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Twelve shocking paintings. Eleven famous murders. One missing artist . . . and one woman driven to find her-this Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Selection is a "stunning achievement" (Los Angeles Times).Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women―the Black Dahlia, Chandra...

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Here in one volume is James Ellroy's first great body of work, an epic re-envisioning of postwar Los Angeles--etched in red and black and film-noir grays.The Black Dahlia depicts the secret infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger. The Dahlia claims him. She is the deus ex machina of a boomtown in extremis. The cop's rogue investigation is a one-way ticket to hell.The...

Who am I?' and 'Who are we?' are the existential, foundational questions in our lives. In our modern world, there is no construct more influential than 'identity' - whether as individuals or as groups. The concept of group identity is the focal point of a research group named "A Question of Identity" at the Mandel Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The papers collected in this vo...

Top-tier scholars offer critical engagements with Barth's exegesis and explore its implications for contemporary hermeneutics and biblical interpretation.

A bighearted novel about family, migration, and the unbearable difficulties of love. Here's a cast of characters you won't soon forget." Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie"Winslow's impressive debut novel introduces readers to both a flawed, fascinating character in fiction and a wonderful new voice in literature." Real Simple, Best Books of 2019 A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWinner of the Center for Fiction Firs...

A USA Today Hottest Book of the Summer for 2019!A Best Nonfiction Book for 2019 in Woman's Day!One of Hello Giggles's "Most Anticipated Books of 2019 to Add to Your Reading List"!"Just when I thought I knew everything about Tan, he hits me with this. His story is so heartwarming, and wickedly funny." -Antoni PorowskiIn this heartfelt, funny, and touching memoir, one of the stars of Netflix's Emmy Award-winning smash-hit Queer Eye reveals how a...

Appearing together in English for the first time, two masterpieces that take on the jazz age, the Nuremburg trials, postwar commercialism, and the feat of writing a book, presented in one brilliant volumeThe Death of My Brother Abel and its delirious sequel, Cain, constitute the magnum opus of Gregor von Rezzori's prodigious career, the most ambitious, extravagant, outrageous, and deeply considered achievement of this wildly original and never...

The ultimate truffle true crime tale"*: A thrilling journey through the hidden underworld of the world's most prized luxury ingredient.*Bianca Bosker, New York Times bestselling author of Cork Dork Beneath the gloss of star chefs and crystal-laden tables, the truffle supply chain is touched by theft, secrecy, sabotage, and fraud. Farmers patrol their fields with rifles and fear losing trade secrets to spies. Hunters plant poisoned meatballs to...

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Originally published in hardcover by Dennis McMillan Publications, December 1996"--Title page verso.

Una novela de suspense psicológico con un gran gancho narrativo, ¿Estás dormida? cautivará a los fans de Making a Murderer y atraerá a los lectores que buscan protagonistas femeninas fuertes. Las voces narradoras son las de la protagonista y la de la periodista que, sin que nadie se lo haya pedido, lleva nueva luz al brutal homicidio de su padre. El debut de Kathleen es una historia sobre pérdidas, sobre lazos y secretos familiares y sobre la ...

For more than four decades, George F. Will has attempted to discern the principles of the Western political tradition and apply them to America's civic life. Today, the stakes could hardly be higher. Vital questions about the nature of man, of rights, of equality, of majority rule are bubbling just beneath the surface of daily events in America. The Founders' vision, articulated first in the Declaration of Independence and carried out in the C...

Interest in Sabermetrics has increased dramatically in recent years as the need to better compare baseball players has intensified among managers, agents and fans, and even other players. The authors explain how traditional measures along with new statistics define the value of players. Actual player statistics are used in developing models, while examples and exercises are provided.

Trade paperback. The experiences of a boy called Daniel who has undergone complex medical procedures across his life - giving him an appreciation of life's fragility that has motivated altruistic and entrepreneurial acts - are explored in this inspiring biography.

En Savannah, ciudad sureña de hermosos edificios construidos en el periodo anterior a la guerra civil estadounidense, en la que abundan los parques pintorescos y las calles de adoquines, la vida transcurre sin ningún contratiempo. Pero para la reportera de sucesos Harper McCain, la belleza intemporal y los monumentos que adornan el patrimonio de su ciudad natal desaparecen cuando llega la noche, con su oscuridad y sus peligros. Pero no podría ...

La esperada continuación de la serie policiaca ambientada en La Habana de Vladimir Hernández, el nuevo maestro de totalitarismo noir. ¿Qué tienen en común un sicario, un funcionario corporativo y un agente infiltrado muerto por sobredosis de éxtasis? El nexo podría ser un poderoso estupefaciente emparentado con el MDMA llamado Skyline, que amenaza por extenderse por La Habana. En la Cuba de los cambios pospuestos y la contrarreforma estatal, E...

Comprehensive coverage of the 2017 county season Detailed register of all current first-class county players and umpires County records and 2017 first-class averages Current county players' first-class and List-A limited-overs career records Test match scorecards (February 2017 - February 2018) Women's international records, plus England players' register Register of probable Pakistan and India touring teams and series records 2018 fixtures, i...

The first three installments of the Redstone Junior High graphic novel seriesare packaged together for the first time in this bind up. Contains "ZombiesAte My Homework, Creepers Crashed My Party, " and "Dragons Never Die." 6x 9.

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