America Alone

Reducere. This book by Miguel De La Torre offers a fascinating guide to the history, beliefs, rituals, and culture of Santer a -- a religious tradition that,...

Reducere. A promise keeps them apart until WWII threatens to destroy their love foreverFonzaso Italy, between two wars Nina Argenta doesn't want the traditio...

Reducere. As a direct result of an accidental electrocution while working on the 220 AC shore power system aboard his boat, Captain Leo Walton had an event w...

Reducere. A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing ...

Reducere. DescriptionArizona has stories as peculiar as its stunning landscapes. The Lost Dutchman's rumored cache of gold sparked a legendary feud. Kidnappi...

A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an Indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun vio...

Reducere. "Like a jigsaw puzzle, every story is made up of pieces; big ones, smaller ones, pieces not easily found, tiny and hiding, essential to complete th...

Your share of your health insurance premium and the amount you are paying for your yearly deductible, co-pays, and prescriptions are soaring. Don't...

Reducere. Lilo and Ernst survived the horrors of WWII in the center of Berlin, but not without help. An incredible tale of survival and kindness.Lilo was jus...

Reducere. Dr. Maximillian Ramsey has a problem ...I'm a jerk. Everyone I know or have ever worked with agrees. "Misanthropic asshole" is the term I hear most...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Thomas Pynchon's cult detective novel, Inherent Vice, depicts drug-addled private investigator Doc Sportello, a leftover of 19...

In America, Come and Get It, his second release, Mr. Kasalobi finds himself in a big legal fight to regain back the custody of his two daughters. L...

Reducere. Now for the first time ever, the true story of Carlo Gambino is told in full, gory detail. In 1921 an illegal immigrant by the name of Carlo Gambin...

Two years ago, her fiance perishedduring their voyage to America.Now she discovers it may have been murder...Dreaming of a better life, Tillie McGr...

Reducere. For nearly three decades, Richard Buckner has been traveling the byways of America, often alone and with little more than his guitars and notebooks...

Reducere. It's the end of the world as we know it...Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are. And liberals...

Come here to the magical America that might have been, and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of ...

Reducere. An ancient evil awakens... Alex Hunter has been found - sullen, alone, leaving a path of destruction as he wanders across America. Only the foolish...

Reducere. Does your life as an African American in the USA seem a bit insane? Are you asking yourself questions and having racial encounters every day about ...

Reducere. When police raided the Women's Medical Society, they thought that they were putting an end to a pill mill that was the largest supplier of illicit ...

The instant #1 bestseller, now updated with new reporting. "This taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. ...

Reducere. One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told--Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Europe alone there are more than two dozen navigable rivers and canals. Add the confluence of companies offering seemingly similar ex...

Reducere. In twenty-first century America, at a time when the family structure is crumbling, divorce rates are at an all-time high, and respect for parents i...

Reducere. In the spring of 1835, at the pier of Buffalo's Canal District, the most dangerous square mile in developing America, 17 year old Ciara Sloane step...

Reducere. Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cl...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom acclaimed, prolific author Jane Yolen comes a Level 1 Ready-to-Read story bursting with all the excitement and a little bit of the ...

When Lila and her family visit Laurel Oaks Plantation in Louisiana, her parents and brother scoff at the claim that the house is haunted. But secre...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lauraine SnellingHer first mistake was emigrating alone. Was this one even worse? Augusta Bjorklund, after discovering her ...

Reducere. I became homeless after I got out of the Army, so I began walking between towns to look for a new job. Although I wasn't having much luck at findin...

One very special work of art--a Chaim Soutine painting--will connect the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in this enthral...

Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, ...

Reducere. Born into a perfect family, by 16, Jacqui Burnett wants to kill her father. With his gun.Decades later, in her early '40s, Jacqui believes she has...

Reducere. So you've been done an Arizona vacation, maybe even Colorado and Utah, but have you done the Grand Circle? You may have heard of the term and likel...

Reducere. Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don't live to see the morning? In the ruins of a place once known as...

Reducere. A National Bestseller Winner of an International Association of Culinary Professionals Award for Literary Food Writing An absorbing portrait of an ...

Reducere. DescriptionWhose suit is reinforced with the metal Vibranium? Who loves climbing up walls? Who has unlimited strength? Discover these answers and a...

