Otto: 663 books
The Great Detectives
The World’s Most Celebrated Sleuths Unmasked by Their Authors
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
The origins of literature’s finest crime fighters, told by their creators themselves
Their names ring out like gunshots in the dark of a back alley, crime fighters of a lost era whose heroic deeds will never be forgotten. They are men like Lew Archer, Pierre Chambrun, Flash Casey, and the...
City of Nets
A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering. The 1940s became the decade of Hollywood's decline: anticommunist...
Capital
Melbourne When It Was the Capital City of Australia 1901-28
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
An original and intriguing history of Melbourne at the tumultuous start of the twentieth century, illustrated throughout with contemporary drawings and photos.
In 1901 Melbourne was a small city. Then the founders of the Australian Commonwealth decided it was the best place to house the new...
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Choice and Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
This book discusses practical issues of innovation and entrepreneurship. It first outlines the basic factors contributing to economic growth in the knowledge-based economy. Portraying wealth creation as taking scientific research results from lab to market, it identifies two interlinking components...
by Kay Arthur, Emilie Barnes, Donna Otto
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Can you imagine the amazing wisdom available when three of today’s most admired Christian women get together to share with younger women what they’ve learned through the journey of their lives?Kay Arthur (co-founder of Precept Ministries, renowned speaker and author), Emilie Barnes (founder...
by Otto Penzler
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
For the first time ever, legendary editor Otto Penzler has handpicked some of the most respected and bestselling thriller writers working today for a riveting collection of spy fiction. From first to last, this stellar collection signals mission accomplished.
Including:
* Lee Child with...
Olympia
Paris in the Age of Monet
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
“Using Manet's controversial masterpiece as his starting point,” Janet Maslin wrote in the New York Times about Olympia, one of her all-time favorite books, “Friedrich examined every imaginable aspect of the city's history and culture in a book that bristles with incisive analysis and amazing...
by Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
The Best American Crime Reporting 2010 is yet another must read for the true crime aficionado—an eye-opening compendium of the most gripping, suspenseful, and brilliant crime stories of the year by the masters of the genre. Guest editor Stephen J. Dubner (Freakonomics)joins series editors Otto Penzler...
Tigers in the Mud
The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
WWII began with a metallic roar as the German Blitzkrieg raced across Europe, spearheaded by the most dreaded weapon of the 20th century: the Panzer.
Road of 10,000 Pains: The Destruction of the 2nd NVA Division by the U.S. Marines, 1967
The Destruction of the 2nd NVA Division by the U.S. Marines, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
"Oh, yes," a retired NVA officer matter-of-factly declared to former U.S. Marine Otto J. Lehrack. "In the Que Son Valley in 1967, we killed more Americans than at any time or place during the war." Road of 10,000 Pains, which takes its name from The Iliad, is an epic oral history...
by Otto von Bismarck
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
This collection includes works by Prince Otto von Bismarck, Count Helmuth von Moltke, and Ferdinand Lassalle. The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10, edited by Kuno Francke.
Vitebsk
The Fight and Destruction of Third Panzer Army
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
The city of Vitebsk in Belarus was of strategic importance during the fighting on the Eastern Front, as it controlled the route to Minsk. A salient in the German lines, Vitebsk had been declared a Festerplatz—a fortress town—meaning that it must be held at all costs. A task handed to 3rd Panzer...
Murder at the Foul Line
Original Tales of Hoop Dreams and Deaths from Today's Great Writers
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Refereed by editor Otto Penzler, this anthology collects fourteen, original tales of buzzer-beating suspense and postgame mayhem. "In "Keller's Double Dribble," Lawrence Block tails a clueless hitman with courtside tickets to unplanned bloodshed ... Jeffery Deaver's power guard summons...
by Otto Penzler
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
A spirited Black Lizard anthology with over a thousand pages of haunted—and haunting—ghost tales. Includes eerie vintage ghost illustrations.
The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer to put pen...