Brad Ricca ist ein Autor, der sich der Aufdeckung verborgener Erzählungen und der Erforschung fesselnder Persönlichkeiten widmet. Seine Werke tauchen tief in die Komplexität der menschlichen Psyche ein und untersuchen, wie die Geschichte unsere Gegenwart prägt. Ricca versteht es meisterhaft, Licht auf weniger bekannte Aspekte vertrauter Themen zu werfen und bietet den Lesern neue Perspektiven. Seine Fähigkeit, fesselnde Geschichten zu erzählen und zum Kern seiner Themen vorzudringen, macht ihn zu einer unverwechselbaren Stimme in der Sachliteratur.
The book offers a detailed literary biography of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, the visionary creators behind Superman, coinciding with the character's 75th anniversary. It explores their lives, creative partnership, and the cultural impact of their iconic superhero, serving as a tribute to their legacy. The biography also connects their story to Michael Chabon's acclaimed work, Kavalier and Clay, highlighting the significance of their contributions to comic book history and popular culture.
"While working for Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper in 1887, Nellie Bly began an undercover investigation into the local woman's lunatic asylum on Blackwell's Island. Intent on seeing what life was like on the inside, Bly fooled trained physicians into thinking she was insane--a task too easily achieved--and had herself committed. In her ten days at the asylum, Bly witnessed horrifying conditions: the food was inedible, the women were forced into labor for the staff, the nurses and doctors were cruel or indifferent, and many of the women held there had no mental disorder of any kind. Now adapted into graphic form by Brad Ricca and vividly rendered with beautiful and haunting illustrations by Courtney Sieh, Bly's bold venture is given new life and meaning, as her fearless scrutiny into the living conditions at Blackwell's asylum forever changed the field of journalism. A timely reminder to take notice of forgotten populations, Ten Days in a Mad-House warns us what happens when we decide to look away"-- Back cover
“Heroic and inspiring.”—The New York Times Grace Humiston was a lawyer, a detective, and the first female U.S. District Attorney. She was also a society woman who would become one of the greatest crime-fighters in America. This is her story. In 1917, on the day before Valentine’s Day, a beloved teenager named Ruth Cruger went missing. When the police gave up on trying to find her, Grace took it upon herself to get the job done—even if that meant navigating a dangerous underworld of secrets and lies, two-faced cops, and a mysterious pale man in a desperate race against time to bring Ruth home. Grace’s motto—justice for those of limited means—led her to investigate some of history’s most notorious cases, in New York City and across the globe. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is the first-ever narrative biography of this singular woman the press nicknamed after fiction’s greatest detective. “Her incredible life story, superbly portrayed by Ricca, is more proof that truth is stranger than fiction.”—Publishers Weekly
True Raiders is The Lost City of Z meets The Da Vinci Code, from critically acclaimed author Brad Ricca. This book tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after being dared to do so by Ava Astor, the so-called “most beautiful woman in the world,” headed a secret 1909 expedition to find the fabled Ark of the Covenant. Like a real-life version of Raiders of the Lost Ark, this incredible story of adventure and mystery has almost been completely forgotten today. In 1908, Monty is approached by a strange Finnish scholar named Valter Juvelius who claims to have discovered a secret code in the Bible that reveals the location of the Ark. Monty assembles a ragtag group of blueblood adventurers, a renowned psychic, and a Franciscan father, to engage in a secret excavation just outside the city walls of Jerusalem. Using recently uncovered records from the original expedition and several newly translated sources, True Raiders is the first retelling of this group’s adventures– in the space between fact and faith, science and romance.
