New Releases by Erik Larson

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history—from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City “A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the more compelling for being true.” —The New York Times Book Review September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people—and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating personal tragedy. Using Cline''s own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man''s heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude.

Un homme construit le paradis sur Terre, l''autre y fait régner l''enfer. 1893 : l''Exposition universelle de Chicago est l''occasion pour les États-Unis de montrer leur puissance au reste du monde. Au cœur de cet événement sans précédent, le célèbre architecte Daniel H. Burnham, créateur du premier gratte-ciel, à qui revient la tâche de créer une cité de rêve, la Ville blanche. On attend près de 30 millions de visiteurs, de nombreuses personnalités, parmi lesquelles Houdini, Frank Lloyd Wright ou Thomas Edison. Mais, dans l''ombre de l''Exposition, une autre figure accomplit de bien plus noirs desseins : H. H. Holmes, un jeune médecin apparemment bien sous tous rapports, en réalité l''un des tueurs en série les plus terrifiants de l''histoire du crime, sur la piste duquel se pressent un inspecteur d''une incroyable tenacité et une étrange association, le Whitechapel Club. Vendu à plus d''un million d''exemplaires outre-Atlantique, bientôt porté à l''écran avec Leonardo DiCaprio, ce document bénéficie d''une construction et d''un sens de l''intrigue dignes des plus grands auteurs de thrillers. Une formidable histoire où l''on constatera, une fois de plus, que la réalité dépasse toujours la fiction.

''An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction'' TIME OUT One was an architect. The other a serial killer. This is the incredible story of these two men and their realization of the Chicago World''s Fair of 1893, and its amazing ''White City''; one of the wonders of the world. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer was H. H. Holmes, a handsome doctor with striking blue eyes. He used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores of young women to their deaths. While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago''s infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World''s Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century . . .

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Mrożąca krew w żyłach historia zbrodni i wynalazku, która przeniesie czytelnika do epoki, w której wierzono, że seanse spirytystyczne są gwarantem wspólnoty duchowej ze zmarłymi Prawdziwa historia dwóch mężczyzn: Guglielmo Marconiego,włoskiego fizyka, konstruktora i laureata Nagrody Nobla za wkład w rozwój telegrafii bezprzewodowej, oraz Hawley’a Crippena, angielskiego lekarza i zbrodniarza, których losy połączył jeden z największych w historii pościgów policyjnych. Marconi, opanowany bez reszty obsesją stworzenia sposobu łączności, który w owych czasach wydawał się nadprzyrodzonym, z zapałem walczy z falą sceptycyzmu, by wbrew wszelkim przewidywaniom przejść ze swym wynalazkiem do historii. W tym samym czasie Hawley Crippen, ceniony lekarz, popełnia zbrodnię niemal doskonałą. Najpierw truje swoją żonę, potem jej poćwiartowane zwłoki chowa w piwnicy, a następnie rozpowiada wśród znajomych, że małżonka wróciła do Stanów. Kiedy Scotland Yard odkrywa podczas przeszukania domu zwłoki kobiety, Crippen, by uniknąć aresztowania, zmuszony jest uciekać do Kanady. Grom z jasnego nieba to prawdziwa historia wielkiej pogoni przez ocean, którą śledziły miliony czytelników gazet na całym świecie. To opowieść o jednym z największych w historii pościgów policyjnych, który zakończył się sukcesem tylko dzięki wynalezionej przez Guglielmo Marconiego telegrafii bezprzewodowej. Dwie fascynujące postacie: wynalazca i morderca Ich losy połączyła zbrodnia, a ich historię opisał mistrz tej formy.

In 1910, Edwardian England was scandalized by a murder: a mild-mannered American named Hawley Crippen had killed his wife and buried her remains (well, some of her remains) in the cellar of their North London home. He then went on the run with his young mistress, his secretary, Ethel Le Neve. A Scotland Yard inspector, already famous for his part in the Ripper investigation, discovered the murder and launched an international hunt for Crippen that climaxed in a trans-Atlantic chase between two ocean liners. The chase itself was novel, but what captured the imagination of the world''s public was the role played by a new and little understood technology: the wireless, invented by Guglielmo Marconi. Thanks to Marconi''s obsessive fight to perfect his invention, the world was able to learn of events occurring in the middle of the Atlantic as they unfolded - something previously unthinkable. Police, jurists, and editors of the time all agreed that if not for Marconi, Crippen would have escaped. But Marconi had struggled to gain acceptance for his invention as a practical technology (many viewed the wireless as a novelty or a supernatural device, while distrust of foreigners remained prevalent in England and America). It was the Crippen case that helped convince the world of the potential of Marconi''s miracle technology, so accelerating the wireless revolution that eventually produced radio, television and cell phones. With a cast of colourful, captivating characters THUNDERSTRUCK is Larson at his commercial best, doing what he does so irresistibly well: cleverly bringing together two seemingly disparate yet inextricably linked lives to paint a fascinating, exciting portrait of a hugely significant age of cultural, social and technological change while evoking the darker side of human nature.

A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.” In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to build the biggest, fastest ocean liners; scientific advances dazzled the public with visions of a world transformed; and the rich outdid one another with ostentatious displays of wealth. Against this background, Marconi races against incredible odds and relentless skepticism to perfect his invention: the wireless, a prime catalyst for the emergence of the world we know today. Meanwhile, Crippen, “the kindest of men,” nearly commits the perfect murder. With his unparalleled narrative skills, Erik Larson guides us through a relentlessly suspenseful chase over the waters of the North Atlantic. Along the way, he tells of a sad and tragic love affair that was described on the front pages of newspapers around the world, a chief inspector who found himself strangely sympathetic to the killer and his lover, and a driven and compelling inventor who transformed the way we communicate.

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This devastating book illuminates America''s gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. "Touches on all aspects of the gun issue in this country. Gives great voice to that feeling...that something real must be done." --San Diego Union-Tribune "One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years." --Washington Post Book World It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day''s end, he had killed one teacher and severely wounded another. In Lethal Passage Erik Larson shows us how a disturbed teenager was able to buy a weapon advertised as "the gun that made the eighties roar." The result is a book that can -- and should -- save lives, and that has already become an essential text in the gun-control debate.

Some companies gather and sell personal information to assist businesses in their marketing campaigns. It this American business at its finest, or simply a horrible invasion of our privacy? This shocking book will make readers think twice before writing their next check or going to the grocery store.