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A deadly tale of ultimate obsession. Stephen Friedman is making a good living in good times. He's just an ordinary guy. Or so he thinks. But one day an extraordinary piece of information tells him differently. It's a clue from the grave of a Holocaust survivor. A clue that makes him heir to an incredible fortune...a clue that only he and one other man can possibly understand. That man is Roth Braun, a... (more)

Art Held Hostage: The Battle over the Barnes Collection

Art Held Hostage: The Battle over the Barnes Collection

by John Anderson

The battle for control of America's greatest private art collection. This is the story of how a fabled art foundation in a wealthy Main Line suburb of Philadelphia became captive to the roiling ethnic, racial, cultural, and political crosscurrents of a great American city. The Barnes Foundation is home to the world's most important postimpressionist art collection (including more Cézannes than all of the... (more)

Three Weeks in October: The Manhunt for the Serial Sniper

Three Weeks in October: The Manhunt for the Serial Sniper

by Charles A. Moose, Charles Fleming

In this New York Times bestseller, Charles A. Moose-the police chief who led one of the most suspenseful manhunts in American history-takes readers behind the headlines into the notorious "D.C. sniper" case that held the nation spellbound.

Legacy: The Giving of Life's Greatest Treasures

Legacy: The Giving of Life's Greatest Treasures

by Barrie S. Greiff

In his four decades as a Harvard University psychiatrist, Dr. Barrie Sanford Greiff heard thousands of his patients, colleagues, and friends express a common yearning: to create meaning in their lives beyond material wealth and to pass something more than simply money on to the next generation. How, they asked, can we repay the world for the sacred gift of life? How can we share our lives and contribute to a... (more)

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