Books from St. Martin's Press

  • The Bitch Posse: A Novel
    By Martha O'Connor

    My mind works over the grade, gnawing at it, trying to digest it, understand it, figure out how I'll align it with the real Rennie Taylor, ... R. “R.” Rob. The bell rings, and all around me people stuff their tests into their binders.

  • Ghost: My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent
    By Michael R. McGowan, Ralph Pezzullo

    “Bob.” “What department does Doug Kinzer work for?” “FBI—Squad C-3.” I answered all his questions correctly. Finally, he mentioned the name of a good friend of mine, a State Police undercover named Pete Davidson. “Sure, I know Davidson.

  • The Garden House: A Novel
    By Marcia Willett

    As they are approaching their designated level the London controller calls them again. 'Silver Star Two Fifty. What's your heading, please?' 'Two seven five degrees, Silver Star Two Fifty.' 'Roger. Maintain two seven five degrees, ...

  • Dear Mrs. Kennedy: The World Shares Its Grief, Letters November 1963
    By Jay Mulvaney, Paul De Angelis

    ... Frances T. Gates; Sherry P. Geyelin; Graham Gilmer Jr.; Billy Graham Evangelistic Association; Michael H—; Marni R. (Politte) Harmony; Helen F. Harris; Office of the President, Harvard University; Marian S. Heiskell; Brenda Heizer; ...

  • Liberty from All Masters: The New American Autocracy vs. the Will of the People
    By Barry C. Lynn

    ... their protection, a condition which if permitted to continue, will render impossible all attempts to restore normal competitive conditions in the industrial world” (Brandeis, Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It, 49).

  • Renewable: The World-Changing Power of Alternative Energy
    By Jeremy Shere

    Team- ing up with fellow Bell researchers Gerald Pearson and Calvin Fuller, Chapin began experimenting with crude, electricity- producing solar cells. They didn't invent the concept; solar cells made from a chemical called selenium had ...

  • While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today
    By Donald Kagan, Frederick W. Kagan

    In While England Slept Winston Churchill revealed in 1938 how the inadequacy of Britain's military forces to cope with worldwide responsibilities in a peaceful but tense era crippled its ability to deter or even adequately prepare for World ...

  • The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created "Alice in Wonderland"
    By Jenny Woolf

    James Paget, Clinical Lectures (Longman, London: 1875), p 285. Dorothy furniss,'new Lewis Carroll letters', Pearson's Magazine, December 1930. 31. Ibid. 32. 33. Diary, 28 August 1875. Dr Hart kindly gave 308 THe MySTeRy of LeWIS CARRoLL.

  • Friends in High Places: The Rise and Fall of Clark Clifford
    By Douglas Frantz, David McKean

    Before going to New York , Clifford met with his friend Phil Graham , the publisher of the Washington Post , where Pearson's column appeared . Clifford tried to persuade Graham to get Pearson to retract the allegation in a forthcoming ...

  • Fallen Women: A Novel
    By Sandra Dallas

    The madam, Mae Nicholson, riding on her horse Gold and Silver, led the July Fourth parade. When I lived in Breckenridge in the 1960s, our neighbor was one ofMae's former girls, a wiry, white—haired woman who fished early in the morning ...

  • Breaking the Rules: A Novel of the Harte Family
    By Barbara Taylor Bradford

    “Do you wish to speak to Mr. Edward Vaughan? Or Sir Nicholas, perhaps?” “No, no, but thank you. Would you have any idea what time Mr. Vaughan checked out this morning?” “It was yesterday, actually, Miss Marsden. Mr. Vaughan checked out ...

  • Hell Above Earth: The Incredible True Story of an American WWII Bomber Commander and the Copilot Ordered to Kill Him
    By Stephen Frater

    Bonsor, N. R. P. North Atlantic Seaway, vol. 1. Devon, UK: David & Charles, 1975. Bowden, Ray. ... Boyne, Walter J. Beyond the Wild Blue: A History of the United States Air Force 1947—1997. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

  • Unsettled: How the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Failed the Victims of the American Overdose Crisis
    By Ryan Hampton

    claims filed by complicity of kickbacks to Insys Therapeutics International Associated Companies (IACs) intersectionality Ives, Stephen Jesus Jick, Hershel Johnson, Kim Johnson & Johnson Jones Day Joseph, Gregory Joseph Hage Aaronson ...

  • Bread Is the Devil: Win the Weight Loss Battle by Taking Control of Your Diet Demons
    By Kathy Matthews, RD, Heather Bauer

    ... (2 tbsp): 190 calories Barney Butter 100-calorie packet Emerald or Blue Diamond 100-calorie bags of raw almonds Mini Babybel Light cheese (1 round): 50 calories Laughing Cow cheese (does not need refrigeration): 35 calories Mini.

  • Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs: The Making of a Surgeon
    By Dr. Michael J. Collins

    It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay.

  • Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
    By Dr. Michael J. Collins

    Unflinching and deeply engaging, Hot Lights, Cold Steel is a humane and passionate reminder that doctors are people too. This is a gripping memoir, at times devastating, others triumphant, but always compulsively readable.

  • True Sisters: A Novel
    By Sandra Dallas

    Iam Thomas Savage.” Jessie glanced at him sharply. “I have a relative, Rebecca Savage. Are you—” “Her husband. So that's who you are! I've been hoping to find you. We are cousins of a sort,” Thomas said. “She is so anxious to see you ...

  • Blue Light: A Novel
    By Walter Mosley

    When several people are struck by a blue light, they evolve into a superhuman race who try to spread their message of evolution and higher purpose to the rest of the world, in a speculative novel about the ultimate purpose of the human race ...

  • Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists
    By Anthony M. Amore, Tom Mashberg

    Thoren, Carlson, and Aquafresca, meanwhile, arrived at the campus of Worcester Polytechnical, transferred their plunder to the second car, and abandoned the stolen Olds. Next up was a meeting with the mastermind, Al Monday.

  • Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell
    By Tom Clavin

    On May 13, a deputy sheriff, John Worley, arrested Williamson for rustling. Whether or not the accusation had merit, enough people thought it did and were furious enough about it that while Williamson was being taken to jail, ...