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At the age of nineteen Arthur Rimbaud committed suicide, not in the flesh but as a writer. At that point he had composed a body of poetry now ranked among the classics of France and of the world. He never wrote another line. He cut himself not only from literature but from his native country and from European civilization, and lost himself in the inaccessible mountains of North Africa. When he reappeared it was to die, in torment, in a hospita...

Some years ago New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Crater walked out of his office, turned south along Broadway, and disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again.. There were headlines, public clamor and widespread excitement, but the true-life case was never solved. Something of that same breathless mystery is aroused in this story when Stephen P. Wyndham, internationally known sportsman and last in a line of a rich and respected New Y...

Provides a detailed analysis on Christ's death - from the crown of thorns to the burial tomb. This book explores not only the Christ's physical torment on the cross, but also looks at the emotional pain he experienced during the hours leading up to the actual crucifixion.

This biography of noted conservationist William Temple Hornaday is especially designed for young naturalists, as his life story is accompanied by fun and accessible projects for the budding zoologist. 25 b&w, illustrations.

H.G. Wells was one of the most influential men of his time, a leading science-fiction writer, novelist, philosopher, reformer and fighter for civilization.This dramatic account of his life reveals his fight for causes and concerns that are still relevant today.

Surrounded on all borders but its western coastline by hostile and aggressive neighbors, the state of Israel resembles the walled city of the Middle Ages. But its walls are not stone and mortar, they are flesh and blood they are the soldiers, both men and women the airmen, the intelligence, the tankscorpsmen and the paratroops. These young people from the old ghettos of Europe, from the cities of North Africa and Asia, native-born Sabras are t...

Karl Patterson Schmidt was one of America s most influential naturalists. In his special field of herpetology the study of reptiles and amphibians he made fascinating discoveries about the habits of snakes and their environment. This biography follows his exciting career from his boyhood in Lake Forest, Illinois, through his college days at Cornell, his participation in geological expeditions, his first job as a herpetologist at the American M...

John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in California s Salinas River Valley. Although he worked briefly as a reporter in New York, it was in the Salinas Valley that he spent the Depression years, and his experiences and the people he met became the basis for his books. Of Mice and Men opened the eyes of the public to the desperate lives of the migrant workers. The Grapes of Wrath told the story of the destitute Oklahoma dust bowl farmers who flocked ...

300 delicious recipes that explore the fascinating Mayan cuisine and heritage in Guatemala and its surrounding countries by celebrated food historian and cook Copeland Marks.

Soft-boiled Seattle sleuth John Denson, first introduced in Decoys, is hot on the trail of crime once again in this second Denson mystery.30 for a Harry takes its inspiration from a bit of newspaper lore-the legend of Harry Karafin, who after three decades on The Philadelphia Inquirer was exposed for using his position as an investigative reporter to blackmail area businessmen.Drawing on his own background as a former intelligence agent and ne...

This riveting account of Hiram Bingham, a man who made some of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century as a real-life Indiana Jones, will fascinate young readers.

In the exclusive world of New York Society, Darcy Snow Statton s wealth and bloodline place her at the very top of the city s elite. Yet, for all her jewelry and dazzling ballroom gowns, Darcy has no freedom. Darcy s husband, Claude Statton, is a man of uncertain birth but enormous wealth, a man whose polished exterior belies his dark habits and the unspeakable plans he has for his wife. Darcy is a prisoner of Claude s Fifth Avenue mansion and...

When Abbey Sutton left her home in the wild Wyoming frontier, she expected to find a civilized, subdued life as a governess back East. But a storm was brewing over the quaint clapboard houses and cobblestone streets of Nantucket Island. And the darkest cloud of suspicion hung over Jake Ross, the rugged lighthouse keeper with sun-bleached hair and a notorious past. The locals called him a criminal a thieving smuggler but Abbey scorned their acc...

New York business woman and heiress Rose Mackenzie seems to have it all--looks, intelligence and wealth, but she is lonely. When Dan Masters swoops into town, he seems to be the missing piece to her life's puzzle, but even as she finds herself falling for the handsome stranger, she finds his strange knowledge of the details of her life unsettling.

December 31, 1889. As the sky over New York City explodes with fireworks on the eve of the new decade, an explosion in the streets causes social tremors that will rock the lives of three women who share a house on Twenty-Third Street: suffragette Columbine Nash, her assistant Bell Huxton, and Marguerite Corbeau, a young woman they ve adopted from the streets. Lovely noble Columbine, a woman ahead of her time, strives to correct the social ills...

Frank Eugene Lutz became an entomologist at a time when this science was still new. He was one of the first to set up experiments in the study of heredity using the common fruit fly. In his many field trips he observed unusual insects in their natural habitats and brought back thousands of valuable specimens. As curator of the Department of Entomology at the American Museum of Natural History, he was responsible for innovations in labeling and...

Magazine editor Hanna Coleman has just successfully pitched an article that will take her from the fashion pages to the front cover of the magazine. The catch? To write the article she'll have to share her boyfriend with her best friend, imperiling the best relationship she's ever had.

Daniel Cohen has vividly reconstructed the life and times of Henry Stanley, the discoverer of the Nile's source, using Stanley's original newspaper reports and writings.

An engrossing novel based on the true story of World War II British spy Valerie Sinclair who went behind enemy German lines masquerading as a French schoolgirl in order to secure the secrets of the first Atomic Bomb for the Allies.

An alternative theory of what took place aboard the Pueblo when it was seized by North Korean forces on January 23, 1968, implicating the NSA.