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On a cold morning in 1908, a 19-year-old Jewish immigrant traversed the unfamiliar streets of Chicago from his ghetto home on Washburne Avenue to the luxurious Lincoln Place residence of Police Chief George Shippy. Minutes after knocking on the front door, Lazarus Averbuch lay dead on the hallway floor, shot no less than six times by the chief himself. This is the most comprehensive account ever of an episode that stunned Chicago and won the a...

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Tells the story of a dissatisfied, slightly disturbed young man named David who has found himself at a personal and professional crossroads. This title offers a comic look at office angst, contemporary psychiatric practice and romantic uncertainty.

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Detective Jack Lehman finds himself drawn back to work after 15 years to investigate a half-million-dollar heist. The only problem is that no one really believes the heist actually occurred. Surely a crime of that magnitude would be reported somewhere. This novel is a psychological thriller which provides insight into the problems of older adults.

From early childhood, Nastaran chronicles vivid recollections of her imprisonment at age 18 on trumped-up political charges. This is a memoir of a girlhood spent during the upheaval of the Iranian Revolution.

Based on the award-winning short film starring Back to the Future's Christopher Lloyd, ROOKIE Magazine's editor-in-chief Tavi Gevinson, and Academy Award Winner Kathy Bathes, Cadaver is a bittersweet love story for hopeless romantics and the harshest cynics.

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Traces the decline of a once-privileged Hudson River Valley family where the neighbours were Vanderbilts, Delanos, and Roosevelts. Susan Gillotti provides us an insight into her ancestors' heretofore secret lives, culled from private diaries, letters, and journals of the three generations of women who inhabited Grasmere - one of the great houses of the Hudson River Valley.

The years after the Civil War were marked by bitter political fights betwen the Democrats and Radical Republicans over how to reunite the country, and a deeply divided group of newspapers shouting down their opponents. All claimed to be acting on behalf of the better angels of our nature that Lincoln said should guide us as a people. Meanwhile, Washington was flooded with lobbyists spreading cash to buy influence and votes, and America's West ...

Carolous Deene is summoned to a small Kentish village where the presence of a possible coven of witches lends an eerie aura to the presumed 'accidental' death of young local boy a year ago on Hallowe'en. Before his work is completed, Carolous Deene has the answers to this and two other deaths.