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Kalaba K: Grace Follows Grit

Grace Follows Grit

A Memoir Of Unbreakable Resilience & Tenacity

A non-stop flight across the Atlantic might seem routine today. But it is only possible because of those who went first. 'Vivid and compelling' John Lancaster 'A delectable serving of escapist nostalgia' The Times, Book of the Week Newfoundland, 1919. Buffeted by winds, an unwieldy aircraft - made mainly from wood and stiff linen - struggled to take off from the North American island's rocky slopes. Cramped side by side in its open cockpit were two men, freezing cold and barely able to move, but resolute. They had a dream: to be the first in human history to fly, non-stop, across the Atlantic Ocean. But there were three other teams competing against them, and as the waves raged a few miles below, memories of wartime crashes resurfaced . . . Mining letters, diaries and evocative unpublished photographs, David Rooney's deeply researched account of this audacious contest shows how it was the airmen's thrilling wartime experiences that ultimately led them to the 'Big Hop', and brought old friends together for one more daring adventure. 'Excellent... consists of colourful biographical sketches of the aviators who took part in the competition and thrilling accounts of their efforts' Daily Mail 'A glorious romp through an overlooked part of aviation history, stuffed full of intriguing characters and white-knuckle courage' Sunday Times

The first flight across the Atlantic and the ordinary heroes who risked their lives for it

The Big Hop

Raymond Boyd, a veteran private investigator, opens the case files of his storied career in Polygraphs and Paper Clip Bracelets. This follow-up to his popular memoir, God Bless Crime: It's Been Good to Me, delivers a captivating mix of real-life crime stories, humorous detective tales, and personal reflections. Boyd's approach to private investigation is anything but conventional, blending his love for laughter with his commitment to uncovering the truth.In one unforgettable story, Boyd recalls the antics of a smooth-talking con artist who thought he could outwit a seasoned detective. Using his polygraph expert skills, Boyd cleverly cornered the suspect, turning the tables in a way that left everyone-from the criminal to the courtroom-laughing. Another tale sees Boyd tackling a high-stakes case involving missing heirlooms, where his ability to read people and navigate complex family dynamics proves crucial. The case's resolution, both heartwarming and surprising, showcases Boyd's unique blend of humor and insight.Then there's the time Boyd dealt with "wee people"-an unusual case that tested not only his investigative skills but also his patience. The culprit wasn't a criminal mastermind but a kind-hearted woman convinced that tiny people were following her. With compassion and a touch of humor, Boyd crafted a creative solution that brought peace to his client while adding another entertaining chapter to his life story.Polygraphs and Paper Clip Bracelets isn't just about solving crimes; it's a celebration of the human spirit. Boyd's narrative is filled with detective career insights, personal investigator anecdotes, and the kind of humor that makes even the most serious topics accessible. His stories highlight the importance of resilience, whether it's outwitting a criminal or dealing with personal loss. As Boyd reflects on his life, including the impact of his beloved family and the loss of his wife, readers are reminded that behind every great detective is a story worth telling.For anyone who enjoys detective memoirs, crime confession tactics, or a good laugh, Polygraphs and Paper Clip Bracelets offers a compelling and heartfelt glimpse into the unpredictable world of private investigation.

A Private Investigator's Toast to the Crimes That Kept Him Thriving

Polygraphs and Paper Clip Bracelets

The Sunday Times and New York Times BestsellerA 2026 TIME100 creator By the YouTube sensation with more than three million followers, the inspiring account of a woman in her thirties who, in a moment of personal crisis, embarked on an epic, transcontinental motorcycle ride and along the way found a new sense of purpose. Noraly Schoenmaker was a thirty-something geologist living in the Netherlands when she learned that her live-in partner had been having a long-term affair. Suddenly without a place to stay, she decided to quit her job and jet off to India in search of a new beginning. Her plans were dashed when she fell quickly and helplessly in love: with a motorcycle. Behind the handlebars, she felt alive and free nimble enough to trace the narrowest paths, powerful enough to travel the longest of roads. She first rode toward the Pacific, through the jungles of Myanmar and Thailand, then into Malaysia. Rather than satisfy her appetite for the open road, this ride only piqued it. She shipped her bike to Oman, at the base of the Arabian Peninsula, and embarked on a journey through Iran, across Turkmenistan along its border with Afghanistan, over the snowy peaks of Central Asia and into Europe, all the way back home to the Netherlands. She covered remote and utterly unfamiliar territory; broke down on impossibly steep mountains; and pushed too many miles along empty roads, farther and farther from civilization. But through her travels, she discovered the true beauty of the world - the kindness of its people, the simplicity of its open spaces, as well as her own inner strength. In spirit of The Motorcycle Diaries and Wild, this is an inspiring story of self-discovery and renewal. Filled with unforgettable figures, hilarious disasters and powerful human connections, it shows you what happens when you open your heart and let the world in. 'In no-frills, from-the-heart prose, Schoenmaker crafts exhilarating evocations of rarely visited landscapes...' BBC 'An inspiring and often-thrilling ode to healing on one's own terms.' Publishers Weekly 'Required reading' New York Post

