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  Ghost Light - A Memoir

  Frank Rich

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  There is a theater superstition that if the emptied house is ever left completely dark, a ghost will take up residence. To prevent this, a single "ghost light" is left burning at center stage after the audience and all of the actors and musicians have left. In this eloquent and moving memoir, celebrated New York Times drama critic and columnist Frank Rich reveals how theater became a beacon of security for him as a child. As he struggled with his parent's divorce, Rich found his way in a tumultuous world, transformed by the magic of Broadway.

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  Operation Devil Horns - The...

  Michael Santini, Ray Bolger

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  In a bid to take down MS-13's criminal network in the Mission District of San Francisco, Michael Santini, a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, recruits a pair of hardened gang members and convinces them to risk their lives as criminal informants. Set in a city with one of the strictest sanctuary policies protecting illegal immigrants in America, Operation Devil Horns illustrates how politically correct ideology impacts life-or-death crime fighting on the streets.Through the informants' eyes, Operation Devil Horns offers a rare glimpse into the pervasive criminal subculture of MS-13, a gang of Spanish-speaking immigrants that still terrorizes pockets of American society today — including their own compatriots.The case begins with a focus on the gang in San Francisco, eventually widening to include a network that reaches across borders. Santini tracks down the gang's leadership from the Bay Area to the prison cells of corrupt Central American regimes. Eventually, it takes the cold-blooded murder of three family members in San Francisco to shake the American public out of complacency and focus sober attention on a growing and violent threat.

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  Rio Noir

  Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, M. V....

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  Explore the darker side of the sunny Brazilian city in this gritty mystery anthology featuring fourteen tales by writers from the region. 
   
  Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respect city. With Rio Noir, the Akashic Noir series delver for the first time into South America. 
   
  With stories by: Tony Bellotto, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, MV Bill, Luiz Eduardo Soares, Guilherme Fiuza, Arthur Dapieve, Victoria Saramago, Arnaldo Bloch, Adriana Lisboa, Alexandre Fraga dos Santos, Marcelo Ferroni, Flávio Carneiro, Raphael Montes, and Luis Fernando Verissimo. All stories translated from Portuguese by Clifford Landers (Coelho’s The Alchemist, etc.). 
   
  Praise for Rio Noir 
   
  “In the latest entry to this globetrotting series, a man goes for a tarot reading and winds up poisoned by the daughter he never knew he had. And that’s just one story in a collection that takes us down the mysterious alleys and mazy favelas of Rio.” —O, the Oprah Magazine 
   
  “A good introduction to writers of the region and to the dark side of a very sunny place.” —Booklist 
   
  “A solid addition to Akashic's acclaimed noir series.” —Publishers Weekly

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  In Action with the SAS - A...

  Roy Close

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  A World War II memoir of a clerk who put down his pen and took up a weapon, rising through the ranks to become an elite Special Air Service soldier. 
   
  Roy Close’s wartime experiences make breathtaking reading. Mobilized in 1939 he became part of the BEF and was fortunate to avoid death or captivity during the German blitzkrieg and escape through Dunkirk. Sent to North Africa, he joined the Paras and, from there, to the SAS. In 1944 he operated behind enemy lines with the Maquis in France, who were in open insurrection against the German occupiers.  
   
  The scene then shifted to Holland and the advance through Germany. He witnessed Paris and Berlin in very early post-war years and was part of the Quadripartite Government of the former German capital.

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  Survival of the Friendliest by...

  American Classics

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  Survival of the Friendliest" by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods offers a fascinating exploration into the evolution of human sociability and its impact on our success as a species. This audiobook summary presents the key ideas and insights from the original work, emphasizing the role of friendliness and cooperation in human evolution. 
  The book delves into how our early ancestors may have undergone a process similar to self-domestication, leading to the development of our modern friendly and social nature. It discusses the physical and behavioral traits that have evolved in humans, such as softer facial features and a propensity for forming strong social bonds, even with strangers. This evolution has been crucial for our survival and success, fostering community-oriented behavior and enabling us to thrive in various environments. 
  However, the book also addresses the darker side of our social nature. Our strong social bonds can sometimes lead to viewing outsiders as less human, a phenomenon with deep evolutionary roots. The book illustrates this with real-life examples, showing how our in-group biases can lead to conflict and strife, yet also highlights the potential for fostering tolerance and understanding through close, casual contact with others. 
  "Survival of the Friendliest" presents an intriguing scientific perspective on the origins of human sociability, making it a compelling read for anyone interested in evolutionary science, psychology, or the history of human behavior. This audiobook summary offers an accessible way to grasp the book's main lessons and principles, perfect for those seeking a quick understanding of how friendliness and cooperation have shaped our species​

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  Against the Wind - An Autobiography

  Geoffrey Household

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  In this fascinating and uniquely colorful autobiography, a twentieth-century master of suspense fiction candidly examines his extraordinary life, times, and art One of the twentieth century’s most respected writers of adventure and espionage thrillers, Geoffrey Household penned more than twenty novels and short story collections in a career that spanned more than fifty years—and lived a life as eventful and surprising as his acclaimed, pulse-pounding fiction. In Against the Wind, the author whom the New York Times credits with having “helped to develop the suspense story into an art form” shares his remarkable personal history with candor and wit, while exploring the creative process and his roles as a husband, father, bestselling popular artist, and citizen of his uniquely eventful time. From his years as a student at the University of Oxford to his early career in the cutthroat world of international business and finance to his patriotic service with British intelligence during World War II, with perilous postings in Greece, Romania, and the Middle East that later informed his thrilling fiction, Household evocatively recalls a peripatetic life lived purposefully and often dangerously in some of the most colorful and fascinating regions of the globe.

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