A Relative Stranger: Stories, Paperback - Charles Baxter

Reducere. Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our finest contemporary writ...

Reducere. Graywolf reissues one of its most successful essay collections with two new essays and a new foreword by Charles BaxterAs much a rumination on the ...

This timely exploration of our history of welcoming strangers offers a powerful, uplifting antidote to our increasingly atomised world.Publisher: G...

From the National Book Award finalist and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune)--a timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn ...

Publisher: Persephone Books LtdAuthor(s): Elizabeth BerridgeNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2000Dimensions: 192 x 140 x 18Cover type: Paperba...

Reducere. "Who goes to Scotland for two weeks with a stranger they met over the internet?" At forty-three, Ninya was depressed, out of shape, and filled with...

Reducere. Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Anness PublishingAuthor(s): Nicola BaxterIllustration(s): colour illustration throughoutNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2018Dimens...

Reducere. Memoir from Marc de Celle of his family's first five years in Fargo. Having always lived in either Arizona, California or Florida, Fargo was a big ...

Part of the "Storyworlds" series, this is a pack of four Stage One traditional stories, with each one reinforcing 20 new key words. The left-hand p...

The four selections in this volume span his entire writing career and are among his best-known stories. They include: The Notorious Jumping Frog of...

Publisher: Anness PublishingAuthor(s): Nicola BaxterNumber of pages: 16Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 249 x 306 x 16Cover type: HardbackIllustra...

Dickens's first concern in all his fiction is with people's feelings and their imaginations. This book takes a personal approach to Dickens's art, ...

Reducere. Charles Boyer: The French Lover is the first biography of Boyer to exist in English in almost forty years. Author John Baxter artfully presents the...

This fantastic range of fiction for Shared, Guided and Independent reading gives you stories your children will love to read over and over again. G...

Reducere. Traveling to be reunited with her family in the arctic, 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement. It s been two years since he...

Reducere. In the first picture book written by a DACA Dreamer, Areli Morales tells her own powerful and vibrant immigration story. When Areli was just a baby...

Reducere. De ce unii oameni par sa se teama permanent de lipsa banilor, in timp ce altii chiar se simt prosperi, indiferent de cati bani au la banca? De ce u...

Publisher: Oldknow BooksAuthor(s): L. M. BostonIllustration(s): 20ill.Number of pages: 160Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 197 x 127 x 12Cover typ...

A timeless collection of over 175 traditional stories and rhymes for younger children, with engaging illustrations.Publisher: Anness PublishingAuth...

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Reducere. Charles Barbara (1817-1866), though principally remembered today for being "a friend of Baudelaire, " was, arguably, one of the more influential wr...

Reducere. Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more – the Oxford Bookworms Library has a book for every student. Written for secondary and adult student...

Traveling to be reunited with her family in the arctic, 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement. It’s been two years since he...

A journey to the American South in search of friendship, life lessons and bluegrass.

Reducere. From the Amazon bestselling author of Hide Away comes the gripping second installment of the Rachel Marin Thriller series.Rachel Marin is in a good...

Renowned civil rights activist Valarie Kaur explains how love can be used to effect transformative political and social changePublisher: Octopus Pu...

After 17 years of wrestling with addiction to alcohol and meth, Porcia found herself hopeless and homeless, staring death in the face. After nine f...

Charles Dickens wrote a number of supernatural and horror stories, some of which were included in his longer works, while others were published in ...

Reducere. DescriptionIt would be incorrect to say that Asian American literature began during the Civil Rights Movement. Since the late nineteenth century, C...

Reducere. All four books in the beloved Wayside School series by bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar are now available in this collecti...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sheila Peltz WeinbergHow to find peace and harmony in an unsettled world. You. Me. The person down the street or halfway ar...

For all fans of great thrillers, of authors such as James Swallow, Frank Gardner, Terry Hayes, John le Carre, The Stranger sweeps us onward at whit...

Reducere. L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been enter...

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Reducere. A Stranger At My Door is a personal odyssey of challenge, failure, and redemption. A man in desperate crisis appears at the doorstep of a family ho...

Reducere. #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts fulfills Small Town Dreams in this collection of two novels where people find love when and where...

Renowned civil rights activist Valarie Kaur explains how love can be used to effect transformative political and social change

Reducere. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut The Stolen White Elephant Luck The...

In this day and age, and in some circles, Christmas doesn't live in the minds and hearts of people the way it used to. That's a shame, because Chri...

Reducere. From "mad as a wet hen" to "corn dodger" and "hobgoblin, " Charles Funk's collections of curious words and expressions are a treasure trove of word...

Reducere. Spanning a wide geographical range, this collection features many of the now prominent first generation of African writers and draws attention to a...

Reducere. The secrets of lives not shared, not taken, not known, all can be found in the eclectic fiction of author Charles Payseur. A sentient star deals wi...

An anthology of texts illustrating the development of the short story from the 19th century to the present day, by Charles Dickens, R. L. Stevenson...

A moving and revealing insight into the real experiences of women welcoming home their menfolk from the Second World War

Reducere. "A memorable first book of fiction, one which belongs on any shelf of the best contemporary weird tales." - August Derleth, Chicago Tribune " E]xtr...

Follows the prize-winning memoir, }Skating To Antartica{. Diski takes a trip around the perimeter of the USA by train, where she meets all kind of ...

Reducere. Classic literary masterpieces help us to remind the spirit of Christmas and celebrate the timeless truths of the holiday season. This collection of...