Les Standiford

In 1907, William Mulholland, an Irish immigrant, conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history, an aqueduct that carried water 223 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains to Los Angeles. This allowed the resource-challenged desert city to grow into a global metropolis. With colorful detail, Water to the Angels brings to life the personalities, politics and power which included bribery and deception behind this dramatic event.

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Location: Street: 695 E. Colorado Blvd City: Pasadena, Province: California Postal Code: 91101 Country: United States (tilføjet fra IndieBound)… (mere)

A groundbreaking narrative--a historical political thriller--that explores the role of the Sons of Liberty in the American Revolution. More than two hundred years ago, a group of British colonists in America decided that the conditions under which they were governed had become intolerable. Angry and frustrated that King George III and the British Parliament had ignored their lawful complaints and petitions, they decided to take action. Knowing that their deeds--often directed at individuals and property--were illegal, and punishable by imprisonment and even death, these agitators plotted and conducted their missions in secret to protect their identities as well as the identities of those who supported them. Calling themselves the Sons of Liberty, they gathered together in a radical society committed to imposing forcible change. Those determined men--including second cousins Samuel and John Adams, Paul Revere, Patrick Henry, and John Hancock--saw themselves as patriots. Yet to the Crown, and to many of the Sons' fellow colonists, the revolutionaries were terrorists who deserved death for their treason. In Desperate Sons (Harper, $27.99), a gripping narrative, Les Standiford reveals how this group of intelligent, committed men, motivated by economics and political belief, began a careful campaign of interlocking events that would channel feelings of vague injustice into an armed rebellion of common cause, which would defeat an empire and give birth to a radical political experiment--a new nation known as the United States. 8pm

Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (tilføjet fra IndieBound)… (mere)

In South Florida, we all know the horrifying story of six-year-old Adam Walsh’s abduction and murder in 1981. And we know that before that awful day, there were no children’s faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no national Center for Missing and Abused Children, no federal databases for crimes against children, no registration of pedophiles. But few of us know the whole story—how, after 27 years of relentless investigation, decorated Miami Beach homicide detective Joe Matthews finally identified Adam’s killer. Bringing Adam home (Ecco, $14.99) by Les Standiford and Det. Sgt. Joe Matthews is the definitive account of this harrowing crime and its aftermath – a true story of tragedy, love, faith, and dedication.

Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (tilføjet fra IndieBound)… (mere)