Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl case with cloth sleeves that keep compact discs protected.] [Read by Malcolm Hillgartner] Long before there was VHS versus Betamax, Windows versus Macintosh, or Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD, the first and nastiest standards war was fought between alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC)...read more

Product Description: Marty Kihn was the nicest guy in the world, until he got fed up with always coming in last. On the day he turned forty, he set out to transform himself from beta male to alpha male to a$$hole.

Product Description: Marty Kihn was the nicest guy in the world, until he got fed up with always coming in last. On the day he turned forty, he set out to transform himself from beta male to alpha male to a$$hole.

Product Description: Sewell, a submarine veteran, and Preisler, a writer of techno-thrillers, add little new evidence in their version of the story; their new data is unfailingly familiar and they never succeed in making a persuasive case for the conspiracy and cover-up they claim occurred...read more

Product Description: Jake Reese is a writing teacher at an American university. He lives in a small brick Tudor close to campus with his art buyer wife, Diane. His life is quiet ― ordinary even. And he likes it that way. But it wasn’t always quiet...read more

Jake Reese is a writing teacher at an American university. He lives in a small brick Tudor close to campus with his art buyer wife, Diane. His life is quiet ― ordinary even. And he likes it that way. But it wasn’t always quiet. Jake’s distant past was a life on the streets, inflicting damage and suffering on more people than he can count. And now someone from his past, it seems, has come looking for him. A raw, gripping thriller about the price paid for past sins, John Rector’s third novel is a live wire that crackles with the intensity of a man with nothing left to lose. When two men attack Jake in a parking lot and cut off his finger, he tries to dismiss it as an unlucky case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But when events take a more sinister turn and Diane goes missing, Jake knows he can no longer hide from the truth. As he embarks on a mission to find his wife, he realizes his dark past is refusing to stay buried and that his future is about to unfold in ways he could never have imagined. With a taut and brooding style, Rector paints a formidable portrait of a reformed man’s slow descent into a life he thought he had walked away from forever. As the intensity becomes almost unbearable, the pace quickens and the suspense applies an unrelenting, vice-like grip, as Already Gone hurtles toward its ultimate, explosive climax.

A collection of essays, anecdotes, and stories about twentieth-century New York City, including the title article about Frank Lucas, the drug dealer and gangster famous for using the coffins of dead soldiers to smuggle heroin during the Vietnam War.

Product Description: A Booklist Top Ten First Novel for 2008 and A Finalist for the New York Public Library's 2009 Young Lions Fiction Award and Winner of the 2010 Saroyan Prize When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single, confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves almost exactly like her and even audaciously claims to be her...read more

Product Description: She had the face of a madonna--and a heart of dollar bills... Black Wings Has My Angel is the dreamlike tale of a man after a jailbreak who meets up with the woman of his dreams--and his nightmares. A phenomenal work of the period and a legend among noir buffs, Chaze's pulp classic is back in print for the first time in more than half a century...read more

Product Description: Chaze's long-lost classic, a legend among noir buffs, is back in print for the first time in nearly half a century. She had the face of a madonna and a heart of dollar bills.The one book Black Lizard never published, it's the dream-like tale of a man after a jailbreak, who meets up with the woman of his dreams--and his nightmares...read more

Product Description: [ABRIDGED EDITION - Read by Malcolm Hillgartner] From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace comes an abridged version of the groundbreaking biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century, the man who stood up to Hitler...read more

Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in Vinyl case.] In the early years of the twentieth century, restorative waters are a popular health draw for many. Healing Sands Sanitarium, northwest of Hoquiam, Washington, is located on the sandy edge of the Pacific Ocean and is famous for its restorative rest cure, fermented diets, and Dr...read more

Product Description: Here is, for the first time, the full and unforgettable life of John Cheever (1912-1982), written with unprecedented access to essential sources. Cheever was a soul in conflict, a high-school dropout who published his first story at eighteen, a dire alcoholic who recovered to write the great novel Falconer, a secret bisexual who struggled with his longings and his fierce homophobia, whose groundbreaking work landed him on the covers of Time and Newsweek, a man who believed in the power of family love and sexual pleasure, a man whose desperate loneliness was never wholly offset by his faith in the joy of creation...read more

Product Description: From an acclaimed historian comes the dramatic story of the Christmas escape of thousands of American troops overwhelmingly surrounded by the enemy in Korea's harsh terrain.Just before Thanksgiving in 1950, five months into the Korean War, General MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an "end-the-war-by-Christmas" offensive despite recent intervention by Mao's Chinese, who would soon trap tens of thousands of US troops poised toward the Yalu River border...read more