Ergebnis für "The Collector" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Notes from a Small Island After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to move his wife and kids back to his homeland of the United States. But not before taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home...

New York City is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job...

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents - a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar - but he is best known for Lives of the Artists, which singlehandedly established the canon of Italian Renaissance art. Before Vasari's extraordinary book, art was considered a technical skill, and artists were mere decorators and craftsmen. It was through Vasari's visionary writings that Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo came to be regarded as great masters of life as well as art, their creative genius celebrated as a divine gift.

A new type of serial killer is stalking the streets of New York - one more devious and disturbing than ever before. They call this butcher The Skin Collector: a tattooist with a chamber of torture hidden deep underground. But instead of using ink to create each masterpiece, the artist uses a...

'Brilliantly gripping' Sunday Times; 'Compelling' Daily Mail; 'Heart-rending' Sunday Telegraph; 'Excellent' The Times; 'Engrossing' Independent The UK's only war crimes trial took place in 1999 and had its origins in the horrors of the Holocaust, but only now in The Ticket Collector from Belarus?...

‘Remarkable and haunting . . . a revelation’ Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes ‘A dazzling achievement, heartbreaking, glamourous, elegiac, revelatory and utterly gripping’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History of Humanity ‘Truly beautiful and...

A stunning celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic career as a performer, featuring entertaining personal stories alongside full-color photographs, including exclusive images and ephemera from her archive. In Star of the Show, the culminating book in Dolly Parton’s photographic...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In...

The Ghost Collector is a podcast dedicated to true stories of the unexplained. Each episode explores firsthand accounts of ghosts, hauntings, cryptids, UFOs, strange encounters, glitches in reality, and other mysteries that defy easy explanation. Some stories are unsettling. Some are fascinating. Some may have ordinary explanations. Others remain mysteries. Hosted by retired firefighter, storyteller, and lifelong collector of unusual tales Scott Wejmar, The Ghost Collector preserves and shares the experiences people carry with them for the rest of their lives.

Tom Cotter is the best-known barn-find collector-car expert working today. Tom Cotter’s Best Barn-Find Collector Car Tales​ pulls together his best barn find stories from America and around the globe. Tom Cotter bought his first barn find some 50 years ago and has never looked back. Over the...

In the quiet suburbs of Indiana, Herbert Baumeister appeared to have it all: a thriving business, a loving family, and the perfect home. But beneath the polished veneer of success lay a predator whose crimes would shock the nation. Known as “The Bone Collector”, Baumeister preyed upon young men from Indianapolis’s gay community, luring them to his secluded Fox Hollow Farm—where investigators later uncovered thousands of bone fragments scattered across the property.

"An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion." ―Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a besieged Syrian town, and an underground library built from the rubble of war Reading is an act of resistance. Daraya is...

‘This is an urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. Delphine Minoui has crafted a book that champions books and the individuals who risk everything to preserve them.’ Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus was brutally...

Misfit Jeremiah Rodgers, 21, and racist devil worshipper Jonathan Lawrence, 23, were serving time for petty crimes when they met in a Florida penal-system mental hospital. A friendship grew from their shared lust for sadistic brutality, and once released they teamed up to hunt human prey. In March 1998, in Pensacola, Florida, while quietly watching TV, Leighton Smitherman was shot in the back by assailants hiding outside his home.

‘Based on meticulous research in original sources … Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was … Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated’ Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books A bold new history of how botany and global plant collecting –...

The Boarding House Killer; a true crime story about Dorothea Puente that’ll leave your spine tingling. In this deep dive into this serial killer’s horrific actions, you’ll learn more about the evil deeds of the Boarding House Killer, Dorothea Puente. Get transported back to the 1980s, Sacramento, California. Learn the names of her victims and her heartless reasons for killing elderly and mentally disabled boarders under her care - if you dare.

From “The Internet’s Mushroom Auntie,” a stunning memoir and illustrated field guide with recipes that shows us how to find ourselves through the edible wild world all around us. Foraging is becoming increasingly popular, from TikTok to tasting menus at the most exclusive restaurants...

When common burglar Jimmy returns to England after the death of his uncle, he finds himself entangled in a complicated romance with the daughter of a former cop. As a jewel thief, his past threatens to unravel their blossoming relationship, pushing him to navigate the dangerous line between love and crime. - Summary by kirk202

Three sisters, the daughters of a prominent French Jewish family, all painted as children by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In the turbulent years from the Belle Epoque to World War II, one would marry an English aristocrat and escape; one would become a collaborator with the Nazis; one would die in...

The term robber baron has largely fallen into disuse in the 21st century but there was a time when it was a popular epithet that described the kind of man who, it was believed, built his fortune by taking things belonging to others. Of all the men labeled as robber barons during the Gilded Age, few were as influential as Henry Clay Frick, who rubbed shoulders with men like J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie while overseeing some of the era’s biggest companies.