The badge gave her authority. Losing it made her dangerous.When a child vanishes, Dannie Bauer, the youngest Deputy in the Geauga County Sheriff's Department, pushes past procedure and politics, chasing leads others dismiss.But a missing child is just the beginning.What she uncovers isn't a single predator—it's a coordinated network trafficking children beyond the reach of local law enforcement. The deeper she digs, the more resistance she faces—fro...

When K9 search-and-rescue handler Dannie Bauer and her bloodhound, Forrest, are called in to track a missing friend, they uncover a terrifying truth—the disappearance is linked to a serial rapist and murderer. Set in small-town Chardon, Ohio, The Hunter follows Dannie Bauer's transformation from a withdrawn teen into a force of nature—one whose single-minded focus tests the boundary of ethical behavior.After she eludes a deadly encounter with a serial killer, the ultimate question ...

Albert Fish did not look like a monster. That was what people remembered after the newspapers had printed every sensationalized story, his trial had ended, and Americans were left with trying to understand who Albert Fish was. Pictures showed him with a slight frame, white hair, and mild blue eyes behind wire-rimmed glasses. Those who actually knew him recalled the way he spoke to children, mixing patience, kindness, and gentleness in ways that children recognize and trust without being ta...

The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society. Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young model, examines the complex relations between money, sex, and imperiled masculinity. This powerful and disturbing study in the pathology of modern life is one of the masterw...

Normalmente, los santos no son lo primero que nos viene a la cabeza al pensar en Nueva York. En este librito, sin embargo, Alberto Royo Mejía relata la vida de siete católicos ejemplares que nacieron en Nueva York o vivieron durante mucho tiempo en la Gran Manzana, dos de ellos ya canonizados.Se trata de siete historias muy diferentes: desde un esclavo negro que terminó manteniendo a la familia de sus antiguos amos, hasta Su Eminencia Reverendísima el Cardenal de Nueva York; una it...

Albert Ackalitis was a member of the Arsenal gang that staged the most lucrative robbery in the history of Brooklyn in 1934. This was the heist of a Rubel Ice Cream armored car. Ackalitis also thieved from truck drivers who operated near the Battery in New York City. Years later he was tutored as a longshoremen boss by Ed Florio, another prominent figure in labor and politics. This was an era when the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) had been tossed out of the American Federa...

New York è creatura bifronte: potente e opulenta, ribelle e iconoclasta. La forza propulsiva è la stessa: una tremenda determinazione alla riuscita. Seguiamo la vitale energia sovversiva che fin dalle origini scorre per le strade della città. Da un'isola all'altra di questo straordinario arcipelago fino al Bronx, incontriamo Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Emma Goldman, Sacco e Vanzetti, Lev Trockij, i protagonisti della Harlem Renaissance, il movimento operaio soci...

Zapinette spends Christmas in the Big Apple! She reveals a slice of life from a perspective that is both rare and familiar. She is unique in her worldly travels, having been born in the United States, currently living in Paris, and visiting faraway lands with her beloved Unky Berky. She is all too common in her pain as the child of a broken home, her anger and hostility over her mother's new beau ("Fermin the Virmen'), her confusion over the baffling realities of the adult world, and her i...

Contempt is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature. All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous—his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychological complexity and social pretension, his still-striking openness about sex—are evident in this story of a failing marriage. Contempt (which was to inspire Jean-Luc Godard’s no-less-celebrated film) is an unflinching examination of desp...

The charming, return-to-the-land memoir of a refugee family who flees Nazi Germany and finds their true home in the backwoods of rural VermontAlice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar-era Berlin. She was a former actor turned medical student, he was a playwright, and their circle of friends included Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler, and Bertolt Brecht. But then the Nazis took over, and Carl’s most recent success—a play satirizing German militarism—impressed t...

Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, begins hanging around with a group of local young toughs. Though repelled by their squalor and brutality, and repeatedly humiliated for his weakness and ignorance when it comes to women and sex, the boy is increasingly, masochistically drawn to the gang and its rough games. He finds himself un...

The Voyage of The First Hessian Army from Portsmouth to New York, 1776 offers readers a compelling collection of narratives and reflections exploring the profound shifts and patterns during a pivotal historical expedition. This anthology intricately weaves together firsthand accounts and astute observations, emphasizing themes of displacement, military life, and cultural exchanges set against the broader backdrop of the American Revolutionary War. The diverse literary styles capture the nu...