Erik Larson

"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson...

The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.

From New York Times bestselling author Erik Larson comes his first venture into fiction, an otherworldly tale of intrigue and the impossible that marshals his trademark approach to nonfiction to create something new: a ghost story thoroughly grounded in history.
Pioneering psychologist William James leads an expedition to a remote isle in search of answers after a family inexplicably vanishes. Was the cause rooted in the physical world...

Morderstwo, magia i szaleństwo podczas Światowej Wystawy. Erik Larson, bazując na rzetelnej dokumentacji, stworzył niezwykle wciągającą opowieśćo fascynujących czasach i ludziach. Prawdziwa historia dwóch mężczyzn, architekta i seryjnego mordercy, których losy połączyła największa wystawa w amerykańskiej historii: Kolumbijska Wystawa Światowa z 1893 roku, zorganizowana w Chicago i nazywana „Białym Miastem". Daniel Hudson

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A portrait of the Edwardian era recounts two parallel stories--the case of Dr. Hawley Crippen, who murdered his wife and fled to America, and Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communication--as the new technology is used to capture a killer.

Rok 1933. Serce hitlerowskiego Berlina. Wielki, epicki spektakl życia i śmierci widziany oczyma amerykańskiej rodziny dyplomatów. Amerykański ambasador William E. Dodd przyjeżdża do Niemiec z żoną, synem oraz pełną temperamentu córką Marthą. Początkowo Martha jest urzeczona licznymi przyjęciami i towarzyszącą im pompą, oczarowana przez przystojnych młodych mężczyzn, obywateli III Rzeszy, z ich zaraźliwym entuzjazmem dla uczynienia

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Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. Daniel Hudson Burnham, a renowned architect, was the brilliant director of works for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor, was the satanic murderer of scores of young women in a torture palace built for the purpose near the fairgrounds. Burnham overcame great obstacles...

A 100th-anniversary chronicle of the sinking of the Lusitania that discusses the factors that led to the tragedy and the contributions of such figures as President Wilson, bookseller Charles Lauriat and architect Theodate Pope Riddle.

When a little cat is taken captive by a pair of robbers it sets in motion not just a grand rescue operation but also the beginning of lasting friendships and adventures on the high seas. Join Fall Landon Sully as his journey to fulfill his destiny is begun when he crosses paths with the mysterious Pirate with a Heart of Gold!