that people didn't expect this from me and I was well-aware that some may be more critical in their critique. So, yes, it was more difficult because this type of writing did not come as naturally for me. And this being my first novel, I felt some pressure to get it right — so that it wouldn't be my last one."
Rancic is preparing for an eight-city book tour, with two local stops at 7 p.m. Nov. 3 at the Chicago Marriott Naperville and noon Nov. 16 at Books-a-Million in the Loop.
A dream assignment
The Windy City features prominently in Kevin Baker's new popular history, "America the Ingenious: How a Nation of Dreamers, Immigrants and Tinkerers Changed the World," published this month by Artisan.
Among the chapters highlighting 76 inventions that made America the world leader in technological innovation, Baker includes a section called "Building the Big Onion from Scratch," about the "invention" of the city of Chicago.
The chapter focuses on William Ogden, the city's first mayor, whose hard-charging advocacy made it possible to build the 96-mile Illinois & Michigan Canal connecting the city to the Mississippi, "with as much potential for transforming the new city's fortunes as the Erie Canal had done for New York."
For more, check out the book at your local bookstore or library.
Kevin Nance is a freelance writer and photographer.
INTERVIEWS
Bill Rancic: On Fear, Fatherhood, and Fiction
By KRISTIN FRITZ
October 31, 2016
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In January 2004, a new reality show premiered: Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice.” By the end of that season, American audiences were hooked – and Bill Rancic, winner of that season, became a household name. Since then, Rancic has spent a few years working for Trump’s organization, became star of his own reality show with wife Giuliana, hosted a lifestyle show with Leeza Gibbons, tours as a motivational speaker, has written a number of nonfiction books, became a father, and donates his time to building homes in Haiti. A tireless go-getter, Rancic also wrote a novel. That book, First Light, publishes November 1. We caught up with Rancic via email to get his thoughts on fiction, fear, and more.
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SIGNATURE: The premise of your debut novel, First Light, is fairly terrifying: A young couple, newly engaged and expecting, are on a flight when the plane catches fire and crash lands in the mountains. The two survive the crash and so begins a physical and emotional journey. What inspired this premise?
BILL RANCIC: I was on a flight home from Alaska and I started thinking, “What would happen if this plane went down?” At the time we did not have a child but we were planning on starting a family soon and my mind started wandering. Everything changes when you become responsible for someone other than yourself. We didn’t have Duke until I was forty so I was pretty set in my ways and used to doing the things I wanted to. Now I have to think twice about how it will affect him. I travel a lot for my job and getting on planes isn’t as easy for me as it once was.
SIG: So the plot of First Light plays into some of your own fears as a young husband and father?
BR: Yes. I don’t really have a true fear of flying; however, my wife does. As a husband and a father you take on a lot of responsibility so everything I do now I have to think twice about and how it will affect my wife and son.
SIG: So much of your professional life has been tied to highly visible roles – as a contestant on “The Apprentice,” a motivational speaker, star with your wife, Giuliana, of the reality show “Giuliana and Bill” and beyond. What made you want to write a novel – a process that is often a significantly more solitary experience?
BR: That is correct; it is a solitary experience and I am okay with that. What the public sees is only a fraction of my life. I do occasionally spend time alone to reflect and reevaluate – I really enjoy the writing process and try to continually challenge myself. I had a wonderful English teacher in high school and she is responsible for really getting me into literature.
SIG: Historically, you’ve focused a lot of your philanthropic attentions on Haiti. Are you still involved with efforts in the country? Why is Haiti of particular importance to you?
BR: Yes, I am planning another trip there in January or February. I take a few guys with me and we help build houses. The country needs a lot of help and I am fortunate to be able to go there and do what I can for the people of Haiti. Everything about this experience is fulfilling; however, when you see the look on the homeowners’ faces and their gratitude when the houses are finished – those are moments that take my breath away. I realize that I have been very fortunate and I need to “pay it forward.”
