American Heroin

Reducere. DescriptionRobert Lovett grew up in Texas, went to Yale, and earned his wings as a naval air force hero in World War I. He played a key role in the...

DescriptionThe legendary Moses of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman was a fiery and tenacious abolitionist who organized and led African Ame...

Reducere. This collection of ancient images of women as goddesses and heroines brings together legends, rituals, and prayers from China, Celtic Europe, South...

Reducere. This fascinating book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American woman's heroism in the French Resistance. Virginia Roush fell in love with...

Reducere. This publication reissues a much sought-after photobook. Taryn Simon is an American artist whose works combine photography, text and graphic design...

Reducere. Beginning in the 1920s as a lowly crop-dusting operation in Louisiana, Delta Air Lines had, by its fiftieth anniversary, down to become one of the ...

For the first time in one volume, three modern masterworks from the National Book Award-winning writer who has been called the American Graham Gree...

Reducere. The first African-American artist to attain art superstardom, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) created a huge oeuvre of drawings and paintings (Jul...

Reducere. DescriptionSybil Rides tells the inspiring true story of events during the American Revolution which resulted in sixteen-year old Sybil Ludington b...

Reducere. In Empire's Mistress Vernadette Vicu a Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistres...

Reducere. A Wrinkle in Time was only the beginning: rediscover an American classic and its three sequels in this deluxe Library of America edition. This Libr...

Reducere. "Wheatle has delivered a definitive narrative steeped in cultural philosophy and human sensibilities. Despite the foibles of his tragic characters,...

DescriptionBeloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, "one of the great fictional heroines" (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war corr...

Reducere. The forty-year love affair between Rachel and Andrew Jackson parallels a tumultuous period in American history. Andrew Jackson was at the forefront...

Reducere. The definitive edition of the complete works of the grand dame of American science fiction begins with this volume gathering two novels and her col...

Reducere. David Thompson is a hero in Canada, yet has remained largely unknown in the United States. Between 1801 and 1812, this fur trader, explorer, and ca...

Reducere. Many know Rocky Hill as the home of the oldest operating ferry in the country and its renowned Dinosaur State Park. However, there is a lot more hi...

Reducere. In this probing and personal biography, Emory Thomas reveals more than the man himself did. Robert E. Lee has been, and continues to be, a symbol a...

Reducere. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre appear here together in hardcover for the first time.Suave, agr...

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. In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's belo...

Reducere. From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small Af...

Reducere. An addictive and groundbreaking debut thriller set on a Native American reservationVirgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian...

DescriptionThe unforgettable protagonist of Lola returns in a gritty, high-octane thriller about a brilliant woman who will stop at nothing to prot...

Originally published by UNC Press in 1952, The Railroads of the Confederacy tells the story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a maj...

Reducere. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg brings his eloquence, wit, and on-target perceptions of American life and politics to th...

Reducere. From National Book Award-nominated writer Andrea Lee comes a gorgeously evocative epic about love, clashing cultures, and identity, set in the trop...

Reducere. The ultimate biography of the musical icon. A groundbreaking and vibrant look at the music hero to generations, DYLAN: The Biography digs deep into...

Reducere. This delightfully colorful book of expressive characters will engage children, parents, and teachers alike. It portrays real-life indigenous heroin...

Reducere. DescriptionNew York City . . . if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. In the slums of New York, young DOWOP believed in the American Dr...

Reducere. Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience...

Reducere. DescriptionMatthew has grown up in hell. His father is gone, and his mother drinks and hooks up with men who abuse Matthew and his sister. He final...

Reducere. The history of Norwegian settlement in the United States has often been told through the eyes of prominent men, while the women are imagined in the...

Reducere. Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventure...

Reducere. A lavish chronicle of the glamorous life of a unique woman, Hollywood star, and princess, released in a new gift-sized formatGrace Kelly--whose coo...

Reducere. Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of this powerfully dra...

Reducere. Jackie Collins' fierce and wildly beautiful heroine Lucky Santangelo is back with a vengeance--in a novel full of power, passion, revenge, and the ...

