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Novel Ideas
Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Novel Ideas provides a substantial introduction to the elements of fiction followed by in-depth interviews with successful novelists who speak with candor and insight into the complex process by which a novel is made. This edition includes new and updated interviews as well as writing exercises to...
Swallowed By The Cracks
Sixteen Stories of the Spaces Between
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW... Life is fleeting. Things happen quickly. One moment you're at the office, or maybe sitting in your living room; more of the same old, same old. And the next...You're gone. Forever.
For the brave, Dark Arts Books presents sixteen tales of those sudden moments...
Scores
How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City, Was Extorted out of Millions by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants in FBI History
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
**A gay man who created New York’s most notorious den of heterosexuality . . . an anxious, anything-but-hardboiled lawyer who became one of the most successful undercover mob informants in history. . . .
In this hilarious and fascinating account, Michael Blutrich takes you inside star-studded...
No Mission Is Impossible
The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
A riveting follow-up to Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal’s account of the most memorable missions of the Mossad, No Mission Is Impossible sheds light on some of the most harrowing, nail-biting operations of the Israeli Special Forces.
In No Mission Is Impossible, Michael Bar-Zohar and...
The Desert and the Sea
977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign...
Jefferson's Demons
Portrait of a Restless Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
"I have often wondered for what good end the sensations of Grief could be intended."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson suffered during his life from periodic bouts of dejection and despair, shadowed intervals during which he was full of "gloomy forebodings" about what lay ahead.
Not...
The Templars
The History and the Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Arguably one of the most provocative, puzzling, and misunderstood organizations of medieval times, the legendary Knights Templar have always been shrouded in a veil of mystery, while inspiring popular culture from Indiana Jones to Dan Brown. In The Templars, author Michael Haag offers a definitive...
by Michael Korda
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
One of the most miraculous military rescue missions in modern history comes alive in this “superb and panoramic” (Washington Post) account of Dunkirk.
No one can evince the drama of what actually happened at Dunkirk in the year 1940 with as “great narrative skill and superb delineation”...
Country Matters
The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
With his inimitable sense of humor and storytelling talent, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda brings us this charming, hilarious, self-deprecating memoir of a city couple's new life in the country.
At once entertaining, canny, and moving, Country Matters does for Dutchess County,...
An Angel Comes Home
The Prequel Novelette to EVERYBODY'S DAUGHTER
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Dear Reader, Over the past decade I’ve been working on a time-travel trilogy, occasionally reflecting back to my childhood and young adult experiences and incorporating it into the plot. While the hardships of spending nights riding a subway train were an emotional...
After Progress
Reason and Religion at the End of the Industrial Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Progress is not just a goal in the West—it's a religion. Most people believe in its inherent value as enthusiastically and uncritically as medieval peasants believed in heaven and hell. Our faith in progress drives the popular insistence that peak oil and climate change don't actually matter—after...
by D. Michael Withrow
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Outside the bubble, a radiated wasteland turns men to madness. Inside the bubble, unchecked greed turns men into monsters.
Merrik knows what horrors lie in wait beyond the city’s protective bubble—the solar radiation ravaged wastelands and the half-mad survivors who lost the lottery to...
The Catholic Sanctuary
And the Second Vatican Council
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
In this very important little pocket booklet, Michael Davies sets forth the amazing thesis that Vatican II and the Post Vatican II legislation did not mandate any changes in the Catholic sanctuary: that is, they did not mandate moving the Tabernacle from the central point in the altar, nor placing...
Leningrad
State of Siege
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
When the German High Command encircled Leningrad it was a deliberate policy to eradicate the city?s civilian population by starving them to death. As winter set in and food supplies dwindled, starvation and panic set in.
A specialist in battle psychology and the vital role of morale in desperate...