SIG: What surprised you most about the process of writing a novel and how was the experience different from your nonfiction writing endeavors?
BR: I felt a lot of pressure. When I first made up my mind that this was something I was going to do, I wanted to do it well. It is so different than nonfiction, so much more creative; to be honest I wasn’t sure I had it in me.
SIG: Now that you’ve added Novelist to your resume, what’s next for you?
BR: Well, I would love to write a follow up to First Light. Stay tuned.
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Bill Rancie. Putnam, $26 (320p) ISBN 9781101982273
Rancie, a winner of The Apprentice and bestselling author of motivational business books (You're Hired), fails to
transfer his charisma to fiction with a standardissue disaster story. A plane crashes in Alaska, trapping a team of
coworkers at an oil company. Crisis manager Daniel Albrecht treks from the site of the crash to find help for the
survivors, including his injured, pregnant fiancee, Kerry Egan, leaving her in the care of his coworker Phil Velez and a
kind and competent nurse. Paul opens up to Kerry about his grief over the death of his wife, but he keeps his crush on
Kerry to himself. Awkward framing, in which the story is told via the memory of two survivors, is designed to tease but
not telegraph the book's secret plot twist, but it's too transparent and makes the narrative portions told from other
characters' perspective confusing. Rancies dialogueheavy prose feels right for a TV or movie script, but the characters'
feelings of fear and grief are underexplored. Agent: Richard Abate, 3 Arts Entertainment. (Nov.)
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Rancic, Bill. You're Hired: How to Succeed in
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Who would have thought that a reallife "IV series on business and its struggles would command such a large
viewership? This autobiography of The Apprentice's first winner gives a few clues about the show's popularityother
than host Donald Trump and the competition to win a 12month $250,000 salary. First, contestants were carefully
screened and more than well prepared to test their individual and collective mettles on a broadcast medium. Second,
Rancic himself can already claim success as an entrepreneur, as his stories about the startups of Elite Boat Wash and
Wax and Cigars Around the World reveal. Along with growingup anecdotes interspersed with The Apprentice tales, he
synopsizes at the end of each chapter lessons he learned in work and in life. Bet the long shot. Go above and beyond.
Listen. Count on family. Give something back. Surprising words from a wise, young soul.
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The author won on the reality TV show The Apprentice, in which Donald Trump (who provides a foreword) slowly
eliminates potential personal assistants until one is left standing. Rancic puts down, in tumbling firstperson prose, the
strategy he used to win, as well as how, back in 1995, he cofounded and tan a small mailorder company, Cigars
Around the World. Rancic never went to business school, and his book might be boiled down to "rely on your
observations and common sense, and on your close relationships." Nearly every chapter is loaded with advice gleaned
from family members or friends with whom he has collaborated, salted with a smattering of approaches Rancic picked
up from his own reading of howtos and from his work life. The result sets the book apart: Rancic takes work seriously,
and everything in the book is something he personally has tried out; his successes and travails (including a fire at his
company) come through clearly and conversationally, as from a big brother. The last two of seven chapters cover his
time on the show with "Mr. Trump" and offer candid takes on the other contestants and the show's productions. For a
loquacious "howIdidit," Rancic's book debut is surprisingly satisfying. (Sept.)
Forecast: A ninecity author tour and 25city radio tour should build on name recognition from The Apprentice and put
up numbers more than befitting a tyro.
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Three excellent new business guides are strongly recommended picks. Bill Rancic's YOU'RE HIRED: HOW TO
SUCCEED IN BUSINESS AND LIFE (0060765410, $22.95) tells how to succeed in business and life, and it doesn't
come from a young inexperienced upstart or a staid corporate manager. Author Rancic was determined to always to
things he loved and never to work a 95 jobbut still to be profitable in the processand YOU'RE HIRED reflects his
success at this strategy; from creating an online cigar company from scratch to beginning a real estate venture. Truly
inspirational. Michael E. Gerber's THE E MYTH REVISITED: WHY MOST SMALL BUSINESSES DON'T WORK
AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT (0887307280, $16.00) provides a new, totally revamped updated edition of the
bestseller THE EMYTH. Here new insights on ecommerce myths are exposed, from how ordinary assumptions can
create business obstacles to understanding the typical 'growing pains' of a company and learning the lessons of
franchising to apply to any business venture.
