Product Description: Escaping certain death – not once but several times – lies at the core of this riveting, real-life story of an American soldier during World War II.Tommy LaMore tells what it was like to be among the first airmen in the B-17s in long missions over enemy territory...read more

A third collection of misadventures of people who have lost their lives by engaging in questionable activities includes the stories of a sheriff who shot himself twice and an artist who made a necklace using live ammunition.

Product Description: Through short vignettes that read like a novel, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado-Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, but most of all he reveals deeply personal portraits of the few people who live there and who do not so much possess but are themselves possessed by the terrain...read more

Product Description: "In an instant there sloughed from the heart and mind and soul of Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones every particle of civilization and culture and refinement that had required countless ages in the building, stripping him naked, age on age, down to the primordial beast that had begot his first human progenitor...read more

Product Description: Off California's San Miguel Island, a fishing boat struggles in the battering-ram seas and blinding rain of a sudden squall. On the beach near his home, private investigator Wil Hardesty is approached by a Vietnamese fisherman. Vinh Tien is not convinced that the disappearance at sea of his only son was the accident it was ruled...read more

Product Description: The Tsangpo Gorge in southeastern Tibet has lured explorers and adventurers since its discovery. Sacred to the Buddhists, the inspiration for Shangri La, the Gorge is as steeped in legend and mystery as any spot on earth. As a river-running challenge, the remote Tsangpo is relentlessly unforgiving, more difficult than any stretch of river ever attempted...read more

Product Description: DisneyWar is the breathtaking, dramatic inside story of what drove America's best-known entertainment company to civil war. With access to both Michael Eisner and Roy Disney, company executives and board members, as well as letters and documents never before seen, James B...read more

Product Description: They put a price on his head. They did everything they could to disrupt his mission. Finally, when an antitank mine tore off his right foot, the warriors of jihad in Iraq thought they had neutralized one of their most resourceful, determined foes...read more

A soldier wounded by a land mine in Iraq chronicles his recovery and his long fight back to participate in an Olympic-distance triathalon, as well as skiing and snowboarding--all the while keeping his spirits high.

Product Description: A Band of Brothers for the Pacific, this is the gut-wrenching but ultimately triumphant story of the Marines' most ferocious-yet largely forgotten-battle of World War II. Between September 15 and October 15, 1944, the First Marine Division suffered more than 6,500 casualties fighting on a hellish little island in the Pacific...read more

Product Description: In a story that dominated the headlines, James B. Stewart takes readers inside the epic battle for control of the world's leading entertainment company, Disney.

The first full history of the pioneering Special Forces units of World War II-dropped behind German lines into France to assist with the D-Day landings-told by a former U.S. Special Forces colonel with unique access to surviving veterans The story of the Special Forces in World War II has never fully been told before. Information about them began to be declassified only in the 1980s. Known as the Jedburghs, these Special Forces were selected from members of the British, American, and Free French armies to be dropped in teams of three deep behind German lines. There, in preparation for D-Day, they carried out what we now know as unconventional warfare: supporting the French Resistance in guerrilla attacks, supply-route disruption, and the harassment and obstruction of German reinforcements. Always, they operated against extraordinary odds. They had to be prepared to survive pitched battles with German troops and Gestapo manhunts for weeks and months while awaiting the arrival of Allied ground forces. They were, in short, heroes. The Jedburghs finally tells their story and offers a new perspective on D-Day itself. Will Irwin has selected seven of the Jedburgh teams and told their stories as gripping personal narratives. He has gathered archival documents, diaries, and correspondence, and interviewed Jed veterans and family members in order to present this portrait of their crucial role--a role recognized by Churchill and Eisenhower-in the struggle to liberate Europe in 1944-45. This is narrative history at its most compelling; a vivid drama of the battle for France from deep behind enemy lines.

Product Description: The definition of intelligence has become the object of many controversies - particularly about its nature and the causes of its development - with essential social implications at stake. To get out of this deadlock, the authors of this book propose a social conception of intelligence and of its development: they consider intelligence as resulting from the inter-individual coordinations of actions and judgements...read more

Product Description: For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock 'n' roll all the way. Within the span of twenty-one days, Chuck had three relationships end-one by choice, one by chance, and one by exhaustion...read more

Product Description: The only book about the war in Iraq by a soldier on the ground-destined to become a classic of war literature. John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition-it had seemed a small sacrifice to give up one weekend a month and two weeks a year in exchange for a free education...read more

Provides an in-depth account of the fall of the Philippines during World War II to the Japanese, the harsh treatment of American and Filipino POWs, and the 1945 raid by a band of American Rangers and Filipino Scouts on a Japanese POW camp to liberated incarcerated American soldiers. Book available. (A Miramax Film, directed by John Dahl, releasing December 2005, starring Benjamin Bratt & Joseph Fiennes) (Military History)

Provides an in-depth account of the fall of the Philippines during World War II to the Japanese, the harsh treatment of American and Filipino POWs, and the 1945 raid by a band of American Rangers and Filipino Scouts on a Japanese POW camp to liberate incarcerated American soldiers. Book available. (A Miramax Film, directed by John Dahl, releasing December 2005, starring Benjamin Bratt & Joseph Fiennes) (Military History)

The son of a former priest and nun documents his life, describing his childhood in mid-twentieth-century Boston and a family life spent ministering to the inner-city poor.

Product Description: Dan Davis, an electronics engineer, had finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot that could do almost anything. Wild success was within reach--and Dan's life was ruined. In a plot to steal his business, his greedy partner and greedier fiancee tricked him into taking the "long sleep"--suspended animation for thirty years...read more

Product Description: To victory--or death! When Union Colonel Andrew Keane led his blue-coated soldiers aboard the transport ship, he could not have foreseen that their next port of call would be neither in the North nor the South, but in an alternate world where no human was free...read more

Product Description: When Martha Stewart was on trial for insider trading, the media served up countless gratuitous stories lambasting her character. Now, Lloyd Allen, Martha’s old friend and neighbor, is out to set the record straight. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with Martha’s family, close friends and colleagues, Allen brings to life the real woman behind the controversial and glamorous public image: the Martha beloved as a mentor and benefactor; the carefree Martha who enjoys the simple things in life with childlike enthusiasm; the stronger, more grounded Martha who emerged from her prison term more determined than ever to help people make the most out of life...read more

Product Description: The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod huts to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out...read more

Product Description: Here is the continuing adventure of fiction’s most dramatic hero, Tarzan the ape-man. In this new episode, Tarzan has given up his jungle ways and is living contentedly on a farm with his beloved wife as a wealthy member of British nobility...read more

Product Description: An affectionate but brutally honest account about working and living with Miles Davis during the latter period of the jazz maestro's career

Product Description: Miles to Go is a frank and intimate exploration of Miles Davis' eccentric working life, drug habits, paranoia, depression, and subsequent recovery. Murphy explores Davis' troubled relationship with his children and the controversial role Cicely Tyson played in his life...read more