America Alone

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. Did you ever wonder what running for an elective office like Congress is really all about?Running for Congress is a world all unto its own, and in ...

'This is an impressive book. In writing it the author demonstrates great talent, as well as great courage.' --Mario Vargas Llosa If I succeed in un...

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. They framed him for murder. He'll kill to clear his name.Locked away in a CIA black site, black-ops legend Chris Wren is last to hear about the rio...

Reducere. DescriptionCombining the emotional resonance of Home Fire with the ambition and innovation of Asymmetry, a lyrical and thought-provoking debut nove...

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

Reducere. For years, an anonymous internet personality calling himself "Q" has posted messages offering inside information about a hidden global struggle for...

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...

Reducere. "Escapism of the highest order" (Booklist) from the #1 internationally bestselling author, her first book set in America, the story of a mother and...

Reducere. A funny and heartwarming middle-grade historical fiction novel about a girl who writes letters to her favorite astronaut as America prepares for th...

Inspired by true events, the New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home is the poignant story of a group of Irish emigrants aboard RMS...

Reducere. Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal beha...

Reducere. A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and succe...

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. 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. Contributor(s): Author: C. J. ArcherIndia Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fianctook her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Howard FastShe'll Risk Her Freedom to Find Freedom"A novel of satisfying depth and breadth, written in good, clean, forcefu...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alice McDermottFrom National Book Award-winner and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Alice McDermott, The Ninth Hour is the criticall...

Reducere. American readers were introduced to the award-winning Sudanese author Leila Aboulela with "Minaret, " a delicate tale of a privileged young African...

Reducere. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stuart GibbsBen goes undercover in the White House to take on a SPYDER operative determined to assassinate the president in...

Reducere. What do UFO's, Bigfoot, Pterosaurs, Leprechauns, Lizard Men, Water Monsters and Werewolves all have in common? They have all been encountered in th...

More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African...

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. 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. DescriptionGrand Prize Winner in the 2017 Writer's Digest Book Awards.September 11, 1973: Eleven-year-old Alejandro Penda watches from his apartmen...

Most of us can't make it through morning without our cup (or cups) of joe, and we're not alone. Coffee is a global beverage: it's grown commerciall...

DescriptionYara Zgheib's poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman's struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to...

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 ...

Reducere. When Dr. Olivia Landon receives this anonymous e-mail shortly after broadcasting her controversial plan to save the condors, everyone thinks it's a...

Reducere. Description(Nonfiction, biography) Second printing. "Tapping into the most powerful interest on the planet--the hunger to know who we are and where...

Reducere. It is in San Diego, the city of perpetual springtime, that newcomer Billy Considine puts aside guilt and the indecision of youth. Ahead are the sea...

Reducere. DescriptionOnce upon a time, when magic was common and princesses were many, there lived a powerful wizard named Druth. He could transform a prince...

Reducere. Nell Stillman s road is not easy. When her boorish husband dies soon after they move to the small town of Harvester, Minnesota, Nell is alone, penn...

Reducere. DescriptionA major new look at the work of one of America's foremost self-taught artistsBill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) came to art-making on his own ...

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

Reducere. Less than 10% of all sales people in America make six figures a year, let alone multiple six figures. It's time. Time to start living up to your tr...

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. When children begin to go missing in the town of Archer's Peak, all hope seems lost until a mysterious woman arrives to reveal that terrifying crea...

A smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nig...

Reducere. At the extreme tip of South America, Staten Island has piercing Antarctic winds, lonely coasts assaulted by breakers, and sailors lost as their ves...

When it comes to anxiety, depression, and stress-related illnesses, America is the frontrunner. Thankfully, there's a practical prescription for de...

Reducere. With his beloved Gothic tales, Washington Irving is said to have created the genre of the short story in America. Though Irving crafted many of the...

Reducere. In the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens of people and abducting close to four hundred to sell into slavery in Algier...

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,...

DescriptionAn optimistic look at the future of American leadership by a brilliant young reporter A new generation is stepping up. There are now twe...

Reducere. 1904: Ellen Copley is still a child when she leaves behind the sooty rail yards of Glasgow, and crosses the Atlantic Ocean with a heart full of dre...

Reducere. "If I could, I would put We Will Not Be Silenced into the hands of every Christian in America." --Dr. David Jeremiah In We Will Not Be Silenced (20...

Reducere. *A BookMovement Group Read* Yara Zgheib's poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman's struggle with anorexia on an in...

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. In the twenty-first century there are two ways to study logic. The more recent approach is symbolic logic. The history of teaching logic since Worl...

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...

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...

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

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. From New York Times bestseller Susan Elizabeth Phillips comes a glorious, heart-stopping love story as a woman called Hot Shot discovers a passion ...

Three starred reviews! "Harrowing but deeply illuminating." --School Library Journal A young boy gets detained by ICE while crossing the border fro...

Explores the Black activist's ideas and political strategies, highlighting their relevance for tackling modern social issues including voter suppre...

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...

After World War I, follow Ava the daughter of an Irish immigrant family in America at the height of the Roaring Twenties, looking for love. Quickly...

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...

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. "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...

Reducere. Do you know that there are over 50 million senior citizens over 65 age in the U.S. alone? The seniors are growing by millions! In fact, the elderly...

Reducere. Return to the riotous start of the French Revolution with this amazing tale of survival and adventure. The world is chaos for Angelina Savoy. The c...

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

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...

"A hugely imagined, twisty, turning tale that leads through the labyrinths of magic and war to the center of the heart." --Diana Gabaldon THE LAST ...

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...