Collects the top nineteenth-century discovery voyage stories, including those about Fridtjob Nansen's solitary walk to the North Pole, Mary Kingsley's forays into the West African jungle, and Richard Burton's forbidden pilgrimage to Mecca.
This ground-breaking book chronicles the 1971 war in South Asia by reconstituting the memories of those on opposing sides of the conflict. 1971 was marked by a bitter civil war...
The real Florida lies far from the interstates, where there are no dancing mice, bikini-covered beaches, or shopping malls.
"When David Treadway was twenty, his life was changed dramatically by one single, shattering event: his mother's suicide. The child of a prominent New England hotel family, Treadway watched numbly...
The book brings to vivid life a little-known chapter of history in a tale that is both exhilarating and heartbreaking.
Bernice Fisher Green was a lovely stylish fifty-year old woman, highly capable of discerning her own facts, and what she knew, about the killings of her son, the real story will shake the village of Harlem and quite possibly the entire city ...
Author Gene Auprey offers a new collection of poems; a meditation on nature, life and death, and the ever-present possibilities of hope, humor and love.
In this final book in the Richard Delancey series, Captain Richard Delancey heads for the East Indies on the 32-gun frigate Laura to take part in the capture of the Cape of Good Hope.
In a forty-year career Michael Baden has conducted more than 20,000 autopsies. Considered one of the world's leading forensic pathologists, he was New York City medical examiner from 1960 to...
sailor, and I remembered his dark eyes and the thick black eyebrows that I found so startling. ... by the island would combine with the easterly Atlantic swell in unpredictable and dangerous ways, and it was getting dark; ...
This book is his personal recollection and memories of a critical few years in the 20th Century. The book documents the events that he experienced first-hand.
While trying to prosecute a case that could make her career, assistant D.A. Kate Megason receives threatening messages regarding a brutal attack from the past that left her sister brain damaged, and turns to P.I. Frank Matrone to discover ...
Describes how former child star Skylar Deleon, aided by his pregnant wife and a criminal associate, brutally murdered Tom and Jackie Hawks, a retired couple, for their fifty-five-foot yacht.
The first of a new series of thrilling original novels based on New Line Cinema's "Final Destination" films.
"AIR RAID, PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NOT DRILL.
When Shiloh Blake's first large-scale underwater archeological dig traps her in the middle of an international nuclear arms clash, she is forced to flee for her life into the streets of Mumbai, India.
In Dead Reckoning, Diane Vaughan explores the complex work of air traffic controllers, work that is built upon a close relationship between human organizational systems and technology and is remarkably safe given the high level of risk.
Dead Reckoning
The Art of Forensic Detection Ph.D. Nordby. DEAD RECKONING The Art of Forensic Detection Her Brentwood home became a ... professionals involved in the investigative and judicial process Teaches forensic pathologists and coroners how to ...
... professionals hoping to leave their daily woes at the bottom of a glass. I twisted and turned my way through the crowded bar and, managing to get the bartender's attention, ordered a Stolie on the rocks with a lime twist. Much to my ...