Eight Modern Essayists

Reference

William, Smart

Words, Language & Grammar

The Europeans who conquered the Americas and their descendants were not the first to map the hemisphere, museum curator Mark Warhus writes in this fascinating, richly illustrated study of Native American cartography. Indian maps--made on buffalo skins, rocks, bark, and, later, paper--claimed territorial rights, explained treaties among nations, delineated trade routes, and showed the locations of resources. Many of those maps wound up in dusty attics and the back shelves of museums, where Warhus has hunted them out; his stories of finding these lost treasures are as illuminating as his interpretations of what might be called pre-scientific ways of graphically describing the land. These maps, he writes, are of importance today not only for their own sake, but also as evidence of historic holdings in current claims over lost territories.

Another America: Native American Maps and the History of Our Land

History

Warhus, Mark

Americas

'When archeologist Howard Carter shined his flashlight through a hole in the door of Tutankhamun's tomb, this was the amazing sight that met his eyes.' This is a wonderfully illustrated history of the discovery of the tomb, the treasures that lay within and the story of Tutankhamun's life. Including a montage of illustrations: reconstruction drawings, photographs of Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon and their workmen, and of the treasures now housed in various museums. A great book for a younger audience.

Tutankhamun: The Life and Death of a Pharaoh

El Mahdy, Christine

Ancient Civilizations

The story of Henry VIII and his six wives is a well-known example of the caprice and violence that dominated that KingÆs reign. Now renowned historian Derek Wilson examines a set of relationships that more vividly illustrate just how dangerous life was in the court of the Tudor lion. He tells the interlocking stories of six menùall curiously enough named Thomasùwhose ambitions and principles brought them face to face with violent death, as recorded in a simple mnemonic: "Died, beheaded, beheaded, Self-slaughtered, burned, survived."

In the Lion's Court: Power, Ambition and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII

Wilson, Robert A.

Europe

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"A blockbuster." --"The Globe "on "Depraved" 
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"A shocking expose of clergymen who kill." --"National Examiner" on "For I Have Sinned" 
"Fascinating reading." --"Arizona Republic" on "Evil Twins"\nFrom the Inside Flap\nPraise for author John Glatt: 
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"[Glatt] certainly comes through with the goods."--"Library Journal"\nFrom the Back Cover\nA MARRIAGE: DESTROYED 
They were a picture-perfect family--until a bitter divorce drove Darren Mack over the edge. A Reno millionaire, Mack was ordered by the court to pay his wife $10,000 a month in alimony. Instead, he stabbed her in the garage while their daughter watched TV upstairs. 
A JUDGE: TARGETED 
The only person Mack hated more than his wife was the family court judge who presided over their divorce. So, after killing his wife, he loaded his gun and went after the judge... and headed for Mexico with a stash of concealed weapons. 
A KILLER: WANTED 
So began an international manhunt for a rage-filled fugitive--featured on "America's Most Wanted"--that eventually ended in Mack's capture. In a dramatic trial, the public would learn shocking details of the swinging lifestyle that ended his marriage, the ugly divorce that fueled his anger, and the final straw that triggered his bloody spree. 
"John Glatt is one of the finest true crime craftsmen writing today." 
--Howard Goldberg, VH1.com 
With 8 pages of chilling photos

LOVE HER TO DEATH

Biographies & Memoirs

GLATT, John

True Crime

Joseph Duncan had been convicted of raping and torturing a 14-year-old boy in Tacoma, Washington. On the Internet he proudly boasted of his perversions. But the system turned Duncan loose, and no one would stop him from committing an even more horrifying act...

STOLEN IN THE NIGHT

King, Gary C.

Chris Paciello seemed to have it all. With heartthrob good looks and an A-list roster of clients and friends, he was a South Beach businessman/playboy whose local fame was reaching new heights until his "wise guy" past came crashing down upon him.When some of Chris's former 'fellas were arrested, they ratted him out to the government. One case in particular a botched robbery that turned deadly was a time bomb that would blow the cushy new world Chris created for himself to bits and propel him straight back to New York City to face justice."

A MOB STORY

McPhee, Michele R.

In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, Robert Bierenbaum, a prominent surgeon and certified genius, strangled his wife Gail to death. He then drove her body to an airstrip in Caldwell, N.J., and dumped it into the Atlantic Ocean from a single-engine private plane. The next day he reported her missing.

THE SURGEON'S WIFE

Crowley, Kieran

One day, two-year-old Renee Goode was playing happily with her sisters and cousin, as the four of them enjoyed an impromptu slumber party at the home of her father, Shane Goode. The next day she was dead. The local medical examiner could not determine the cause of Renee's death, but her mother, Annette, and grandmother, Sharon, were convinced she'd been murdered. And, they knew the identity of Renee's killer: her father, Shane Goode, a manipulative, emotionally abusive man who displayed virtually no interest in Renee until he took out a $50,000 insurance policy on her life. With the help of a female police investigator and an Assistant D.A., Sharon launched a case against Shane and had Renee's coffin exhumed from its final resting place. Her corpse revealed what her grandmother had suspected all along: Shane Goode had murdered his own daughter to cash in on her death.

TO THE LAST BREATH

Stowers, Carlton

DEATH CRUISE

Davis, Don

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