In "Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation," William W. Mann presents a comprehensive guide to learning Esperanto, the constructed international auxiliary language designed to foster global communication. Mann employs a clear and structured literary style that emphasizes pedagogy, utilizing phonetic spelling to ease pronunciation challenges for English speakers. This work sits within the broader context of early 20th-century linguistic experimentation, reflecting the era's belie...

Esperanto Essentials: 3 Classic Books on the Universal Language is a profound anthology that captures the essence and versatility of Esperanto through a diverse range of literary works. Delve into the core themes of universality, linguistic innovation, and cross-cultural communication that underscore this collection. Each piece, curated with precision, showcases varying literary styles that range from eloquent essays to pioneering linguistic discourses, painting a comprehensive picture of ...

New York Times bestselling author of Tinseltown and Bogart offers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder—the most famous unsolved true crime case in American history.The brutal murder of Elizabeth Short—better known as the Black Dahlia—in 1947 has been in the public consciousness for nearly eighty years, yet no serious study of the crime has ever been published.Short has been mischaracterized as a wayward sex work...

In "Death Valley in '49: An Important Chapter of California Pioneer History," William Lewis Manly delivers a poignant and dramatic account of the harrowing journey of a group of pioneers navigating the treacherous landscape of Death Valley during the California Gold Rush. Written with an engaging narrative style that combines vivid descriptive passages with firsthand observations, Manly's work stands as a crucial testament to the resilience and fortitude of the pioneering spirit. The book ...

A gay man who fled his hometown in a cloud of scandal and guilt returns home to his estranged family—and the boy he left behindThe first call is from Wally Day's estranged mother, begging him to come home. The second is from Sebastian Garafolo, a Brown's Mill cop Wally last spoke to when he confessed to having underage sex in the old apple orchard. Today, Garafolo is calling about something else entirely: Wally's cousin Kyle is missing.Twenty years ago, Wal...

New York Times Bestseller • Edgar Award winner for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime, and one of the nation's...

In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten years and billions of dollars in the making, the Mars rover Curiosity is poised to answer this all-important question.Here, Rob Manning, the project's chief engineer, tells of bringing the groundbreaking spacecraft to life. Manning and his team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ta...

This classic novel by bestselling author William J. Mann features a gay man trying to come to terms with sex, friendship, aging, and falling—and staying—in loveThis stunning slice of gay life at the turn of the millennium introduces thirtysomething Jeff O'Brien. After six years, his lover, Lloyd, has just announced that the passion between them has died. Terrified of ending up alone, Jeff turns his eye toward other men. But the anonymous, impersonal encounters leave...

The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America's greatest and most influential families—the Roosevelts—exposing heretofore unknown family secrets and detailing complex family rivalries with his signature cinematic flair.Drawing on previously hidden historical documents and interviews with the long-silent "illegitimate" branch of the family, William J. Mann paints an elegant, meticulously researc...

**Entertainment Weekly's BIG FALL BOOKS PREVIEW SelectionBest Book of 2019 -- Publisher's WeeklyBased on new and revelatory material from Brando's own private archives, an award-winning film biographer presents a deeply-textured, ambitious, and definitive portrait of the greatest movie actor of the twentieth century, the elusive Marlon Brando, bringing his extraordinarily complex life into view as never before.

After a lifetime of watching — from the ridge above a Cheyenne village to the barracks at Fort Robinson — Watches Twice seeks only the river, the land, and silence.Then Emėškeha'e enters his life: a Cheyenne woman who walked the long road north, who has buried a child in Oklahoma dust and now works at the boarding school that is slowly unmaking her people. Together they build a home on the Tongue River — two pans on one shelf, two horses in one corral, two scarred souls learning to...

Jeff O'Brien and his friends return in this sequel to The Men from the Boys, William J. Mann's critically acclaimed debut novel about gay love and friendship.Where the Boys Are opens in Manhattan on New Year's Eve, 1999. With the world on the cusp of the new millennium, Jeff O'Brien and his ex-lover Lloyd Griffith are grieving the loss of their friend and mentor David Javitz to AIDS. Desperate to forget, Jeff has become a fixture on the dance floo...