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Michelle White may have committed suicide. For days, her body has lain in a cabin along with her terrified dog. So they call in Raine Stockton. Raine hardly has time for the poor dog she's named Hero. But as she falls for him, questions surface about his late owner-and Raine realizes that Hero may be the only witness to a murder.

"In the marshy wilderness of Louisiana's Atchafalaya Swamp, people are dying. But the killer is no Cajun swamp rat or vengeful Indian--it's a monster that strikes without mercy, leaving behind little more than mangled flesh, blood, and bones. Now Fargo finds himself tracking a creature straight out of a bad dream. When he finds his quarry, the Trailsman aims to end the nightmare once and for all"--P. of cover.

Nuremberg Diary is Gustave Gilbert's account of and interviews he conducted during the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi leaders, including Hermann Göring, involved in World War II and the Holocaust. Dr. Gilbert, a fluent German speaker, served as a prison psychologist in Nuremberg, where he had close contact with those on trial. The text is the verbatim notes Gilbert took immediately after having conversations with the prisoners, information backed up by essays he asked them to write about themselves.The diary was first published in 1947 and reissued in 1961,just before the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.

This widely acclaimed novel tells the story of a young American Indian struggling to reconcile the traditional ways of his people with the demands of the twentieth century. Abel was raised to heed the voices of the land, the changes of the seasons, and the lessons taught by peyote. But once he returned from a foreign war and became exposed to the temptations of the wider world, Abel became a man lost to himself.

When Skye Fargo comes across a sidewinder about to sell a beautiful young girl into slavery, he doesn't see much choice except to buy her freedom. But when the girl leads him into a deadly nest of Confederate sympathizers, deadly Apache warriors, and a fortune in silver to be found, the Trailsman must show them all that some things can only be paid for with blood.

Baltimore Homicide Detective Stevie Mazzetti has suffered losses no woman should have to endure. And, despite it all, she's still a fighter. When she learns that her ex partner might have miscarried justice, she's determined to put the past to rights, even when she becomes a target. It's former Marine Clay Maynards job to see the risk in every situation, but he doesn't have to look hard to find the danger surrounding Stevie. Since the minute he first saw her, Clay has wanted to protect the wounded officer, and he started loving her not long after that. So when Stevie attracts the attention of a vicious psychopath, Clay will do whatever it takes to keep her alive. That is, if he can stay ahead of a killer with everything to lose, and something terrifying to hide.

In her first play, the now-classic A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry introduced the lives of ordinary African Americans into our national theatrical repertory. Now, Hansberry tells her own life story in an autobiography that rings with the voice of its creator. "Brilliantly alive."—The New York Times.

Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This is a contemporary book, you bet." Indeed, Black Like Me remains required reading in thousands of high schools and colleges for this very reason. Regardless of how much progress has been made in eliminating outright racism from American life, Black Like Me endures as a great human and humanitarian document. In our era, when "international" terrorism is most often defined in terms of a single ethnic designation and a single religion, we need to be reminded that America has been blinded by fear and racial intolerance before. As John Lennon wrote, "Living is easy with eyes closed." Black Like Me is the story of a man who opened his eyes, and helped an entire nation to do likewise.

A woman and a man have arrived at an English country house to spend a quiet weekend in the depths of Wiltshire. Surrounded by magnificent formal gardens they relax with drinks before dinner .The woman is Davina Graham, one of British Intelligence's key operatives. The man is top KGB agent Ivan Sasanov. Between these two very different people a strange, emotion-charged relationship has developed. Sasanov, the defector, finds his new life in England alien and confining. The intense loneliness of anonymity, the betrayal of Russia, the absence of his family - he loathes it all. The only person with whom he feels any rapport is Davina, his debriefer and interrogator. Davina Graham, isolated from her own family by the secrecy of her job, is a professional to her fingertips. She falls in love with Sasanov knowing that the only way to persuade him to co-operate now is to bring his wife and daughter out of Russia for him. What she does not immediately realize is that in that almost impossible mission, ringed by treachery and counter-treachery, she will have to play the key role... But even if by some strange and miraculous twist of fate she succeeded as an agent, she would have lost the only thing she wanted as a woman.

