From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott committed at least 20 murders on a chicken ranch outside of Los Angeles. His nephew, Sanford Clark, was held captive there from the age of 13 to 15, and was the sole surviving victim of the killing spree. Here, acclaimed crime writer Anthony Flacco--using [...]

In the early 1920s, a group of artists and architects, influenced by some of the ideas of Dada, formed a movement called De Stijl. "The Story of De Stijl "presents work by Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Gerrit Rietveld, and the other members of this influential modern art group, as well as archiv[...]

#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Big Short and The Blind Side, Michael Lewis's masterful collection of articles and essays on the world's most recent financial panics is now available from Simon & Schuster Audio for only $14.99. When it comes to markets, the first deadly sin is greed. In [...]

Drawing on new documents and interviews with more than 400 sources, award-winning reporter Michael Grunwald reveals the vivid story behind one of the most important and least understood laws in U.S. history, President Obama's $800 billion stimulus. Grunwald's "New York Times" bestseller shows how th[...]

"Family? Secrets? Sometimes I think they are the same thing." So writes Michael Hainey in this unforgettable story of a son's search to discover the decades-old truth about his father's mysterious death. Hainey was a boy of six when his father, a bright and shining star in the glamorous, hard-living[...]

A superb book. . . . Lewis] makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar s Poker. Time In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world s most important technology entrepreneur[...]

"Designed to be unsinkable" according to Shipbuilder magazine, the Titanic pushed back boundaries of technological achievement in the golden age of ocean- going travel.This narrative history drawn from the largest photo archive in the world tells and shows in many never before seen photographs, the [...]

"Friday Night Lights "meets "Glee"--the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town.
Why would the multimillionaire producer of "Cats," "The ""Phantom of the Opera," and "Miss Saigon "take his limo from Manha[...]

By July of 1944, the Third Reich's days were numbered. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, a general staff insider with open eyes (and access to the Fuhrer), was convinced that assassinating Hitler was the only way to prevent the destruction of the Fatherland and the deaths of millions. On July 20, he h[...]

How on Earth did we fix upon our twenty-six letters, what do they really mean, and how did we come to write them down in the first place? Michael Rosen takes you on an unforgettable adventure through the history of the alphabet in twenty-six vivid chapters, fizzing with personal anecdotes and fascin[...]

During a walk to Elvedon House, palatial home of the Tythertons, Sir John Appleby and Chief Constable Colonel Pride are stunned to find a police van and two cars parked outside. Wealthy Maurice Tytherton has been found shot dead, and Appleby is faced with a number of suspects - Alice Tytherton, flir[...]