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. 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. ``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. ``Framed by its historic harbor and rivers, poised between old and new, Boston is a special place with a dynamic story. This up-to-date photographi...
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...
Reducere. On the eve of their Silver Anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband Jimmy -- still every inch the handsome star athlete he was in high sc...
Reducere. A new look at the American Revolution's first weeks, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals. When we look back on our nation's history, the...
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Reducere. - Long considered the last word on Hank Williams, this biography has remained continuously in print since its first publication in 1994.- This new ...
Reducere. Like no other novelist at work today, Herman Wouk has managed to capture the sweep of history in novels rich in character and alive with drama. In ...
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Reducere. Alex Awards"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story, " this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, re...
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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. Spend your winter on sunlit shores in the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Winter in Paradise, as secret lives and new loves emerge under th...
Reducere. Things like this don't happen to people like us. That's what Lachlan Harriot thinks as he watches his wife, Susie, led to jail in handcuffs. Yes, S...
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Reducere. Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gallagher is trying to escape: from her parents' ugly divorce, and from the vicious cyber-bullying of her former best fri...
Reducere. Award NameALA Notable BooksAward categoryFiction"Terrific stories...Just about perfect" (Entertainment Weekly): Brownsville is the collection that ...
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Reducere. A provocative dystopian thriller set in a future that seems scarily possible, Flashback proves why Dan Simmons is one of our most exciting and vers...
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Reducere. "Sedaris is a remarkably skilled storyteller and savvy essayist....And based, on this latest collection, he's getting only better." ---Los Angeles ...
Reducere. A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked, " presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including th...
Reducere. "Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read." --Maria Semple, auth...
Reducere. On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and populari...
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Reducere. The Pulitzer prize-winning author of Disgraced explores the conflict that erupts within a Muslim family in Atlanta when an independent-minded daugh...
Reducere. DescriptionSet in modern Shanghai, a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy famil...
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Reducere. In 1952, Hellman joined the ranks of intellectuals and artists called before Congress to testify about political subversion. Terrified yet defiant,...
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Reducere. MEN AGAINST THE SEA is the epic story of the 19 loyal men who, with Captain Bligh at the helm, were set adrift in a 23-foot open launch. Their 3, 6...
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Reducere. A propulsive, "chilling" novel exploring the dangerous fault lines of female friendships (Lee Child), Necessary People deftly plumbs the limits of ...
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Reducere. From an "astonishing" writer (Toni Morrison), the savagely funny story of a couple who unexpectedly come into some money in a wealth-obsessed Ameri...
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Reducere. 'Twas the night before Christmas when a bedraggled white feline enters the heart--and home--of Cleveland Amory. To say it is a friendly takeover is...
Reducere. This monumental work of investigative journalism reveals the Kennedy White House as never before. With its meticulously documented & compulsively r...
Reducere. A vivid account of the origins of the transcontinental railroad -- available for the first time in trade paperback -- by the author of the bestsell...
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Reducere. An evocative love story set along the Italian Riviera about a group of charismatic stars who all have secrets and pasts they try desperately--and d...
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Reducere. "Always readable-sometimes compulsively so-Shreve's novels are typically emotionally resonant, nicely paced, and populated by memorable characters....
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joe Nick PatoskiWillie Nelson has spent the last 30 years on that higher plane of celebrity where he signifies many things ...
Reducere. DescriptionIn New York Days, the long-awaited sequel to the prize-winning North Toward Home, Willie Morris recalls his triumphant, exciting, and ul...
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Reducere. DescriptionThis novel was originally published under the title The Wolves of Andover.In the harsh wilderness of colonial Massachusetts, Martha Alle...
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Reducere. Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here--with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinar...