Full of humorous stories about gangsters, bootleggers, gamblers, and their women inhabiting New York's Broadway. A world of speakeasies and dancing girls where a gambler or bootlegger is perfectly normal and respectable in every way. Those familiar with "Guys and Dolls" know what to expect! Views: 580
In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America's railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries. The vicious competition between empire builders such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, J.P. Morgan, and E.H. Harriman sparked stock market frenzies, panics, and crashes; provoked strikes that upended the relationship between management and labor; transformed the nation's geography; and culminated in a ferocious two-man battle that shook the nation's financial markets to their foundations and produced dramatic, lasting changes in the interplay of business and government. Spanning four decades and featuring some of the most iconic figures of the Gilded Age, Iron Empires reveals how the robber barons drove the country into the twentieth century—and almost sent it off the... Views: 580
A genre-defying debut memoir of insomnia by Betty Trask Prize-winner and one of our most singular stylists, Samantha Harvey.In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. She tried everything to appease her wakefulness: from medication to therapy, changes in her diet to changes in her living arrangements. Nothing seemed to help.The Shapeless Unease is Harvey's darkly funny and deeply intelligent anatomy of her insomnia, an immersive interior monologue of a year without one of the most basic human needs. Original and profound, and narrated with a lucid breathlessness, this is a startlingly insightful exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and the will to survive, from "this generation's Virginia Woolf" (Telegraph). Views: 580
Bad boy billionaire Liam Masterson accidentally marries his best friend's little sister in the latest decadent DARE novel by New York Times bestselling author Anne Marsh!My indulgent sex parties are renowned among San Francisco's elite. Doing naughty deeds while blackout drunk fuels the fire of my self-loathing. Waking up naked next to my best friend's little sister, however, is a step too far...even for me. And when I see our matching wedding rings, I know I've outdone myself.Hana Valentine always had a crush on me, but I've kept it in my pants...until last night. A temporary marriage will improve my image with investors, so I do what billionaire bastards do best—throw money at the problem. Hana proposes a trade instead. She'll give me good-guy lessons if I show her how to be deliciously bad... Now that I've seen her lush curves, felt her silky skin, tasted her honey-sweet mouth, I can't help but agree. Soon... Views: 580
Terry Clark grew up surrounded by his parent's life's work, the rescue and rehabilitation of cetaceans. Born just after first contact with the Galactic Union, he's never known a time when aliens weren't visiting Earth. At 10 years old, he had a normal life, until a visit from one of the aliens resulted in a ground-breaking discovery. The cetaceans have a developed and complex language...and it can be deciphered by the aliens' translators. When Terry's father begins using alien implant technology to test the boundaries of the cetaceans' language and society, though, he goes too far, and the fledgling world government becomes involved. Without warning, the scientists are labeled as criminals, and the cetaceans are scheduled for termination. In order to save the cetaceans, the researchers have to flee off-world with them. In the Lupasha star system, Terry tries to begin a new life. While the world is ideal for the cetaceans, it's difficult for their... Views: 580
