After the Fire, Hardcover

Reducere. Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of Crazy Blues set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for race recor...

DescriptionIn 2011, the United States launched its third regime-change attempt in a decade. Like earlier targets, Libya's Muammar Qaddafi had littl...

After the first Euro-American settlers arrived in Seattle in the 1850s, the surrounding old-growth forests were rapidly harvested for lumber, causi...

A photographic survey of the London churches built in the 60 years after the Great Fire, published to coincide with the Fire's 350th anniversary. C...

Reducere. The world's fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal and the rebuilding of San Francisco following the devastating 1906 eart...

Reducere. Vietnam 1967-68Eighteen-year-old Marine recruit William V. Taylor Jr. and his brother Marines are assembled into a new reaction force that is immed...

Reducere. A magical debut novel for readers ofNaomi Novik sUprooted, Erin Morgenstern sThe Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman s myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and ...

Reducere. From the Bestselling Author of 'Zodiac', 'Auto Focus' and 'Black Fire'. DAVID FINCHER WAS AFTER THE TRUTH. WITHOUT IT, HE WOULD NOT SHOOT ZODIAC.Fo...

Reducere. What would you do if you were drafted to fight in a war? As a conscientious objector opposed to all wars, Wayne R. Ferren Jr. had to answer that qu...

Reducere. Finally, the truth is revealed about Manhattan's Deutsche Bank building fire. The devastating fire at 130 Liberty Street in the heart of Manhattan'...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served ...

Reducere. Named by the Library of Congress in a 2012 exhibit as among the top "100 Books that Shaped America, " this two-volume set contains 500 stories and ...

Reducere. A love beyond time. An adventure beyond imagination... To soothe her broken heart, culinary artist Meggie Washington leaves Manhattan behind, and j...

Reducere. A human princess. A dark-elf prince. A kiss of fire and powder.After a failed courtship in an ally kingdom, twenty-one-year-old Princess Alessandra...

A critical look into how and why the U.S. military needs to become more adaptable. Every military must prepare for future wars despite not really k...

Reducere. DescriptionChicago's World's Columbian Exposition, popularly called the Chicago World's Fair, or the White City, was the largest and most spectacul...

Reducere. Two sisters. One unforgettable summer.While renovating an old beach house, Ivy and her sister, Shelly, suddenly have full occupancy after fire forc...

Reducere. From adventurers and educators Amy and Dave Freeman, a passionate and beautifully illustrated account of a year in the Boundary Waters. The Boundar...

Reducere. DescriptionBack from the Cold War, intelligence officer Keith Landry returns to his hometown of Spencerville, Ohio. Twenty-five years after their l...

Rise of the Empire Not too long ago it seemed as though the Western Kingdom had finally won the Thousand Years' War against the Empire of Masks.The...

Reducere. Far more than blues and barbecue, Memphis culture has evolved one day at a time. Author G. Wayne Dowdy pins an exact date to a host of important, q...

Reducere. Discover the Women's Murder Club's most terrifying case ever in this New York Times bestseller. As a terrible series of fires blazes through Califo...

Accessible exploration of the noteworthy scientific career of James Smithson, who left his fortune to establish the Smithsonian Institution. James ...

Be swept away in this unique fantasy debut from Sahira Javaid. A spellbinding adventure of belonging, finding hope and where the price of a soul is...

Reducere. MATTHEW HAS ALWAYS PROTECTED LUNA'S SECRET.NOW HE MUST PROTECT HER LIFE. When his best friend Luna is found catatonic after a devastating house fir...

Reducere. It didn't start with fire and blood.It started with a man, drinking alone in a bar, thinking about a woman, and whether or not to kill her.Meet Isa...

DescriptionRichly illustrated with more than 200 photographs, Great Western Railway Stars, Castles and Kings examines the history and workings of t...

In the middle of the fifteenth century, ominous portents like columns of fire and dense fog were seen above the skies of Constantinople as the Byza...

Conrad Brookes only has two goals he wants to accomplish: Release his parents from the Disappearing Hole, and find the Stone of Depletion. The only...

Reducere. A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clue...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first Fire Island Lighthouse was constructed in 1826 after numerous shipwrecks along the barrier island. A replacement tower built i...

Reducere. At the tender age of 14, Thomas Duncan (1846-1931) was swept up in the fierce winds of civil war as the United States was ripped apart by sectional...

Reducere. Thrilling romantic suspense from a best-selling author - A ringing phone in the middle of the night shakes newly-wed Sarah Fontaine awake. Expectin...

"Elmore Leonard fans should be pleased." --Publishers Weekly "Darby Holland is a modern hero in the mod of Sam Spade and Marlow only with more tatt...

