The suspicious death of literary critic Roland Barthes in 1980 Paris reveals the secret history of the French intelligentsia, plunging a hapless police detective into the depths of literary theory as it was documented in a famed linguist's lost manuscript.

Introduces young readers to details about Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral.

Filled with extraordinary photographs, computer re-enactments, and astonishing revelations, Conspiracy? provides a gripping look at the life and death of the People's Princess.

With the Great Sioux War as background and context, drawing on many new materials as well as documents in libraries and archives, Powers recounts the final months and days of Crazy Horse's life not to lay blame but to establish what happened.--

Retracing Rockefeller's steps, journalist Carl Hoffman traveled to the jungles of New Guinea to solve a decades-old mystery and illuminate a culture transformed by years of colonial rule. The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in remote New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world, and even Michael's powerful, influential family, guessing for years. Now, the author, a journalist has uncovered startling new evidence that tells the full, astonishing...