Land of Strangers

At the close of the nineteenth century, near the end of the Qing empire, Confucian revivalists from central China gained control of the Muslim-majo...

Reducere. Strangers in the Forest, originally published in 1959, was included in the Reader's Digest Condensed Books series. Set in the white pine timberland...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James Grubman Ph. D.An astonishing fact is that the vast majority of the wealthy come from middle-class or working-class ba...

Reducere. DescriptionCharles J. Chaput's Strangers in a Strange Land is a vivid critique of American life today, but also an empowering guide to how Christia...

Beginning with the history of Xinjiang and its unique population of Chinese Muslims, Gardner Bovingdon follows fifty years of Uyghur discontent, pa...

Reducere. An Indie Next pick, an Okra 2016 Winter Selection, and a SIBA Bestseller Fallen Land is Taylor Brown's debut novel set in the final year of the Civ...

The Unbelievable True Story of a Vietnamese Refugee Who Not Only Made the United States Her Home, But Learned the True Value of Hope, Love, and Rel...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jennifer S. H. BrownFor two centuries (1670-1870), English, Scottish, and Canadian fur traders voyaged the myriad waterways...

Reducere. DescriptionLong ago, they were drifting dunes of sand. Today, stabilizing grasses and underground water beneath the Sandhills provide good pasture ...

Reducere. At 54, Lisa Stewart set out to regain the fearless girl she once had been, riding her horse, Chief, 500 miles home. Hot, homeless, and horseback, s...

Reducere. For fans of thrilling contemporary suspense, Rachel Howzell Hall's brilliant stand-alone novel brings seven sinners to a private island for a recko...

Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist r...

A searching memoir . . . A subtle, expertly written repudiation of the American dream in favor of something more inclusive and more realistic.--Kir...

Reducere. ... will make a splendid contribution to the fields of African-American and American urban, social and family history.... expanding the tradition t...

Reducere. Enter the eye of the storm in this gripping real-life thriller--A Perfect Storm on land--that chronicles America's biggest tornado outbreak since t...

Reducere. As a working mother and poet-lecturer, Camille Dungy's livelihood depended on travel. She crisscrossed America and beyond with her daughter in tow,...

Reducere. Nancy and her friends take their detective skills on an Alaskan adventure in this second book of the Nancy Drew Diaries, a fresh approach to a clas...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Arlie Russell HochschildNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 139 x 209 x 35Cover type: Paperbac...

Reducere. Leon Takes Us Outside (2021 Remaster)Outside (2021 Remaster)The Hearts Filthy Lesson (2021 Remaster)A Small Plot Of Land (2021 Remaster)Segue - Bab...

Reducere. Born in fire. Tempered in blood.Epheria is a land divided by war and mistrust. The High Lords of the South squabble and fight, only kept in check b...

Reducere. The most complete collection available of Willa Cather's remarkable short fiction, Collected Stories brings together all the stories published in b...

Reducere. From the best-selling author of Cosmic and Millions comes an evocative immigration tale about two brothers trying to survive- a daring story that m...

Reducere. In this remarkable collection--the first of its kind--poets from around the world give eloquent voice to the trials, hopes, rewards, and losses of ...

Reducere. It isn't much of an island that rises up one moonless night from the depths of the Circle Sea--just a few square miles of silt and some old ruins. ...

Reducere. South Away follows Meaghan Marie Hackinen and her sister in the adventure of a lifetime: bicycling from Terrace, BC down the West Coast to (almost)...

Reducere. On a great river lined with chalk rock faces and shedding cottonwoods, amidst a sea of tall grass seeded with feathered tops, there was a small tow...

Reducere. On a great river lined with chalk rock faces and shedding cottonwoods, amidst a sea of tall grass seeded with feathered tops, there was a small tow...

Life is dangerous. No one survives it. Enora Andressen makes a series of mind-blowing discoveries when her friend disappears in this compelling thr...

Reducere. The international bestselling series with over 5 million copies sold in the U.S. aloneIn the wake of Araluen's uneasy truce with the raiding Skandi...

Reducere. Harsh "racial" segregation during the Jim Crow era prevented South Carolina's Indian groups from assimilating. Due to their three-fold genetic admi...

Reducere. With their longships storm-blown to the southern coast of Engla-land, Thorgrim Night Wolf and his men find themselves rich with plunder and safely ...

RE YOU EXISTING OR EXCELLING? LIVING OR TRULY ALIVE? Ever wondered what's needed to grab your destiny rather than let it hang in the balance?Whethe...

Reducere. BOOK ONE IN THE CLASSIC HEOROT SERIES FROM GENRE LEGENDS LARRY NIVEN, JERRY POURNELLE, AND STEVEN BARNES STRANGERS IN A STRANGE LAND The two hundre...

Reducere. There are no two ways about it-the 1950s was the decade in which the American Western flourished and attained an absolute peak of perfection. So co...

Reducere. There are no two ways about it-the 1950s was the decade in which the American Western flourished and attained an absolute peak of perfection. So co...

Acid house was a truly democratic movement transcending geography, class, race and culture. It made soul mates out of strangers from all walks of l...

Reducere. In the high peaks that stretch to the floor of heaven, amid howling winds and engulfing blizzards, lurk mysteries that have waited since the dawn o...

Set during the first half of the twentieth century, this is the story of the Brunis, a family of farmers from the Italian Padan Plain who have work...

DescriptionReynard, a young apprentice, seeks release from the drudgery of working for his fisherman uncle in the English village of Southwold. His...

Reducere. It was nothing more than a thin strip of land bordered by an ocean and a landlocked salt river. Its inhabitants were hoards of sand flies and mosqu...

Reducere. New clues in an old, unsolved murder case lead Deputy Sheriff Manny Rivera from Moab, Utah, to a small, remote village in the mountains of northern...

Reducere. An "evocative and often lyrical" (San Francisco Chronicle) novel about a young American couple who win a pub on the southernmost tip of Ireland and...

The stunning conclusion of the trilogy that follows The Seer. In the final book of The Stranger Trilogy, Amarta reaches the city-state of Seuan, wh...

Is nowhere safe?Athgar and Natalia have everything they have ever dreamed of-family, friends, and a place to call home. When Athgar's long-lost sis...

Reducere. A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmot...

Reducere. From the book: "" What is a conversion? The question is like asking, 'What is falling in love?' There is no standard procedure, no fixed time. No D...

Reducere. When she lands in Calcutta's Sealdah railway station on a humid day in 1949, Amala Manna has managed to flee from the communal violence in her vill...

Reducere. What would you do if your past sins came back to haunt you?Hide? Fight them head on? Or scheme and stab them in the back? After barely surviving la...

Reducere. There's no rule book for this deadly gameWhen Samantha's friend and sometimes boss AJ Gunn is accused of murdering the star quarterback for the Ore...

Reducere. In the beginning of the year 1920 I happened to be living in the Siberian town of Krasnoyarsk, situated on the shores of the River Yenisei, that no...

Reducere. From C. J. Box, the New York Times bestselling author of the Joe Pickett novels, comes a thrilling book of suspense stories about the Wyoming he kn...

In 2012, Mohammad fled his Syrian village along with his wife and four sons, escaping to Jordan through the wilderness. Four years later he sat acr...

She's a soft-spoken loner. He's a wild-eyed rebel. Can two virtual strangers find a way to click? Lettie keeps her nose in a book and her thoughts ...