Fred: 2346 books
Tainted by Suspicion
The Secret Deals and Electoral Chaos of Disputed Presidential Elections
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The almost-presidencies of Aaron Burr or Al Gore would have created a different world.
Four presidential elections were not decided on election day, but were rather decided by another branch of government. And in three cases, large segments of Americans viewed the president...
Watergate
The Corruption of American Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Here is the definitive history of the Watergate scandal—based on the most recently released tapes, in-depth interviews with many of the participants, and hundreds of official and unofficial documents, including notes Haldeman omitted from his own published diaries. Emery's comprehensive coverage...
by Fred J. Moll
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2007
Pennsylvania�s Historic Bridges examines the development of different types of bridge structures across Pennsylvania through the world of postcards, many of which are from the early 1900s. The structures featured are constructed from various materials and in a multitude of styles. Also found within...
by Vernon M. Jr. Briggs, Walter Fogel, Fred H. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
The Chicano Worker is an incisive analysis of the labor-market experiences of Mexican American workers in the late twentieth century. The authors—each established in the fields of labor economics and research on Chicano workers—describe the major employment patterns of the Chicano labor force and...
Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Macro Level
Groups, Communities, and Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
A timely revision in this global age, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Macro Level develops a sophisticated and original view of the cultural, global, spiritual, and natural worlds that people inhabit, and the impact of these worlds on human behavior. Its major new theme, sustainability,...
Body Dump
Kendall Francois, the Poughkeepsie Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The inside story of an upstate New York serial killer who abducted, raped, and murdered women and hid their bodies in his home.
In the late 1990s in Poughkeepsie, New York, prostitutes began to go missing off the streets of the old Hudson River town. Due to the women’s nomadic lifestyles,...
Gang Mom
The Evil Mother Whose Gang Secretly Preyed on a City
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The shocking true story of Mary Thompson, a Eugene, Oregon, anti-gang activist who secretly ran her own murderous mob of teenagers—including her own son.
Aaron Iturra was just eighteen years old when he was found dead in the bedroom of the Eugene, Oregon, home he shared with his mother and...
The Mad Chopper
How the Justice System Let a Mutilator Free, This Time to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The author of the true crime “masterpiece” Lobster Boy traces a brutal killer’s history across two decades of slipping past the legal system (The Guardian).
When police in Tampa, Florida, arrested Larry Singleton in 1997 for brutally murdering prostitute Roxanne Hayes, they soon realized...
Needle Work
Battery Acid, Heroin, and Double Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
A Michigan couple’s affair leads to two grisly murders by heroin injection in this true crime account from the acclaimed author of Lobster Boy.
When Carol Giles’s friend Nancy Billiter was found dead—she had been bound, sexually violated, and injected with a lethal dose of battery acid...
Four Shocking True Crime Tales
Body Dump, Flesh Collectors, Lobster Boy, and Deacon of Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Four bizarre true crime stories about serial killers, murder sprees, sideshows, and church pulpits in one sensational volume.
These grisly true crime books by a former New York Times columnist chronicle four shocking and disturbing cases.
Body Dump: Few people in Poughkeepsie, New York,...
by Fred D'aguiar
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Written in taut, poetic language, THE LONGEST MEMORY is set on a Virginian plantation in the 19th century, and tells the tragic story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules: in learning to read and write, in falling in love with a white girl, the daughter of his...
by Fred Hiatt
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
A fast-paced contemporary thriller in the vein of James Patterson and Anthony Horowitz set against the bustling backdrop of Hong Kong, Vietnam, and the border of China. This heart-pounding adventure takes place as two teens, an American teenage boy and his friend, a Chinese girl from his Washington,...
by Mr. Charles Clay Doyle, Mr. Wolfgang Mieder, Fred R. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
"You can't unring a bell." "It takes a village to raise a child." "Life is just a bowl of cherries." We sometimes think of proverbs as expressions of ancient wisdom, but in fact new proverbs are constantly arising. This unique volume is devoted exclusively to English language proverbs that originated...
by Fred Reed
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
A Crash Course on How to Survive a Tsunami
A tsunami is a series of destructive and very dangerous waves that result from earthquake activity or some other type of underwater disturbance (meteorite, landslide, underwater volcanic activity etc.). Although "tidal waves" is the common...