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"When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed a property listing for a grand estate that had been unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled into one of the most surprising American stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Empty Mansions is a rich tale of wealth and loss, complete with copper barons, Gilded Age opulence, and backdoor politics. At its heart is a reclusive 104-year-old heiress named Huguette Clark. Dedman...

The six Angulo brothers have grown up in their Manhattan apartment, home schooled by their parents, rarely if ever leaving their apartment. Their only connection to the outside world is television and the movies they watch and act out, complete with homemade costumes, in the apartment. When one of the brothers sneaks out for a few days on his own, the whole family dynamic is changed when he returns home.

The roar of the crowd, the glow of the spotlight, the thrill of the raceMace Blazer dreams of going TURBO.TURBOnauts thrive on the thrum of trimorpherss rocket engines as the vehicles morph from super-powered race cars to speeding jet aircrafts to torpedo-fast submarines, while they race full-throttle around every bend. And Mace believes hes got what it takes to join their rankshe only needs the chance to prove it.So when a reclusive retired racer...

Describes the life of Huguette Clark, heiress to a copper magnate's fortune, who withdrew from society to live in isolation in a huge 5th Avenue apartment before spending the last years of her life in a New York hospital.

In the aftermath of an apocalypse which wiped out nearly all magic from a once-wondrous fantasy world, an antisocial former bard named Hum seeks a way to save the soul of his wife with nothing but a foul-tempered mutant unicorn and his wits to protect him. But in the process, he is unwillingly drawn into a brutal power struggle which will decide forever who rules the weird wasteland The long-awaited deluxe hardcover collection of the Eisner Award-nominated,...

After her neighbor is killed, a reclusive heiress becomes involved in a police investigation and discovers more trouble when her new neighbors arrive. Abigail Clayton lives alone. In fact, the attractive heiress has not left her Manhattan loft apartment for almost two decades. Abigail disappeared from the prying eyes of the press and the intrusiveness of her family on her 18th birthday, the day she received her massive inheritance. When the death...

Amen McBee, the youngest of the four McBee sisters, is fascinated by the mysterious man who lives in their woods and tames doves to eat from his hand--a man Papa says is harmless, but when the family pet dies, Amen has her doubts.