In 1989, in the west of Ireland, Donnie McNamara, tired of being a family disappointment, buys a one-way ticket to Tinseltown, to pursue his ridiculed dream of acting. Abe Nelson, a falle...więcej »
In July 1798, a Cambridge student set out on a botanical tour and wrote the first guidebook to North Wales. Wearing spectacles and carrying a rucksack, Yorkshire-born William Bingley made notes,...więcej »
Scott Sommer didn't join the FBI. He was born into it.His father, legendary FBI Special Agent John B. Sommer, battled the Mafia in Cleveland and Philadelphia in the 1970s ' 80s. In the vi...więcej »
Fix your thoughts on what is true and good and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely, and dwell on the fine, good things in others. Think about all you can praise God for and be...więcej »
Of all the times Roshawn's life fell apart, the summer of 2010 was the messiest ... by far. Locations have been redacted because this tale of thirst and mischief is way ...więcej »
Not long after the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the United States into World War II, the federal government rounded up more than a hundred thousand people of Japanese descent-both immigrants an...więcej »
Shanghai in 1930s had a booming prostitution industry which gave the city a certain reputation across Asia, and the beautiful Australian Lorraine Murray was one of its stars - until her patron E...więcej »
Rylla McCracken dreams of escaping her family's trailer in the Dust States to go to college, but on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, her mother demands she drop out of school to work for Lock...więcej »
After New York attorney Will Ross gains acquittal for a child abuser and the child is subsequently killed, he resolves to abandon law and become a children's entertainer...więcej »
"Whether it's through her virtuoso, musical performances, her layered and lyrical song compositions, her stirring vocals that reflect her love and respect for ancient, global tradition...więcej »
In the late summer of 1938, Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Moncrieff, a decorated veteran of the Royal Navy and senior strategist of Britain's SIS, monitors the daily growth of Hitler's war machine, conv...więcej »
Since he was a child, Tommy always dreamed of a better life. To cope with the narcotic and alcohol addictions, physical and verbal abuse, and poverty he faced as a child, he learned to retreat t...więcej »
PIEDRA, a new collection of poems by Luis Alberto Urrea?That which cannot be destroyed - so it is, this is Urrea's Piedra Tao, Urrea's third e...więcej »
Like any other revolution, the Islamic Revolution of Iran was based upon specific objectives and ideals. One of those objectives, which the current Supreme Leader, Sayyi...więcej »
In Outside the Frame, Catherine Pritchard Childress gives full-throated voice to those who are historically silenced, while bearing witness to a complex culture that both perpetuates th...więcej »