Heartbreak, Courage, and the 20,000-Mile Motorcycle Journey that Changed My Life

Free Ride

The multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway appears on the fortieth anniversary of Meyers's magisterial biography of Hemingway. This approach has never before been used to illustrate the complexity of his character, the range of his interests, and the brilliance of his work. This authoritative book uses sources in Italian, Spanish, French, and German. It reveals his reading of literature and history, his transformation of friends into fiction, his personal battles and mythic stature, his persona and ever-growing legend. This work analyzes his name and background, early work, friendships, relations with artists, connections to contemporary writers, description of historical figures and events, war reporting, military experience, life in Cuba, links with Hollywood, wives and lovers as well as the novels that influenced The Sun Also Rises and the background of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." It also considers Hemingway's feasts, humor, quarrels, self-condemnation, Nobel Prize, unwritten works, suicide, and lasting achievements.

Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway

Guntis Blums

From a Violent Childhood to the Queensland Drug Squad and a Forty-Year Search for Clarity

Undercover and Autistic

Thin Blue Books

What does it truly mean to wear the badge in America?In Thin Blue Line: Life Behind the Badge, retired Sergeant Michael Barron pulls back the curtain on a profession few truly understand and even fewer survive unchanged. Drawing from his own career and the firsthand accounts of dozens of officers, Barron delivers an unfiltered look at life on the street-where split-second decisions carry life-or-death consequences and the line between order and chaos is razor thin.For more than 42 years, The BLUES published monthly "war stories" from law enforcement officers across the country. Now, Barron-founder and editor-in-chief of The BLUES-has assembled the most powerful, haunting, and unforgettable of those stories into one riveting volume. Thin Blue Line takes readers behind the scenes of real officer-involved shootings, volatile domestic disturbances, close calls, and the devastating loss of fellow officers killed in the line of duty.Barron writes not only as a journalist and editor, but as a survivor. A veteran officer who himself was involved in not one, but two officer-involved shootings, he brings a raw authenticity to every page. His voice captures the fear, adrenaline, guilt, camaraderie, and resilience that define the profession-along with the dark, often misunderstood humor cops use to cope with the job's relentless stress.At times intense, at times heartbreaking, and at times unexpectedly funny, Thin Blue Line: Life Behind the Badge is more than a collection of stories-it is a testament to the men and women who hold the line between society and chaos - in their world it's called the Thin Blue Line. And the cost to hold that line is personal and many times deadly.

LIFE BEHIND THE BADGE

THIN BLUE LINE

In these pages, journalist and writer Pablo-Ignacio de Dalmases offers a courageous investigation that redefines the traditional, even iconic, image we have of Lorca today. This essay, which focuses on his gay identity, breaks new ground in biographical literature, offering us an intimate and daring portrait that takes us by the hand through the most significant--and unknown--aspect of the poet's intense life and emphasizes an aspect that no author had detected until now: the subsequent ideological evolution of his lovers, all of whom--except one, who remained faithful to his socialist and republican identity--ended up, in contrast to the poet's sad fate, firmly identified with Francoism. With its eloquent, entertaining, and well-documented prose, Federico's Fiancés promises to be essential reading not only for the LGBT community, Hispanists, and lovers of literature, but also for those interested in the cultural genealogy of our time. Every page of this work is imbued with respect and admiration for Lorca, delving into the struggles, loves, and passions of a man who lived with a complex and affirming nature, not without contradictions. This book not only celebrates his literary genius, but also humanizes the poet, showing us the many facets of his psychology and opening up lines of reflection on the construction of gay identity in postmodernity.

