More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA Views: 10
Anton York has discovered the secret of voluntary suspended animation and requires no food or air. He can live where he pleases, when he pleases, for as long as he wants. Somewhere in the dim future ages this man-made God must die. But how? A science fiction classic! Views: 10
From Publishers WeeklyWhere Jessica Fletcher goes, murder invariably follows, as shown in Bain's taut 31st mystery to feature the crime-solving character immortalized by Angela Lansbury on the small screen (after 2008's A Slaying in Savannah). While visiting her ad exec nephew, Grady Fletcher, and his family in New York City, Jessica agrees to appear in a TV commercial as one of several celebrities promoting an international credit card. Betsy Archibald, the creative director of the ad agency handling the shoot, makes the experience uncomfortable for all involved due to frequent tantrums. When Grady's nine-year-old son, Frank, disappears on the set while watching his great-aunt perform, his parents become frantic. Jessica and Grady's search reveals Betsy, dead from a nail-gun wound, but no Frank. Did the boy witness the murder? Jessica at first irritates the police detective in charge of the investigation, but later impresses him as she cracks the case in her typical no-nonsense style. (Apr.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Views: 10
In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnificent reconstruction of Culloden, John Prebble recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While their chiefs grew rich on meat and wool, the people died of cholera and starvation or, evicted from the glens to make way for sheep, were forced to emigrate to foreign lands.'Mr Prebble tells a terrible story excellently. There is little need to search further to explain so much of the sadness and emptiness of the northern Highlands today' The Times. Views: 10
After rejoining the Texas Rangers as part of the Frontier Battalion, Josiah Wolfe must escort his old friend Charlie Langdon to trial. But the ride to the hangman?s noose isn?t going to be easy. And Wolfe?s killer instinct may be his only chance to see his son again. Views: 10
American Passage: The History of Ellis Island By Vincent J. Cannato Publisher: Harper Number Of Pages: 496 Publication Date: 2009-06-01 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0060742739 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780060742737 Product Description: For most of New York's early history,EllisIsland had been an obscure little islandthat barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island standsalongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place wheremany of our ancestors first touched American soil. Ellis Island's heyday—from1892 to 1924—coincided with one of the greatest mass movements of individualsthe world has ever seen, with some twelve million immigrants inspected at its gates. In AmericanPassage, Vincent J. Cannato masterfully illuminates the story of EllisIsland from the days when it hosted pirate hangings witnessed by thousands ofNew Yorkers in the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century whenmassive migrations sparked fierce debate and hopeful new immigrantsoften encountered corruption, harsh conditions, and political scheming. American Passage captures atime and a place unparalleled in American immigration and history, and articulates the dramatic andbittersweet accounts of the immigrants,officials, interpreters, and social reformers who all play an important role inEllis Island's chronicle. Cannato traces the politics, prejudices, andideologies that surrounded the great immigration debate, to the shift fromimmigration to detention of aliens during World War II and the Cold War, allthe way to the rebirth of the island as a national monument. Long after EllisIsland ceased to be the nation's preeminent immigrant inspection station, thedebates that once swirled around it are still relevant to Americans a centurylater. In this sweeping, oftenheart-wrenching epic, Cannato reveals that the history of EllisIsland is ultimately the story of what it means to be an American. Views: 10
