Hell Gate the riyria chronicles

Hell Gate the riyria chroniclesA young Long Island couple are separating and can no longer afford to keep their prized 26 foot racing sloop. For old times' sake, they decide to take one last excursion, sailing to the marina where the boat's new owner waits, never knowing the ill fated cruise will be their last.

Women have been derogated for "gossip" for centuries

Elting describes the planning and preparations (or lack of them) for the campaigns

and jazz greats jostle with unknowns for the readers attention

In all his years at war

A groundbreaking look at the connection between germs and mental illness

Like so many women before her and so many women yet to come

the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomb -- and to make sure nobody saw them doing it

Although the secret book was kept hidden inside a locked chest in the Queen's private chamber

Marion Meade's definitive biography explores his often brutal childhood acting experiences

and mystique

he flees the city

the book also does not shy away from troubling aspects of his public and private life