Jostein Gaarder

Stefan Bechtel

Laurence Roy Stains

"After the American Civil War, while bodies still littered battlefields, the movement known as Spiritualism began to sweep across America as thousands of people, mostly from shock and grief, tried to make contact with the recently departed. The movement captivated Europe as well, especially England in the aftermath of the Great War and Great Influenza Epidemic. Prominent figures such as Charles Dickens, W.B. Yeats, and Queen Victoria were mesmerized. The movement's most famous spokesman was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Known to the world as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle underwent what many people at the time considered an enigmatic transformation, turning his back on the hyper-rational Holmes and plunging into the supernatural. What was it that convinced a brilliant man like Doyle, the creator of the great exemplar of cold, objective thought, that there was a reality beyond the reality? Why did professors, philosophers, statesmen and men of science like the great evolutionist Alfred Russell Wallace, the Novel-Laureate physiologist Charles Richet, and the distinguished chemist Sir William Crookes also become Spiritualists? Using the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as a lens, Bechtel probes this largely unexplored movement, a movement rife with fraud but also full of genuine evidence that is difficult to dismiss. Expertly written and peppered with engaging anecdotes, Through a Glass, Darkly is a terrifically fun read"--

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Quest to Solve the Greatest Mystery of All

Through a Glass, Darkly

how a peculiar Victorian zookeeper waged a lonely crusade for wildlife that changed the world

Mr. Hornaday's war

Celebrates the bond between dogs and their caregivers at the Best Friends Animal Society and shares the inspiring rehabilitation stories of dogs who responded to intervention after being dismissed as unadoptable by other shelters.

Tales of Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Redemption

Dogtown

He was complex, quirky, pugnacious, and difficult. He seemed to create enemies wherever he went, even among his friends. A fireplug of a man who stood only five feet eight inches in his stocking feet, he had an outsized ambition to make his mark on the world. And he did. William Temple Hornaday (1854-1937) was probably the most famous conservationist of the nineteenth century, second only to his great friend and ally Theodore Roosevelt. Hornaday's great passion was protecting wild things and wild places, and he spent most of his adult life in a state of war on their behalf, as a taxidermist and museum collector; as the founder and first director of the National Zoo in Washington, DC; as director of the Bronx Zoo for thirty years; and as the author of nearly two dozen books on conservation and wildlife. But in Mr. Hornaday's War, the long-overdue biography of Hornaday by journalist Stefan Bechtel, the grinding contradictions of Hornaday's life also become clear. Though he is credited with saving the American bison from extinction, he began his career as a rifleman and trophy hunter who led "the last buffalo hunt" into the Montana Territory. And what happened in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo, when Hornaday displayed an African man in a cage, shows a side of him that is as baffling as it is repellent. This gripping new book takes an honest look at a fascinating and enigmatic man.

How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World

Mr. Hornaday's War

With an hour-by-hour account--told by survivors--of 1969's Hurricane Camille, this book puts a human face on one of the nation's worst natural disasters. 16-page photo insert.

Roar of the Heavens

Bob Perry

After hitting rock bottom through addiction, bowling legend Bob Perry learned that religion is for people who don't want to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there. Perry tells his heart-wrenching, inspiring story of bowling for the mob and drug and alcohol addiction in his new book, Redemption Alley.Perry, considered by many to be one of the most naturally-talented bowlers in the history of the sport, had potential to become one of the best even at the young age of 12. Unfortunately, he grew up in 1970s Paterson, New Jersey, where everyone knew someone who was "connected"--with the mob, that is. Instead of training for championships, Perry began doing odd jobs for wiseguys and hustling hundreds of thousands of dollars in after-house "action bowling" for John Gotti, who later became the boss of the Gambino crime family. Perry's connections with organized crime eventually landed him in federal prison, but not before he became addicted to crack cocaine, alcohol, and painkillers and was homeless on the streets of New York. Ultimately, Perry washed up on the shores of St. Christopher's Inn, a shelter run by Franciscan monks. It was there that he had six fateful encounters with an angelic messenger who no one else could see--a monk whose message was so powerful that Bob Perry has now been sober for 22 years. In Redemption Alley, Perry not only shares his remarkable story of bowling success, his dangerous association with hoodlums and gangsters, and his recovery from addiction, but also his inspiring, decades-long spiritual quest, and his sober journey back into the bowling world.