"A Truman Talley book." Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A car crashes in front of rookie PI Paige Holden's home. And suddenly, she finds one of her pro bono clients dying in her arms-from a gunshot wound. With her last breath, the woman whispers cryptic words into her ear and hands her a blood-smeared flash drive. Five years ago, State's Attorney Grayson Smith put a murderer behind bars. But when Paige Holden shares the flash drive with him, its contents cast doubts on the conviction-and lead him and Paige into a world of blackmail, dark secrets, and a decades-long string of murders. An investigation they'll survive only by trusting each other-and the truth."--P. of cover.

Hollywood in the days of Sam Goldwyn . . . New York in the glittering times of Dorothy Parker and Tallulah Bankhead ... a 30-year love affair with Dashiel Hammett, and a distinguished career as a playwright. "Exquisite . . . brilliantly finished ... it will be a long time before we have another book of personal remembrance as engaging as this one.—New York Times Book Review

Even before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created. This version of the Beatles legend smoothed the rough edges and filled in the fault lines, and for more than forty years this manicured version of the Beatles story has sustained as truth - until now. The product of almost a decade of research, hundreds of unprecedented interviews, and the discovery of scores of never-before-revealed documents, Bob Spitz's The Beatles is the biography fans have been waiting for -- a vast, complete account as brilliant and joyous and revelatory as a Beatles record itself. Spitz begins in Liverpool, a hard city knocked on its heels. In the housing projects and school playgrounds, four boys would discover themselves -- and via late-night radio broadcasts, a new form of music called rock 'n roll. Never before has a biography of musicians been so immersive and textured. Spitz takes us down Penny Lane and to Strawberry Field (John later added the s), to Hamburg, Germany, where -- amid the squalor and the violence and the pep pills -- the Beatles truly became the Beatles. We are there in the McCartney living room when Paul and John learn to write songs together; in the heat of Liverpool's Cavern Club, where jazz has been the norm before the Beatles show up; backstage the night Ringo takes over on drums; in seedy German strip clubs where George lies about his age so the band can perform; on the lonely tours through frigid Scottish towns before the breakthrough; at Abbey Road Studios, where a young producer named George Martin takes them under his wing; at the Ed Sullivan Show as America discovers the joy and the madness; and onward and upward: up the charts, from Shea to San Francisco, through the London night, on to India, through marmalade skies, across the universe...all the way to a rooftop concert and one last moment of laughter and music. It is all here, raw and right: the highs and the lows, the love and the rivalry, the awe and the jealousy, the drugs, the tears, the thrill, the magic never again to be repeated. Open this book and begin to read -- Bob Spitz's masterpiece is, at long last, the biography the Beatles deserve.

Augusten is a young man from an aristocratic family, struggling to make sense of a world devastated by the Great War. The enemy abroad may have been defeated, but when he finds himself implicated in the death of a young girl, he becomes targeted as the enemy within. Fleeing Britain, Augusten seeks refuge and solace in the remote castle of Bavarian relatives; but what he finds is a hinterland of fierce lust and terrible darkness; a paradigm of the hunger and the hatred that promises to resuscitate a ruined Germany.

This is the story of an ambitious young man from a working class background determined to make it to the top in post WW2 England. With ruthless determination he succeeds in marrying the only daughter of a wealthy businessman but only at the expense of his older lover and of his conscience. One of the first novels to tackle the class divisions in post-war Britain in a realistic setting it reflects the anger and bitterness felt by many servicemen returning to civilian life at that time.

"Best known as the basis for the classic film starring Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster, and soon to be a major Broadway musical, Sweet Smell of Success is a dark and gripping novelette about media manipulation and the will to get ahead - by any means necessary. Lehman scathingly depicts the dark side of success through the twisted relationship of Sidney Falco, an ambitious publicist, and J. J. Hunsecker, a powerful and vindictive gossip columnist, fashioned after Walter Winchell. As scandals are manufactured and reputations ruined for sport, the story spirals downward toward one last, savage act of revenge."--BOOK JACKET.

In the 1890's, eighteen-year-old Laurè, after years of living with her strict aunt in New York City, accompanies her famous actor father to New Orleans during Mardi Gras to acquaint herself with the city where her father grew up and where she was born.

Divorce therapist Mel Krantzler approaches the subject of divorce from a unique perspective and offers an optimistic outlook and hopeful opportunities for personal growth to those struggling to recognize and renew their individuality.

