King of the Gypsies
The incredible but true story of the mysterious, intrigue-filled world of the gypsy.
ISBN: 0553125842
Author: Peter Maas
Publisher: Bantam Books
Rating: 3.35
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Friday, December 1, 1978
Thursday, July 5, 1973
Big Book of Mazes and Labyrinths
Big Book of Mazes and Labyrinths
The path least traveled makes all the difference in this volume, especially when you find yourself crossing bridges, escaping from caves, lighting firecrackers, spelling out passwords, and untangling snakes. These 50 challenges include classic, solid, and ripple mazes, along with short-path and avoidance labyrinths and other intriguing problems. Solutions.
ISBN: 0486229513
Author: Walter Shepherd
Publisher: Dover Publications
Rating: 0.00
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Wednesday, December 31, 1969
Company Aytch (Company H) (Audiofy Digital Audiobook Chips)
Company Aytch (Company H) (Audiofy Digital Audiobook Chips)
ISBN: 1599128578
Author: Samuel Rush Watkins
Publisher: Audiofy/Jimcin
Rating: 4.12
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Company Aytch Or, Side Show Of The Big Show Classic Memoir Of The Civil War
Company Aytch Or, Side Show Of The Big Show Classic Memoir Of The Civil War
A Classic Memoir of the Civil war
ISBN: 0739406523
Author: Samuel Rush Watkins
Publisher:
Rating: 4.12
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The Portable Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius
The Portable Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius
Essential passages from the works of four "fathers of history"—Herodotus's History, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Polybius's Histories.
ISBN: 014015065X
Author: Moses I. Finley
Publisher: Penguin Books
Rating: 3.64
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One Death Too Many
Love Me to Death: A Journalists Memoir of the Hunt for Her Friends Killer
Love Me to Death: A Journalists Memoir of the Hunt for Her Friends Killer
In 1994, Ricardo Caputo, object of an international FBI manhunt, turned himself in, confessing to the brutal murders of four women. For more than two decades, he had moved with ease from one U.S. city to the next and across the Mexican border, altering his identity, and killing with impunity. Now the deadly Don Juan, whom one detective called "a beautiful snake", has been found. But for Linda Wolfe, the search had just begun... Acclaimed for her incisive true-crime journalism, Linda Wolfe has explored some of the darkest aspects of human nature. But never before had she felt as visceral and disturbing a reaction as she did to Ricardo Caputo. Some ten years earlier, the author's friend, New York writer and activist Jacqui Bernard, was murdered, and Wolfe had become convinced that Caputo was the killer. His arrest, in 1994, propelled her on a deeply affecting, personal odyssey. The result is a profoundly intimate and eloquent account of Linda Wolfe's confrontation with Caputo-- and of the tragedy and terror he left in his wake.
Seeking closure in the death of her friend, Wolfe met with the families of both Caputo and his victims; she spoke with police investigators, psychiatrists who had treated Caputo, and lawyers on both sides of the case; and she pored over private letters, diaries, and photo albums. She also conducted three prison interviews with Caputo. What emerges is not only a frightening and unforgettable portrait of a serial killer, but a powerful and poignant evocation of the lives he touched, twisted, and destroyed.
Distrusting Caputo's expressions of remorse, seeking the true reason for his surrender, Wolfe strives to make sense of the seductive sociopath whose violence was rooted in his troubled chilhood in Argentina, and who spread his venomous charm from suburban Long Island to San Francisco's Pacific Heights. She pieces together profiles of the attractive, successful, sophisticated women he preyed upon. And she addresses some of the troubling legal issues facing a justice system that too often turns criminals into celebrities, shifts blame to the victims, and allows defendants to abuse the insanity defense.
"Love Me To Death" is more than a triumph of investigative journalism. It is a candid, compelling story of innocence and evil, crime and punishment-- and Linda Wolfe's own determined quest to unmask and face the enemy.
ISBN: 0671517201
Author: Linda Wolfe
Publisher:
Rating: 3.25
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The Journalist and the Murderer
The Journalist and the Murderer
ISBN: 1862076375
Author: Janet Malcolm
Publisher:
Rating: 3.78
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Dalton Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo
In the course of their interviews Dalton Trumbo told Bruce Cook, who was too ""embarrassed"" to ask, that he joined the Communist Party casually in 1943 and drifted away, unaltered (""I changed no beliefs"") in 1948, then rejoined briefly in the mid-1950s--which is just what you might have learned from the New York Times Trumbo obituary. Cook's only equipment for writing a life of Trumbo, it ...
Mais appears, was a tape recorder, travel money, and admiration; he blithely presents as the results of his researches what is already on the public record (in Trumbo's own Additional Dialogue, for one) and, save for filling in details and soliciting more opinions, lets it stand unexamined. For him as for Trumbo (who knew better), communism is--in Dwight Macdonald's memorable phrase--no more consequential than the common cold; and Stalinism is nonexistent. The two areas he pokes around in are Trumbo's early life in Grand Junction, Colorado, where his father failed ignominiously, and his wild pursuit of his knockout wife Cleo. The first elicits what may be the book's only insight, credited to Karen Horney, that Trumbo's obsession with material success represented an urge for ""vindictive triumph."" An idealistic firebrand from high school days, Trumbo was radicalized, according to Cook, by eight years work at the Davis Perfection Bakery and exposure to the surrounding ""crummy"" environment. Not that ""social determinism"" defines him precisely; no, what is most ""remarkable"" about Trumbo, Cook concludes, is the way he himself shaped his time. A psychologically and politically gauche contribution to blacklist hagiography.
ISBN: 0684147505
Author: Bruce Cook
Publisher:
Rating: 3.87
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Night of the Aurochs
Night of the Aurochs
Dalton Trumbo’s posthumous work, this novel tells the story of an old unrepentant Nazi official named Grieben. Former chief of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the protagonist is motivated by a boundless desire for power & by what seems to be an inability to receive love. In autobiographical form, Grieben ensnares us in the sadism of his youth, the cruelty of his relationship with a woman who was half-Jewish & the indescribable horror of the Holocaust.
ISBN: 0670514128
Author: Dalton Trumbo
Publisher: Viking Books (NY)
Rating: 3.84
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