How I Lived to Bowl Another Frame

Redemption Alley

THE MAN’S ULTIMATE GUIDE TO DATING, SEX, AND MARRIAGE This book builds a bridge of understanding across the great divide that separates the sexes, providing candid information guaranteed to restore pleasure, peace, trust, and simple enjoyment to the life you share with the woman you love. Drawing on the startling confessions of more than 2,000 women interviewed especially for this book, What Women Want reveals the gritty, intimate truth as women see it. Inside is everything you need to know about: The Dating Game: The twelve commandments for the first date. Who does the asking? Getting physical. Playing or getting serious. The Lover She Wants: Setting the mood. Getting to yes. What turns her on. How she reaches satisfaction. Definite turn-offs. The Husband She Loves: Advanced romance. Intimate communication– what women say they want and what they really want. Learning to listen. A Hassle-Free Home: Why fights always begin in the kitchen. Divvying up the drudge work. Guilt-free guy time. Going for the Golden: What makes marriage sweet enough to last? Frank, funny, and truly definitive, What Women Want is the nuts-and-bolts guide that guarantees to rev up your sex life–and make your whole life as enjoyable as you always hoped it could be.

What Every Man Needs to Know About Sex, Romance, Passion, and Pleasure

What Women Want

Tim Samaras

Like the deadly tornadoes it documents, this potent combination of high adventure and hard science is terrifyingly timely in our era of global warming and climate change. The Weather Channel, now America's most watched programming, has in recent years shown us a relentless series of hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and eruptions killing thousands, turning millions into refugees, and leaving whole cities in shocked, shattered ruins. Of nature's weapons, tornadoes are among the most unforgiving, and here's an unforgettable portrait of these storms and one extraordinary man who challenged them—and produced the first-ever photographs snatched from a rampaging twister's black heart. Tornado chaser Tim Samaras, working with master storyteller Stefan Bechtel, author of Roar of the Heavens, has created a page-turner with narrative force and scientific substance. In the first of five you-are-there accounts, Tornado Hunter opens with a moment-by-moment description of the 2003 catastrophe that engulfed Manchester, South Dakota. The authors evoke the doomed town and its people; the dark menacing funnel; and Samaras's fearless advance into the whirlwind’s core to deploy the ingenious equipment he devised. They interweave the tornado chaser's passion, the fascinating science of the storms themselves, and six decades of progress in predicting and recording their onslaught—an art beholden to Samaras's own groundbreaking inventions. Tim Samaras's 2004 article in National Geographic became one of the most widely read in the magazine’s history. This powerful book is destined to blast its way onto bestseller lists everywhere.

Getting Inside the Most Violent Storms on Earth

Tornado Hunter

Men's Health

Offers up-to-date information for men on more than 130 sexual topics from techniques to sexual harassment, presenting advice on such areas as reading a woman's body signals, how to avoid crossing the line, and more. Reprint.

A Man's Guide

2018 ASJA Award-Winner in the Biography/History Category Is it possible to make direct contact with the dead? Do the departed seek to make contact with us? The conviction that both things are true was the cornerstone of spiritualism, a kind of do-it-yourself religion that swept the Western world from the 1850s to the 1930s. Prominent artists and poets, prime ministers and scientists, all joined hands around the séance table. But the movement's most famous spokesman by far was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose public quarrels with Houdini over the truth of spiritualism made headlines across the country. Known to the world as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle had undergone what many considered an enigmatic transformation, turning his back on the hyper-rational Holmes and plunging into the supernatural. What was it that convinced a brilliant man, the creator of the great exemplar of cold, objective thought, that there was a reality beyond reality? Though most modern sources make Conan Doyle out to be a kindly but credulous old fool, and though the spiritualist era was rife with fraud, Stefan Bechtel and Laurence Roy Stains take a closer look. They reexamine the old records of trance mediums and séances, and they discover that what Conan Doyle and his colleagues uncovered is as difficult to dismiss now as it was then.

Kit Castle

Recounts a woman's torturous deliverance from multiple personalities--that were spawned by a family history of intense emotional, physical, and sexual abuse

It's Time : The Incredible True Story of the Multiple Personalities of Kit Castle

Katherine

Recounting his twenty-year career as a storm chaser, the author reviews the pioneering work of the first storm scientists and discusses his own work analyzing tornadoes and inventing a special probe able to measure wind velocity inside a storm's core.

Larry Stains

A guide to the minds of women complied by 2,513 real interviews details the specifics of what women love and hate, with tips that can turn any man into an exceptional lover and partner. 20,000 first printing.

What Every Man Needs to Know About SEX, Romance, Passion, and Pleasure

This collection of "luck" trivia provides the history of certain good luck rituals and objects, such as charms, knocking on wood, and wishbones, includes quotations about luck, and suggests ways to change one's luck from bad to good

Stefan Bechtel

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