Set during the great depression of the 1930s in America, this is the story of life in midwest America as seen through the eyes of a twelve year old boy, while his mother is in hospital with tuberculosis & his father forced to take the road as a travelli ...

' Once upon a time, when New York City lived & breathed, there was a man marked for death, like us all.. .' Arnold Rothstein was one of the most mysterious figures in Manhattan's history: a godfather of organized crime
- rumoured to have fixed baseball's World Series
- yet a peer of the Morgans & Rockefellers. But one night in 1928, he was shot in the stomach & died shortly afterwards, refusing to speak a word concerning his own murder. Nick Tosches jumps feet first into Rothstein's life to lay bare his legacy
- to New York & to the whole Western world
- & to try & make some sense of what the 'king of the Jews' means to us. What we get back is an angry howl right out of the tortured heart of America itself.



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Remote locations in Canada & Alaska are virtually impossible to access without ice roads, manmade passages of solid ice connecting one frozen lake to another. Navigating those roads is a necessity for multi-billion dollar diamond mines, but it's a treacherous experience & not for the faint of heart. ...

It was the night of February 25, 1964. A cloud of cigar smoke drifted through the ring lights. Cassius Clay threw punches into the gray floating haze & waited for the bell.

When Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene in the 1950s, he broke the mould. He changed the world of sports & went on to change the world itself: from his early fights as Cassius Clay, the young, wiry man from Louisville, unwilling to play the noble & grateful warrior in a white world, to becoming Muhammad Ali, the voice of black America & the most recognised face on the planet.

King of the World is the story of an incredible rise to power, a book of battles fought inside the ring & out. With grace & power, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Remnick tells of a transcendent athlete & entertainer, a rapper before rap was born. Ali was a mirror of his era, a dynamic figure in the racial & cultural clashes of his time & King of the World is a classic piece of non-fiction & a book worthy of Americas most dynamic modern hero.



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Books Contemporary Fiction Books She’s the wife he never wanted… & the weakness he never saw coming.  Billionaire Dante Russo is ruthless, meticulous, & arrogant – marriage was the last thing on his mind. Until the threat of blackmail forced him into an engagement with a woman he barely knows: Vivian Lau, jewellery heiress, & daughter of his newest enemy. It doesn't matter how beautiful or charming she is. He'll do everything in his power to destroy the evidence & their betrothal. But now that he has her, does he even want to let her go?    Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780349436326 •†Author:†  Ana Huang •†Publisher:†  Piatkus •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 400 •†Dimensions:† 12.6 x 3.2 x 19.6 cm This book is part of a standalone series, click here to purchase books 1-3 of the King of Sin Series! ...

John Goodman had his first starring role in this warm-hearted comedy from Oscar-winning writer & director David S. Ward. When a freak accident wipes out the entire royal family, a surviving heir to the throne must be found, & turns up in the unlikely ...

The British Royal Family is dispatched en masse after being electrocuted during a family portrait. A search for a successor turns up Ralph Jones (John Goodman), a Las Vegas lounge singer, as the unlikely next-in-line. Before long, Buckingham Palace resembles a funfair & Lord Graves (John Hurt) is plotting King Ralph's demise. ...

This comprehensive edition of King Richard III offers all the features associated with the Arden Shakespeare. Richard is one of Shakespeare's great villains & the play that bears his name is one of his most popular in performance & in classrooms. ...

Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend
- & reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an unknown
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Classic adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's adventure novel, starring Cedric Hardwicke as explorer Allan Quatermaine. When fortune-hunter Patrick O' Brien (Arthur Sinclair) disappears in the African desert after setting off to find the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon, his daughter Kathy (Anna Lee) & native guide Umbopa (Paul Robeson) ask Quatermaine to lead a dangerous expedition into the heart of the country to track him down. There, Quatermaine discovers a secret lost tribe led by an evil witch, & is shocked to find that Umbopa is the heir to the tribe's throne. Only by helping Umbopa regain his position can Quatermaine hope to rescue O' Brien from the tribe's clutches. ...