Adams Morgan

After being transported by a cyclone to the land of Oz, Dorothy and her dog are befriended by a scarecrow, a tin man, and a cowardly lion, who accompany her to the Emerald City to look for a wizard who can help Dorothy return home to Kansas.

When a hawkish Congress ordered an attack on Indonesia and a pacifist president countermanded it, Admiral Billings obeyed Congress. Now Billings is facing a Navy court martial for disobedience while Congress prepares to impeach the president. A sequel to Balance of Power.

John Mauchly and Presper Eckert designed and built the first digital, electronic computer. This is the story of their three-year race to create the legendary ENIAC and their three-decade struggle to gain credit for it.

"A hypothetical tale of American reprisal against Middle Eastern terrorist Sheik al-Jabar, who just might unknowingly be an Israeli pawn."--Carolinian.

Twelve years ago Jerry Kennedy delivered his first report, Kennedy for the Defense, on being the classiest sleazy criminal lawyer in Boston, as Mack, his then-wife, called him. Seven years ago, Jerry called in again, with Penance for Jerry Kennedy. After that, things only got worse. Much worse. But in this latest dispatch, we learn that Jerry is digging himself out of a big hole, defending Billy Ryan - the longtime commissioner of Public Works has...

It was the end of an era. It was a turbulent, colorful, and altogether remarkable period, four short years in which America's most popular industry reinvented itself. Here is the epic story of the transition from silent films to talkies, that moment when movies were totally transformed and the American public cemented its love affair with Hollywood. As Scott Eyman demonstrates in his fascinating account of this exciting era, it was a time when fortunes,...

A mad scientist who imagines himself the wrath of God starts a series of plagues which kill many people. The plagues include swarms of bees, cholera, and ergot, the last causing deadly itching. Epidemiologist Jack Brynne and FBI agent Scott Hubbard join forces to catch the killer.