American Book of the Dead

Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the American Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family...

Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and his collection of stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead. Th...

Reducere. In modern-day Montana, brushfires, meth dealers, and murder challenge a deputy in a mystery that's "a pleasure to read" (Publishers Weekly).In the ...

Reducere. Ghost stories from the American South have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery!The haunted history of cities across the southeast come t...

Reducere. What is the current state of journalism in America? Better yet, what is the current state of small-town print journalism? Maybe this doesn't seem l...

Reducere. The Season of Delicate Hunger offers enough engaging poetry to sate one's appetite for lively songs that amaze and delight in ways academic poetry ...

Reducere. In J. L. Torres's second story collection Migrations, the inaugural winner of the Tomás Rivera Book Prize, a "sucio" goes to an underground clinic ...

An NPR Best Book of the Year * The stunning sequel to the critically acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller Dear Martin. An incarcerated teen writ...

Reducere. 2021 Book of the Year (Fiction), American Writing Award2021 Best Mystery/Suspense, American Writing Award2021 Best Women's Fiction, American Writin...

Reducere. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecede...

Reducere. "Indian Boyhood, " presents the incredible adventurous childhood and youth which were a part of the free wilderness life of the first American -- a...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Amazon "Best Book of 2019"A Washington Post "10 Books To Read in July" A Los Angeles Times "Seven Highly Antic...

The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation is a nonfiction book, first published in 1917, by the American novelist and muck-rakin...

Return to the roots of romance legend Janet Dailey's most beloved family--the Calders--in this first book in a brand new series set on the beautifu...

"The best and most thrilling book of exploration that we have ever read ... an] immensely important book." -- New York Evening Post"A series of exc...

Monarchs are a favorite and familiar North American butterfly, and their incredible annual migration has captured the popular imagination for gener...

Reducere. Cemetery spooks, haunted historic homes and Native American legends figure prominently in this collection of eerie in tales from the Bay State. Fro...

Reducere. World-renowned illustrator Seth returns with three new Christmas ghost stories for 2020.After receiving word that his Uncle Henry has gone missing,...

Reducere. The Battle of Antietam, fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, was the bloodiest day in American history, with more than twenty-three thousand dead, wou...

Reducere. Wrongs of Passage is about the breakdown of common sense, civility, and leadership in major areas of American college life. What forces young men a...

Reducere. From acclaimed true-crime author Michael Benson and real-life Mafia Survivor Frank Dimatteo, the gripping account of the life and crimes of the mos...

Reducere. From bestselling and National Book Award-nominated author Tahereh Mafi comes a stunning novel about love and loneliness, navigating the hyphen of d...

Reducere. Celebrate Día de los Muertos with this fun introduction for kids ages 6 to 9 Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a holiday that celebrates l...

Reducere. Female students are going missing but nobody's noticed yet "An outstanding police procedural that you won't want to put down. Brilliant " Chris Chi...

Reducere. Come back in time with me as we tour the exact locations on the Gettysburg battlefield where events happened - both momentous and mundane - during ...

Reducere. Beth Duke, Author of #1 Best Seller It All Comes Back to You, delivers an emotional and inspiring novel about family, from the roots that ground us...

Reducere. Fourteen-year-old Terri has lived with her father since the death of her mother in a car accident when she was four. Father and daughter move often...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. THIS IS HOW THE BONE SINGS by W. Todd Kaneko carries the pulse of ancient lament through the boneyards of w...

Reducere. Revised and enhanced to make the best reading experience possible Henry Berry Lowrie was a blue-eyed North Carolina Indian who became a real Americ...

Reducere. Winter Count is a historical novel set during the fifteen turbulent years leading up to the infamous Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. Turtleheart, a ...

Reducere. Unlocking the Secrets of American Mah Jongg is a must have for anyone wanting to learn the game or improve their game and is a great teaching compa...

A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pattern in these two stray bits of information-no ...

Reducere. Why do we sometimes refer to a left-handed pitcher as a "southpaw?" Why are major league pitchers normally limited to 100 pitches per game? Why was...

Reducere. Named "The Book of the Year" by Lee Child in The Guardian From "master of the genre" (The Washington Post) and author of Leaving Berlin, a heart-po...

DescriptionEveryone involved seems to agree that mild-mannered Herbert Wynne wasn't the type to commit suicide but, after he is found shot dead, wi...