Reducere. Part historical fiction, part magical realism, and 100 percent adventure. Thirteen-year-old Mei reimagines the myths of Paul Bunyan as starring a C...

Reducere. Sergeant Smack chronicles the story of North Carolina's Leslie "Ike" Atkinson, an adventurer, gambler and one of U.S. history's most original gangs...

Reducere. Zeke and Ned is the story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors -- two proud, passionate men whose remarkable quest to ca...

Reducere. Marti MacAlister, Eleanor Taylor Bland's popular African-American heroine, is forced to confront some extremely personal demons from long ago-her h...

Reducere. "I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can." -- Babe Ruth Babe Ruth is without a doubt the mos...

Reducere. JANE EYRE (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Bront . It was published on 16 October 1847,...

Reducere. A plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II,...

Reducere. An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton...

Reducere. Margaret Mitchell was as complex and compelling as her legendary heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, and her story is as dramatic as anything out of her own ...

Reducere. DescriptionLawrence Graham Bigelow was an American artist who achieved prominence in the mid 20th century, while at the same time working undercove...

Reducere. Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbours she has committed an unforgivable sin. Everyone kno...

Reducere. This beloved modern classic documents the lives and hardships of an African American family living in Depression-era Harlem. While 12-year-old Fran...

Reducere. Hailed by reviewers and readers for its originality, vitality, and truth, this novel secured Willa Cather a place in the first rank of American wri...

The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. Written as a serie...

Working in an American primitive style animated by the humor and storytelling genius for which he is renowned, Caldecott Winner artist Paul O. Zeli...

Reducere. John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of honors and international fame. No explorer even appr...

Reducere. My name is Brett. I'm a college educated man who once was a husband of 26 years with two children, three businesses, and a large home with an actua...

Description" The] Ukrainian American heroine of this sweet-bitter debut is a wisecracking fatalist who can be counted on to say the inappropriate t...

Reducere. Please note: This is a PROSE novel about superheroes, NOT a graphic novel/comic book. REVIEWS FOR THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING: "[TGWWBK] introduces ...

Reducere. SHOSHANA HOLDS NOTHING BACK in this harrowing account of an ordinary woman caught in extraordinary circumstances. She reveals decisions made by cha...

Reducere. Louisa May Alcott never intended to write Little Women. She had dismissed her publisher's pleas for such a novel. Written out of necessity to suppo...

Reducere. ``Crackles with energy and snaps with authenticity and voice.`` --Justina Ireland, author of Dread Nation``An incredibly potent debut.`` --Jason Re...

Reducere. "Nemett's wondrously fresh novel positively bursts with charm, heart, and invention." --Booklist, Starred Review Welcome to The Egg, an off-campus ...

Reducere. In the spring of 1964, the Nankai Hawks of Japan's Pacific League sent nineteen-year-old Masanori Murakami to the Class A Fresno Giants to improve ...

Reducere. This delightfully colorful book of expressive characters will engage children, parents, and teachers alike. It portrays real-life indigenous heroin...

Reducere. It's the dawn of 1980 in Los Angeles and everything's changing. Punks, dopers and assorted miscreants play in the decaying homes of Hollywood golde...

Reducere. For fans of John Green and Rainbow Rowell comes this powerful novel with the most fearless heroine--self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson--fr...

Reducere. A "marvelous" (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star ...

Reducere. Blackbeard: The Birth of America is the true story of Edward Thache--former British Navy seaman and notorious privateer-turned-pirate, who lorded o...

Reducere. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, David Robertson illuminates the shadowy figure who planned a slave rebellion so daring that, if ...

With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations Now in paperback, the first fully documented biography of the legendary Polish-born Nazi hunter--a r...

Reducere. * 4 Starred Reviews ** An Indie Next List Pick *"Playful, bold, and, much like its subject, full of grace." --Jillian Tamaki, Caldecott Honor winne...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICEInaugural winner of the Grand Prix de la Litterature Americaine She calls herself Ash, but that's not her...