In the glamorous and ego-driven world of advertising, everyone is selling something and nothing is ever what it seems. Set in 1960 New York, this series reveals the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue's "Golden Age," where key players make an art o...
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Set in the captivating world of 1960s New York, Mad Men follows iconic ad man Don Draper, his colleagues and his family for one final time.
Louis L'Amour, often touted as the greatest writer ever to grace the Western genre, presents a collection of action-packed tales, complete with outlaws, cowboys, and sixguns. Stories include Mistakes Can Kill You; The One for the Mohave Kid; The Man from Battle Flate; Fork Your O...
Chronicles the colorful history of the American fur trade. Starting in the 1600s, the fur trade became the basis for the American economy. Communities depended on fur trappers for trading food and materials. However, the fur trade was not without its dark side as a number of Nati...
This book is an an introduction to the history of the turbulent region of Middle East from the beginnings of Islam to the present day. It focuses on the evolution of Islamic institutions and culture, the influence of the West, the modernization efforts of Middle Eastern governmen...
"Rumor has it that a schoolteacher from the East is coming out West to teach school. Three Springer Ranch cowhands have tried to discourage her from coming by forging letters. But their strategy has failed to overpower the more persuasive love letters from a certain mysterious Fr...
"On a cold and rainy Stockholm night, nine bus riders are gunned down by an unknown assassin. The press, anxious for an explanation for the seemingly random crime, quickly dubs the killer a madman. But Superintendent Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad suspects otherwise:...
The third volume in a collection of stories by Louis L'Amour.
This volume presents nine of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories--history that lives forever. "Riding for the Brand": After a narrow escape, Jed Asbury comes across a derelict covered wagon, the people and their horses killed. Now outfitted in new clothes and guns, he decides to...
Five of L'Amour's short stories about the West. In Riding for the brand, Jed Asbury finds an abandoned covered wagon and decides to finish what the former owners had intended to do. In Four card draw, Allen Ring wins a small ranch in a poker game, but Marshall Bilton says no one ...
An espionage novel featuring a burnt-out CIA agent, Milo Weaver, forced to head into the field one last time. Milo used to be a "tourist," an undercover agent with no home, no identity, who has since retired to become a middle-level manager at the CIA's New York headquarters. He'...
New York Times Bestselling Author of Field of Fire and Tom Clancy Power and Empire and Tom Clancy Oath of Office Warning: The next terrorist attack on American soil is coming . . . sooner than you think. They can strike anytime, anywhere. A public landmark. A suburban shopping ma...
"For fans of Nora Ephron, Tom Rachmann and Jennifer Weiner, here is Katherine Ashenburg's witty, contemporary new novel about a forty-something newspaper columnist navigating her bold next chapter, set in Washington against the 2014 US presidential primary. Liz is a columnist at ...
Collating, in a single volume, the major body of interviews conducted by the revered American critic and curator Robert Storr, 'Interviews on Art' includes 62 illustrated discussions with some of the most renowned names in the artworld over the last century. Storr's interviewees ...
Edward M. Coffman's stunning work of military history, The War to End All Wars, offers a fresh and interesting perspective on the Great War, focusing solely on the United States as a major player in the struggle. Coffman pays special attention to the American soldier and his expe...
Rumor has it that a schoolteacher from the East is coming out West to teach school. Three Springer Ranch cowhands have tried to discourage her from coming by forging letters. But their strategy has failed to overpower the more persuasive love letters from a certain mysterious Fra...
Suppose there really were vampires. Dark. Stalking. Destroying. They'd have to be killed, wouldn't they? Of course they would. But what kind of fools would try to make a living at it? You don't just kill vampires for the money-you do it for the satisfaction. You do it because so...