This is a controversial historical novel purporting to tell the story of Nat Turner, a black American slave who led a large slave revolt in Virginia in 1831. The novel attempts to explore the reasons for the bloodthirsty revolt in which Turner and his followers killed a number of white plantation owners before being apprehended, tried and hanged.

The second book in the "Danzig trilogy," the followup to The tin drum. A novella focusing on adolescent boys in Danzig (now Gdansk) from 1939 to 1944, during the German occupation of Poland.

The warmhearted biography of a wonderful man (real) and a wonderful boy (almost-as-real), who proved that being a loser could be the biggest success story of all. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Peanuts. How did Charlie Brown, loner, loser, the world's most inept baseball manager and master of a daredevil World War I flying-ace dog, become the most universally beloved hero of our time? It all began when a kid named Charles Monroe Schulz skipped two elementary grades and was suddenly the youngest, smallest boy in his class. Charlie was always the last to be chosen when teams were siding up, and he ate his peanut-butter sandwiches all alone at lunch time. He was seldom invited to birthday parties. Cartoons and captions tell Charlie's whole sad, sincere story from kindergarten to Peanuts, the comic strip that records the frustrations and pains and hard-won triumphs of childhood for all time. Cartoons also trace the evolution of Peanuts characters: the shockingly introspective Snoopy, Schroeder's obsession with Beethoven, Linus and his security blanket, the advent of the Great Pumpkin, the appearance of Baron von Richthofen, Lucy and how she grew. You'll read the story of the Peanuts specials, their shaky launching among skeptical prime-time hucksters and their resounding success with TV viewers. There is also an illustrated history of the funnies from 1890, and an exploration of Peanuts' thunderous impact on our present-day culture. This engaging book, the only biography of both Charlies extant, is naturally filled with illustrations —75 drawings and 95 pages of photographs. No true addict will be able to sleep nights till he/she has it in his hands.

Vicki summers in Istanbul with her father and befriends an orphan named Adria, and the two young girls become involved with gypsies who tell them a "golden horn" is the key to the future

Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferinand Céline's earlier novel Journey to the End of Night. Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, these two books shocked European literatue and world consciousness. Nominally fiction but more rightly called "creative confessions," they told of the author's childhood in excoriating Paris slums, of serves in the mud wastes of World War I and African jungles. Mixing unmitigated despair with Gargantuan comedy, they also created a new style, in which invective and obscenity were laced with phrases of unforgettable poetry.

After getting cleaned out by a bad hand at cards, Skye Fargo is desperate for cash. When he rides into Tucson looking for work, he soon finds out that there's more than money at stake. The dreaded Bearcat Lutz rules the town with a bloody fist, forcing innocent prisoners to work as slaves and destroying everyone who dares to stand up to him. But the Trailsman is going to do more than just stand up to Lutz--he's going to take him down."--P. of cover.

Arriving in London to find a young woman, who has been seen in the company of an unsavory gentleman, for a client, Stone Barrington stumbles upon a deadly rivalry between two spies and is implicated in a horrifying double murder.

Computer technician Jack Fletcher is no hero, despite his unwelcome reputation as one. In fact, he's just been the victim of bizarre circumstances. Like now. His sister happens to disturb one of his nanoelectromechanical system experiments, and now they aren't where they're supposed to be. In fact, they're not sure where they are when they wake up to see a woman with the reddest hair Jack has ever seen--and a gun. Octavia Pye is an Aerocorps captain with a whole lot of secrets, and she's not about to see her maiden voyage ruined by stowaways. But the sparks flying between her and Jack just may cause her airship to combust and ignite a passion that will forever change the world as she knows it.

Tormented by her horrific childhood, Boston cop Samantha Ryan, the last in a long line of ruthless witches, discovers that evil has returned to Salem when she goes undercover to find out who is killing young women and carving an archaic symbol into their flesh.

Rear Cover Synopsis "After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in 'Stranger in a Strange Land' and chronicled in 'Revolt in 2100', the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution; for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for all. No one may seize or harm the person or property of another, or invade his privacy, or force him to do his bidding. Americans are fiercely proud of their re-won liberties and the blood it cost them; NOTHING could make them foreswear those truths they hold self-evident. Nothing except the promise of immortality..."

