Post hill press aug 2026 (10 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - As seen in the Jewish Journal Over three generations of whispered secrets, crime, and lies in a Jewish-American family."Journalist Karas blends memoir and true crime in this intriguing family history. Along the way, she nimbly balances the disclosure of scandalous family secrets with a prevailing sense of empathy. It's a bruising portrait of generational trauma." Publisher's Weekly The Blumenthals are one of millions of Eastern European Jewish families who immigrated to the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. Settling in Providence, Rhode Island, they grow and prosper. During Prohibition, the Blumenthals become bootleggersstarting their fraught history with alcohol and crime. Once Prohibition is repealed, Barney Blumenthal opens a liquor store in Boston. Life is gooduntil fate intervenes. In May 1935, a drunk driver takes the lives of six Blumenthals, including three children. Horrific photos run in newspapers across the country. Six months later, Ronnie Blumenthal is born: a phoenix rising from the ashes of devastation, a golden child upon whose blond head the family's hopes and dreams are placed. He grows into a handsome and spoiled teenager, driving a fast convertible and surrounded by beautiful girls. The Blumenthal legacy is resurrecteduntil one July night in 1954, when he is arrested for murder. The victim is his mother's seamstress, who was allegedly having an affair with his father. Newspaper and TV coverage is relentless. Ronnie pleads guilty, yet dark questions remain unanswered. Upon Ronnie's release from prison, his drunken behavior causes the familywho faithfully visited him behind barsto finally wash their hands of him. At the end of his life, not one family member will contribute to his funeral. The once golden child is buried in a pauper's grave, etching the Blumenthal curse in stone. A decade later, New York Times bestselling author Phyllis Karas, a Blumenthal cousin, uses her well-honed instincts as a journalist to peel back layers of long-hidden family secrets. Karas sensitively chronicles the generational trauma affecting Phillip and Rose Blumenthal's six children and their childrenthe fifteen Blumenthal cousinswho were left to build their lives in the fallout. The Blumenthals' story proves that, by learning from the past with care and love, curses can be broken.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Butcher of Aberdeen explores the chilling true crime story of Katherine Knight, delving into a life shaped by childhood trauma, violent relationships, and a relentless descent into madness.A mother living in a small country town stabs her partner to death thirty-seven times before decapitating him, skinning him, and serving up slices of his cooked flesh at a table set for his children. Born into a dysfunctional family in rural Australia, Katherine Knight was raised in an environment of neglect, violence, sexual abuse, and emotional turmoil, setting the stage for a life marked by intense instability. As an adult, she would become notorious for her sexual manipulations, violent outbursts, her inability to maintain healthy relationships, and the brutal nature of her crimes. This gripping account, based on true events, explores the terrifying devolution of Knight's character, from her tumultuous early years to her "dream job" at the local abattoir, where she became skilled in the deadly act of slaughtering animals. Katherine's turbulent relationships with men paint the portrait of a woman tormented by a fear of abandonment and driven by a desperate need for control. At the heart of this story lies Katherine's profound inner conflict: a constant battle between the need for love and a tendency to violence, between a desire for connection and an overwhelming urge for revenge. This conflict led to increasingly dysfunctional relationships and caused her violent tendencies to spiral out of control, culminating in a shocking act of murder that would forever mark her as one of Australia's most infamous killers. With a careful balance of psychological insight and chilling detail, The Butcher of Aberdeen takes readers on a journey through the dark and twisted psyche of a woman whose central driving question is: "Will she ever learn to take responsibility for her actions and find peace " Katherine Knight's story is a tragic exploration of the consequences of childhood trauma, the complexities of human nature, and the unthinkable path that some lives can take if left unexamined.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - USA Today and LA Times bestseller Josh Green has a secret.Since he was a child, Josh has had troubling visions that allow him to see into other people's pasts due to his extrasensory perception. Frightened by this ability, he's told no one about it, except his best friend, Tony. When Tony's college-age stepdaughter suddenly vanishes, he asks Josh to help him find her, as well as determine the circumstances of her disappearance. For the first time, Josh is forced to embrace his psychic ability to help trace the young woman's steps. Eventually, this leads him to not only learn why she's missing, but where she is. Following a trail that unravels familial secrets, Josh finds himself in the middle of a very complicated web.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A love letter to Los Angeles, the mysterious year 2000, and the life of a kid desperate to shine.Sebastian Tillinger is determined to survive Y2K and grow up before New Year's Eve, 1999. He might get married to the first woman he ever loved, just to prove he's a man. He's getting high and coming down faster than he can decide if he feels goodor jaded. He's taking action and making choices, even if they are the wrong ones. Things will be different, Sebastian promises himself, in the year 2000. Assuming the world doesn't end, he's only one job away from hitting the big stage. All he has to do is stay sober enough to show up to his auditions. Through the haze of marijuana smoke clouding his youthful vision, Sebastian brings to life the tightrope between art and industry, celebrity parents and a childhood of obscurity, adventure and danger. How the Ferris Wheel Was Broken is a serious memoir with a dash of humor and a desperate quest to just make sense of life.