Author : Paul Emil Erdman
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425113103
Political tensions flare along the iron curtain, and as panic spreads, the world's economic structure begins to crumble. Soon, international alliances deteriorate as the price of loyalty is measured in Swiss bank accounts--and murder. An explosive thriller from the author of The Panic of '89.
Author : Gary Younge
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 156858976X
Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas PrizeShortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation AwardFinalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non Fiction On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during one such day. It could have been any day, but he chose November 23, 2013. Black, white, and Latino, aged nine to nineteen, they fell at sleepovers, on street corners, in stairwells, and on their own doorsteps. From the rural Midwest to the barrios of Texas, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of twenty-four hours to reveal the full human stories behind the gun-violence statistics and the brief mentions in local papers of lives lost. This powerful and moving work puts a human face-a child's face-on the "collateral damage" of gun deaths across the country. This is not a book about gun control, but about what happens in a country where it does not exist. What emerges in these pages is a searing and urgent portrait of youth, family, and firearms in America today.
Author : Bill O'Reilly
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0805096760
Lincoln's Last Days is a gripping account of one of the most dramatic nights in American history—of how one gunshot changed the country forever. Adapted from Bill O'Reilly's bestselling historical thriller, Killing Lincoln, this book will have young readers—and grown-ups too—hooked on history. In the spring of 1865, President Abraham Lincoln travels through Washington, D.C., after finally winning America's bloody Civil War. In the midst of celebrations, Lincoln is assassinated at Ford's Theatre by a famous actor named John Wilkes Booth. What follows is a thrilling chase, ending with a fiery shoot-out and swift justice for the perpetrators. With an unforgettable cast of characters, page-turning action, vivid detail, and art on every spread, Lincoln's Last Days is history that reads like a thriller. This is a very special book, irresistible on its own or as a compelling companion to Killing Lincoln.
Author : Morris Harmor
Publisher : CFI
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781462120239
Divinely inspired, the constitution once formed "a more perfect union, but has since been altered and attacked and is now hanging by a thread. This enlightening book focuses on two original American documents--the Constitution and the Book of Mormon--to illuminate profound truths about our modern society and teach you how to prepare yourself and your country for the coming Millennium.
Author : Wilfred Ruhega
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 2020-06-22
Category :
ISBN :
Greatness is but a fleeting moment - for great nations are here today, gone tomorrow. This is no fiction. The history of world civilizations bears uncontestable witnesses to the rise and fall of empires. The truth - read through this analytical book, details evidences to prove that all superpowers have had paths and progressions. There is a series of milestones each strong power must cross before it begins falling back. This author presents portending evidences the USA just crossed the last of those milestones, she has now turned towards loss of greatness. Today's America isn't the hegemony Woodrow Wilson had in mind in 1917. This US is easing downhill. All telltales point to a waning civilization - and there is Old Rome, Macedonia and Persia to help decipher all there is.
Author : Bob Drury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 143916102X
"Last Men Out" tells the riveting story of the last 11 United States soldiers to escape South Vietnam on April, 30, 1975, the day America ended its combat presence.
Author : Roy Thomas
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 14,84 MB
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1401278086
Green Lantern, the Flash, Starman, the Atom, Doctor Fate, Power Girl and the rest of the JSA were once the celebrated champions of Earth-2. But then came the Crisis, a cataclysm so great that it reached across realities, destroying all parallel worlds and leaving only one Earth. The Universe was saved, but the Justice Society was left in a world that is already filled with other heroes. But just as the team is on the cusp of disbanding, they receive a dire message from the Spectre, sending them on perhaps their greatest mission ever... The universe is in jeopardy, and to save it the JSA must journey back in time to the heart of HitlerÕs Germany. If they fail, all they fought for in the Crisis could be lost once more. LAST DAYS OF THE JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA reprints the title story from Roy Thomas (CONAN: THE BARBARIAN) and David Ross (AVENGERS WEST COAST) for the first time, as well as the SECRET ORIGINS of the Golden Age Justice Society-featuring artists Michael Bair (HAWKMAN), Mike Clark (ALL-STAR SQUADRON) and more!
Author : James Grady
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466861258
Now on television: Condor, an AT&T Audience Network original series inspired by James Grady's first Condor novel. Look in the mirror: You're nobody anybody knows. You know pursuing the truth will get you killed. But you refuse to just fade away. So you're designated an enemy of the largest secret national security apparatus in America's history. Good guys or bad guys, it doesn't matter: All assassins' guns are aimed at you. And you run for your life branded with the code name you made iconic: Condor. Everyone you care about is pulled into the gunsights. The CIA star young enough to be your daughter-she might shoot you or save you. The savvy political aide who lets love trump the law. The lonely woman your romantic dreams make a fugitive. The Middle Eastern child warrior you mentored into a master spy. Last Days of the Condor is the bullet-paced, ticking clock saga of America on the edge of our most startling spy world revolution since 9/11. Set in the savage streets and Kafkaesque corridors of Washington, DC, shot through with sex and suspense, with secret agent tradecraft and full-speed action, with hunters and the hunted, Last Days of the Condor is a breakneck saga of America's secrets from muckraking investigative reporter and author James Grady. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Graham Moore
Publisher : Random House
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812988914
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A world of invention and skulduggery, populated by the likes of Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla.”—Erik Larson “A model of superior historical fiction . . . an exciting, sometimes astonishing story.”—The Washington Post From Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian, comes a thrilling novel—based on actual events—about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America. New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history—and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul’s client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country? The case affords Paul entry to the heady world of high society—the glittering parties in Gramercy Park mansions, and the more insidious dealings done behind closed doors. The task facing him is beyond daunting. Edison is a wily, dangerous opponent with vast resources at his disposal—private spies, newspapers in his pocket, and the backing of J. P. Morgan himself. Yet this unknown lawyer shares with his famous adversary a compulsion to win at all costs. How will he do it? In obsessive pursuit of victory, Paul crosses paths with Nikola Tesla, an eccentric, brilliant inventor who may hold the key to defeating Edison, and with Agnes Huntington, a beautiful opera singer who proves to be a flawless performer on stage and off. As Paul takes greater and greater risks, he’ll find that everyone in his path is playing their own game, and no one is quite who they seem. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER “A satisfying romp . . . Takes place against a backdrop rich with period detail . . . Works wonderfully as an entertainment . . . As it charges forward, the novel leaves no dot unconnected.”—Noah Hawley, The New York Times Book Review
Author : Lealan Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 1998-05
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0671004646
The award-winning creators of National Public Radio's "Ghetto Life 101" and "Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse" combine talents with a young photographer to show what life is like in one of the country's darkest places: Chicago's Ida B. Wells housing project. Photos.
