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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. 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 ...

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. "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 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. 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 ...

Reducere. I'm not supposed to be sacrificed to the wolves, that fate belongs to my sister. As the eldest daughter, she'll join our village's claimed girls wh...

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

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

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...

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...

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. Ocean View, a rich historical beachfront hamlet on the northern-most reaches of the city of Norfolk, was at one time a major resort destination for...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

IBM is heir to all the ideas for innovative ciphering machines of the past. From granite blocks used to tell time, to beads used for accounting pur...

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. In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into po...

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

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, ...

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

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...

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...

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. 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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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. 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. 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...

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

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

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. 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. 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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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. 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...

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...