Reducere. With two trail drives under his belt, Dewey "Mac" Mackenzie has proven to be more than a good chuckwagon cook. He's good at serving up justice, too...

Reducere. Soon after the first buildings were completed, a fire department was established in Forsyth County in 1772. The Town of Salem purchased the first f...

Reducere. Charles Dickens's beloved tale of the Christmas spirit is beautifully presented in this deluxe new illustrated edition. Contemporary artist and ill...

Reducere. 230 B.C. - The first sovereign emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, has consolidated his ultimate power with battles against the last of the dissenting...

Reducere. The Hill was named for its proximity to the highest point in St. Louis. Italians, mainly from Northern Italy, immigrated to the area starting in th...

Reducere. Originally settled in 1629, Charlestown became well-known as the scene of the pivotal Revolutionary Battle of Bunker Hill, actually fought on Breed...

Reducere. In 1919, Wilford Hamilton Fawcett, better known as "Captain Billy, " published the first issue of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Filled with jokes and ...

Reducere. McLean was a farming community in 1910, when Henry Alonzo Storm established a general store that included the McLean Post Office; the opening of St...

Reducere. Founded in 1803, Fall River changed its name the following year to Troy, after a resident visiting Troy, New York, enjoyed the city. In 1834, the n...

Reducere. "There's a fire growing inside of me. It's not the harmful kind that can kill a girl like Olivia. It's the kind that can save her."Crystal Frost te...

Reducere. The Battle of Perryville laid waste to more than just soldiers and their supplies. The commonwealth's largest combat engagement also took an immens...

Reducere. DescriptionMass murder and military aviation disaster. One community's experience with two fatal tragedies that occurred suddenly... but not withou...

Reducere. Anyone who has waited in a Christmas line for the Walnut Room's Great Tree can attest that Chicago's loyalty to Marshall Field's is fierce. Dayton-...

Reducere. From the late 1950s to 1976 the U.S. manned spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant G...

Reducere. On March 10, 1941, at 12: 38 a.m., the Brockton Fire Department responded to Fire Alarm Box 1311, which was pulled for a fire at the Strand Theatre...

Reducere. The Third Book in the Horseshoer Mystery Series, Featuring the Incorrigible Female Horseshoer, Rainy Dale Days before her wedding, Rainy Dale jumps...

Reducere. Now a New York Times bestsellerThe inside story of LeBron James's return and ultimate triumph in Cleveland.What really happened when LeBron James s...

Reducere. The book Facebook doesn't want you to readAward-winning New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times...

Reducere. A struggling lawyer. A bitter custody battle. A deadly fire. This case could cost Kenzi her career-and her life.Kenzi Rivera is furious. Passed ove...

The gruesome death of Anabel Simpson, a retired archaeologist living in a small college town, had rocked her friends and neighbors and stymied the ...

The Dragon; mythical creatures that spark fear in so many people, while amplifying the imagination in others. That's what Malik Wilson once thought...

DescriptionA stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle--the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign--the last...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the creator of the popular blog The Monsters Know What They're Doing comes a compilation of villainous battle plans for Dungeon Mas...

Ron Castleman has done us all a great service in writing "Julip". In recording his memories and in clarifying them with careful research, he has gi...

Ilklore is an epic new vision of fantasy and myth, where the dystopian realm of Lolore, created by the Elements of Genesis, languish under a brutal...

Reducere. A blown mission and a dead team leave Adam Hayes the last loose thread in a tapestry of betrayal in this latest high stakes international thriller ...

Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik's Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman's myth-rich...

Prior to the outbreak of WWII, the U.S. Army Ordnance Department began testing prototype half-track vehicles, including a White Motor Co. design th...

If you want to discover the captivating life of Nero, then keep reading...Nero's extravagance has become nothing short of legendary. In its day, it...

Reducere. The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uproote...

Reducere. DescriptionFORMER NEW YORK CITY flight attendant Annie Taylor is adjusting to farm life when her grandmother considers tearing down the old stone h...

A "gorgeously written and atmospheric thriller" following one woman's long-awaited visit to a mountain arts retreat--where she soon finds herself i...

The history of Hudson began in 1795 when David Hudson and five business partners anted up $12, 900 for Township 4 Range 10 of the Connecticut Weste...

Reducere. A collection of stories giving a new voice to three characters from Megan Crewe's Fallen World trilogy, and a glimpse of life beyond THE WORLDS WE ...

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, seeking to create a strategic outpost for New France, built Fort Toulouse in Creek territory. This area would eventually be...

When Warrenton was founded in the 18th century, it was nothing more than a dusty road and watering hole. It served as a tavern and courthouse for w...