Erik Larson, Author . Crown $25.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-609-60844-9
Not long after Jack the Ripper haunted the ill-lit streets of 1888 London, H.H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett) dispatched somewhere between 27 and 200 people, mostly single young women, in the churning new metropolis of Chicago; many of the...
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Erik Larson, Author . Crown $25.95 (463p) ISBN 978-1-4000-8066-3
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In this splendid, beautifully written followup to his blockbuster thriller, Devil in the White City
, Erik Larson again unites the dual stories of two disparate men, one a genius and the other a killer. The
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Erik Larson, Author Crown Publishing Group $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-609-60233-1
Torqued by drama and taut with suspense, this absorbing narrative of the 1900 hurricane that inundated Galveston, Tex., conveys the sudden, cruel power of the deadliest natural disaster in American history. Told largely from the perspective of Isaac
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Erik Larson, Author Penguin Books $16 (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-023303-2
Former Wall Street Journal reporter Larson investigates consumer espionage and invasive marketing practices in this alarming and compelling expose. (Jan.)
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Erik Larson, Author Vintage Books USA $14.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-679-75927-0
Wall Street Journal reporter Larson has written a new afterword to this timely study of American gun culture. (Jan.)
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Erik Larson, Author Henry Holt & Company $23 (275p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1755-7
Consumer espionage, practiced on virtually every American, is one of the nation's most powerful industries, contends former Wall Street Journal journalist Larson in this alarming and compelling expose. According to him, Nielsen nightly ratings alone
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Erik Larson, Author Crown Publishers $21 (272p) ISBN 978-0-517-59677-7
In this valiant, innovative, effective and timely study, Wall Street Journal reporter Larson considers the case of Nicholas Elliot, 16, who went on a shooting rampage on December 16, 1988, in the Virginia religious high school he attended, leaving...
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Erik Larson. Crown, $26 (464p) ISBN 978-0-307-40884-6
In this mesmerizing portrait of the Nazi capital, Larson plumbs a far more diabolical urban cauldron than in his bestselling The Devil in the White City. He surveys Berlin, circa 1933–1934, from the perspective of two American naïfs: Roosevelt's...
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Erik Larson, Author, Tony Goldwyn, Read by , read by Tony Goldwyn. Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-0208-8
This is a steady performance of a book that, while gripping in its content and crisply paced, isn't quite a gold mine for an audio performer. It relies on journalistic narration and includes almost no quotes, so there isn't much chance for...
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Erik Larson, Author, Tony Goldwyn, Read by Random House Audio Publishing Group $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-3963-3
Larson's new suspense-spiked history links Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, with Hawley Crippen, a mild-mannered homeopathic doctor in turn-of-the-century London. While Larson tells their stories side by side, most listeners...
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Erik Larson, read by Stephen Hoye. Random House Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hours, $45 ISBN 978-0-307-91457-6
Larson (Devil in the White City) delivers another spellbinding and lively history in this exploration of Adolf Hitler's rise to power as seen by U.S. Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd and his daughter, Martha. Larson contrasts Dodd's family life
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Erik Larson. Crown, $28 (464p) ISBN 978-0-307-40886-0
With a narrative as smooth as the titular passenger liner, Larson (In the Garden of Beasts) delivers a riveting account of one of the most tragic events of WWI. The fact a German U-boat sank the Lusitania off the coast of Ireland in May 1915 is...
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Erik Larson, read by Scott Brick. Random House Audio, , 11 CDs, 13 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-553-55162-4
Reader Brick’s measured, natural voice is a soothing counterweight to Larson’s tragic recounting of the 1915 sinking of the British passenger ship Lusitania by a German U-boat—one of the catalysts for the United States’ eventual entry into World War
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Erik Larson. Crown, $32 (608p) ISBN 978-0-385-34871-3
Larson (Dead Wake) delivers a propulsive, character-driven account of Winston Churchill’s first year as British prime minister (May 1940–May 1941), when the German air force launched “a full-on assault against the city of London” in preparation for...
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Erik Larson. Crown, $35 (608p) ISBN 978-0-385-34874-4
In this twisty and cinematic account, bestseller Larson (The Splendid and the Vile) recreates the five-month period between Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 election and the outbreak of the Civil War, focusing on the intensifying showdown over Fort Sumter in...
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