Everest, the major motion picture from Universal Pictures, is set for wide release on September 18, 2015. Read The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev (portrayed by Ingvar Sigurðsson in the film) and G. Weston DeWalt's compelling account of those fateful events on Everest.In May 1996 three expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Crowded conditions slowed their progress. Late in the day twenty-three men and women-including expedition leaders Scott Fischer and Rob Hall-were caught in a ferocious blizzard. Disoriented and out of oxygen, climbers struggled to find their way down the mountain as darkness approached. Alone and climbing blind, Anatoli Boukreev brought climbers back from the edge of certain death. This new edition includes a transcript of the Mountain Madness expedition debriefing recorded five days after the tragedy, as well as G. Weston DeWalt's response to Into... Views: 44
ISLANDS OF DEATH!
Nicarxa and Apalca — idyllic island republics in the Caribbean. Until Don Carlos Italla, monk turned warlord and guerilla leader, chooses one of them for a hideout.
In a bizarre struggle for power and influence in the Americas, Nick Carter, AXE agent N3, has to ferret out the guerillas — and fend off the Cuban marine forces. All without the official recognition of the U.S. government!
Deep in the tropical mountains, Alto Arete stands, an impregnable fortress. Nick Carter's job is to conquer it and Don Carlos's crazed army of «monks» before peace in the Western Hemisphere becomes no more than a fond memory! Views: 43
On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello sits the Villa Cimbrone, a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters that move through Michael Holroyd's new book are destined never to meet, yet the Villa Cimbrone unites them all.A Book of Secrets is a treasure trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements, and family mysteries. With grace and tender imagination, Holroyd brings a company of unknown women into the light. From Alice Keppel, the mistress of both the second Lord Grimthorpe and the Prince of Wales; to Eve Fairfax, a muse of Auguste Rodin; to the novelist Violet Trefusis, the lover of Vita Sackville-West--these women are always on the periphery of the respectable world.Also on the margins is the elusive biographer, who on occasion turns an appraising eye upon himself as part of his investigations in the maze of biography. In this extraordinary book, Holroyd gives voice to fragile human connections and the mystery of... Views: 43
He was a highly paid professional, killing anyone, anywhere, for a price. A murderer who relished his work, lovingly watching each victim writhe in blood.
The Intelligence establishment named him The Vulture — "the scarlet vulture," his mechanized talons dripping with human blood. Destroying The Vulture was Nick Carter's next assignment.
But before Carter could get to his lethal quarry, he had to hunt down another man. A bizarre double of The Vulture, forced into becoming the assassin's perfect weapon — and his next agonized victim! Views: 43
Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy while reading Jack London's wondrous Call of the Wild. With a head full of questions about its inspiring landscape and a heart informed by his love of desolate and barren places, Brian Keenan sets out for Alaska to discover its four geographical quarters from snowmelt in May to snowfall in September, and en route, finds a land as fantastical as a fairytale but whose vastness has a very peculiar type of allure...From dog-mushing on a frozen lake beneath the whirling colours of the aurora borealis to camping in a two dollar tent in the tundra of the arctic circle, Brian Keenan seeks out the ultimate wilderness experience and along the way, encounters hard-core survivalists who know what struggle and endurance mean from their daily battle with nature to exist.He discovers that true wilderness is as much a state of mind as it is a place.And ultimately to make Alaska home, one must surrender to the land. Views: 43
The Petrograd submarine, Russia's newest and deadliest war-toy, is NATO's worst nightmare. So, when a Russian naval officer offers the sub's plans and maintenance manual for sale, the CIA station chief in Tokyo jumps at the chance. Both get more than they bargained for. Hours later Russian-seller and CIA-buyer are dead-gunned down by the KGB. But the microchip with the plans has vanished.
With the plans up for grabs Tokyo becomes a chess board of intrigue in a deadly game of Far Eastern espionage. But the Killmaster is playing for higher stakes. As Soviet and Western agents clash, N3 goes after the sub itself… Views: 42
Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary McCarthy said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" In A Difficult Woman, renowned historian Alice Kessler-Harris undertakes a feat few would dare to attempt: a reclamation of a combative, controversial woman who straddled so many political and cultural fault lines of her time.Kessler-Harris renders Hellman's feisty wit and personality in all of its contradictions: as a non-Jewish Jew, a displaced Southerner, a passionate political voice without a party, an artist immersed in commerce, a sexually free woman who scorned much of the women's movement, a loyal friend whose trust was often betrayed, and a writer of memoirs who repeatedly... Views: 42