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Spanning Hollywood, high fashion, and hidden offshore empires, Crime Family traces an heir adopted through the infamous Louise Wise agency as he confronts the crimes, lies, and generational trauma money was meant to bury."A haunting meditation on what we inherit, what we become, and what it costs to break the pattern." Bret Easton Ellis Chase grew up knowing two truths: that he didn't quite belong, and that the family who raised him lived by rules the rest of the world could never quite understand. Adopted into a dynasty with roots in organized crime, Chase spends his adult life in Hollywood, trying to build an identity outside the shadow of blood and betrayal trailing behind him. But when federal prosecutors come knocking, Chase is dragged back into the empire he has spent decades evading. The investigation unravels not just the financial crimes that bound the family together, but a deeper inheritance as wellthe secrets passed down like currency, the silence demanded in exchange for protection, and the lies that distort what it means to belong. Globe-spanning in scope yet intimate at its core, Crime Family blends the immediacy of true crime with the psychological depth of literary fiction. It is a novel about money and memory, loyalty and loss, and the impossible reality of needing to escape the family you never chose.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Follow along with travel expert Darley Newman as she road trips to hidden Revolutionary-era fortresses, authentic colonial taverns, and battlefields where hallowed ground and lesser-known heroes shaped a nation.Join award-winning storyteller Darley Newman on a journey through American Revolution sites in national parks, great cities like Charleston and Princeton, and obscure haunts like a colonial tavern in Gettysburg. From lighthearted adventures like tasting Martha Washington's recipe for Cherry Bounce to an emotional trek with a military historian at Camden Battlefield, Revolutionary Road Trip catalogs oral histories, tales, and truths passed down by generations of guides, community members, and experts whose boots are on the ground at historic locations across the thirteen original colonies. Step into a colonial time machine with Darley for a memorable, beguiling trip! Based on firsthand research and experiences, Darley shares untold stories for an entertaining, enlightening look at the founding of America and why exploring this history is so important.Mixing delightful and intriguing fact-filled stories with practical travel advice, Revolutionary Road Trip is for the curious, intrepid history lover and traveler.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Two women of different generationsone scarred by an abusive teen marriage and the other by an alcoholic husbandcome together to grapple with their inner demons and confront their untold stories.When author Shannon Irwin meets Grace Ferrall and agrees to interview the younger woman and tell the story of Grace's forced child marriage and harrowing youth, these very different women begin an unlikely relationship. Grace's ordeal starts in Louisiana, with an alcoholic father and a mother whose mood swings are often intolerable. When Grace is barely fifteen and living in Oklahoma, her mother manipulates her into marrying Rafe, a scurrilous, older man. Pregnant at sixteen, Grace is soon living in a truck near a river in Oregon with Rafe's cult-like family.After years of abuse and multiple pregnancies and miscarriages, with the help of an unlikely ally, Grace escapes. But her newfound freedom is fragile, and she is forced to make impossible choices to protect herself and her two daughters. Trust builds between the women as Grace shares details she has never told anyone, while Shannon, with a daughter Grace's age, and ridden with guilt about her former marriage, reveals the dysfunction in her own life and the remorse she suffers.A searing and compassionate exploration set in present-day Pawleys Island, South Carolina, and 1990s rural Oklahoma, No Way Out but Through is inspired by the real life of an ordinary woman who survived extraordinary circumstances.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - I'm gonna make you a heteronormative offer you can't refuse It turns out when Cultural Marxists lift up their skirts, there are seventy-two genders under there.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A provocative reinterpretation of Jewish history that reveals how a fierce, unyielding love once sustained a people, and asks whether that love can be renewed amid profound crisis.The great civilizations of the ancient world are gone. Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Rome-each filled the world with splendor, then faded to dust. The Jews, barely a rounding error in humanity, are still here. Why In A Jewish Tale of Love, Shivi Greenfield offers a bold answer: Jewish survival was never secured by power, territory, or belief alone, but by a fierce, demanding form of love-one that bound individual lives to a shared destiny. This love was not sentimental. It was defiant, disciplined, and often oppositional, binding identity to destiny and making Jewish life worth sustaining at any cost.Yet today, at the very moment of its triumph, that love is burning down to embers, leaving one question impossible to escape: Can a people outlive the love that keeps it alive. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - John Paul DeJoria's journey to becoming a billionaire started in the back seat of his car.Rarely will you find such diversity in a person's life, business, philanthropy, and philosophy as you will with John Paul DeJoria. His professional journey began when he was homeless, living in a car with his four-year-old son. The drive to create a better life for both of them is what propelled him to unparalleled success. Join him on his journey in the start-up of John Paul Mitchell Systems through the introduction and ultimate sale of Patrón tequila. His unique blend of ethical leadership, social and moral responsibility, and entrepreneurial determination are the reasons he stands out among his peers. Success Unshared Is Failure is not just the title of a book; it is rooted in his beliefs and willingness to inspire others.…