Reducere. Love in the Late Edition is a story about a man who retires with his wife to an idyllic retirement community in California but is very soon left tr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Don SheweyPornography has played a special role in the sex lives of gay men. It has taught us what desire between two men l...

Nuclear weapons were the terror of the Cold War, a thing of the past....or so the United States' government thought. When a long abandoned Russian ...

Reducere. So you've been done an Arizona vacation, maybe even Colorado and Utah, but have you done the Grand Circle? You may have heard of the term and likel...

Reducere. Some of Hiscoe's memories of his 1973 hike from Maine to Georgia are funny, some are wistful and romantic, and some unsettling. Taken together, the...

Reducere. Escaping communist Romania, activist and doctor Anca Rodescu is dismayed to discover she has been abandoned, pregnant and alone in America, by the ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Amy BloomPanoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental...

Reducere. "Ka is a beautiful, often dreamlike late masterpiece." --Los Angeles Times "One of our country's absolutely finest novelists." --Peter Straub, New ...

Reducere. DescriptionThey are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone) is an urgent collection of oral histor...

Reducere. So you've been done an Arizona vacation, maybe even Colorado and Utah, but have you done the Grand Circle? You may have heard of the term and likel...

Reducere. Ghosts of Newport plumbs the depths of Newport s history and reveals a host of chilling tales in which fact and folklore intertwine. Today s Newpor...

Red Kite, Blue Sky, the debut poetry collection from Madeleine May Kunin, celebrates life and the natural world, occasioned by the birth of grand-c...

Reducere. Two previously unpublished collections by an important Chinese American poet depict daily life inside New York's Chinatown and across the Chinese d...

Reducere. A "winning" (Parade) and "well-conceived" (The New York Times) account of one teenager's solo trek to play golf in each of the lower forty-eight st...

A Good Morning America Book of the Month Selection - A Popsugar Must-Read Book of the Month - A Buzzfeed Most Anticipated Book of the Year - A The ...

Reducere. Alaska pollock is everywhere. If you're eating fish but you don't know what kind it is, it's almost certainly pollock. Prized for its generic fish ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Katharine GalganoAn African is elected Pope as the Barque of Peter encounters heavy seas. Everywhere, the Faith and the Wes...

Reducere. From the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a "sweeping yet remarkably accessible" (The Wall Street Journal) analysis that "offers superb, often...

Reducere. ``Glaser has written an engaging account of women and drink, citing fascinating studies about modern stressors...and evidence that some problem dri...

Reducere. From the award-winning author of Soldier Girls and Just Like Us, an "extraordinary" (The Denver Post) account of refugee teenagers at a Denver publ...

Reducere. The seeds for Worship HeartCries were planted years ago as I sat in a seminary class under Dr. T. W. Hunt. The Spirit of God used him to light a fi...

Reducere. *This superb anthology of short stories, comics, and poems is fresh, funny, and full of authentic YA voices revealing what it means to be Mexican A...

When faced with overwhelming hardship, what we believe makes all the difference. At age twenty-six, Anne Reeder Heck was attacked by a stranger and...

On a motorcycle trip from Manitoba to southern Chile, Cameron Dueck seeks out isolated enclaves of Mennonites--and himself. "An engrossing account ...

Reducere. Alone, the beautiful young Anna immigrated to America from an Island in the North Sea at 16, running from cruelty. Honor forced her to leave her fi...

In 1918, Rebecca Goldberg--a Jewish immigrant from the Russian Empire living in rural Wilmington, Massachusetts--lost her husband, Nathan, to a rai...

Reducere. It's a hideous echo of a violent past. Across America, murders are being committed with all the twisted hallmarks of the Boston Strangler, the Zodi...

Gittel and her mother were supposed to immigrate to America together, but when her mother is stopped by the health inspector, Gittel must make the ...

Reducere. The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller about how Mitch McConnell has been bad for Kentucky--and why he needs to be voted out of offi...

Illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist, Kate's Light shares the exciting true story of Katherine Walker and her long, heroic career as one of the firs...

When Britain stood alone in the early years of the Second World War, a British woman began a letter-writing campaign to prove her nation remained s...

Reducere. The Classic Film Series highlights movies from the past, forgotten, overlooked and cherished alike, selected for their influence, relevance and wor...

Reducere. With the same personal style in which she undertook "Piercing the Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today", Katherine Ramsland turns he...