Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold (Illustrated Edition)
by Horace Bleackley
Murderers In California (Murderers Everywhere, #2)
by Brenda Brown, True Crime Seven, and Ryan Becker
Novelas PolicĂacas (Antologia de Novelas Policiacas, #1)
by Jack Rosewood
Australian Birds (Pocket Naturalist Guide)
by James Kavanagh and Waterford Press
Australia and its surrounding islands and territories have more than 850 recorded species, of which more than 45% are found nowhere else on earth. Australian Birds features more than 100 of the country's most familiar birds, along with a map to the natural vegetation zones and a list of important bird viewing sites. It is the ideal pocket-sized reference guide for bird lovers of all skill levels. Laminated for durability, this lightweight, pocket-sized folding guide is an excellent source of p...
Operation Mincemeat (Center Point Platinum Nonfiction) (IX.Hors Collect)
by Ben MacIntyre
One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest. It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs, sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction, and saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different, in o...
The remarkable collection of stories that make up Dubliners was described by Joyce himself as a series of chapters in the moral history of his community and the arrangement of the tales reveals "a progression from childhood to maturity, broadening from private to public scope," as Harry Levin noted in his introduction to The Portable James Joyce. In fact, it is the scope of life that Joyce has limned in these stories - ranging from the opening tale, "The Sisters," in which the boy is confronted...