Novios de Federico, Los

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP-TEN BOOK OF 2024A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEARFrom New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, the epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, culminating in Captain James Cook's death'Extraordinarily compulsive and fascinating. I felt it somehow told me more about the making of the modern world than any book I had read for ages' STEPHEN FRY, BOOKS OF THE YEAR, Observer'An astounding tale . . . recreated in swashbuckling detail . . . Sides delivers it with narrative urgency. The cast of characters is a joy' Sunday Times'An enthralling account of Captain Cook's final, fatal voyage... An excellent new book' The Economist 'A rollicking good read, with a tone that reminds me of David Grann's recent tale of the 1741 Wager shipwreck . . . riveting' Daily Telegraph'Vivid and propulsive' New York Times---On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach in Hawaii, Cook was killed - beaten and stabbed in a conflict with the indigenous population. What brought Cook to these final moments, so at odds with his reputation? Renowned for his humane leadership, dedication to science and the curiosity and respect, not judgement, with which he greeted societies that were new to him, Cook had already mapped huge swathes of the Pacific and initiated first European contact with numerous native peoples. The stated mission for his third voyage was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London high society, to his home islands. But Cook carried secret orders to venture north, to discover the fabled Northwest Passage and chart and claim lands before Britain's imperial rivals. And Cook himself was different on his final, fatal voyage. Deeply researched and vividly told, The Wide Wide Sea is at once a ferociously-paced, epic adventure and a searching examination of the consequences of the Age of Exploration from a master storyteller. ----'Sides has written a riveting book, deeply researched, light of touch and always judicious and full-sailed about an exceptional man's final extraordinary journey' SPECTATOR'A wonderful, visceral yarn and an enthralling read, replete with brilliant detail' -ROBERT MCCRUMPRAISE FOR HAMPTON SIDES'Enthralling ... as gripping as any well-paced thriller but a lot more interesting because it is also true' THE TIMES'Stunningly vivid' MARK BOWDEN, AUTHOR OF BLACK HAWK DOWN'Splendid in every way... a marvellous nonfiction thriller' WALL STREET JOURNAL'Extraordinary ... meticulous research shores up a fast-paced narrative' FINANCIAL TIMES'Viscerally dramatic ... spellbinding... bold, dynamic, unusually vivid' NEW YORK TIMES'Unforgettable...a pulse-racing epic ... a masterful work of history and storytelling' LOS ANGELES TIMES'Reads like a first-class epic thriller' TIME

The Wide Wide Sea

A Global Vision for Competition Law

Harry First Liber Amicorum

For more than two decades, Jimmy Dennedy, a cop's cop, served the people of New York City as a member of the NYPD. First as a uniformed officer working the streets in some of the toughest crime ridden neighborhoods in his home borough of Brooklyn. Then in the NYPD narcotics division, dealing with the worst of the worst who were infesting the streets of the city with the poison that destroyed lives. And finally as a detective in the NYPD-FBI Joint Terrorist Task Force, doing just what the name says, chasing down those whose mission was to destroy the way of life of New Yorkers.When he retired from law enforcement, Dennedy found a different calling. He established a prison ministry. For 25 years, in both Otisville Federal Penitentiary, and Shawangunk State Prison he practiced his ministry touching the soul and conscience of men like those he locked up during his days in the NYPD. For those he counseled with prison time still to be served, he turned their lives around so they could do their time in peace. And for those who had the good fortune of being released, his guidance provided the foundation upon which they built productive, crime free lives.The story of Jimmy's journey from Brooklyn's toughest cop to his prison ministry needed to be shared with the world. Hard Guys Cry tells that story!

Hard Guys Cry

XpressPress

Reminiscences by General D. J. Cook, Chief of the Rocky Mountains Detective Association (Cram Edition)

Hands Up; or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains

A non-stop flight across the Atlantic might seem routine today. But it is only possible because of those who went first. 'Capturing not only the perils faced by the intrepid airmen who attempted the flight, but also their humanity' JOHN LANCASTER, author of The Great Air Race Newfoundland, 1919. Buffeted by winds, an unwieldy aircraft struggled to take to the air. Cramped side by side in its open cockpit were two men, freezing cold, but resolute. They had a dream: to be the first in human history to fly, non-stop, across the Atlantic Ocean. But there were three other teams competing against them . . . The young aviators who would get off the ground had already defied death many times during World War One. David Rooney's evocative and deeply researched account shows how it was their thrilling wartime experiences that ultimately led them to the 'Big Hop', and brought old friends together for one more daring adventure. These Atlantic pioneers weren't scientists or upper-class officers. They were ordinary men, risking their lives in the name of progress, who ultimately ushered in the age of global connection in which we live now. 'Fabulous ... Works on every level, balancing technological know-how with superb characterisation' JACKY HYAMS, author of Hurricane: The Plane that Won the War

The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into the Future

Grace Follows Grit

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