Grand Prix racing on public roads--trees, walls, fences, houses. Racing in the 50's and 60's bore little resemblance to what is done today, some say no resemblance. The circuits, Spa, Monza, Nurburgring were deadly dangerous, and the racing was deadly dangerous. The driver who went off the road, most likely paid a heavy price. So did many spectators. It was a time of heroes, of drivers larger than life: of the Englishmen, who for a few years seemed to take over the sport: Moss, Collins, Ha...

For the city (and the author) it was a year of trauma, possibly the most traumatic in NYPD history. The so-called Black Liberation Army shot cops in the back. In New York alone they assassinated four, machine gunned two others, ambushed others with guns and knives. A new commissioner, swearing to end corruption and bring the force into the modern age, took over, even as two mafia dons got whacked, the biggest jewel robbery in the city's history took place, and Sgt. Durk and Patrolman Serpi...

Juan Trippe, the first and last aviation tycoon in history, learned to fly in the rickety machines of World War I, when the sky appealed only to daredevils, and his life expectancy could have been counted, probably, in days. He was as star struck as any of the other young aviators of the day, but he was also a Yale educated banker's son who believed the world was crying out for air travel but didn't yet know it, and he thought he saw a way to turn this risky game into a business. At 25 he ...

Portraits of France is part memoir, part journalism, part history, part gastronomic adventure. An intensely personal tour of a France not found in guidebooks. From Heloise and Abelard to Lafayette to DeGaulle, from the guillotine to an 1806 Chateau Lafite, from lungbusting Tour de France climbs to the still pockmarked terrain around Verdun to a World War II concentrtion camp in the Pyrenees.

Gabe Driscoll, chief of internal affairs for the New York City police department, stands in the city morgue, watching an autopsy. His interest is more than professional. The body is that of activist priest Frank Redmond, who along with Driscoll belonged to a championship swim relay team at a Jesuit high school in the 1950s. More than three decades later, Redmond has gone off a Harlem rooftop a few blocks from his church, and the surviving members of the team—Driscoll and Pulitzer Prize–win...

An activist priest has gone off a Harlem rooftop. The priest's pastor rules it suicide and destroys what evidence he can. Precinct detectives quickly concur. But two childhood friends, one a Pulitzer prize winning journalist, the other the three-star chief of the NYPD internal affairs division, refusing to accept this verdict, open their own investigation

In New York Ray Douglas, chief of the narcotics division, is too successful, too outspoken. When he criticizes the decisions of his superiors once too often he is summarily exiled to South America, his career broken, as liaison with the DEA there, a job that doesn't exist. Reporter Jane Fox, meanwhile begs her superiors to send her there. Colombia is a place of bombings, kidnappings and murderous traffickers richer than the government. Too dangerous for a woman, she is told. She sees it as...

Obsession cuts both ways.Dr. Liam O’Keefe is a top surgeon in Washington, D.C., a master of control in the operating room. At home, it’s a different story. With three young children and a wife, Sara, who feels her career as an investigative journalist has been disregarded, the strain on their marriage is quietly reaching a breaking point.Then Sara is found murdered just blocks from their home. While the police stall, Liam begins searching for answers, and possibly for redem...

In 1976 (the US Bi-Centennial year), when I first began seriously looking at Americas collection of state and national symbols, it felt like I was peeking into the nations dream-journalbecause symbols are the language of the soul and talk to us on that level. Symbols are the language that the soul uses to communicate with our consciousness. It happens every night in our dream-time. Politically, we use symbols to memorialize ideals and events for posterity and in elementary school we were t...

This book is about sixty pages. It is a spinoff from Soul Talk (ISBN 0-7388-5651-7), which was ahead of its time. But the political times are rapidly catching up, demonstrating the need for a backward appreciation of our national development. The book at hand is meant to showcase the work of floral artist Delia Daley in a way that is an enjoyable yet thoughtful exercise for the reader. It is indeed to be spiral-bound so that it lies flat to accommodate the coloring effort. In the successio...

Return to the era when science fiction magazines introduced readers to impossible planets, experimental machines, and heroes facing problems no one had imagined before. This volume delivers twenty more rediscovered stories filled with daring explorers, clever schemers, unexpected encounters, and mysteries hidden in the vastness of space.Some tales plunge into the dangers of alien environments while others follow quiet characters who suddenly find themselves facing extraordinary sit...

Brought to you by Penguin.As the nights get darker and colder, curl up with voices of hope and renewal - feel the natural world come back to life around you . . .The Lost Spells is an audio treasure, a new collection of 'spells' - acrostic poetry and artwork - by writer Robert Macfarlane and artist Jackie Morris. For those who loved The Lost Words - this is its little sister.Captiv...