American Heroin

Albastru nemarginit, aproape transparent (1976), romanul de debut al lui Ryu Murakami, distins cu prestigioasele premii Gunzo si Akutagawa, prezint...

Un spion moare. Se naste o legenda. Asa a inceput totul. Agentul secret britanic 007 este gasit mort, plutind in apele Rivierei Franceze, ucis de o...

Kate Riley is not the sort of heroine we meet in most American novels. Self-centered, shape-shifting, driven from one man to another and one city t...

Reducere. Inheriting a Galway cottage may change a troubled woman's life--but not the way she hopes--in this thriller from an "original, grimly hilarious" au...

Reducere. This landmark novel about a small-town girl who runs away to the big city has been hailed as one of the greatest portraits of urban life in America...

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

Reducere. Little Wolf is an Indian boy who will not hunt. Instead he brings home injured animals and birds. He makes them well again, using the secrets of th...

Reducere. The fifth book in the smart, snarky, and action-packed Heroine series continues the adventures of Asian-American superheroines Evie Tanaka, Aveda J...

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. 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...

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 sixteen-year-old Geth Montego, zero o'clock begins on March 11, 2020. By June, she wonders if it will ever end.An insightful, eye-opening, and ...

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. 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. "Cu doua romane despre Bond la activ, Horowitz si-a castigat si el statutul oficial de 00."-literary007.com"O vesnicie si inca o zi este un thrille...

DescriptionBestselling novelist Tracie Peterson joins Karen Witemeyer, Regina Jennings, and Jen Turano in this collection of four novellas, each fe...

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

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

Reducere. Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, "one of the great fictional heroines" (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent i...

The story of the young Prudence Crandall's stout-hearted resistance to danger and violence inspirits us in the same way. There really was a patriot...

Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Finalist for the Marfield Prize...

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. 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. "Betty Zane" is a historical novel about Elizabeth "Betty" Zane McLaughlin Clark (1765-1823), a heroine of the Revolutionary War on the American fr...

Reducere. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A K nstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the intelle...

Reducere. A novel that blends politics, history and romance with unfailing gentleness, unforeseeable, explosive events determine the actions of the character...

Reducere. This new edition of Mizora about an 1880s radical feminist utopia includes a new, extensive introduction--a groundbreaking scholarly treatment of t...

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

Reducere. A piercing expos of American incompetence and corruption in Southeast Asia, The Ugly American captivated the nation when it was first published in ...

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

Reducere. An Amazon Best Book of the Month A captivating and powerful exploration of the opioid crisis--the deadliest drug epidemic in American history--thro...

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

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. " N]o other writer tells better stories about the perpetual, the unwinnable, battle between narrative and truth." --The New York Times Book Review ...

Reducere. Casey Jones was the most famous railroad engineer there ever was. Casey had one hang up. He had to be on time. He expected his trains to be on time...

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. 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 ...

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...

At the age of six he watched his cousin die in a lynching and in that moment of Southern brutality, Frank Lucas, notorious gangster, billion-dollar...

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. In the 6th and final book in the mystery series featuring the Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan, we find our hero in Lake Tahoe, California. ...

This is a historical novel, beginning in 1497 and taking us, in a series of vignettes, through five centuries of interconnections between the Mi'km...

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

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

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...

Arabella Trefoil, the beautiful anti-heroine of this novel, inspired Trollope to write of her, "I wished to express the depth of my scorn for women...

Reducere. The demise of a respectable but unloved fianc introduces a sudden and intoxicating freedom into Eliza Wharton's life. Two new beaus vie for her att...

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...

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

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

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

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

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. 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...

DescriptionAn evocative poem and stunning watercolors come together to honor an American heroine in a Coretta Scott King Honor and Christopher Awar...

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

DescriptionFrom Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood for more than a decade, daughter of the late Ann Richards, featured spe...

Reducere. The Song of the LarkWilla CatherThe Song of the Lark is the third novel by American author Willa Cather, written in 1915. It is generally considere...

Reducere. THE FIRST NOVEL IN ACE ATKINS' NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING QUINN COLSON SERIES. "In Quinn Colson, bestselling author Ace Atkins has created an Ameri...