DescriptionLeft for Dead at Nijmegen recalls the larger-than-life experiences of an American paratrooper, Gene Metcalfe, who served in the 82nd Air...

Reducere. DescriptionThe greatest unsolved mystery of the 20th century--until now.Fact: During the night of February 1, 1959, in the remote reaches of Siberi...

Reducere. June 8, 1921. Ireland. A British Officer is shot dead on a remote hillside south of Dublin. November 22, 2015. United Kingdom. Former police detect...

Reducere. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of "welfare queen" Linda Taylor, a Sl...

Reducere. The rag-tag crew of the Capricious is hunting down rogue AI, ancient colony ships, and the biggest treasure the universe has ever seen in the final...

Reducere. A Most Anticipated Book of 2020 from the Boston Globe and The Millions A Best Book of February 2020 at Salon, The Millions, LitHub and Vol 1. Brook...

Beautifully painted grotesque body horror from the Judge Dredd universe, starring beloved villains The Dark Judges Can humanity escape the icy clut...

An unmissable gift book, A Small Book of Jewish Comedians is a perfect (please God) post-pandemic pick-me-upIn 1978, Time magazine estimated that a...

Reducere. The complete American Gods comic series, adapted by comics legend P. Craig Russell from the award-winning novel by Neil Gaiman, in a deluxe, oversi...

Reducere. SUMMARY After experiencing the Day of the Dead in Mexico, Aleja, a Mexican-American teen, plans to throw a big D a de los Muertos party at her home...

Reducere. Edna Ferber wrote So Big in 1924 and won the Pulitzer Prize for it the following year. The bestselling book was inspired by the life of Antje Paarl...

For more than seven decades, homing pigeons provided the U.S. military with its fastest most reliable means of communication. Originally bred for r...

Reducere. DescriptionRenowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautiful...

Reducere. This volume contains four classic spiritualist works, three by W. T. Stead and one by his daughter, Estelle. William T. Stead (1849-1912) was a wel...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the forgotten story of the American World War II dead. Told from personal family letters, official documents, contemporary magaz...

Reducere. Examining how African American males end up in dead-end classes, this book explores what must be done to change this trend, asking such questions a...

When a millionaire businessman hires Nero Wolfe to probe the background of his daughter's boyfriend, it seems like just another case of an overprot...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Brandon Shimoda's THE DESERT, a sequel to his William Carlos Williams Award-winning book EVENING ORACLE, gu...

Reducere. As seen on BBC 2 Everyman: Mediums Talking to the Dead American Television: Spirit of Princess Diana Bio Channel: Our Psychic Family Hailed as a la...

Reducere. Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award From the two-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award:...

Reducere. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ...

George A. Romero was an inspiration to many, and responsible for helping to reanimate the undead into mainstream culture. To honour his legacy, Eye...

Washington State Book AwardEach of these eight burnished, terrifying, masterfully crafted stories is set against a landscape that is both deeply Am...

The second edition of The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska represents a major enlargement and revision of the first edition, making this the mos...

Reducere. Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism and ...

Reducere. Karen DeSonne is used to pretending to be something she's not. All her life, she's passed as a normal all-American teenager; with her friends, with...

Reducere. A New York Times BestsellerA Book of the Month Club Alternate SelectionA Literary Guild Main SelectionThe legendary Emma Harte, heroine of A Woman ...

Reducere. DescriptionTribal Screams is a compelling collection of fantasy and horror stories by Owl Goingback, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of 'Crota', E...

Rorty seeks to tie philosophy's past to its future by connecting what he sees as the positive (and neglected) contributions of the American pragmat...

Reducere. National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Carol Brightman brings the Grateful Dead and their history to life in this fascinating and "cogen...

Reducere. Ivy and Mac are in their motorhome, headed for their long-delayed honeymoon. Baja Beaches Romance, sunshine, and shrimp tacos But a panicky phone c...

How silly of me to think this would be a blood-free nightmare . . . Denver psychologist Kismet Knight and the dark world of the vampires are back i...

Reducere. The 1950 Philadelphia Phillies--the "Whiz Kids"--threatened to run away with the pennant, but slumped badly in late summer before finally beating t...

Description"Jay Cronley is surely one of the funniest writers alive " --Evan Hunter"Cronley has a dead-on ear for the American clich ." --Los Angel...

Reducere. Description"Ancient Cures, Charms, and Usages of Ireland" is an interesting compilation that mixes a bit of religious lore with straight occult fol...