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  • The Secret Six

    The Rise and Fall of Chicago's Greatest Vigilantes

    by Kevin E. Meredith ...
    In winter 1930, an unprecedented force for good emerged from the chaos of crime-ridden Chicago: The Secret Six. Supported by the Windy City's richest and most powerful businesspeople, the vigilantes took on extortionists, bombers, bank robbers, kidnappers, and eventually Al Capone himself. Using the latest crime-fighting technologies of the era, the Secret Six caught dirty cops, won convictions in ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Under Penalty of Death

    The Untold Story of Machine Gun Kelly's First Kidnapping

    by Kevin E. Meredith, David W. Hendry Jr. ...
    An FBI cover-up spanning nearly a century. A victim and his family sworn to secrecy. Machine Gun Kelly's first kidnapping, a crime that changed America before it was swept under the rug of history.Under Penalty of Death: The Untold Story of Machine Gun Kelly's First Kidnapping brings to light for the first time the long-forgotten (and twice covered up) tale of the 1930s kidnapping that saved ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Theatre History Studies 2015, Vol. 34

    by Alan Sikes, Andrew Gibb, Nicole Berkin, Megan E. Geigner, Heidi L. Nees, Sharon Marie Carnicke, Jonathan Chambers, Miriam Chirico, Jerry Dickey, Julia Fawcett, Iris Fischer, Brett D. Johnson, Emeline Jouve, Valerie Joyce, Keith Byron Kirk, Jenna L. Kubly, Martha S. LoMonaco, Scott Magelssen, Theresa J. May, Lance Mekeel, Beliza Torres Narváez, Tavia Nyong'o, Alexis Riley, Kristen Rogers, Cindy Rosenthal, Judith Sebesta, Meredith Conti, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., Teresa Stankiewicz, Harvey Young Jr. ...
    Series Book 34 - Theatre History Studies
    Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography.The five essays are arranged chronologically, starting with Alan Sikes’s discussion of the Abydos Passion Play. Sikes challenges the long-held interpretation of that ritualized ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Theatre and the Macabre

    Edited by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Meredith Conti ...
    Series series Horror Studies
    The ‘macabre’, as a process and product, has been haunting the theatre – and more broadly, performance – for thousands of years. In its embodied meditations on death and dying, its thematic and aesthetic grotesquerie, and its sensory-rich environments, macabre theatre invites artists and audiences to trace the stranger, darker contours of human existence. In this volume, numerous scholars explore ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Fortunes of Africa

    A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor

    by Martin Meredith ...
    Narrated by Kevin Stillwell ...

    Unabridged

    26 hours 36 min

    A "gripping" (Booklist) and "richly detailed" (Kirkus Reviews) history of the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people.Africa has been coveted for its rich natural resources ever since the era of the Pharaohs. In past centuries, it was the lure of gold, ivory, and slaves that drew ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Our Boston

    Writers Celebrate the City They Love

    by Andrew Blauner, Kevin Cullen, Mike Barnicle, E. M. Swift, Charles McGrath, Madeleine Blais, George Howe Colt, Susan Orlean, David M. Shribman, Joan Wickersham0, David Michaelis1, Katherine A. Powers2, Jabari Asim3, Lesley Visser4, Hugh Delehanty5, George Plimpton6, Leslie Epstein7, Bud Collins8, Nell Scovell9, Israel Horovitz0, Shira Springer1, Dennis Lehane2, Susan Sheehan3, James Atlas4, Leigh Montville5, Tova Mirvis6, Pagan Kennedy7, Scott Stossel8, Robert Pinsky9, Bill Littlefield0, Carlo Rotella1, Neil Swidey2, Jessica Shattuck3, John Updike4, Pico Iyer5, Sally Taylor6, André Aciman0 ...
    Narrated by various narrators7, Peter Berkrot8, Johnny Heller9, Malcolm Hillgartner0, Jim Meskimen1, Joe Barrett2, Bernadette Dunne3, Bronson Pinchot4, Carrington MacDuffie5, Susan Boyce6, Kevin Kenerly7, Meredith Mitchell8, Ralph Lister9 ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 57 min

    What defines Boston? Its history? Its landmarks? Its sports teams and shrines?Perhaps the question should be, who defines Boston? From Henry David Thoreau to Dennis Lehane, Boston has been beloved by many of America's greatest writers, and there is no better group of men and women to capture the heart and soul of the Hub. In Our Boston, editor Andrew Blauner has collected both original and ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Photo Op

    52 Weekly Ideas for Creative Image-Making

    Edited by Kevin Meredith ...
    Photo Op is a photo projects book with a difference. Featuring 52 inspirational ideas, backed up by jargon-free practical guidance, it is packed with cliche-busting images from some of the best, brightest, hottest photographers working in the Flickr community - many of whom already have a cult following. This book offers a weekly dose of creative inspiration for photographers and images-makers of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    Genius of Being, The

    Contemplating the Profound Intelligence of Existence

    by Peter Ralston ...
    Narrated by Toby Sheets ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 7 min

    Peter Ralston’s exceptionally lucid trilogy on the nature of human consciousness culminates here. In The Genius of Being Peter Ralston presents an audiobook of deep contemplations on the unseen elements that create our world. The first volume, The Book of Not Knowing, garnered much praise as a comprehensive exploration of the depths of self and consciousness. The second volume, Pursuing ... Read more

    $32.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Chasing History

    A Kid in the Newsroom

    by Carl Bernstein ...
    The New York Times BestsellerIn this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the President’s Men and pioneer of investigative journalism, recalls his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation’s capital—a winning tale of scrapes, gumshoeing, and American bedlam.In 1960, Bernstein was just a sixteen-year-old at considerable risk of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Convicting the Innocent

    Death Row and America's Broken System of Justice

    by Stanley Cohen ...
    A landmark in the fight against the death penalty. Extensively researched and brilliantly written . . . The Wrong Men is a gem.” Martin Garbus, criminal defense attorneyEvery day, innocent men across America are thrown into prison, betrayed by a faulty justice system, and robbed of their lives-either by decades-long sentences or the death penalty itself. Injustice tarnishes our legal process from ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Alcatraz

    The Gangster Years

    by David A. Ward ...
    Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Alvin Karpis, "Dock" Barker—these were just a few of the legendary "public enemies" for whom America's first supermax prison was created. In Alcatraz: The Gangster Years, David Ward brings their stories to life, along with vivid accounts of the lives of other infamous criminals who passed through the penitentiary from 1934 to 1948. Ward, who enjoyed ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Did They Really Do It?

    From Lizzie Borden to the 20th Hijacker

    by Fred Rosen ...
    Nine of the most controversial violent crimes in America's history are reexamined in these compelling stories of true crimeDr. Samuel Mudd set John Wilkes Booth's broken ankle, but was he actually part of the larger conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln? Did Lizzie Borden brutally murder her own parents in Massachusetts? Was admitted jihadist Zacarias Moussaoui really involved in the ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus