A Foreign Country

The extraordinary story of how China became the powerful country it is today, when just a century ago it was almost helpless in the face of foreign...

Reducere. "Utterly sublime."--Maaza Mengiste, author of Beneath the Lion's GazeAdua, an immigrant from Somalia to Italy, has lived in Rome for nearly forty y...

DescriptionCatherine the Great's letters present a vivid picture of Russia in a momentous age. They also offer a unique account of her personal dev...

An Insider's Account of the Impeachments of Donald Trump How do you stop a rogue president? How do you protect a country from a man who lies, who o...

From the author of the National Book Award longlisted epic The Great Offshore Grounds, here is the debut novel that launched her career--a story of...

Reducere. Easy recipes and whimsical illustrations share the beauty of food and culinary history from around the globe with young readers in this cookbook wi...

Reducere. A young woman from Minnesota searches out the Colombian father she's never known in this powerful exploration of what family really means He loved ...

Reducere. Congress is scheduled to receive a report from the Director of National Intelligence on efforts of the Defense Department and intelligence agencies...

Reducere. Alone on a foreign shore. Enemies all around. Unsure of who your friends are. Dangerous missions that have to be successful. Can YOU overcome your ...

Now in paperback, a literary time machine that takes readers into the sights, smells, and tastes of the fourteenth century--a book that is revoluti...

Reducere. The mystery of Chinatown as foreign yet familiar has been long established in the American imagination. Visitors come to expect this, looking for "...

Pete Hoekstra, the former chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, tells the real story behind the tragic events in Bengha...

Reducere. In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her...

Reducere. DescriptionNew Jersey in the 1980s had everything Jancee Dunn wanted: trips down the shore, Bruce Springsteen, a tantalizing array of malls. To mus...

Chekhov's iconic characters are relocated to Nigeria in this bold new adaptation. Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. Lolo, Nne Ch...

Reducere. Children can be like a foreign country, and this is the phrase book and guide book that adults need to navigate that landscape sensitively and effe...

Reducere. The bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing is back with a delicious novel about a trio of best friends in Manhattan...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller For the first time in his own words, President-elect Donald J. Trump explains his plan to make America great againHe wa...

On July 12, 1917, in the mining town of Bisbee Arizona, twelve hundred striking miners and their supporters were rounded up by forces organized by ...

Reducere. DescriptionHave you ever watched a travel show on a foreign country and afterwards felt a burning desire to visit? Or talked to someone who describ...

Reducere. Think of England, and anger hardly springs to mind as its primary national characteristic. Yet in The Angry Island, A. A. Gill argues that, in fact...

Reducere. #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens immerses you in the simple joys of a long-ago country-village Christmas, featuring a grandmo...

Reducere. A breathtaking historical novel following the incredible construction of the Panama Canal and casting light on the unsung people who lived and labo...

Here, at the corner of a country that feels both foreign and familiar, three orphaned, stateless youth have built a simple life out of recreation a...

Reducere. In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland o...

Reducere. Poetry. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Cecilia Rossi. THE LAST INNOCENCE and THE LOST ADVENTURES ...

Reducere. In this thrilling epic fantasy, Sonya has won the battle and brought a foreign army to free her country from imperial rule, but now she has to face...

Reducere. The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow--before more American assets are rounded up and killed....

Reducere. The March 11, 2011, earthquake and subsequent tsunami that ravaged Japan lasted a mere six minutes. But the fallout--the aftershocks, the Fukushima...

Reducere. DescriptionA seemingly impossible mystery tests the keen mind and forensic skills of Joanna Blalock, the daughter of Sherlock Holmes and the heir t...

Reducere. DescriptionSir Josse d'Aquin is summoned to assist the beleaguered King John in the 17th - and final - Hawkenlye mystery. September, 1216. A foreig...

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets...

Reducere. Glimpses of Grace in Georgia is an incredible true story of how Amanda and her family were taken from suburban America and brought into the heart o...

New York Times Bestseller At once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America b...

Reducere. Because loneliness, sleep-deprivation, social media use, tech use, and even gut-imbalance--which the Huntington Post refers to as "the modern plagu...

