Life Tragedy

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times. Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves...

Based on a true incident, young Clyde Griffiths revolts against the poverty and missionary zeal of his parents as he pursues job advancement, acceptance in the world of society and the affections of two women. The solution to his romantic dilemma is vividly described in this haunting, sometimes horrific story.

In 2001, John J. Lennon killed a man on a Brooklyn Street. Now he’s a journalist, working from behind bars, trying to make sense of it all. The Tragedy of True Crime is a first-person journalistic account of the lives of four men who have killed, written by a man who has killed. Lennon entered...

“What [Laurada’s] life teaches us is that true grit has a purpose, and that purpose is to make the future better for others.” – Angela Duckworth, PhD, New York Times Bestselling Author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance -- Born into privilege in Bronxville, New York, Laurada Byers’s early life included boarding school in Connecticut, world travel, and a marriage to the wildly charismatic and endlessly curious W. Russell G. Byers, an acclaimed newspaper columnist. Together they built a home in Philadelphia's historic Chestnut Hill filled with laughter, cherished ...

Described as the 'most beautiful princess in Europe', and a woman 'capable of arousing profane passion', this is the story of a woman whose life combined privilege and tragedy, love and riches, conviction and courage, humanity and inhumanity.

In only 90 seconds, a fire in The Station nightclub in Rhode Island left 100 people dead or dying and injured hundreds more. It would take years to find out why - and who was really at fault. Best-selling author and three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist Scott James investigates all the central figures, including the band’s manager and lead singer, the fire inspector, the maker of the acoustical foam, as well as the brothers.

This is the true story of a journey to a seaside town and the always unpredictable torrent of dark escapades that accompany a life at sea. It's a story of a world peopled by those who often live on the frayed edges of society, who shun the world in which most people thrive. It's a story in which college students and "fish hippies" work in canneries alongside survivalists, rednecks, religious freaks, and deckhands with damning secrets in dangerous waters, driven by the need to feed an insatiable appetite for adventure.

"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without...

This annotated edition of King Lear includes: • A 16,000-word critical study, "An O Without a Figure" • A Note on the Text: the two Lears, and why this is neither • On the mock trial and the scenes that exist in only one text • A full life of Shakespeare — and the thin record behind it • The complete received tragedy, all five acts An old king asks his three daughters how much they love him, believes the two who lie, and banishes the one who tells the truth. Everything after is the ruin. King Lear is the bleakest and largest of the tragedies — a play that strips a king to ...

"Fans of Debbie Macomber, The Chesapeake Bay series and Elin Hilderbrand will love this series..." Kindle Reader "A story about friendship, sisterhood, mother-daughter relationships, finding your inner strength in the face of adversity, starting over, and the pursuit of true love..." Andi's Books "Best book of the year. I know it's only March, but it is....Ms. Keaton's storytelling is brilliant..." Harlie's Books She's 54, broken-hearted, and starting over.... High-powered New York attorney Ava Flynn finds herself without a job or a future. Unemployable at her age, and broken-hearted by a ...

The inside story of the Super Bowl champion 1986 Giants, the extraordinary friendships that resulted--and stunning revelations about the hardships they faced, based on new interviews with Bill Parcells, Phil Simms, Mark Bavaro, and Bill Belichick. The 1986 New York Giants are legendary. A...

From one of the most gifted writers of her generation comes the harrowing and exquisitely written true story of how a family tragedy saved her life. Dani Shapiro was a young girl from a deeply religious home who became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney—her best...

This annotated edition of Hamlet includes: • A 16,000-word critical study, "Frighted With False Fire" • A Note on the Text naming which early text each passage comes from • A full life of Shakespeare — and the thin record behind the legend • The complete, unabridged received text: all five acts • On the three Hamlets of 1603, 1604, and 1623 — and why they differ There is no such object as Hamlet. There are three early printed texts, they disagree, and the play everyone knows is a hybrid of two of them, stitched together by editors in the eighteenth century. No version ...

An American Tragedy is the story of Clyde Griffiths, who spends his life in the desperate pursuit of success. On a deeper, more profound level, it is the masterful portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's ambitions and seal his fate; it is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American dream.

Blending firsthand accounts of tragedy with opportunity for raw self-examination and reflection, Vleisides delves into the realm of spirituality and belief amid loss and despair. For the "spiritual but not religious", who want to pursue God outside the walls of organized religion, Used to Go to Church is an invitation to rethink faith and open up to a life centered on grace, mercy, and love. 

The "queen of the summer novel" explores the power of community, family, and honesty-and proves that even from the ashes of sorrow new love can take flight (Kirkus Reviews). A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. What...

Afonso da Maia has spent a long life trying to be what Portugal should have been: cultivated, liberal, serious, a man of genuine civilization in a country that keeps failing to become one. He raises his grandson Carlos — his son Pedro's marriage has ended in abandonment and suicide, the abandoned daughter disappeared with her mother into an unknown future — with deliberate care, sends him to England, forms him as the Geração de 70's ideals would have formed a man: intelligent, cosmopolitan, equipped with everything that Portugal needs and that Portugal, in its current condition, has ...

1939. Seventeen-year-old Nora Jennings has spent her life secure in the certainty of a bright, happy future - until one night of passion has more catastrophic consequences than she ever could have anticipated. Labelled a moral defective and sectioned under the Mental Deficiency Act, she is forced to endure years of unspeakable cruelty at the hands of those who are supposed to care for her. 

Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict Arnold remains one of the Revolutionary period's great puzzles. Why did a brilliant military commander, who repeatedly risked his life fighting the British, who was grievously injured in the line of duty, and fell into debt personally funding his own troops, ultimately became a traitor to the patriot cause? 

When we leave home, we sign an unspoken contract with trust. We step onto foreign flights, board luxury cruise liners, and drive down remote, sun-drenched highways with the assumption that the civilized safety nets of our daily lives will travel with us. We are dangerously mistaken. This gripping collection examines what happens when travelers step off the mapped grid and into the path of opportunistic predators, geographic traps, and institutional cover-ups. From the isolated outback asphalt of Australia to the neon labyrinths of Tokyo, these immersive, detailed accounts investigate the ...