“No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence ofhope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strangethan Paul Collins.”—DAVE EGGERS On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood.On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover afloating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickersnear Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrownditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over NewYork, but the police are baffled: There are no witnesses, nomotives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897,plunged detectives headlong into the era’s most baffling murder mystery. Seized uponby battling media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William RandolphHearst, the case became a publicity circus. Reenactments of themurder were staged in Times Square, armed reporters lurked in thestreets of Hell’s Kitchen in pursuit of suspects, and an unlikelytrio—a hard-luck cop, a cub reporter, and an eccentri

Miss Julia—tat beloved steel magmnolia of a certain age—has been doing just fine for herself in thd years since her philandering husband passed away. But could her single days be numbered? In Miss Julia Metts Her Match, Julia's longtime beau. asm Murdoch, wants to tie the knot. And while it's hard to resist Sam's heratracing charm, Miss julia isn't baout to give up her indepentence so easily. At the moment there are many other matters that require her attention, such as the plans of mysterious ,drifter Dwayne Dooley to build the Walk Where Jesus Walked Christian theme park-a re-creation of the Holy Land complete with actors, sound effects,and trailer hookups-on her property. Meanwhile, the whole town is buzzing with rumors. The preacher's secretary was spotted leaving a sleazy motes with the mayor's car parked nearby. The preacher's wife, alays sternly opposed to any 'artificaial adornment," is suddenly sporting a complete cosmetic and fashion makeoves. And then there's Mildred Allen's son, Tony, who

Now in paperback, this compelling saga reveals - throughletters, diaries, news articles, prose, and poetry - how women madeenormous contributions to every era in American history, from thefirst Native American women in the 1600s to the women suffragistswho won the vote in 1920. Donna Lucey takes readers on a tourthrough American history through the eyes of its women. Gorgeousphotographs and paintings accompany the stories, diary excerpts,letters, newspaper articles, and first person accounts that tellAmerican history in this unique way. The book covers the years1600, when only Native American women populated America, to 1920,when women won the vote. Seven thematic chapters comprise acomprehensive timeline of American history: Native American Women,Colonial Women, Women Enslaved, Plantation Mistresses, WesteringWomen, Women of the Gilded Age, and Women of the 20th Century. Eachchapter addresses women in war, the arts, politics, social reform,philanthropy, and suffrage - telling simultaneously the story ofthat

From an award-winning New York Times investigative reportercomes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, andconspiracy—which left the FBI and Justice Department counting onthe cooperation of one man . . . It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: a senior executive withAmerica's most politically powerful corporation, Archer DanielsMidland, had become a confidential government witness, secretlyrecording a vast criminal conspiracy spanning five continents. MarkWhitacre, the promising golden boy of ADM, had put his career andfamily at risk to wear a wire and deceive his friends andcolleagues. Using Whitacre and a small team of agents to tap intothe secrets at ADM, the FBI discovered the company's scheme tosteal millions of dollars from its own customers. But as the FBI and federal prosecutors closed in on ADM, usingstakeouts, wiretaps, and secret recordings of illegal meetingsaround the world, they suddenly found that everything was not allthat it appeared. At the same time Whitacre was coo

Set in the remote arctic region of Northern Canada, this booktakes readers on a harrowing canoe voyage that results in tragedy,redemption, and, ultimately, transformation. George Grinnell wasone of six young men who set off on the 1955 expedition led byexperienced wilderness canoeist Art Moffatt. Poorly planned andexecuted, the journey seemed doomed from the start. Ignoring theapproaching winter, the men became entranced with the peace andbeauty of the arctic in autumn. As winter closed in, they suddenlyfaced numbing cold and dwindling food. When the crew is swept overa waterfall, Moffatt is killed and most of the gear and emergencyfood supplies destroyed. Confronting freezing conditions and nearstarvation, the remaining crew struggled to make it back tocivilization. For Grinnell, the three-month expedition was both arite of passage and a spiritual odyssey. In the Barrens, he losthis sense of identity and what he had been conditioned to thinkabout society and himself. Forever changed by the experience,