Reducere. This vivid celebration of blues and early rock 'n' roll includes some of the first and most illuminating profiles of such blues masters as Muddy Wa...
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Reducere. One of the most influential singers and songwriters of all time, Sam Cooke was among the first to blend gospel music and secular themes--the early ...
Reducere. DescriptionOne of the most acclaimed and original story collections of the last decade, Peter Orner's first book explores the brief but far-reachin...
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Reducere. In Peter Colt's gritty, gripping new series set along the New England coast, a Boston-born Vietnam veteran and P.I. is hired to find a missing fath...
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Reducere. The author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who s...
Reducere. From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American cult...
Reducere. By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling ...
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Reducere. In 2008, memoirist and journalist Peter Godwin secretly returned to his native Zimbabwe after its notoriously tyrannical leader, Robert Mugabe, los...
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Reducere. Alexander Popper can't stop remembering. Four years old when his father tossed him into Lake Michigan, he was told, Sink or swim, kid. In his mind,...
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Reducere. "A ravishing collection, full of wisdom, grief, beauty, and especially surprise." --Anthony Doerr, author of The Shell CollectorsPeter Orner zeroes...
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Reducere. Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel PrizeWhen Mavala Shikongo deserted them, the teachers at the boys' school in Goas weren't surprised. How could they be?...
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Reducere. This masterful exploration of American roots music--country, rockabilly, and the blues--spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American so...
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Reducere. DescriptionFor readers of My Absolute Darling and Fourth of July Creek, a "riveting and timely" Montana story about the unbreakable bond between a ...
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Reducere. Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the ...
Reducere. Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain who is thrown into marriage with the man who will one day become the Roman emp...
Reducere. The second volume of memoirs from the acclaimed playwright and National Book Award-winning author. In this widely praised follow-up to her National...
Reducere. In this "deliciously funny, sharp, and sincere" debut (Helen Oyeyemi), a young graduate student writing about -- and desperately searching for -- i...
Reducere. The lives of two women -- the sole survivor of an airplane crash and the troubled park ranger leading the rescue mission -- collide in this "grippi...
Reducere. ``Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life.``--National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's ...
Reducere. The physical, emotional, and social milestones of every girl's life: what we've lost and gained in the 21st century. The physical, emotional, and s...
Reducere. In her fourth volume of poetry, Twelve Moons, Pulitzer Prize-winning Mary Oliver continues to explore the alluring, yet well-nigh inaccessible king...
Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER John McEnroe's long-awaited follow-up to his #1 bestseller He is one of the most controversial and beloved athletes in ...
Reducere. Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times ...
Reducere. In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive grace, rural Mississippi townsfolk shoulder the pain of generations as something...
Reducere. Eighteen-year-old Darcy lives on the island of America Pacifica -- one of the last places on earth that is still habitable, after North America has...
Reducere. Hailed as "a tremendous novel, full of wisdom and pain" by the Los Angeles Times, Youngblood Hawke is Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk's classic p...
Reducere. A "captivating and bittersweet" novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Summer of '69: Their secret love affair has lasted for decades...
Reducere. This "beautiful novel . . . has echoes of The Great Gatsby": an immigrant father and his son search for belonging--in post-Trump America, and with ...
Reducere. "A lively and hilarious tale that's pure fun. If you loved Bridget Jones's Diary and you have a child in school, THE HIVE is the book for you." --M...
Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...
Reducere. Though generally overlooked during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson's poetry has achieved acclaim due to her experiments in prosody, her tragic vision...
Reducere. "Sparkling and combustible" (Bloomberg Businessweek), "DISGRACED rubs all kinds of unexpected raw spots with intelligence and humor" (Newsday). "In...
Reducere. On May 27th, 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met a flirtatious little starling in a Viennese shop who sang an improvised version of the theme from hi...
Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Craig ChildsIncludes black-and-white photographs and pen-and-ink drawings by the authorIn Soul of Nowhere, Craig Childs ans...
Reducere. This is a collection of Klinkenborg's writings on the natural world and the changing seasons which appear frequently in a column entitled "The Rura...
Reducere. In Downtown, Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to Times Square, combining ...
Reducere. By enquiring into the puzzle of sibling relations, Frank J. Sulloway pioneers a new view of how family affects individual development. He shows tha...
Reducere. Preston Clearwater has been a criminal since stealing two chain saws and 1600 pairs of aviator sunglasses from the Army during the Second World War...
Reducere. "An eminently readable comedy of modern war" (New York Times), Men at Arms is the first novel in Evelyn Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy. G...
Reducere. Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of the '60s summer when everything changed in Elin Hilderbrand's #1 New York Times bests...
Reducere. In this "blisteringly innovative and outrageous" (The Observer) novel that the Los Angeles Times describes as "somewhere between Nabokov's Pnin and...
Reducere. When Hannah Legare was 11, her father went on a fishing trip in the Charleston harbor and never came back. And while most of the town and her famil...