Garrett County Press: 66 books
by Patrick Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
Bud.com and Garrett County Press present a new electronic edition of the classic High in America, the definitive history of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). This is the story of the birth of contemporary pot politics. Veteran journalist Patrick Anderson, in spectacular...
Freed to Kill
The True Story of Serial Murderer Larry Eyler
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Larry W. Eyler was caught in 1983, accused of being the "homosexual highway killer," responsible for 22 murders in three states. Unbelievably, he was indicted for just one killing and spent three months in jail before an Illinois judge determined that the overwhelming evidence against him was tainted....
Titans of Finance
True Tales of Money & Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
What goes up must come down. It's a natural law that the New Economy just learned all over again. Recent times have been fantastically dramatic in the cloistered world of American business: Narratives full of larger-than-life characters, outsized egos, astonishing hubris, and lots and lots of money....
by Georgie Geyer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Based on hundreds of interviews conducted over many years in 28 countries, including extensive personal interviews with Castro himself, Georgie Anne Geyer reveals the untold story of Fidel Castro in this definitive biography.
Household Hints
205 Other Tricks and Tips
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Did you know that "cabbage odor" can be avoided by dropping two English walnuts (uncracked) into the kettle while cooking? Or did you know that meringue will always stand up high and perfect if a generous pinch of baking soda is added to beaten egg whites? Also: The "fresh paint smell" can be eliminated...
by Manly Palmer Hall
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Does your sign mean you're unselfish, aggressive, eccentric or "hopelessly confused?" Famous author and champion of astrology Manly Palmer Hall explores the psychological foundations of the zodiac. First published in 1937.
Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellín Cartel - An Astonishing True Story of Murder, Money and International Corruption
Inside the Medellín Cartel - An Astonishing True Story of Murder, Money and International Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
This is the story of the most successful cocaine dealers in the world: Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez, Carlos Lehder Rivas and Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha. In the 1980s they controlled more than fifty percent of the cocaine flowing into the United States. The cocaine trade is capitalism...
The Homeland Guide to London
Post-War London Fully Described
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Historic buildings, museums, street plans and photographs make up one of the most detailed guides of London ever published. Perfect for the contemporary time-traveler, the guide covers religion, history, antiquities, literary associations and presents entertaining "footpath rambles of the neighborhoods."...
Capitol Contingency
Post-Punk, Indie Rock, and Noise Pop in Washington, D.C., 1991-99
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Capitol Contingency chronicles a unique time in a uniquely vibrant music scene: Washington, D.C., 1991-1999. Punk was broken; the Internet had yet to engulf society; the major label compact disc marketing system was in its greatest -- and final -- era of dominance before its file-sharing-imposed collapse....
The Fortune Builders
Chicago's Famous Families
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2011
It was said that, "Chicago has a beautiful sound because Chicago means money." The city's phonebook is the language of American business: Swift, Armour, Wilson, Pullman, MacArthur, Pritzker, Wrigley, Ward, Sears, Morton as in salt, Walgreen as in drugstore, Nielsen as in television ratings and McNally...
Fabulous Chicago
A Great City's History and People
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Here is the best-selling history of an American city like no other -- and of the vibrant people who built it. The Yankees who came west to gamble fortunes on the Board of Trade, the Swifts and Amours, Fields and McCormicks, and the new immigrants who worked in their stockyards, stores and railroads --...
Kup's Chicago
A many-faceted and affectionate portrait of Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Writing in the breezy style that made his syndicated Sun-Times column so widely read, Chicago's favorite newspaperman-about-town and TV personality presents his city as only he could know it. Kup's Chicago is a step back into a time of Daly the First, the supremacy of the Pump Room and three martini...
by A-No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The Wife I Won is No. 10 in a self-published nonfiction series by hobo writer A No. 1. Contains stories, observations and illustrations of life on the road. The Author has carefully avoided the least mention of anything that would be unfit reading for ladies or children. First published circa 1920.
The Bamboo Cage
The True Story of American P.O.W.'s in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
After the Vietnam War ground to a bloody halt, long after the boys were officially sent home, evidence remained that over 2,000 American soldiers were still missing in Southeast Asia. In this shocking expose, journalist Nigel Cawthorne examines the evidence -- from CIA documents and Pentagon files to the streets of Hanoi.