Suddenly, their race against time becomes a race through time as Peter and Evangeline track the stories of New Yorkers whose lives have been changed by the bonds... and all the while they'll unravel the thrilling and inspiring origins of ...
“However long I'm in here, you must wait. An extra shilling if you do.” “Don't worry, I'll be waiting.” She hesitated a moment, then stepped inside. Rudolf pulled the door closed behind her. There was a small lantern flickering in one ...
Invited by a Wall Street bigwig to participate in a financial treasure hunt that promises to rescue America's economy, Peter Fallon begins a race against time to find a box of valuable 18th-century bonds, a search that pits him against such ...
In the tradition of Edward Rutherford, an epic tale that interweaves the fate of two pioneering families with the birth of Manhattan, a new nation’s city of dreams ... In...
City of Dreams is the long-overdue, inspiring, and defining account of New York’s immigrants, both famous and forgotten: the young man from the Caribbean who relocated to New York and became a founding father; Russian-born Emma Goldman, ...
To what ends and to whose benefit, Podair asks? Hard questions, indeed, that other American cities with subsidized stadiums are asking too."--Kevin Starr, University of Southern California "There's a real need for this book.
In the title story, a Kathmandu native wanders the streets of his hometown and encounters a deep secret.
A lushly drawn graphic novel detailing the willing submission of a young woman desperate to be dominated by her Prince Charming.
In 1661 a brother and sister staggered off a small wooden ship after eleven perilous weeks at sea to seek a new life in the Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam....
Thus the age of corporate Hollywood arrived at Universal Pictures earlier than at other studios.
In her autobiography, The Lonely Life (New York: Lancer/Putnam's, 1966), 94, Davis attributes a widely quoted remark to Carl ... Mark Gatiss, James Whale: A Biography; or The Would-Be Gentleman (London: Cassell, 1995), is also useful, ...
City of Dreams: Social Theory and the Urban Experience
She learns the City of Dreams is also the City of Spies, and she must somehow survive them all and find a List and a treasure hidden by Nazis half a century ago.
New York Times Bestseller Following the epic, ambitious, instant New York Times bestseller City on Fire, “The Godfather for our generation” (Adrian McKinty), comes the dramatic second novel in an epic crime trilogy from Don Winslow, #1 ...
For the first time, City of Dreams tells the full story of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium—and how it helped create modern Los Angeles by transforming its downtown into a vibrant cultural and entertainment center.