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  Missouri's Mad Doctor McDowell -...

  Lorelei Shannon, Victoria Cosner

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  Discover the twisted 19th century tale of a respected St. Louis doctor who was also a body snatcher and suspected murderer in this true crime biography.   Though he was never caught in the act, it was widely known among St. Louis locals that Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell routinely stole corpses for strange and illegal experiments. McDowell was so loathed for this practice that he wore body armor in public. Meanwhile, he was so idolized by his anatomy students that they often dug up the bodies for him.    The ghoulish Dr. McDowell—who later served as a Confederate Army surgeon—left a host of fiendish rumors and mysteries behind. Did he ever resort to murder for the sake of a fresh specimen? Did his mother's ghost actually help him escape an angry mob? Did he really hang the corpse of his daughter in the Mark Twain Cave of Hannibal, Missouri? What very real horrors remained in his medical college after Union soldiers took it over? In this grimly fascinating biography, Victoria Cosner dissects a life surrounded by speculation and a legend littered with ghosts.

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  Cleanse Their Souls -...

  Monty Woolley

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  A memoir of the lethal conflict in the former Yugoslavia, by a British soldier who was on the front lines.   This is a young cavalry lieutenant’s moving and shocking account of front line service in the cauldron of war. His troop of Scimitar light-armored vehicles was attached to the 1 CHESHIRE Battle Group, under the charismatic command of Colonel Bob Stewart. Fresh from Germany, he and his men found themselves in a highly political and lethally dangerous civil war.   They witnessed appalling atrocities and human tragedy on a giant scale. Yet both soldiers and civilians showed massive courage and resilience. Thanks to the author's diary, we have here an extraordinary, spontaneous, and important account of British troops performing vital military and humanitarian tasks, described by war correspondent and MP Martin Bell as “earning its place among the impartial narratives of the Bosnian War.”

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce,...

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  The top 10 short stories of all time written by American male authors. 
   
  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  From cities to vast open landscapes to the interiors of our fears the male authors of America dominate their stories with characters and narratives that are big, bold and beautiful.  Stories begin and end as fully formed, as necessary as oxygen as beguiling as life itself. 
  1 - The Top 10 - The American Men - An Introduction 
  2 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson 
  3 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce 
  4 - The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell 
  5 - The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte 
  6 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  7 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry 
  8 - To Build a Fire by Jack London 
  9 - The Call of Cthulhu by HP Lovecraft 
  10 - Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville 
  11 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

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  Wolf Island - Discovering the...

  L. David Mech, Greg Breining

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  In the late 1940s, a small pack of wolves crossed the ice of Lake Superior to the island wilderness of Isle Royale, creating a perfect "laboratory" for a long-term study of predators and prey. As the wolves hunted and killed the island's moose, a young graduate student named Dave Mech began research that would unlock the mystery of one of nature's most revered (and reviled) animals—and eventually became an internationally renowned and respected wolf expert. This is the story of those early years.Wolf Island recounts three extraordinary summers and winters Mech spent on the isolated outpost of Isle Royale National Park, tracking and observing wolves and moose on foot and by airplane—and upending the common misperception of wolves as destructive killers of insatiable appetite. Mech sets the scene with one of his most thrilling encounters: witnessing an aerial view of a spectacular hunt, then venturing by snowshoe to photograph the pack of hungry wolves at their kill. Wolf Island owes as much to the spirit of adventure as to the impetus of scientific curiosity. Written with science and outdoor writer Greg Breining, who recorded hours of interviews with Mech and had access to his journals and field notes from those years, the book captures the immediacy of scientific fieldwork in all its triumphs and frustrations.

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  Clearing the Hurdles

  J.B. McGowan

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  'It is rare indeed for property developers to write memoirs, or leave anything on the public record. But that's what Joe McGowan, of once-notorious builders Brennan and McGowan, has done with Clearing the Hurdles, in which he recounts his life and times, including a four-week stint being cross-examined by lawyers at the planning tribunal in Dublin Castle; he calls it the "Theatre of Ice". . . . [The book] will be of compelling interest to those with a passion for horses as well as anyone involved in the precarious, up-and-down business of house-building.'—Frank McDonald, An Irishman's Diary, the Irish Times

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  Steep Trails

  John Muir

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  A patron saint of twentieth-century environmental activity, John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West but also fought for its preservation. Steep Trails collects together his essays and letters written as he traveled, capturing the personal, heartfelt connection he had with the lands he roamed.   

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