{"product_id":"9781614178729","title":"Beyond His Control - Memoir of a Disobedient Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn March 25, 1969 Linda Hale Bucklin learned her vivacious mother was dead, her right temple blown out by a bullet from her father's pistol. Was it suicide or homicide?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanding up to her father, heir to the Broadway\/Hale Department Store fortune, Linda is disinherited, then ostracized from the family she loves. When her father marries his mistress, Denise Minnelli, stepmother to Liza Minnelli, the family unravels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce a child of privilege, Linda recounts, in vivid detail, her extraordinary life—summers on the family's 10,000 acre ranch in Northern California, hunting trips to Africa and Alaska, high society vignettes of a fourth-generation San Francisco family, and her father's final decision: to leave the entire family fortune to Minnelli.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut amid the ashes, Linda finds a new strength: the strength to forgive the one who started it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eREVIEWS:\u003cbr\u003e\"...a jolting memoir.\" ~The New York Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...a book you won't be able to put down.\" ~David Patrick Columbia, New York Social Diary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ABN Leadership Group, Inc, dba ePublishing Works!","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046356861168,"sku":"9781614178729","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781614178729_p0.jpg?v=1763846718","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781614178729","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}