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INCLUDES AN INTRODUCTION WRITTEN AND READ BY MARTIN SCORSESE! Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and...

Was he New York City’s last pirate . . . or its first gangster? This is the true story of the bloodthirsty underworld legend who conquered Manhattan, dock by dock—for fans of Gangs of New York and Boardwalk Empire. “History at its best . . . I highly recommend this remarkable book...

Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimes–as many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulag–has given him the lasting distinction as a personification of evil in the twentieth century...

Each day’s reading reveals how the powerful tool of mindfulness can help you to become more grounded, energized, motivated, and satisfied with your life. You’ll discover in these pages how to be attentive and open to the present while calmly acknowledging and accepting your thoughts, feelings, and sensations.

Healani was born into a world where she doesn't fit in; a world full of wolves, yet she is not one. The Moon Goddess has never gifted her with a wolf form, and she wishes to do nothing but escape the feeling of inferiority. While away at college in her new, human life, mysterious deaths begin to happen, forcing her back to the home that never felt like it should. Only, Healani will find that she is so much more than any human or wolf. She was a specially made being, and she has a mate out there who has been waiting a long time for her.

A stunningly imaginative novel about the Cold War, the Russian space program, and the amazing fraud that pulled the wool over the eyes of the world. It's 1964 in the USSR, and unbeknownst even to Premier Khrushchev himself, the Soviet space program is a sham. Well, half a sham. While the program...

Remember the '90s? I do. As a teenager in the small town of Vernal, I remember the parties and the dances and the drugs and the truancy and the evasion of authority figures. What incredible fun. I remember something else as well. I remember something the rest of that town does not. I’m not saying they’ve forgotten. I’m saying they never formed the memories in the first place. I’m talking about three days in this hick town in the American West which have been lost to history.

In this instant New York Times bestseller and “multigenerational narrative that’s nothing short of brilliant” (People), two sisters’ lives from the 1950s to the present are explored as they struggle to find their places—and be true to themselves—in a rapidly evolving world from #1...

Bill Sherrill's thoughtful memoir shares his path from Depression-era dropout to the highest echelons of LBJ's administration and international business. It details his combat experience on Iwo Jima, the inner-workings of the Federal Reserve Board, the development of Galveston Island's first recreational communities, and the founding of the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Houston's C. T. Bauer College of Business. It Makes Me Wonder provides inspiration for those who want to improve their own lives, as well as those who want to help others find success.

The Replaceable Founder explores the dynamics of the entrepreneurship world and explains how founders can capitalize on emerging trends to optimize, automate, outsource, and create truly sustainable businesses.

"An alternately charming and horrifying exploration of what it means to be human and how far we'll go in pursuit of personal and societal 'perfection.' I devoured this book." --Kiersten White, New York Times bestselling author of And I Darken For fans of television shows Black Mirror and...

Daduschu wächst bei dem Getreidehändler Shindurrul, einem Freund seines Vaters, auf, nachdem er seine Eltern bei einem Nomadenüberfall verlor. Und Shindurrul schmiedet einen gewagten Plan: er will, dass Daduschu mit zwei Handelsschiffen ans Ende der Welt segelt. Dazu kommt noch eine ganz besondere Aufgabe für den jungen Mann. Der babylonische König Hammurabi möchte, dass er herausfinden, ob andernorts neue und bessere Kanäle gebaut werden können, denn der Boden Babylons versalzt allmählich.

Deutschlands beliebteste Quiz-Show steht vor der Tür. Und dieses Jahr findet sie nirgendwo anders als in der Heimatstadt von Wolfram Tannenberg statt. Unter anderem nimmt auch ein Teil seiner Familie, nämlich Vater, Bruder und Neffe, als ein Kandidatenteam teil. Doch während der Livesendung meldet sich ein skrupelloser Erpresser - er verlangt den Hauptgewinn von 10 Millionen Euro! Sein Druckmittel sind die Sprengsätze, von denen der behauptet sie im Keller des Gebäudes deponiert zu haben. Als dann ganz in der Nähe auch noch zwei Bomben explodieren, realisiert Tannenberg, dass er schnell handeln muss, wenn er eine Katastrophe verhindern will.

Ruthless, clever, and unbelievably violent, the Russian mafia has rapidly taken over the criminal underworld in the US, and law enforcement has been unable to stem the tide. When a powerful Russian mob family declares war by publicly executing two high-profile American politicians, the message is unmistakable - opposition will be met with overwhelming deadly force. With no other viable options, the President creates a clandestine assassinations team to find and eliminate the unreachable men running this deadly criminal operation.

The Winchester witches are at it again, and this time they’re going to find trouble. Of course, they always find trouble. So...situation normal? Take a walk on the wild side as Bay Winchester learns a little bit about life, death, magic, monsters, and love.

"Aren't you a terrorist?" "There are no roles for people who look like you." "That's a sin." "No girls allowed." They've heard it all. Actress Alia Shawkat reflects on all the parts she was told she was too "ethnic" to play. Former NFL player Wade Davis recalls his bullying of gay classmates in an attempt to hide his own sexuality. Holocaust survivor Fanny Starr tells of her harrowing time in Aushwitz, where she watched her family disappear, one by one. What made them rise up through the hate? What made them overcome the obstacles of their childhood to achieve extraordinary success?

An ingenious novel about art and revenge, insisting on your dreams and hitting on your doctor, told in the form of 80 movie reviews In near-future America, film critic Noah Body uploads his reviews to a content aggregator. His job is routine: watch, seethe, pan. He dreams of making his own film...

In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a star witness in the case, putting away a high school football star who claimed to be innocent. Forty years later, JT has risen to chief of police, but there's a trail of a dozen dead women that reaches from Brooklyn across Long Island, along the Sunrise Highway, and it's possible that his actions actually enabled a killer. That's when Lourdes Robles, a relentless young Latina detective for the NYPD, steps in.

Was heißt Piff Paff?, will sein Vater von Hakan wissen. Ein naiver Gutmensch, der hinterm Mond lebt, findet Hakan. Schnell muss man sein, was tun fürs Glück. Begeistert spinnen Hakan und seine Freunde darauf hin, einmal ein Jugendcafé zu eröffnen. Umso verständnisloser blickt er daher auf seinen so wenig tüchtigen Vater, der vor vielen Jahren aus der Türkei nach Deutschland eingewandert ist. Gebetsmühlenartig empfindet Hakan seine Vorwürfe, unsinnig seine Ängste. Als sein Vater eines Tages verschwindet, macht Hakan sich auf die Suche - nach dem Menschen, der sein Vater ist, und nach sich selbst.

Emma G.’s dream has come true! Her BFF has tickets to a Boyz3000 concert in the Bahamas, and Emma’s their number one fan. Her parents say she can go...if she pays for part of the trip. What? How? The concert’s in nine days! Determined, she enlists friends, pulls off crazy schemes, and discovers hidden talents that could change her life!