After two deputy sheriffs lose their jobs because of poor arrest records, they purse an escaped convict to try and win back their badges. But nabbing the convict won't be half as dangerous as facing the ruthless sheriff who is tracking their every move.
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In the long-awaited adult debut, Leigh Bardugo delivers a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite.
Maps have long elicited a special fascination -- both as practical tools and as beautiful works of art. But to collectors the map trade can be cutthroat, with quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects. This is the story of...
"For three thousand years a code in the Bible has remained hidden. Now it has been unlocked by computer - and it may reveal our future." "The code was broken by an Israeli mathematician, who presented the proof in a major science journal, and it has been confirmed by famous mathe...
A portrait of a woman, an era, and a profession: the first thoroughly researched biography of Meryl Streep-the ٢Iron Lady٣ of acting, nominated for nineteen Oscars and winner of three-that explores her beginnings as a young woman of the 1970s grappling with love, feminism, and he...
"Michelangelo was a master draftsman whose striking and powerful drawings are not only an important part of his artistic heritage in their own right but are also a means of viewing his designs that have not otherwise survived. In this book Michael Hirst describes and analyzes Mic...
"The Wars of the Roses (1455-85) were a major turning point in English history. But the underlying causes for the successive upheavals have been hotly contested by historians ever since. In this original and stimulating new synthesis, distinguished historian Michael Hicks examine...
With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the T...
"Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as this book shows, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. ...
Once considered a respectable antiquarian map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley spent years doubling as a map thief -until he was finally arrested slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library.The Map Thief delves into the untold history of this fascinating high-stakes crimina...
"The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop, two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the...
Venice, home of Tiepolo, Canaletto, Piranesi, Piazzetta, and Guardi, was the most artistic city of eighteenth-century Italy. This beautiful book examines the whole range of the arts in Venice during this period, including paintings, pastels and gouaches, drawings and watercolours...
Richard (Michael Moriarty), a physics professor at Yale, and his poet son Wendell (Keifer Sutherland), share both a rambling old house and an intense hatred for each other. When Richard's wife passes away in the throes of dementia, the father and son's antagonism for each other ...
"Oral history from players and coaches detailing the NFL from the late 1930s through the 1970s"-- Provided by publisher.
"When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor seemed destined to become inseparable. The boys, both children of college professors, grew up on the same street in intellectually vibrant homes shaped by ideas, liberal Jewish culture, the trauma o...