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For a cop, a night on the job means killing time and trying not to get killed. If you're a cop in Hollywood Division, it also means dealing with the most overwrought, desperate, and deluded criminals anywhere. When you're patrolling Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards, neither a good reputation nor the lessons of scandals past will help you keep your cool, your sanity, or your life when things heat up.The robbery of a Hollywood jewelry store, complete with masks and a hand grenade, quickly connects to a Russian nightclub, an undercover operation gone bloodily wrong, and a cluelessly ambitious pair of tweakers. Putting the pieces together are the sergeant they call the Oracle and his squad of street cops. There's Budgie Polk, a twenty-something firecracker with a four-month-old at home, and Wesley Drubb, a rich boy who joined the force seeking thrills. Fausto Gamboa is the tetchy veteran, and Hollywood Nate is the one who never shuts up about movies. They spend their days in patrol cars and their nights in… Read More

The reader and two animal companions face deadly dangers in a test to prove their readiness for adulthood by discovering the source of a mysterious light atop a mountain.

Master storyteller and beloved NPR commentator Carol Wasserman shares the quirky joys and tribulations of her "impecunious, ordinary, fixed little life" among fellow Swamp Yankees in her raggedy little tourist town on the Massachusetts coast, across the water from upscale Cape Cod. In the tradition of Bailey White and Garrison Keillor, she regales us with amusing and touching stories about the colorful characters and yearly rituals—from the absurd to the sublime—that keep her so closely tethered to the town and her ancient, crumbling half-Cape house, which she describes as "a fragile, sinking, lovely old wreck of a place that I have come to confuse with my own flesh."In these tales that have delighted millions of listeners, she tells about the fine art of buying apples from squabbling orchard owners who impugn one another's fruit; the wild enthusiams of her dearly departed husband, Aubrey, who was once sure he'd discovered a tiny Stonehenge by the side of the road; the pleasures of buying… Read More

Arden, and together they had eight children. John and Mary lost two daughters as infants, so William became their eldest child. John Shakespeare worked as a glove-maker, but he also became an important figure in the town of Stratford by fulfilling civic positions. His elevated status meant that he was even more likely to have sent his children, including William, to the local grammar school.
William Shakespeare would have lived with his family in their house on Henley Street until he turned eighteen. When he was eighteen, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, who was twenty-six. It was a rushed marriage because Anne was already pregnant at the time of the ceremony. Together they had three children. Their first daughter, Susanna, was born six months after the wedding and was later followed by twins Hamnet and Judith. Hamnet died when he was just 11 years old.

When Richard Marcinko wrote his bestselling autobiography, Rogue Warrior, he and co-writer John Weisman were bound by government restrictions and could only tell a fraction of his incredible story. Now the tales he could not tell, the secrets he could not reveal explode in ROGUE WARRIOR II: RED CELL -- a riveting ne novel with Marcinko himself as the hero.He is the enemy's worst nightmare and lives by only one rule. . . win, by any means.Freelance security consultant Dick Marcinko is playing terrorist at Tokyo's Narita Airport. Easily penetrating the facility's defenses, he engages in a deadly firefight with North Korean operatives -- and discovers that a group of traitorous Americans are smuggling nuclear materials to North Korea and Japan. With no where else to turn, the former Secretary of Defense recalls Marcinko to the Navy against his will to command Red Cell, a dirty-dozen Seal team Marcinko created. From infiltrating Washington's Navy Yard offices and secret nuclear weapons depot in… Read More

In his famous book A Night to Remember, historian Walter Lord described the sinking of the Titanic as "the last night of a small town". Now, a hundred years after her sinking, John Welshman reconstructs the fascinating individual histories of twelve of the inhabitants of this tragically short-lived floating town. They include members of the crew; passengers in First, Second, and Third Class; women and men; adults and children; rich and poor. Among them are a ship's Captain, a Second Officer, an Assistant Wireless Operator; a Stewardess, an amateur military historian, a governess, a teacher, a domestic servant, a mother, and three children. What were their earlier histories? Who survived, and why, and who perished? And what happened to these people in the years after 1912? Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town answers all these questions and more, while offering a minute-by-minute depiction of events aboard the doomed liner through the eyes of a broad and representative cross-section of those who… Read More

ROGERSON, Isabella Whiteford. The Victorian Triumph And Other Poems. Toronto : William Briggs / Montreal : C.W. Coates / Halifax : S.F. Huestis, 1898.Pp [i]-xii,13-232,(2), frontis portrait (with tissue guard). 8vo, gilt ill ustrated blue cloth, lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. O'Dea 1200, Watters,p.170, Rhodenizer p.868. For Rogerson see ENL IV:620. "Isabella Whiteford – now the wife of the Honorable James J. Rogerson – is a native of County Antrim, Ireland. [...] In 1850, Mrs. Rogerson's father and mother, accompanied by their four daughters and two sons, came out to Newfoundland. For nearly fifty years our Island has been her cherished home." - from the Introductory Note by D.W. Prowse. This collection, her second book of poetry, includes : The Victorian Triumph; An Episode of the St. John's Fire, 1892; George Street Church Woman's Missionary Society; Royal National Deep-Sea Mission; John Cabot; John Cabot's Discovery; "Sailed, and Has Not Since Been HeardOf"; Newfoundland; Columbus; To His… Read More

Marcus Corvinus is spending a few days in the Alban Hills, while taking a mild interest in the forthcoming consul's elections. Then one of the two candidates is murdered, and Corvinus is all too pleased to put his holiday on hold and help with the investigation. The obvious suspect is the rival political candidate, but needless to say, the obvious solution is not always the right one.

Eight-year-old Amy Kaslov possesses the power to make people do things against their will, and someone must unlock the secret to that power to save the little orphan from destruction