Tantor Media
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Born just outside London in 1942, Glyn Johns was 16 years old at the dawn of rock and roll. His big break as a producer came on the Steve Miller Band's debut album, Children of the Future, and he went on to engineer or produce iconic albums for the best in the business: Abbey Road with the Beatles, Led Zeppelin's and the Eagles' debuts, Who's Next by the Who, and many others. Even more impressive, Johns was perhaps the only person on a given day in...
102) The greatest knight: the remarkable life of William Marshal, the power behind five English thrones
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The story of the largely forgotten William Marshal Pembroke of the English medieval period, who, as a five-year-old boy, was sentenced to execution and led to the gallows, yet this landless younger son survived his brush with death, and went on to train as a medieval knight. Against all odds, he rose through the ranks--serving at the right hand of five English monarchs--to become a celebrated tournament champion, a baron and politician and, ultimately,...
104) ME
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
℗2017
Language
English
Description
This novel centers on the "It's me" telephone scam-often targeting the elderly-that has escalated in Japan in recent years. Typically, the caller identifies himself only by saying, "Hey, it's me," and goes on to claim in great distress that he's been in an accident or lost some money with which he was entrusted at work, etc., and needs funds wired to his account right away. ME's narrator is a nondescript young Tokyoite named Hitoshi Nagano who, on...
Series
Publisher
Tantor Audio [a division of] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
℗2017
Language
English
Description
For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror fans crave. Now, with the ninth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Included in The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as Neil Gaiman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Stephen King, Linda...