No one goes alone
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
6 audio discs (approximately 7 hr., 36 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Random House Audio, [2021]
Summary
A group of researchers sets sail for the Isle of Dorn in the North Atlantic in 1905 to explore the cause of several mysterious disappearances, most notably a family of four who vanished without a trace after a week-long holiday on the island. Led by Professor James, a prominent member of the Society for Psychical Research, they begin to explore the island's sole cottage and surrounding landscape in search of a logical explanation. The idyllic setting belies an undercurrent of danger and treachery, with raging storms and unnerving discoveries adding to the sense of menace. As increasingly unexplainable events unfold, the now-stranded investigators are unsure whether they can trust their own eyes, their instincts, one another, or even themselves.
Call Number
MWF-CD F LARSON
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
ISBN
9780593557945
The splendid and the vile :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xii, 585 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Crown, an imprint of Random House, [2020]
Summary
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally-and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless." It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it's also an intimate domestic drama set against the backdrop of Churchill's prime-ministerial country home, Chequers; his wartime retreat, Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports-some released only recently-Larson provides a new lens on London's darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family: his wife, Clementine; their youngest daughter, Mary, who chafes against her parents' wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela's illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the cadre of close advisers who comprised Churchill's "Secret Circle," including his lovestruck private secretary, John Colville; newspaper baron Lord Beaverbrook; and the Rasputin-like Frederick Lindemann. The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of today's political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when-in the face of unrelenting horror-Churchill's eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together."--
Call Number
B CHURCHILL
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
ISBN
9780385348713 9780385348737
Dead wake :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
430 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Crown Publishers, [2015]
Summary
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of In the Garden of Beasts presents a 100th-anniversary chronicle of the sinking of the Lusitania that discusses the factors that led to the tragedy and the contributions of such figures as President Wilson, bookseller Charles Lauriat and architect Theodate Pope Riddle.
Call Number
940.4514 LAR
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
ISBN
9780307408860 9780307408877
4.
Dead wake :
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
11 audio discs (approx. 13 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Production / Publication Information
New York, New York : Books on Tape : Random House Audio, [2015]
Summary
"On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. He knew, moreover, that his ship-- the fastest then in service-- could outrun any threat. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces, both grand and achingly small-- hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more-- all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history"--
Electronic Access
Call Number
MWF-CD 940.4514 LAR
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
ISBN
9780553551648 9780553551624
In the garden of beasts :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xiv, 448 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Edition
First edition
Production / Publication Information
New York : Crown, c2011.
Call Number
943.086 LAR
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
ISBN
9780307408846 9780307408853 9780307887955
Thunderstruck
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
ix, 463 pages ; 24 cm.
Edition
First edition
Production / Publication Information
New York : Crown Publishers, 2006.
Electronic Access
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0612/2006011908.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0664/2006011908-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0664/2006011908-d.html Sample text http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0668/2006011908-s.html
Call Number
364.1523 LAR
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
ISBN
9781400080663
The devil in the white city :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xi, 447 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Edition
1st ed.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Crown Publishers, ©2003.
Summary
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds--a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake. The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before. Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
Call Number
364.1523 LAR
Publication Date
2003
Language
English
ISBN
9780609608449 9780375725609 9780965711340
Isaac's storm :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
323 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Edition
1st ed.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Random House, ©1999.
Summary
Based on the diaries of Isaac Monroe Cline and on contemporary accounts.
Call Number
976.4139 LAR
Publication Date
1999
Language
English
ISBN
9780375708275 9780609602331 9780375724756
Limit Search Results