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A classic, life-changing meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling, with more than two-million copies in print

Depicting the men of Alpha Company--Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three--the stories in The Things They Carried opened our eyes to the nature of war in a way we will never forget. It is taught everywhere, from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in...

Roller coasters took Dick Kinzel slowly to the top and a $1.24 billion acquisition ultimately lead to his direst years. During his 39-year career (25 as president and CEO) with Cedar Point and Cedar Fair parks, he built the world's first 200, 300, and 400-foot tall roller coasters. He is responsible for adding more than 35 multi-million dollar scream machines to the company's 11 amusement parks. It was he who delivered the first shot in the coaster wars of the 1990s when he built the Magnum XL-200, the first to top the 200-foot barrier. .

He brought big, edgy and expensive coasters...

Einst Star-Journalist, lässt den in Ungnade gefallenen Boyd Halverson seine Vergangenheit einfach nicht los, während ihn die Gegenwart zermürbt. Also beschließt er eines Tages, die lokale Bank auszurauben, eine Geisel zu nehmen und abzuhauen, um eine Rechnung zu begleichen - mit dem Mann, dem er die Schuld an seinem verpfuschten Leben gibt. Doch das gestohlene Geld übersteigt nicht mal Boyds eigene Rücklagen, und Angie Bing, die Bankangestellte, mit der er immer ganz gerne geflirtet hat, stellt sich als ganz schön aufmüpfige Geisel heraus. Für die beiden beginnt ein Roadtrip in...

A New York Times Best seller

Pat O'Brien was a skinny South Dakota kid with long hair, a rock and roll band, divorced parents and an alcoholic father. In all the familiar ways, he was on the road to nowhere until a professor, who envisioned his future as the household name he would soon become, dramatically changed his life.

From that day forward Pat's life took turns that were both spectacular and destructive: from the Huntley-Brinkley Report and afternoons at Bobby Kennedy's living room with Muhammad Ali to conversations with six Presidents. He did acid with Timothy...