Reducere. In Leonard Wibberley's classic political satire, a tiny backwards country decides the only way to survive a sudden economic downturn is to declare ...

Reducere. In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers' Project (FWP). Out-of-wo...

Reducere. From #1 New York Times bestselling author and ``queen of royal fiction`` (USA TODAY) comes a riveting and scandalous love triangle between a young ...

Reducere. The true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history. In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, ...

Reducere. The Republic of Moldova between East and West. Vectors and agents of change that determine political attitudes (1991-2016) In a country where fake ...

Reducere. Have you ever dreamt of living in a foreign country?Follow two intrepid Minnesota retirees as they learn what it takes to live like a local in Fran...

"A master American novelist." --Vanity Fair"A gripping international thriller" about a Foreign Service officer--and the son who turns to terrorism ...

Reducere. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, this is a brilliant writer's account of a long, painful, ecstatic--and unrecipr...

Reducere. Miss Kira Melbourne is anything but a proper English rose. Her exotic beauty, courtesy of her foreign mother, has marked her as an outsider, and he...

Description"Dr. Alexander . . . brings to this book an acute understanding of both why our cherished form of government--and those who serve us in ...

Reducere. "You must write a self/ out of waiting/ to speak" asserts Alina Ștefănescu's Dor and oh, what a prismatic, many-headed self has been written into e...

Reducere. In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central In...

Reducere. It's Girl Interrupted meets Miranda July--with a touch of Joan Didion--in this captivating collection of original essays revolving around a young A...

Reducere. Joyce and Marshall each think the other is killed on September 11--and must swallow their disappointment when the other arrives home. As their bitt...

Reducere. DescriptionPublished to widespread acclaim, in Marie Curie and Her Daughters, science writer Shelley Emling shows that far from a shy introvert toi...

From the much lauded author of Breaking News comes a version of Walking the Bible just for Israel. With its dense history of endless conflict and b...

Reducere. DescriptionTurkey, which has always held an important position in global affairs, has become even more prominent on the international stage as an e...

Reducere. From the author of In Farleigh Field...Molly and Daniel Sullivan are settling happily into the new routines of parenthood, but their domestic bliss...

Reducere. Where are all the bilinguals?Have you ever felt like you are no good at learning foreign languages? Have you invested time and money into classes, ...

This new, thoroughly updated fifth edition of Bradt's Serbia remains the most acclaimed guide available to a country which in recent years has welc...

In 1989, deep in the South American jungles of Suriname, a former commando and Falklands War veteran discharged from the SAS found himself with a g...

Reducere. IN A RICH, DISTINCTIVE WORLD THAT MIXES MAGIC WITH TECHNOLOGY, WHO COULD STAND AGAINST MAGES THAT CONTROL GUNPOWDER AND BULLETS? The capital has fa...

Reducere. DescriptionSomething in the Air is Richard Hoffer's gripping sports narrative that tells the individual stories of the athletes who gathered in Mex...

Reducere. Leviticus is often seen as one of the most uninviting books of the Old Testament. Who wants to read about blood sacrifice, infectious diseases, or ...

Reducere. "A terrifyingly realistic, prescient new series ... which can only be described as prophetic." - G. Michael Hopf, best selling author of The New Wo...

Reducere. Perfect for fans of The Cruel Prince and Sorcery of Thorns, this exhilarating, page-turning fantasy will pull readers into a lush and stunning worl...

Reducere. A young adult graphic novel about three foreign exchange students and the pleasures, and difficulties, of adjusting to living in Japan. Living in a...

Reducere. DescriptionThis rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and Am...

Gradually since 2003, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power -- in the tradition of past Turkish l...

Reducere. Would you like to learn Spanish? Do you Want to acquire more Spanish speaking skills? Would you like to have a course that gives you the basis to b...

Reducere. In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupery's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitze...

Reducere. Legendary investor Jim Rogers gives us his view of the world on a twenty-two-month, fifty-two-country motorcycle odyssey in his bestselling busines...

Contributor(s): Author: Rachel DeWoskinDetermined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a fiery life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops ...

Reducere. After the success of her New York Times-bestselling childhood memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend, Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva--subje...

Reducere. The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots. The most populous Arab country and the historical center of Arab intellectua...