Rome loses a magnificent altarpiece, Paris a great painting, and London its newest museum acquisition. Three apparently unrelated art thefts have more in common than anyone imagines, as...
A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic, 1910-13
Richard Farr
In 1909, every continent had been thoroughly explored . . . except one. That September, Captain Robert F. Scott announced a new scientific expedition that would put Antarctica firmly on the map at last...
Eadie Boone, an artist and former beauty queen, tackles everything with gusto and flair. But tailing her wayward husband is proving to be an exasperating chore.
What starts as a pleasant summer on Cape Cod for Doc and Mary Adams turns suddenly chilling. When a house guest is murdered in his bed-with the very pills that control his epilepsy-their son Jack is...
That's what Annabelle discovers on her first day in her brand-new life. Birchwood Middle School is totally different from her old all-girls elementary. In fact, lots of things in Annabelle's life are...
This book is the closest thing to an autobiography of Steve Martin that his millions of fans could find. It is the story of the wild and crazy years that the author spent growing up with Martin and...
Martha “Marty” Nickerson, a Cape Cod district attorney turned defense lawyer, must defend a man who shot his son’s presumed killer — on live television. The only possible defense is insanity, but the...
This is a fresh, compulsively readable narrative of the elusive element behind so many innovative breakthroughs, in fields ranging from physics and marketing to design and popular culture.
