Joe: 3835 books
by Joe Abercrombie
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED AND THE INDEPENDENT • New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie delivers the stunning conclusion to the epic fantasy trilogy that began with Half a King, praised by George R. R. Martin as “a fast-paced tale of betrayal and revenge that...
Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business
Shocking Declassified Details from the FBI's Greatest Undercover Operation and a Bloody Timeline of
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
When FBI Special Agent Joe Pistone began a six-month” operation infiltrating New York's Bonanno crime family in 1975, he had no idea what was about to happen. Posing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco,” Pistone spent the next six years undercover in the Family, witnessing-and sometimes participating...
Fatal Deceptions
Three True Crime Tales of Passion, Murder, and Deceit
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This collection by a New York Times journalist gathers three horrifying true accounts of crimes of passion, ambition, and fear.
Author Joe Sharkey delivers three gripping accounts of betrayal and murder in this compelling American true crime collection.
Above Suspicion: Soon to be a major...
Come Up and Get Me
An Autobiography of Colonel Joe Kittinger
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp in 1973, Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired from the Air Force. Restless and unchallenged, he turned to ballooning, a lifelong passion as well as a constant diversion for his imagination during his imprisonment. His primary goal...
by Joe Cummings
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This Thailand travel pictorial presents Bangkok’s ancient traditions, breathtaking architecture and vibrant city culture.
Situated on the banks of the Chao Phraya, Thailand’s capital has spectacular Buddhist statues, unique cultural experiences and a variety of natural color that Bill Wassman’s...
by Joe Scicluna
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Auguste-Émile Cillart de Kermainguy was born on August 26, 1809 at Chateau Locmaria in the French Province of Brittany. He hailed from an old and illustrious noble family with a strong military background. Had the Order and the knights still existed in his youth he may have well been sent to Malta...
by Joe Meno
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
A boy and his grandfather hunt for a stolen horse in this novel “evoking William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy” (Booklist).
Longlisted for the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
In the summer of 1995, Jim Falls, a Korean War vet, struggles...
The Year of Fear
Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt That Changed the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines in pursuit and...
The Reconstruction of Mark Twain
How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
When Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, thousands of patriotic southerners rushed to enlist for the Confederate cause. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who grew up in the border state of Missouri in a slave-holding family, was among them. Clemens, who later achieved fame as the writer...
Lake Monster Mysteries
Investigating the World's Most Elusive Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2006
For centuries, eyewitnesses around the world -- from America to Africa, Argentina to Scotland -- have reported sightings of dark, mysterious creatures in area lakes that surface briefly, only to quickly disappear. While the most famous lake monsters of Loch Ness and Lake Champlain have gained international...
North Carolina Governor Richard Caswell
Founding Father and Revolutionary Hero
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Richard Caswell emerged during the Revolution as a vital leader of the Patriot cause. Though he was a loyal British subject who fought against the backcountry Regulator rebellion, he embraced America's revolutionary fervor. He represented North Carolina at the Continental Congress and bravely commanded...
by Joe Abdo
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
The Dabney family from Boston settled on the island of Faial in the Azores during the 19th century and quickly became involved in the political, literary, intellectual and religious changes taking place in Europe and America. This book provides a glimpse of their life and significant influence on 19th-century history at the crossroads of the Atlantic.
by Joe Carter
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
A compelling true story of the reality of undercover police work
For over 20 years, Joe Carter has worked for the police as an undercover cop. Travelling the globe on different passports, fraternising with thieves and international drugs and arms dealers, working alongside dangerous criminals,...
Fearless
One Woman, One Kayak, One Continent
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Like the instant classic The Last American Man, Fearless is the story of a remarkable individual who accepts no personal limits—including fear. Freya Hoffmeister, a forty-six-year-old former sky diver, gymnast, marksman, and Miss Germany contestant, left her twelve-year-old son behind to paddle...