Many nefarious characters have passed through Maine on their way to infamy, including the pirates Dixie Bull and Blackbeard (Edward Teach), and gangster Al Brady, who was gunned down by G-men in the streets of Bangor.
Inspired by the old African proverb: When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground, high-school student Morgan Reilly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women from Maine who served in World War II and preserving their stories.
Heartwarming and Heart-Opening Stories Gathered from Decades of Medical PracticeBernie Siegel first wrote about miracles when he was a practicing surgeon and founded Exceptional Cancer Patients, a groundbreaking synthesis of group, individual, dream, and art therapy that provided patients with a carefrontation.
Through intimate portraits of four exonerated prisoners, journalist Alison Flowers explores what happens to innocent people when the state flings open the jailhouse door and tosses them back, empty-handed into the unknown.
A person who works exclusively in staff jobs throughout a career is less likely to develop important leadership competencies than a person who works exclusively in line jobs.
In December 2004, an aging black Labrador retriever on the first hunting trip of her long, good life spooked at the sound of gunshot and was lost amid the frigid rice fields of the Texas coastal prairie.
Running late for work one morning in September 1994, Tom Hargrove, communications director for an international agricultural aid organization in Cali, Colombia, was mildly annoyed when he spotted a roadblock, or retn, manned by soldiers in fatigues.
Murder By MedicineIn the small southern town of Ider, Alabama, everyone knew Karri Willoughby as a devoted nurse, loving wife, and mother of two small children.
An incisive, unflinchingaccount of the shocking, summer 2007 Connecticut crime that is still making national headlines, Murder in Connecticut examines what happened to Dr.
If the experts could point to any single book as a starting point for understanding the subject of intelligence from the late twentieth century to today, that single book would be Allen W.
We all know about the Hells Angels: toughs on Harleys terrorizing the law-abiding; wild brawls and wild sex; drugs and cruelty, beatings, and even murder.
For nearly three decades, a series of rapes and murders occurred around Western New York by a nameless, faceless man dubbed "e;The Bike Path Rapist"e; by local media.
Both concise and wide-ranging, this encyclopedia covers massacres, atrocities, war crimes, and genocides, including acts of inhumanity on all continents; and serves as a reminder that lest we forget, history will repeat itself.
In this book, ten scripts derived from highly regarded sources bring World War II to life for students in grades 6-12 and serve as a springboard for further investigation of this pivotal world event.
The relationship between drugs and today's wars has grown more noticeable since the end of the Cold War and will likely gather strength in this era of increased globalization.
For nearly ten years beginning in 1993, Robert Eringer lived a clandestine life of intrigue, conducting a spectrum of covert operations for the FBI's foreign counterintelligence division.
This is investigative reporter Gus Russo's most explosive book yet, the remarkable story of the "e;Supermob"e;-a cadre of men who, over the course of decades, secretly influenced nearly every aspect of American society.
In a place where murder isnt supposed to happenSouthern Illinoisdeputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us.
In a place where murder isnt supposed to happenrural Missouri and Southern Illinoisdeputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us.
In a place where murder isnt supposed to happenrural Missouri and Southern Illinoisdeputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us.
Engendered Death: Pennsylvania Women Who Kill is an historical and interdisciplinary study of women who kill in Pennsylvania from the 18th century to the present.
In 1939, four brutal murders occurred at three separate locations on a single day in "e;Cache Creek country,"e; a remote Alaska gold-mining region near Talkeetna.