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101) Paradise city
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2004.
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (approximately 6 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a fifteen-year-old in New York, Giancarlo Lo Manto learned about injustice the hard way. Today, twenty-three years later, he is a homicide detective on the Naples police force, the toughest cop on the toughest beat in Europe. When Gian learns his teenage niece has gone missing in Manhattan, the two cities, the two worlds, are set to collide. As he dashes from the sun-drenched villages of Italy to the darkest drug dens of New York, the journey links...
Author
Pub. Date
1974
Physical Desc
xvii, 478 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Carrying the Fire, Michael Collins conveys, in a very personal way, the drama, beauty, and humor of the adventure of reaching the moon. He also traces his development from his first flight experiences in the air force, through his days as a test pilot, to his Apollo 11 spacewalk. Presenting an evocative picture of the joys of flight as well as a new perspective on time, light, and movement from someone who has seen the fragile Earth from the other...
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 846 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Whirlwind of War builds on the great themes and follows many of the important figures who were introduced in The Approaching Fury. Stephen B. Oates's riveting narrative brings to life the complex and destructive war that is the central event in American history. He writes in the first person, assuming the viewpoints of several of the principal figures: the rival presidents, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis; the rival generals, Robert E. Lee,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 227 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tommy Jamess wild and entertaining true story of his careerpart rock & roll fairytale, part valentine to a bygone era, and part mob epicthat “reads like a music-industry version of Goodfellas”
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner, including never-before-seen photos of the wreck today. In 1956, a stunned world watched as the famous Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sank after being struck by a Swedish vessel off the coast of Nantucket. Unlike the Titanic, this sinking played out in real time across radios and televisions, the first disaster...
Author
Pub. Date
1980
Physical Desc
xi, 484 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of an overheated stock market and the financial disaster that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
A riveting living history about Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929. Captures the era, the intoxicating expectancy, the hope that ruled men's heart and minds before the bubble burst and the black despair of the decade that followed.
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 495 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Biographer and historian Stephen B. Oates tells the story of the coming of the American Civil War through the voices and perspectives of thirteen principal players in the drama, from Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay in the Missouri crisis of 1820 down to Stephen A. Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and Abraham Lincoln in the final crisis of 1861. This innovative approach shows the crucial role that perception of events played in the sectional hostilities that...