In Thomas H. Cook & rsquo;s first novel, a weary detective tracks a blood-crazed psychopath Blood seeps into the gutters at the children & rsquo;s zoo in Central Park. Two deer have been slaughtered, one stabbed fifty-seven times and the other slashed across the neck. Normally i…
Lieutenant Lenore Thomas faces many dangers while investigating narcotic drug deals.
A chilling tale of murder and injustice in the Jim Crow South As a fourteen-year-old black boy living in 1940s South Carolina, Linus Bragg should know better than to follow the two bicycling white girls. But something about Sue Ellen and Cindy Lou compels him. Maybe it & rsquo;s…
A vintage tale of lust and drugs in old Greenwich Village-roaring back after fifty years out of print Sick of living respectably with her grandmother, Anita Carbone hops a downtown train. She finds Greenwich Village-the Village of Kerouac and Dylan, but also of Joe and Shank, tw…
A vintage tale of lust and drugs in old Greenwich Village-roaring back after fifty years out of print Sick of living respectably with her grandmother, Anita Carbone hops a downtown train. She finds Greenwich Village-the Village of Kerouac and Dylan, but also of Joe and Shank, tw…
Anita Carbone was a good girl--and it bored her. That's why she took the long subway ride down to Greenwich Village, home of the Beats and the stoners, home to every kind of misfit and dropout and free spirit you could imagine. It was where she met Joe Milani, the troubled young…
Based on an historical incident. The story is told by a half-English girl of eighteen whose grandfather is an exiled Russian aristocrat living in Paris. The grandfather is confronted by the Tsar's arch-enemy, a terrorist searching for the truth about an apparent double spy.
A thrilling and irreverent memoir about the transformation of the advertising business from the 1980s to today Richard Kirshenbaum was born to sell. Raised in a family of Long Island strivers, this future advertising titan was just a few years old when his grandfather first taug…
Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers. Was the guillotine a French invention? Non! It wa…
A coletânea de artigos clássicos da New Yorker compilada por John Brooks - citada por Bill Gates e Warren Buffet como uma das suas favoritas - oferece as sagas de bastidores dos eventos empresariais memoráveis do século XX. Originalmente publicado entre 1959 e 1969, Brooks narra…
From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion twelve classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America. What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast a…
Presents twelve stories of success or disasters among prominent companies, including the disastrous Ford Edsel, the rise of Xerox, and the scandal at General Electric.
From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion twelve classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast an…
From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion twelve classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America. What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast a…
by Douglas, Kirk, Clooney, George
fromListen Alaska
From Kirk Douglas, Hollywood royalty and bestselling author of The Ragman & rsquo;s Son and My Stroke of Luck, comes the candid story of the making of Spartacus, the blockbuster film that broke the blacklist One of the world & rsquo;s most iconic movie stars, Kirk Douglas has di…
