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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Erik Larson
Crown Publishing Group (NY)
1999
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history--from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City "A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the more compelling for being true." --The New York Times Book ReviewSeptember 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people--and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating personal tragedy. Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude.
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larson
Crown Publishing Group (NY)
2003
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The bestselling author of Isaac’s Storm returns with a brilliant historical account of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, and the gripping stories of the two men who shaped its place in history: visionary architect Daniel H. Burnham and insatiable serial killer Dr. Henry H. Holmes. In deft prose, Larson conveys Burnham’s Herculean challenge to build "The White City," as the fair project became known, in less than 18 months. At the same time he describes how, in a malign parody of the achievements of the fair’s builders, Holmes built his own World’s Fair Hotel: a torture palace complete with a gas chamber and crematorium. A nonfiction blend of Ragtime and Silence of the Lambs, The Devil in the White City is Erik Larson at his brilliant, storytelling best. 6 photographs; Map
This devastating book begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day's end, he had killed one teacher and severely wounded another.In Lethal Passage Erik Larson shows us how a disturbed teenager was able to buy a weapon advertised as "the gun that made the eighties roar." In so doing, he not only illuminates America's gun culture its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. The result is a book that can and should save lives, and that has already become an essential text in the gun-control debate.
In these pages, Rent offers what most theater books can't: a chance to step behind the curtain and feel the electricity of a stage phenomenon as it unfolds. Rent captures the heart and spirit of a generation, reflecting it onstage through the emotion of its stirring words and music, and the energy of its young cast. Now, for the first time, Rent comes to life on the page - through vivid color photographs, the full libretto, and a behind-the-scenes oral history of the show's creation.
Meet Buster. Typical Labrador Retriever. Full of energy -constructive or otherwise, (usually otherwise) -playmate, social butterfly, thief, tormentor of my sons, delinquent and ... my worst nightmare. Sounds like another Lab story doesn't it? It is. It was one of those times when I blurted something out, more or less talking to myself, but within earshot of my two boys: "We should have a dog. He could watch the house when we're gone. You guys would have a distraction instead of fighting with each other. It would teach you some responsibility."That last part had repercussions beyond my compre-hension. Boy, would hindsight have been a blessing if I knew what was to come
While minding his lady friend, Yolanda's, elephant rescue booth at Rockport's Sea Fair, Dave Holman sees two teenage boys fighting atop the carnival's giant Ferris wheel. One boy throws the other from the ride to his death in the attractions machinery. Holman goes straight to the police to volunteer as an eye witness to what is obviously murder, but is informed that the case has already been ruled an accident; death by misadventure. On further investigation, Dave Holman learns that A J Laudermaelk IV, the boy who pushed his friend from the carnival ride, is the son of a prominent attorney from one of the founding families of the towns of Rockport and Jordan. The dead child, Johnny Dominguez', family hire Holman to gather evidence that their son was murdered and bring young Laudermaelk to justice, but as Dave Holman is assembling proof, in the form of videos of the murder, Hurricane Nathan strikes. The storm rips apart Holman's office and scatters all his case files to the wind. To make matters worse, Holman learns that Ames Laudermaelk III is out to halt his investigation by whatever means he can muster, including calling in political favors against the Texas detective and even possibly arranging another murder.
King Irv and the Viking Marauders: A King Irv Fantasy Adventure
Skoot Larson
Skoot's Jazz Books
2018
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King Irv, monarch of the Wholesale Kingdom is surprised one day when a troop of Vikings shows up on the doorstep of Warehouse Castle. It seems that the Norsemen had stumbled onto the wreckage of Hershel the Merlin's old time machine on some future beach and, fooling with the contraption, suddenly found themselves thrown back through time to the court of King Irv. Demonstrating to the Vikings how the contraption works, King Irv and Hershel, find themselves in the new world, the Viking's Vinland, in the twelfth century. To further complicate matters, one of the young Viking sailors trips, falls and puts the tip of his sword into Hershel's time machine, rendering it useless to bring them back home to the Wholesale Kingdom. The time machine does work, off and on, taking them to modern day San Francisco and then back to the old west of America, everywhere except back home, until a major hurricane changes everything.
