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Beyond Cruel
The Chilling True Story of America's Most Sadistic Killer
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
AUTHORITIES OPENED THE DOOR ON ONE MAN'S HIDDEN LIFE…
Mike DeBardeleben was known as the Mall Passer for the way he passed off fake money at local shopping centers. But when U.S. Secret Service agents finally arrested him, they were met with more than just phony bills. They found that their counterfeiter...
by Brendan O'Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Dublin boxer Sparrow McCabe has the Spanish contender on the floor. The World Featherweight title is his for the taking. But something stops Sparrow from throwing that final punch and suddenly it’s all over.
Fifteen years later Sparrow is working as a driver for the gangster Simon Williams,...
North of Ithaka
A Journey Home Through a Family's Extraordinary Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Leaving behind a sparkling social life and a successful journalism career, Eleni Gage moved from New York City to the remote Greek village of Lia. Lia is the same village where her father was born and her grandmother murdered, and which her father, Nicholas Gage, made famous twenty years ago with...
I'm Down
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighborhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. "He strutted around with a short perm, a Cosby-esqe sweater, gold chains and a Kangol—telling jokes like Redd Fox, and giving advice like Jesse Jackson. You couldn't tell my...
Violence à l'origine
Victor Lessard 4
Language: French
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Responsable de la section des crimes majeurs en l’absence de son supérieur, le sergent-détective Victor Lessard se voit confier la mission d’enquêter sur la mort d’un haut gradé du SPVM dont on a retrouvé la tête dans un conteneur à déchets.
Formé du jeune Loïc Blouin-Dubois,...
Coming Back Alive
The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2002
When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can.
One hundred fifty...
Nights of Ice
True Stories of Disaster and Survival on Alaska's High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1999
Spike Walker has spent more than a decade fishing in the subzero hell of Alaska's coastal waters. This collection--coming on the heels of his classic memoir Working on the Edge--is a testament to the courage of those who brave nature's wrath each fishing season, and to the uncontrolled power of nature...
How to Read a Novel
A User's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
"Do we still know how to read a novel?" John Sutherland, Chairman of the 2005 Booker Prize Committee, asks. His disheartened answer is an unequivocal, "No." But Sutherland has not given up hope. With acerbic wit and intellect, he traces the history of what it used to mean to be...
Heaven's Ditch
God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking outburst...
by Jeff Rovin, George Galdorisi
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Former US Ambassador to the Ukraine Douglas Flannery meets with an old friend and former spy near New York’s South Street Seaport. She is seeking his help to thwart a Russian plan to overrun her native Ukraine, but those for whom she is working propose an infinitely more dangerous scheme, one that...
Karolina's Twins
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
In the tradition of The Nightingale, Sarah's Key, and Lilac Girls, comes a saga inspired by true events of a Holocaust survivor’s quest to return to Poland and fulfill a promise, from Ronald H. Balson, author of the international bestseller Once We Were Brothers.
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“Readers who crave more...
The Favored Queen
A Novel of Henry VIII's Third Wife
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
From The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wife of Henry VIII comes a powerful and moving novel about Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, who married him only days after the execution of Anne Boleyn and ultimately lost her own life in giving him the son he badly needed to guarantee...
Montgomery
Lessons in Leadership from the Soldier's General
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Bernard Law Montgomery was a dedicated battlefield tactician, though a controversial one. In North Africa in 1942, he commanded the Eighth Army to a great triumph against Rommel at El Alamein, which Churchill hailed as the beginning of the end of the war. During the planning stages for the invasion...
A Woman's Crusade
Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Alice Paul began her life as a studious girl from a strict Quaker family in New Jersey. In 1907, a scholarship took her to England, where she developed a passionate devotion to the suffrage movement. Upon her return to the United States, Alice became the leader of the militant wing of the American...