Powerful Stories of Lifes Emergencies For more than 35 years, veteran EMT Andrea Jo Rodgers has been helping people in their most terrifying and vulnerable momentsand bearing witness to the miraculous power and handiwork of God.
Pinkerton National Detective Agency is a private security guard and detective agency established in the United States by Scotsman Allan Pinkerton in 1850.
'As a child I would sit on the stone wall as if hypnotised, imagining that the world ended where the moutains and the sky met and wishing I could stand at the top and touch the heavens.
Citizen Wynn recounts the cautionary saga of uber-wealthy casino king Steve Wynn, who built a global gambling empire on fantasy, grift, and misogyny before hubris and #MeToo brought him down.
The masterpiece of Joseph Conrad's later years, the autobiographical short novel The Shadow-Line depicts a young man at a crossroads in his life, facing a desperate crisis that marks the "shadow-line" between youth and maturity.
A deep dive that "e;has brought together all the evidence"e; in the fascinating cold case of a millionaire widow, the Chicago horse mafia, and murder (Daily Mail).
The Murder of Martin Luther King is a meticulously researched and thought-provoking book that delves into the assassination of the civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr.
'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY'Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and boundless curiosity' THE TIMES'As suspenseful and pacy as an episode of peak-era ER' GUARDIANA near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death-and what might follow-by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.
El Presente libro pretende ser un aporte significativo para la reorientación de las políticas de desarrollo que buscan eliminar la pobreza extrema tanto en el Perú como en el mundo.
The definitive book on one of the most notorious murders in Jazz Age New York history, that of Vivian Gordon, the high-end escort, con artist, and blackmailer connected to gangsters like ';Legs' Diamond and Arnold Rothstein, whose death exposed the dark underbelly of police corruption throughout the cityfrom the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist who is one of the foremost Mafia experts writing today.
"e;Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman"e; is a biography of Harriet Tubman, written by Sarah Hopkins Bradford in 1869, four years after the end of the Civil War.
From a talented emerging Australian writer, a brave, honest, unforgettable memoir about mental illness that breaks the silence and shatters the taboos to give hope to all those struggling to find their way through.
A compelling account of Australia's intelligence organisations and special forces - from the early days of the commandos during World War II through to the SAS of today and the cyber wars of the future.
**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie A masterpiece Extraordinary Daily Telegraph A story of hatred defeated by love Guardian On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was sitting onstage in upstate New York, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black black clothes, black mask rushed down the aisle towards him, wielding a knife.
The evacuation and subsequent German occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII, told through personal accounts, newspapers, and political decisions.