A Phone call for Bowman at two a.m.... A honeyed, velvet voice of invitation... A trip across town in the small hours...A grim discovery in a swanky apartment... From these tense beginnings, Hartley Howard-past-master of the suspense story-constructs a tight web of excitement, of sudden death, and of lovely women playing for high stakes in an onrushing tale that will keep you enthralled until the very last page.
Ernst Israel Bornstein had been eighteen when his world collapsed; youthful adaptability, self-possession and above all, luck, combined to preserve his husk in seven work camps which might have been modeled on the sequence of Dante's ...
Raised in a Boston suburb by his aristocratic Guatemalan mother, Roger Graetz enters into an obsessive relationship with Flor, the young Guatemalan sent by Roger's grandmother to live with him and his mother. 25,000 first printing. $20,000 ...
The story of legendary American journalist William L. Shirer and how his first-hand reporting on the rise of the Nazis and on World War II brought the devastation alive for millions of Americans When William L. Shirer started up the Berlin ...
Both girls have plans for the future, but love and death are about to intervene. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Diane Hoh including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Andria Williams is a terrific writer—clear-eyed and empathetic—and this is a fantastic debut.”—Molly Antopol, author of The UnAmericans “It’s hard to believe The Longest Night is Andria Williams’s debut novel.
Emperor Londo Mollari is helpless to stop the Drakh--an race of malevolent creatures hell-bent on destroying the Interstellar Alliance by first taking control of Londo's homeworld, Centauri Prime.
" In this harrowing work based on archival records and interviews during travel to four continents, Andrea Pitzer reveals for the first time the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps.
The Baker character seems autobiographical, but more likely it was a knockoff of Robert E. Lee Prewitt, the moody army bugler portrayed by Montgomery Clift two years earlier in From Here to Eternity. Baker's brooding introvert sits in a ...
This book does not promise healing or deliverance; it is not a guide to praying away the depression.
A first-rate novel that provides vivid descriptions of Alabama during an important period in the state's history. The Long Night is set in the vicinity of Montgomery, Alabama, between 1850 and 1865.