Did she or didn't she? What was Lizzie's secret? This best-selling chapbook tells the whole story of the shocking 1892 crime that has caused more confusion, speculation and debate than any other in American history. Find out how Lizzie and her hatchet became the stuff of legends.

Of all the brave stage drivers in the old west, Mountain Charley Parkhurst was one of the bravest and most colorful. He also just happened to be a woman.

The life of Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), America's first and foremost showman, burned with an incandescent energy that brightened two continents. Learn how the same spark of life that fueled the wonders of Barnum's museums and circuses also fueled the fires that five times burned to the ground all his accomplishments.

Is the man who wrote 1984 a Mother Goose for the twenty-first century? The works of famed author and essayist George Orwell are filled with bits of verse, both original and collected, from sources as varied as advertisements, popular songs, and rude graffiti scribbled on the walls of London. Brought together here for the first time, and fully and charmingly illustrated, this poetry of the proletariat paints a grim, cynical--and totally unforgettable--portrait of Orwell's world. And ours.

Edgar Allan Poe, the great American writer, once belonged to a tortoise shell cat named Cattarina who supervised everything from his writings to his love affairs. In this documented account, Ed Sams explores the psychic link between pet and owner-- and how it affected both until their mysterious deaths.

Exposed Read the shocking truth that's been buried for more than 100 years. Find out what really lurked beneath the prim facade of Victoria, Queen of England and the British Isles, Empress of India, and royal grandmamma to the crowned heads of Europe: blood curses, hidden scandals, even royal vampires "