At the age of seventeen, Christian Hill impulsively defends young Dorcas Froggatt's honor — and finds himself forced into marriage. That doesn't stop him from pursuing his military career abroad, where he swiftly puts his young bride out of his mind — until the past comes back to haunt him. Not long after her traumatic marriage, Dorcas heard that her new husband died in battle. Now she's shocked to learn that he's not only still alive, but searching for her. But she's determined not to sacrifice her independence. . . . Sensational NEW historical romance from the New York Times bestselling author of A Lady’s Secret.

True story of the "Boston Strangler" serial killer.

Beautiful 20 year old Caroline Fane thought she had known the ultimate in degradation and danger when she was unjustly accused of adultery and murder and flogged naked in public. She just barely escaped the gallows with 29 year old Justine Lawrence, the daring, flamboyant highwayman, whose lust for her she could not resist. But now in the New World, Caroline and Justin were thrust into bondage at the notorious plantation of Montrose, where swaggering overseers, servants and slaves, and a sadistic mistress intermingled in strange relationships, demanding erotic satisfactions.

When Francesca arrives at GothFaire to save her mother from the trickster god Loki, things go from bad to worse. Her immortal ex Benedikt is there, full of secrets and with a new girlfriend. Now Fran must battle a power-hungry group who wishes to dominate both the immortal and mortal worlds.

Linda Hollis' mother married a man from a small town with a ready-made family. Linda makes some very important discoveries during the summer in Cedarhill.

Includes chapters on the making of the film '2001'.

A biographical novel about Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern psychoanalysis, which details his life, marriage, teachers, colleagues, and patients.

In 1861 seventeen-year-old Abbie Garrett, living on Staten Island with her Southern mother and Yankee father, finds herself drawn firmly into the growing conflict between the North and the South with the arrival of her cousin Lorena from Charleston and the return from Atlanta of the two McIntyre brothers, the elder of whom has always had a special place in Abbie's heart.

It is the future--and the dead walk the streets, resurrected by technology to become servants to the living. Resurrection, Inc. found a profitable way to do it: a microprocessor brain, a synthetic heart, artificial blood--and anyone with money could buy a Servant with no mind of its own, trained to obey any command. But for every Servant created a living worker was out of a job, and suddenly the profits of Resurrection, Inc. became everyone else's loss. Some take to rioting in the streets, their rampages ruthlessly ended by heavily armed Enforcers, eager for the kill. Others join the ever-growing cult of Neo-Satanism, seeking Heaven in the depths of Hell. Only one man tries to save the world. His name is Danal, and he is the last hope of the living. He is dead, but he remembers everything.

Who would want to drive Taffy and her mother from beautiful Mackinac Island?

Georgia magistrate, mother, wife, and sometime sleuth MacLaren Yarbrough has been invited to join the Magnolia Ladies' Investment Club and is plumb confused-she's definitely no heiress. But she tables that thought when, at her first meeting, she finds out-going club president Willena Kenan dead on the bathroom floor with a corkscrew protruding from her neck. Since it happened during a coffee break, when everyone left the room separately, no club member is above suspicion. But when the police find a trench coat with incriminating evidence, things get sticky.

Former big-city detective John McBride is an easygoing man - until people rub him the wrong way. So he's less than please when he sees three hanged men outside the town of Rest and Be Thankful, and the local lawman warns him to behave if he doesn't want to end up swinging right beside them. Driven by the plight of the terrified citizenry - one beautiful woman in particular - McBride vows to take on the fast-gun marshal, and evil mayor and his cruel son, and a small army of hired gunmen. With the help of a mysterious white-haired preacher. McBride will give the townsfolk reason to be thankful - and their vicious tormentors eternal rest in hell.

Mira, young daughter of an upper-class Hindu family, shows herself to us in relation to her Hindu family, to her Oxford-educated older brother, Kit, and Kit's shy new wife, Prem, and to the woman intellectual, Roshan, with whom she works on a nationalist periodical. She falls in love with Richard Marlowe, an official of the British government in India, which causes conflict in her family and at a time when the conflict between British rfule and the Indian will to freedom is growing.

Ivar Frederiksen holds the key to planetary peace or a violent war that could easily destroy the Universe.

"Drill or be drilled. The streets of Green Meadow, Oklahoma, are flowing red with blood. At the scene of every grisly murder is a threatening message: Get out! A mysterious villain known as the Fat Man wants the black gold hidden beneath the town, and he's willing to wipe out every man, woman, and child to get it."--P. of cover.