The water below them is alive with choppy white waves and sailboats making good progress as a result of the steady breeze. Then it's across Staten Island toward the Goethals Bridge and the turnpike. The industrial parks of northern New ...
This story was inspired by the conflict of an actual family in order to assist those who are struggling with the ultimate reality of what to do if.
Last Call: Selections from the Best of "Down to Cases"
Imagine Chaucer with a twang. Last Call is bloody brilliant and wickedly witty. As Sam Hamill says, “If we were a civilized nation, we would declare David Lee a national treasure.”
Turning to leave, she sights a cascade of vibrant silk sheaths—red, green, purple, blue. She fingers the rich fabric: perfect. Lifting one in forest green, she takes it to the mirror, holding the hanger under herchin.
... Joe Machuga, Tim McNamara, Steve and Tammie Malk, Dennis Meyer, Phil Pace, Richard Powers, Serena Powers, Randal Robb, Betty Schlossberg, Ed Silberstang, Carlton Smith, Ed and Pat Thomas, and Marv and Carol and Rex Torrez.
Set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas, Last Call tells the story of a one-eyed professional gambler who discovers that he was not the big winner in a long-ago poker game . . . and now must play for the highest stakes ...
I think they have both the bus on which Rosa Parks made her stand for justice and the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. Not every museum can make that claim. Greenfield Village was supposed to recreate what a real village would have been like ...
n An AtteMPt to memorize poetry,” irving Fisher wrote in 1926, “Professor Vogt of the university of Christiania found that on days when he drank one and one-half to three glasses of beer it took him 18 per cent longer to learn the lines ...
"From the James Beard Award-winning author of Bitters and Amaro comes this poignant, funny, and often elegiac exploration of the question, What is the last thing you'd want to drink before you die?, with bartender profiles, portraits, and ...
Soon afterward she decided to accept Mrs. Devine's invitation to join the local PTA and take part in their many activities. They were, as Danny put it, “mom hobbies,” which included baking, fundraising, and book clubs.
A kid from Miami's meanest streets, Theo Knight lost his mother to a violent crime.
"In this work of nonfiction, Elon Green reports on a series of baffling and brutal crimes.
When it comes to overcoming alcoholism and alcohol dependence, the hardest part is understanding why. Maybe we've heard the personal drug stories, maybe we've read the personal memoirs, but have we lived them?
Once Rose Fisher makes a decision, that's it.
"This is the highest kind of achievement of which fiction is capable. . . . Ranks with the finest European fiction of recent years."—The Christian Science MonitorUli Bouwmeester is a...
Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent’s rank as a major American writer.
The young man was a hit with the old men, of whom he was so enamored. What they didn't know was that a week earlier, he had been in Minneapolis, where he'd beaten two men to death. Then he'd driven to Chicago and killed a real estate ...
It's New Year's Day and Jude Dillane discovers the body of a man with a knife through his heart. The New Year's Eve Serial Killer has struck again. Jude risks her life to find the killer before he can strike again.
New clothes, fake ID, cash, car, gun—it was all supposed to be waiting for me at the 7-Eleven on Eighth Street when I busted out. That was the deal. I show up exactly on time, but it ain't there. I got screwed, bro'!