From Publishers WeeklyRarely has the City of Light seemed grittier than in this hard-boiled short story anthology, part of Akashic's noir series that began in 2004 with Brooklyn No...
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A once-in-a-generation literary event: the monumental masterwork being hailed as a “twenty-first-century War and Peace” (Magyar Nemzet)In 198...
Here is the shocking true saga of the Irish American mob. In Paddy Whacked, bestselling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish...
SUMMARY: In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most s...
Product DescriptionTHE NEXT CHAPTER IN THE EXTRAORDINARY HISTORY OF THE STAR WARS GALAXY BEGINS HERE. . . . After a violent civil war and the devastation wrought by the now-fallen ...
From Publishers WeeklyThis evolutionary history of the English language from author and editor McWhorter (The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language) isn't an easy read, but...
SUMMARY: Alternate history explores the many possible directions our world could follow if certain key events didn't occur at all or were changed in some crucial way. Is our Earth ...
SUMMARY:For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influ枸ntial show in television history, ...
Operation Family Secrets is the chilling true story of how the son of the most violent mobster in Chicago made the unprecedented decision to work with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney...