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Reducere. A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive th...

Reducere. "In little more than a decade, Diepsloot has transformed from a semi-rural expanse to a dense, seething settlement of about 200 000 people. A post-...

Reducere. The Artisan Bagel is the most iconic food ever made in the City of New York. It has become identified and synonomous with NYC itself. While people ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the building written by participants *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of con...

Reducere. The hidden history of a vulnerable gay man whose life and death were turned into tabloid fodder.In the early 1990s, eight people living in a small ...

DescriptionThe gods never move faster than when punishing men with the consequences of their own actions. Desperate to gain control over a city rav...

*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts of the cities *Includes online resources and bibliographies for further reading Long before Alexandri...

DescriptionThe story of the Town Below the Ground is one of the most disturbing in the annals of Scottish history. For almost 250 years, Edinburgh ...

Reducere. They're stuck on the back of a city-sized flying dragon. A fresh new series from USA Today bestselling author Sarah K. L. Wilson. Marielle is free ...

Reducere. Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institu...

Reducere. CORITA KENT. ART AND SOUL. THE BIOGRAPHY. is the painstakingly researched account of the nun who made a world of difference and, to her surprise, s...

In the 1970s, the city of Genoa in northern Italy was suffering the economic decline and the despondency common to industrial centers of the Wester...

Best Reference Books of 2012 presented by Library Journal The Great Irish Famine is the most pivotal event in modern Irish history, with implicatio...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of Henry Hudson's expedition around Manhattan and relations with the Lenape natives *Includes accounts of tra...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of Henry Hudson's expedition around Manhattan and relations with the Lenape natives *Includes accounts of tra...

Reducere. The city of Ephesus was the site of the most significant church planting movement in the early church, with 40 percent of the New Testament texts r...

Reducere. DescriptionDetroit Rock City is an oral history of Detroit and its music told by the people who were on the stage, in the clubs, the practice rooms...

Description"This superbly succinct and incisive book couldn't be more timely or urgent."--Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map Our cities are...

Reducere. DescriptionMeet the man against insanity. His laboratory? The sadly sinister wards of the 3, 000-bed Traverse City State Hospital. His apparatus? O...

DescriptionAn unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth centu...

The Magnificent AmbersonsThe Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel written by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for the novel. It ...

Reducere. DescriptionCrimes that captivated attention in the Charlotte area over the years run the gamut from missing people to the wrongly accused. This col...

Reducere. Music made in Akron symbolized an attitude more so than a singular sound. Crafted by kids hell-bent on not following their parents into the rubber ...

Reducere. Music made in Akron symbolized an attitude more so than a singular sound. Crafted by kids hell-bent on not following their parents into the rubber ...

Reducere. It is known as one of the most beautiful and cleanest lakes around, and for years Skaneateles Lake and the town of Skaneateles have served as the e...

Reducere. Stoney McGurrin in his debut book, brings us on the adventure of his life time. Having spent months in hospital as a four year old, where he almost...

Reducere. Every city has a look and feel that informs how people respond to it. Visitors react to the skyline, clean streets, traffic patterns and the like, ...

Reducere. "Original and arresting.... Jones's] stories will touch chords of empathy and recognition in all readers."--Washington Post "These 14 stories of Af...

Reducere. DescriptionThe river bend near the confluence of three great rivers--the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois--was founded by Rufus Easton between 1...

Reducere. In attempting to write a history of the Baptists no one is more aware of the embarrassments surrounding the subject than the author. These embarras...

DescriptionNestled in the magnificent San Bernardino Range, Southern California's premier mountain resort, Lake Arrowhead, annually plays host to f...

Reducere. This book surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds, with a focus on their physical appearance, on urban f...

Reducere. Originally published by The Kerryman in 1947, this is one of the four titles in the Fighting Stories Series. It records the events of the War of In...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Julio CapaoPoised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today's Miami is marketed ...

Hits a grand slam for its intended audience. It might even convince skeptics that superhero stories can make good literature. --Pittsburgh Post-Gaz...

DescriptionAfter discovering a derelict record plant on the edge of a northern English city, and hearing that it was once visited by David Bowie, K...

Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in an...

Reducere. The Birch Bark Books of Simon Pokagon is a collection of articles and legends written for and about the Potawatomi tribe by Simon Pokagon. Original...

Reducere. DescriptionViolet Fynne was haunted-haunted by memory. It had been nearly ten years since her father had moved the family from the tiny town of Rat...

This beautifully designed book is a celebration of one of the world's most creative, dynamic and fascinating cities: Tokyo. It spans 400 years, wit...

Reducere. One hundred-sixty-five years ago the Boardman River emptied its waters into the West Arm of Grand Traverse Bay amid a vast forest of white pines, r...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the frontier towns written by people who lived there *Profiles famous Westerners like Wyatt Ear...

The epic story of a world before Columbus--and a woman bound by a sacred legacy that will live for all time... She is called Antelope, the daughter...

Reducere. The Journal of Negro History was founded in January 1, 1916 as a quarterly research journal. It was published by the Association for the Study of A...

Amber Communications Group, Inc.'s imprint Colossus Books has published Before the Legend: The Rise of New Kids on the Block and...a Guy Named Maur...

This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infur...

Reducere. The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in th...

Reducere. One luxury building holds six penthouse apartments owned by kinky Manhattanites. Their sizzling stories will be told throughout the Penthouse Pleas...

Reducere. Had enough of that bridezilla? Feeling alone in a new city? Dealing with the trauma of the worst breakup ever--with someone you never even made out...

Reducere. The great Klondike Gold Rush began in 1896 and within two years, thousands of prospectors, speculators and people from countless walks of life desc...

DescriptionWith over 2, 000 startups, 30 accelerators and 48, 000 people employed in the digital economy, London is the beating heart of the Europe...

Reducere. DescriptionEvery year, tens of millions of people flock to Florida for its sunny beaches and world-famous tourist attractions. Most never learn abo...

Reducere. DescriptionEvery year, tens of millions of people flock to Florida for its sunny beaches and world-famous tourist attractions. Most never learn abo...

Reducere. Be careful what you touch.My name is Darla, and people think I'm weird. I know this because I'm a telepath.After my second husband bails without a ...

In this fairy tale-like story a beloved tree is saved and children learn how architecture can co-exist with nature. The Austrian artist Friedensrei...

It is 2084. Climate change has made life on the Caribbean island of Bajacu a gruelling trial. The sun is so hot that people must sleep in the day a...

Reducere. To the Anishinaabe-Ojibwa people it was a gathering place, a sacred burial ground, and the home of the Great Spirit Gitchie Manitou. Throughout the...

DescriptionIn the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left standing are the grimiest of characters. With reign over the cit...

DescriptionThe compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight Thirty y...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Barbara FreethyDESPERATE PLAY brings you the third book in #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy's new roman...

MEET CAT In Jamaica . . . he learned the art of the "jux" robbing people by studying their everyday movements. By the age of eight, Cat was shoplif...

Reducere. In 2004, journalist Bill Bishop coined the term "the big sort." Armed with startling new demographic data, he made national news in a series of art...

Reducere. THE COMPLETE DRIVE-IN Includes all three Drive-In novels from Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale in one paperback.THE DRIVE-IN: A B-Movie with Blood ...

Reducere. *Includes excerpts from the texts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Many people interested in biblical themes know ...

Reducere. Description*Includes excerpts from the texts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Many people interested in biblical t...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times Bestseller``There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.`` --Leonard CohenChristmas is approaching, and in Q...

Reducere. "The lively story of the Civil War's most unlikely--and most uncelebrated--genius" (The Wall Street Journal)--General Montgomery C. Meigs, who buil...

Reducere. DescriptionWould you be prepared to survive in the event of a complete breakdown of modern civilization?A man-made or natural global disaster could...

Reducere. Covering just less than two-and-a-half square miles, Savannah's Historic District is a steadfast remnant of the Old South-even in times marked by f...

Reducere. If there's one thing Brooke Sullivan knows for sure it's that people let you down, but that hasn't stopped her from going after the life she wants....