Treating New York City as an open-air museum, Thomas E. Rinaldi captures the brilliant glow of surviving early- and mid-twentieth-century neon signs, those iconic elements of the cityscape now in dang
This book celebrates the art, friendship, and unparalleled creativity of this revered and subversive milieu, illuminating unities and tensions, playfulness and glamour, and a startling authenticity of
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katee Robert brings the heat in this series of sizzling modern Greek myth retellingsCONTEMPORARY ROMANCESociety darling Persephone Dimitriou wants nothi
Lucas Davenport tracks a prolific serial killer in this nail-biting #1 New York Times-bestseller from John Sandford.Clayton Deese looks like a small-time criminal, muscle for hire when his loan shark
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR JAMES LEE BURKETHE NEON RAINDetective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Los
Neon has been described as a "gloriously offbeat scherzo" (The Times) and as "a septet rooted in Zappaesque raucousness" (New York Times). It has all the hallmarks
The incredible true story of America's original—and forgotten—capital of viceBack in the days before Las Vegas was big, when the Mob was at its peak and neon lights were but a glimmer on the horizon,
Without neon, Las Vegas might still be a sleepy desert town in Nevada and Times Square merely another busy intersection in New York City. Transformed by the installation of these brightly colored sign
Praise for the Previous Edition (0 415 92612 2): .".".lively and provocative...this book will teach you something startling on nearly every page..." --The New York Times Book Review" Like the Emerald
This path-breaking book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated "rust belt" of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, Susan Dewey shows how these women negotiat
This path-breaking book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated "rust belt" of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, Susan Dewey shows how these women negotiat
Carlos Juarez and Sarah Stubbs match wits with an obsessed New York City neon sign maker out to steal the power of the Kurbs--powerful creatures who control the city's day, night, and seasons--and fre
The first and only memoir about the reeducation camps by a Uyghur woman. "I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality."-- Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris Match Since 2017, more than one million Uyghurs have been deported from their homes in the Xinjiang region to "re-education camps." The brutal repression of the Uyghurs, a Turkish-speaking Muslim ethnic group, has been denounced as genocide, and reported widely in media around the world. The Xinjiang Papers, revealed by the New York Times in 2019, reveal the brutal repression of the Uyghur ethnicity by means of forced mass detention--the biggest since the time of Mao. Her name is Gulbahar Haitiwaji and she is the first Uyghur woman to escape from the Chinese re-education camps who has dared to speak out. For three years Gulbahar Haitiwaji endured hundreds of hours of interrogations, torture, hunger, police violence, brainwashing, forced sterilization, freezing cold, rats, and nights under blinding neon light in her prison cell
Carlos Juarez and Sarah Stubbs match wits with an obsessed New York City neon sign maker out to steal the power of the Kurbs--powerful creatures who control the city's day, night, and seasons--and fre
Carlos Juarez and Sarah Stubbs match wits with an obsessed New York City neon sign maker out to steal the power of the Kurbs--powerful creatures who control the city's day, night, and seasons--and fre
