Alasdair Took's Letters to America, Paperback - Jonathan Herbert

Alisdair Took, resident of Knaresbridge, Knaresborough (North Yorkshire), keeps up a regular correspondence with a woman in Vermont he met only onc...

The fourth Carcanet collection from Guyanese-British poet Fred D'Aguiar.

Reducere. It's 1938, and terrible things are happening in Germany. Jews are being hounded with no laws: you must a wear a yellow star on your clothing; you c...

Providing a counter-argument to a consumerist, fast-paced and individualistic life, this book represents the power of community and spending time w...

A beautifully repackaged 50th anniversary edition of Sonia Levitin's powerful classic story about a young Jewish girl forced to flee her home.Illus...

A powerful wake-up call to all AmericansWith only 6 percent of the world's population, how long will the United States remain a global superpower? ...

Reducere. DescriptionMy Journey to America is a personal tale of one man's expedition to reaching his American Dream. It commences from his humble beginnings...

At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America.

On the face of it, a touching story about a 75-year old actor taking his young granddaughter on the trip of her lifetime. Together they explore the...

Glowing reviews greeted Anne Tyler's latest beautifully crafted novel exploring the frailties and foibles of humanity - what it means to belong to ...

A portrait of a child's position in a complex, crisis-directed family dynamic from the Swedish author and poet. Martin Aitken translates.

Reducere. A fascinating exchange of letters between Garabed and Haroutiun Kojaian in the United States with their family back in Efkere/Kayseri (Turkey) 1912...

Reducere. FOOD BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER.It says, this is who we are, this is our culture.Recipes for Refuge is a delicious and unique collection offering reade...

Reducere. Burning with desire to share the value of freedom, Antonina takes you from her plight in communist Bulgaria to the free shores of America. Followin...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass Opie deconstructs and compares the foodways of people of African descent throughout the Americas, interprets the health legacies...

Reducere. ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE IS A TOUR DE FORCE, an important work of history as it was lived, a narrative of multiple betrayals on both sides of the Cold...

Reducere. From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America. But they did not all disembark...

Reducere. Between 1846 and 1851, more than one-million people--the potato famine emigrants--sailed from Ireland to America. Now, 150 years later, The Famine ...

Reducere. DescriptionMedieval Studies is the critical study of Europe's self-identity. No understanding of Western civilization is possible without it. Inevi...

Reducere. "Everyone who reads Henry becomes a witness."--Jack Mayer, author of Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project and Before the Court of Heaven 2018 I...

Reducere. As I write this story, a politician in power, somewhere, is living peacefully and lavishly in a mansion, carelessly creating policies that disfavor...

Reducere. This field guide combines spot-on descriptive information, definitive photography, animal track silhouettes, and key facts in a handy, easy-to-refe...

Celebrated by both the Black Mountain poets in the '50s and '60s and the Language poets in the '70s and '80s, Larry Eigner's poems occupy an import...

Reducere. Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, was a former KGB officer and journalist who worked for the Novosti Press Agency and who ultimately defected from the S...

Reducere. Reveals the existence of a Templar colony in the New World and how the explorer Verrazano, also a member of a secret society, attempted to reestabl...

Reducere. Charles Zachariah Goldberg left Bialystok in 1906 at the age of 20 in the aftermath of a deadly pogrom in Bialystok, then a part of Czarist Russia....

Reducere. In World War II, American soldiers went overseas to rescue England from the Nazi menace. Now, with America threatened from within by the specter of...

Reducere. "An entertaining and inspiring read." -Richard Staff, RN, MSW, Norwegian American Musician Kristine, Finding Home: Norway to America is the story o...

Reducere. In 1910, Jan Brozek is a lone traveler making his way across Europe with a singular purpose: immigrate to America and establish himself there as qu...

Reducere. Join Angela Lanza as she experiences the tumultuous world of early 20th century Sicily and New York. Orphaned by the earthquake and powerful erupti...

Reducere. DescriptionWith the Nazi occupation of Kovno (Lithuania), her life changed forever. Zlata Santocki Sidrer was Jewish, but she survived the horrors ...

Reducere. In 2001, as Reinhard Bonnke debated whether or not to move his ministry to America, he did something he had never done before: he prayed for a sign...

Reducere. "One of the 100 best books of the year." --The Times Literary Supplement Christopher Columbus is reevaluated as a man of deep passion, patience, an...