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Eager to celebrate its history, and display its athletic potential, the United States hosted the nation’s first Olympic games in 1904 St. Louis. But within a few years, the publication of Coubertin’s memoirs turned the praised Olympics into the failed Olympics. America’s First Olympics corrects common misconceptions that began with Coubertin’s memoirs, and presents a fresh view of the 1904 games, which featured first-time African American Olympians, an eccentric and controversial marathon, and documentation by pioneering photojournalist Jessie Tarbox Beals.

Ireland is known as the Emerald Isle, a land of history and mystery, beauty and enchantment. But there's much more to this jewel of the North Atlantic than meets the eye. There is an 18th-century swordsman who defends the hidden treasure of Ballyheigue Castle, a proud house now gutted by fire; Princess Orloff, originally known as Angelica Parrott, who returned home to haunt a jealous sister; Lilith, a young inhabitant of eerie Skryne Castle, who was strangled with foxglove fronds in 1740....

An innocent bike ride on Nantucket leads Detective Nia D’Amato to a quiet street, where she discovers a mother and daughter pinned beneath a fallen tree. Firemen arrive and work frantically to free them, and Nia later discovers evidence of likely sabotage. She teams up with Captain John Miller, the local police chief. Solving one mystery only plunges them into another: the seemingly innocent death of a girl 30 years earlier. Nia and Captain Miller race to uncover the clues and find a piece of critical evidence before it’s destroyed.

Born in 1960, Jesus Ruiz Henao grew up poor, but wanted to be rich like the drug dealers he saw growing up in the cocaine-producing region of Colombia’s Valle of the Cauca. To realize his ambition, Ruiz Henao moved to London, United Kingdom, in 1985. There, he and his wife settled in the quiet suburb of Hendon, where he held down mundane but respectable cleaning and bus driving jobs. At least to outward appearances....

Dustin Crayne, high school junior. He’s got the driving talent. He’s got NASCAR dreams. What he doesn’t have is a rich daddy. Hell, half the time his dad is locked up. Low on money, with a race coming up that could be his big break, Dustin is desperate enough to take a shortcut (okay, to steal an engine). That’s when things get complicated. While committing this felony, Dustin rescues another racer - a greyhound named after Dale Earnhardt and tangles with a pair of seriously bad dudes. Can Dustin hang on to the sweet dog that changes his life?

Andolosia Petasos dreams of being the next Da Vinci. Only Fate has cursed him to make hats. It’s not Andolosia’s fault. After all, a Greek ancestor stole Hermes’ teleportation hat and brought down all of Olympus. And the gods don’t easily forgive that sort of thing. In Olympus, Moira strives to weave a future that will fix the heavenly disaster. The very one she created.

Terror Flyers examines the "lynch justice" (Lynchjustiz) committed against American airmen in Nazi Germany during World War II. Using engaging first-person accounts of downed pilots, as well as previously unused primary sources, Terror Flyers challenges the notion that such lynchings were exclusively the domain of Nazi party officials and soldiers. New evidence reveals ordinary German people executed Lynchjustiz as well.

New York. City of millions. Home to the largest subway system in the world. Miles of tunnels stretch far underground, home themselves to a vast, displaced populace. But now someone - or something - is slaughtering these homeless. And anyone else foolish enough to venture underground. And whatever it is, it is slowly rising toward the surface.

Patrick S. Washburn and Chris Lamb tell the full story of the past, the present, and to a degree, the future of American sports journalism. Sports Journalism chronicles how and why technology, religion, social movements, immigration, racism, sexism, social media, athletes, and sportswriters and broadcasters changed sports as well as how sports are covered and how news about sports are presented and disseminated.

Fresh off a brutal divorce, he’s swapping handyman services for a roof over his head. Having staggered all his life from job to job, Arch is a newly minted private detective. His mentor throws him his first case specifically because it looks like an easy one. But when Arch starts digging, he quickly finds himself in the middle of a war between Nigerian car thieves and murderous Russians.

One bruised Southern bombshell thinks he's her savior. It's time to exceed expectations...until the last dog is hung. Compulsively listenable! Highly entertaining!

Don't look now, but a mad scientist has discovered the secret of (temporary) invisibility. He's not planning to sneak into the movies, either. He's mad, remember? He wants...revenge! It doesn't take a genius to see right through the faded fiend's transparent scheme: a festival of murder, destruction, and cheap practical jokes. But only one man can clean those unsightly stains on the fabric of society.... Kent Montana. He's the descendant of Scottish nobility, or so he claims.

What if the deepest, darkest secrets of your neighbors were at your fingertips? Jackson and Cull are about to lose their jobs at the sleazy tabloid, when they get an idea...build an app that will revolutionize the world. Create a voyeuristic destination to tell on your friends and enemies. Nothing is off limits. Nothing is sacred. Nothing is secret anymore.

Beer is the world’s most popular alcoholic drink, but if you’ve only sampled the most popular brands, you are missing out some of the best tasting brews around. This audiobook guides you to the world’s best craft beers, how they are made, and what foods to pair them with. Each craft beer has a story, and much like fine wine, every batch has its own unique flavor and characteristics.

Promising his cousin that he'll get an apology from an internet bully, Tucker finds himself in a flame war that goes nuclear after a hacker is murdered. Now, more hackers, the whole Twitterverse, and a relentless bounty hunter agree on one thing: Tucker is the killer, and he must be stopped. With death threats filling his inbox, Tucker battles anonymous Chinese spies and his own self-destructive rage while chasing a murderer the online community has named the HackMaster. Can Tucker clear his name and build a case against the killer before the death threats come true?

The housing market is depressed. But not as depressed as anyone who spends a night at 668 Langford Place. The decaying mansion next door - number 666 - will soon see the return of Bog-Muggoth, an ancient, evil demon that makes the Amityville Horror seem like Casper the Friendly Ghost. But Bog-Muggoth isn’t making his haunted house call alone. Other vile gods from beyond time and space will be joining in the festivities to make the world their oyster - and leave it an empty shell.

Conway Sax is a man on a mission - this time in Los Angeles, where he uses his race-driving experience in a desperate bid to rescue Kenny Spoon, a washed-up TV star who's been kidnapped. It's a favor for Kenny's mother Eudora, Conway's dear friend and a fellow member of the Barnburners, his tight-knit maverick AA group.

For Aloysius Tucker, taking his nine-year-old cousin Maria sledding is all about frozen toes and hot coffee in the warming house. It shouldn't involve chasing after Maria as she's led into a long black car by a stranger in a Bruins jacket. But by the end of the crisp December morning, Maria is gone, her mother is dead, and her father - Mafia don Sal - has been arrested for murder. Sensing blood in the water, would-be successors to Sal's criminal empire square off, agreeing on nothing but the idea that Sal's blood relative, Tucker, needs to be eliminated.

He turns into a bat. Drinks the blood of the living. And never pays income taxes. He's the Vampire Lamar, and since he's come to New England, the body count's been rising every time he rises. But even eternal nightlife can take on a chill without companionship. The unholy fiend-in-need seeks a down-to-earth, flesh-and-blood girl who's his type for a very long-term relationship. But where there are vampires, there are vampire hunters. Unfortunately their stakeout for an eccentric "nobleman" sends them chasing a mortal target named Kent Montana.

When computer hacker Tucker is told that a dead man is lying outside his Boston home, he's shocked to discover that the body looks just like his father, who died 15 years ago. Tucker soon learns the terrible truth: The dead man is a half-brother he never knew he had. Determined to find answers, Tucker tracks down his father's second family.