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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...

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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. Discover the inspiring illustrated true story about one girl's escape from the Holocaust to become a concert pianist against all odds, made popular...

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. Evie Blanchard was at the top of her field in the city of angels. But when an emotional year forces her to walk away from her job as a physical the...

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...

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

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. Superpowered humans known as NEXT appeared in the world 45 years ago. Some of them fight crime in the city of Stern Bild while promoting their corp...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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. The series that began with The Deceivers continues in Scammed, the second twist-filled installment from Kristen Simmons, author of Article 5 and Th...

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 ...

DescriptionDid you know that the Aztecs sacrificed 500 to 700 people every year in order to satisfy Gods? For many years, the Aztecs have captured ...

The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial soci...

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. This collection of biographies focuses on the discoverers and explorers of the New World - written for young readers, this is a superb introduction...

DescriptionAn inspirational and gripping first-person account of determination, adversity and survival against the odds. Last year, Claire Nelson m...

The series that began with The Deceivers continues in Scammed, the second twist-filled installment from Kristen Simmons, author of Article 5 and Th...

The classic nativity story through verse, artwork, and music. Christmas Eve is the perfect time to create family traditions, and we've made it more...

Reducere. For the millions of girls--and the women they grow into--who are mad about horses, who live to ride, who spend more time in stables than stores, wh...

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...

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...

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...

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. 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....

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

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...

RAINWALKERS is a story set in the not-so-distant future in a crumbling version of John Steinbeck's Salinas Valley, after the breakup of the United ...

Reducere. REVISED AND UPDATED EDITIONKelowna, BC is sometimes referred to as the "Palm Springs" of Canada, and the Okanagan Valley is often referred to as th...

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. Farrah Gray is no ordinary teenager. He wears a suit and tie; he has an office on Wall Street and another one in Los Angeles . . . and he sold his ...

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...

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

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

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, it's sadly untrue, even if it has a nice ring to it. The one thing Nero is well-know...

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. "We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made, " wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon trai...

Reducere. The classic book on legends, lore, and unvarnished truths surrounding New Orleans' most famous Voodoo mistress-now in a modern, legible format. It ...

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...

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...

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. 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. Discover the inspiring illustrated true story about one girl's escape from the Holocaust to become a concert pianist against all odds, made popular...

Reducere. DescriptionBeyond Lucky How does a man like Brian "Glaze" Gibbs roll the dice and escape a death sentence, multiple life sentences, and survive the...

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...

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

Reducere. Chicago was the nation's deadliest city in 2001, recording 666 homicides. For lawyers in the Cook County Public Defender's Office Murder Task Force...

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

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

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...

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. Raechel Anne Jolie's early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race cars, Budweiser-drinking men covered in car grease, and the wom...

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. The overlooked Quaker from Rhode Island who won the American Revolution's crucial southern campaign and helped to set up the final victory of Ameri...

Experience the award-winning recipes for cookies, cakes, quiches, and croissants from maman, the beloved rustic-chic café "The perfect host gift bu...

Breckenridge was a sleepy ranching and farming community in the rolling prairie of north central Texas when an oil boom hit. During 1920, it grew f...

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