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Beyond the Lemonade Stand: Starting Small to
Make It Big!
Emily Johnson
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Bill Rancic, winner of the popular television show The Apprentice, wants to help you make it big in the business world.
Beyond the Lemonade Stand presents 20 business ideas and five easy steps to get each one started. Learn the
importance of honesty, fairness, and helping others while building a business. Equipped with celebrity advice, helpful
tips from successful peers, and a worksheet designed to help you build a business, the book outlines what it takes to be a
successful entrepreneur.
Johnson, Emily
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I Do, Now What?
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I Do, Now What?
Giuliana & Bill Rancic
Ballantine Books
c/o The Random House Publishing Group
1745 Broadway, 17th floor, New York, NY 10019
9780345524997, $25.00, www.ballantinebooks.com
I DO, NOW WHAT? SECRETS, STORIES AND ADVICE FROM A MADLYINLOVE COUPLE provides a reallife
romance and its aftermath. If it sounds familiar, the couple was on the Style Channel for their Italian wedding: this picks
up on the aftermath, presenting their frank assessment of marriage. The third season of 'Giuliana & Bill' coincides with
this book's publication and probes secrets behind their marriage success in this fine account, recommended for any
general lending library.
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First Light (2016)
A novel by Bill Rancic
A moving story of love, family, and survival against all odds from beloved entrepreneur and reality TV star Bill Rancic.
A father from Chicago takes a road trip to the city of Whitehorse, in Yukon Territory, with his wife and son. During the car ride, they reveal to the boy their harrowing experience surviving a horrific plane crash in the wilderness 10 years before, which is how the boy, in fact, came to be born.
Set amid the deep, wild woods of the Yukon, First Light tells the story of Daniel Albrecht and Kerry Egan, young lovers leaving a work trip in Alaska to plan their wedding back home in Chicago. Not long into their trip, both engines of their plane catch fire and send them careening into a mountainside in the middle of a terrible snowstorm. Kerry is seriously injured in the accident, and it soon becomes clear that search-and-rescue teams aren't going to find the survivors in time to save her. Daniel - the one person with survival experience amid the passengers - makes the courageous decision to find help and bring it back to the rest of the passengers, hoping against hope he might save the woman he loves. He leaves Kerry in the care of their coworker, Phil Velez, himself seriously injured in the crash, and takes off into the woods to find a town, a house with a telephone, a road. Something.
But Daniel's choices are made all the more difficult by the presence of his boss, a stubborn man more interested in results than taking care of people. Only one man will come out of their trek alive, but it still may not be in time to save Kerry and the others back at the crash site, slowly dying from their injuries.
As the parents' story draws to a close, the truth about the boy's life, and the identity of his father, will at last be revealed.
FIRST LIGHT
Author(s): Bill Rancic
A heartfelt, touching family story about love and sacrifice. The way the tale is set up lets the reader experience the book knowing that some of the major characters do survive the ordeal. This allows the reader to be more relaxed and become a part of the story. The setting and events are vividly described, and the bone-chilling cold and despair of the passengers is palpable. The ending is ultimately uplifting.
Daniel Albrecht and Kerry Eagan are a young couple working for a petroleum company. They are in charge of public relations and damage control during major accidents, like the one they are currently working on in Alaska. The two are in love, engaged and expecting a baby. They head back to Chicago during a large snow storm, and the plane crashes into the mountains somewhere in Canada. Kerry is injured and Daniel knows he must try to help her and the other passengers. Can he find help before it is too late? (PUTNAM, Nov., 320 pp., $26.00)
Reviewed by:
Melissa Parcel