Sentence examples for a riveting book from inspiring English sources

Charles White's "Life and Times of Little Richard," from which Kirby draws liberally, is a riveting book and would be nearly impossible to displace as the definitive biography.

Mr Flemmi's girlfriend and stepdaughter were killed for knowing too much, prosecutors say.Ironically, Mr Bulger and Mr Flemmi were informers themselves, though they saw themselves as "strategists", not "snitches", according to "Whitey Bulger", a riveting book by Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy.

Granted, Lewis has shown many times before — not only with "Moneyball" but also with "The Big Short," his book about the real-estate market, and "Flash Boys," which is about high-speed trading — that he can write a riveting book about an arcane subject.

After serving briefly under President Bill Clinton, he retired and wrote a riveting book, "My American Journey," telling of his upbringing as the son of immigrant parents from the Caribbean who grew up in New York City, went to City College and had a career serving in Vietnam and Europe in the Army.

In theory, this should have been a riveting book for anyone with even the slightest interest in the world’s most populous, complex and fascinating nation.

But, all kidding aside, Shogun is a riveting book about an English ship captain in Japan, and about what that Asian country was like 413 years ago.

A Dangerous Liaison is a tautly written, riveting book.

Now, in a new edition, this riveting book by Jim Dwyer, a Times columnist, and Kevin Flynn, a special projects editor at the paper, updates its poignant profiles in courage and continuity.

This riveting book prints a collection of 21 eyewitness accounts by German Jews of the terrible night of 9 November 1938, when, on the orders of Adolf Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, bands of stormtroopers all over Germany and Austria burned down more than 1,000 synagogues and smashed up some 7,500 Jewish-owned shops.

This riveting book not only provides a psychologically detailed portrait of Osama bin Laden, but in recounting the story of his extended family it also underscores the crucial role that his relatives and their relationship with the royal House of Saud played in shaping his thinking, his ambitions and his technical expertise.

Alpher's riveting book - based on experience and a raft of interviews - surveys a "Periphery Doctrine" developed in 1957-8 in the office of prime minister, David Ben Gurion, through which Israel found regional allies against the hostile "Arab core" of states led by Egypt under Gamal Abdul Nasser.