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Without self-pity, former New York City newspaperman and prize-winning magazine editor, Robert C. Samuels tells his own harrowing story of medical survival. He's filled it with tears, humor, love, and triumph.

In the latter part of the nineteenth century the west was changing rapidly. East Texas In particular, was becoming intolerant of lawlessness. One farmer said: "If you spit on a sidewalk, you better get a bucket of wash-water and get busy, or go to jail." That summed it up very well. Industry was becoming more widespread in major cities such as Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and Jefferson, "The city at the end of the river." By the late 1860s and 1870s, Jefferson was second only to Galveston in commerce.

Authors Robert Toto and Richard Geschke have expanded their horizons of their original book, In Our Duffel Bags, Surviving the Vietnam Era, with a poetic interpretation of life in the army. Tracking their adventures in Germany, Panama and Vietnam, the authors wax the poetic version of what they found in their duffel bags looking deeper into the fast changing times of the Vietnam era. With Shadows of Combat the listener will sense the history of what took place in this crucial time in American history.

"The Perfect Crime" is written in the first person: "I know I committed the perfect crime." Phoebe Wallowes, a well educated American woman, really irritates him. He also has a genuine terror that she will one day marry him. Something therefore has to be done.

Her mother's deathbed revelation that she is a descendant of Nicholas II, Russia's last tsar, launches reclusive Kate Gavrill on a bold search for a lost family fortune. But nothing is simple in the tragic history of the Romanov clan. Only by finding the rarest of precious gems - a fabulous, long-missing alexandrite - can Kate claim her treasure. At her side as she journeys across continents is Simon Blake, a respected New York gemologist, whose powerful attraction to Kate is undercut by deep fears.

Light Up the World tells the story of America's endeavors to alleviate their reliance and dependency on foreign countries for its energy needs. A Massive hydroelectric project of the scope the world has never seen before is being built in the furthest northern regions of Quebec. Funded by huge American oil conglomerates, tobacco companies, and other international institutions, project HOPE (Hydro Ocean Powered Eletcricity) will generate enough electrical power to satisy more than half of North America's energy needs. Everything was going to plan until the unexpected happened...

The queen and the pope are both expected to arrive in Canada within two weeks of each other and Montreal is in turmoil as the city prepares for its 350th anniversary. The Gippson Brothers' farewell tour is also passing through the city and Zachary Gippson, the new "King of Pop" has some very deceptive and deceitful plans for his minions of fans who would see him live on this world tour. And Montreal's vibrant and distinctive underworld is in chaos as it's mafia capoa are meeting with very untimely and mysterious deaths due to an unknown spirit who possesses them.

No Borders, No Boundaries is a compelling thought provoking tale of mystery intrigue and romance. A cast of no nonsense characters that the author/narrator brings to life in an exciting manner. They're compelling sparkling dialogue compel you to feel for their predicaments. The action takes place over a three month period in 2001. From the cruel streets of Washington D.C. to the peaceful shores of the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec, Canada; this action packed thriller will hook you from the start.

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, and John D. MacDonald all got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by the magazine.

Esteemed Pennsylvania State University professor Robert C. Shaler continues his in-depth look at all aspects of crime scene investigation in part two of this compelling lecture series. Popularized in the media by highly rated police procedurals, crime scene investigation is an often misunderstood field of endeavor. Here, Professor Shaler breaks down the intricacies of how investigations are conducted in the real world, examining such aspects as bloodstain analysis, shooting scenes, and “forensic bugs”.

Fresh out of high school, young Bobby Marshall enters the Army and soon finds himself in the raw world of war that is Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. His exploits on the ground and in the air make up the graphic story of what Vietnam was for the small cadre of Army aviators that crewed the famed but little understood OV-1 Mohawk. Join Bobby as he matures from a typical teenager to a seasoned soldier in this story of Cambodia and Vietnam.

London 1895 - Im kältesten Januar des Jahrhunderts wird auf der obersten Plattform des Watkins Tower in Wembley die nackte Leiche eines Mannes gefunden. Er wurde mit Handschellen an einen Stahlträger gekettet und ist erfroren. Als der Bruder des Opfers in einer Knabenschule in Blackheath einer spontanen Selbstverbrennung zum Opfer fällt und ein weiterer Verwandter bei einem Flugversuch ums Leben kommt, wird Inspector Swanson klar, dass jemand im Begriff ist, eine ganze Familie auszulöschen.

England 1895 - Oscar Wilde kämpft in London um seinen Ruf und seine Karriere, als sich in Oxford ein brutales Verbrechen ereignet: Ein angesehener Professor für englische Literatur wird in der Bodleian Library erschlagen aufgefunden. War es der Racheakt eines Studenten? Neid unter Kollegen? Oder liegt das Motiv vielmehr in einem alten, geheimnisvollen Buch, das seit dem Mord verschwunden ist? Chief Inspector Swanson und sein Team sind mit einem undurchdringlichen Netz aus Lügen, Verstrickungen und Intrigen konfrontiert.

Excellent biographies have been written about Clara Barton, Sarah Josepha Hale, Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Tubman, but their lives have never been looked at together as they intertwined with the Civil War narrative. Plumb compares and contrasts the qualities of the women to discover their common attributes for success and what was unique to each woman. Without leading troops in battle or wielding political power, these five women profoundly influenced the start of the war and its conduct throughout as North and South clashed.

In The Four Threats, Lieberman and Mettler explore five historical episodes when democracy in the United States was under siege: the 1790s, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Depression, and Watergate. These episodes risked profound, even fatal, damage to the American democratic experiment, and on occasion antidemocratic forces have prevailed. From this history, four distinct characteristics of democratic disruption emerge. Political polarization, racism and nativism, economic inequality, and excessive executive power...have threatened the survival of the republic.

We are being watched. That this statement no longer shocks is itself shocking. Post-Snowden, we know that the government - everywhere - has been reading our emails, listening to our phone calls, and watching whatever we do on the Internet. The only thing concealed is the nature of our watchers. In Watchlist, some of today's most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to, reflect on, and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of the American male author whose time has now come again.

Der erste Geheimbund der Menschheit. Artefakte unschätzbarer Macht. Ein Wettlauf, den man nicht gewinnen kann. Die Ereignisse überschlagen sich: Tom Wagner wird vermisst. François Cloutard ist auf geheimer Mission, Hellen de Meys Vater Edward ist aufgetaucht und eine heiße Spur wartet auf das Team von Blue Shield: Die sagenumwobene Chronik der Tafelrunde.

Three university philosophy professors provide analysis of each and every Coen brothers film, in chronological order.

Der größte Goldschatz der Menschheit. Eine internationale Intrige. Eine grausame Offenbarung. Als Sondereinheit für Blue Shield ist Tom Wagner mit seinem Team auf der Suche nach dem legendären El Dorado. Aber wie so oft läuft es nicht wie geplant. Das Team wird getrennt und sie müssen buchstäblich auf mehreren Fronten kämpfen: Hellen und Cloutard machen Entdeckungen, die die anerkannte Geschichtsschreibung über das Gold von El Dorado über den Haufen werfen. Tom ist inzwischen im Auftrag des US-Präsidenten unterwegs, um zu verhindern, dass eine gefährliche Substanz in die Hände von Terroristen fällt.