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Traveling the world during the 1920s and ’30s, Richard Halliburton climbed the Matterhorn and was the first person to swim the Panama Canal (he paid 36 cents in tonnage). He climbed Mt. Fuji and Mt. Olympus, swam the Hellespont, followed the path of Odysseus, and retraced the trail of Spanish conq…
In his searing new memoir, The Hospital Always Wins, Issa Ibrahim talks candidly about his development of severe mental illness leading to the accidental killing of his mother, his subsequent commission to Creedmoor, a mental hospital in Queens, New York, and the episodes that occurred within its wa…
From the invasion of Paris in June of 1940 to the end of World War II in 1945, Lucie Aubrac and her husband, Raymond Aubrac, and the rest of the French resistance waged a constant, clandestine war against their German occupiers, including feared SS officer Klaus Barbie, notoriously known as “the b…
Stick It: My Life of Sex, Drums, and Rock 'n Roll by Carmine Appice
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They were called sleuths in skirts, guardettes, copettes, and police in petticoats. It would be a long time—well over 150 years—before women in law enforcement were known simply as police officers. Balancing the stories of trailblazers from the past with those of today, Women in Blue: 16 Brave O…
Author Joey Green is a lifelong world explorer and life hacker extraordinaire. His newest book tackles the travel industry: Last-Minute Travel Secrets: 121 Ingenious Tips to Endure Cramped Planes, Car Trouble, Awful Hotels, and Other Trips from Hell (on sale in May 2016). In it, Joey reveals his b…