Letters written to F.X. Kappus during the years 1903-1908.

Documents the story of the cross-cultural friendship between wealthy New Englander Maud Melville and Hopi potter Ethel Muchvo, who shared years of personal triumphs and sorrows as well as a traditional "Hopi summer" before tragic changes were inflicted on Pueblo culture, in an account based on diaries, letters, and personal photos.

Did a flying saucer really crash in the New Mexico desert? According to popular belief, in early July 1947 the U.S. military secretly recovered the remains of a crashed UFO and its alien crew near the town of Roswell, New Mexico. There is no doubt something occurred at that remote desert outpost; the question is what, and has our government been hiding the facts for half a century? Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the alleged crash, Korff has undertaken...

"One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community -- an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly...

Praise for The Great Raid on Cabanatuan "An exciting narrative presented by a first-rate storyteller."--Publishers Weekly Acclaim for Feuding Allies "An absorbing look at the impact of Alliance politics on the outcome of WW II."--Kirkus Reviews. "As combat veterans and high commanders know, logic is often a stranger in wartime."--William Breuer, in Unexplained Mysteries of World War II. From Germany's invasion of Poland to the Japanese attack on Pearl...

"The hold of the Mafia on southern Italy---from Naples, home of Mafia-controlled mozzarella and toxic waste, through no-less-rotten Calabria, to Sicily, cradle of Cosa Nostra---is as strong as ever. In this memorable journey around the cities and villages of the Italian South, out of his unrivaled knowledge of Italy, David Lane gives us a telling expose of the operations of the Mafia today." "Over decades of living in Italy and traveling in the South,...

"Before Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah, and "Doonesbury," there was Art Buchwald. For more than fifty years, from 1950 to 2006, his Pulitzer Prize-winning column of political satire and biting wit made him one of the most widely read American humorists and a popular player in the Washington of Ethel and Ted Kennedy, Ben Bradlee, and Katharine Graham. Dean Acheson, former U.S. Secretary of State, called Buchwald the "greatest satirist in...