the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists, and lunar man-bats in nineteenth-century New York
Goodman, Matthew
2008
Discusses the six tabloid articles which appeared in 1835 on the pages of a small New York City newspaper--the Sun--that supported claims of life existing on the Earth's moon, and describes unicorns, beavers that walk upright, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats.
The author tells the true story of Christian Michael Longo, his arrest for murdering his family, and how he fled to Mexico and assumed Michael Finkel's identity; and relates his own firing from the New York Times magazine.
Tells the story of Given Kachepa, a young man from the African nation of Zambia who was chosen at the age of eleven by a missionary group to become part of a choir touring the United States, only to find himself a victim of human trafficking, and who has made it his job to educate people about the problem since being rescued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service and placed in a foster home.
amazing tales of scandals that shocked the world and shaped modern business
Fortune (Chicago, Ill.)
2009
This beautifully illustrated series covers a wide variety of subjects, including global warming, to a pictoral account of history and infamous crimes through the ages.
Examines the global sex trade, exposing how women and girls from all over Eastern Europe are being sold for sex by networks of organized crime that rose to prominence after the fall of communism.
A discussion of corporate crime, including background and history, chronology of events, a biography of legislators, activists, and advocates, a directory of agencies and organizations, and an annotated list of resources.
After a quarrel over her decision to follow in her grandfather's footsteps and run for Congress, Nell MacDermott's husband dies in a boat explosion, and Nell, who has long possessed psychic gifts, must find out who killed him before she becomes the next victim.
how a father and son learned to love baseball again
Gullo, Jim
2012
Jim Gullo knew that in recent years something had not been quite right with baseball. In December 2007 Joe's young son was beginning to share Jim's passion for the game. Only then the news of players' steroid use hit the news. And Jim found himself explaining steroid use to his son instead of the game he loved. He decided to start to make things right by removing suspected drug users from his baseball card collection and their posters from his walls. And then he and his son started traveling to games from coast to coast to see if they could find the truth.