Blood and Smoke: A True Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and the Birth of the Indy 500, Paperback - Charles Leerhsen

Reducere. "History comes alive" (Kirkus Reviews) in the wild and true story of the first Indy 500 and the dawn of the automotive age--now in paperback. Forty...

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Reducere. Beast was the nickname of a shocking new race engine unveiled for the 1994 Indianapolis 500. The massive effort to design and build it in a seeming...

A coming-of-age tale set during WWII, about a girl who was part of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, but fled Germany for Oxford. From the author of }Pr...

A coming-of-age tale set during WWII, about a girl who was part of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, but fled Germany for Oxford. From the author of "Pr...

Reducere. DescriptionNow in paperback, the book that Newsweek calls "wonderful, witty, and wise, " vividly recounts a time 100 years ago when a racehorse thr...

New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. It i...

Reducere. In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn--then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage--set out on a peculiar...

A "well-written, engaging detective story" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs--and the wildlife...

Encompassing both tragedy and humour, it brings immediacy and intimacy to a moment of deep historical transformation - with consequences that echo ...

Twenty-five years ago and counting, Louisa, my true, essential, always-there-for-everything friend, died. We were 22. When Anita Lahey opens her bi...

Reducere. Winner of the Gold Dagger Award A fascinating true crime story that details the rise of modern forensics and the development of modern criminal inv...

Louis Le Prince invented the motion picture in 1890. The man's name was Thomas Edison. This book is the story of the birth of motion pictures, rest...

Reducere. The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is an inspiring personal narrative about a filly who broke through the male-dominated world of horseracing an...

Reducere. The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is an inspiring personal narrative about a filly who broke through the male-dominated world of horseracing an...

Reducere. "If there is anyone who has emerged from the crowded field of medieval mysteries to take the place of the late Ellis Peters, it is Peter Tremayne."...

When the ancient Greeks saw deposits of giant fossils, they knew they had discovered the battle fields where the gods had vanquished the Titans. Wh...

Reducere. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina crashed a forty-foot tidal wave over the Marine Life Oceanarium in Gulfport, Mississippi. The dolphin house w...

Reducere. A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly Novem...

Reducere. In a story that is both of its time and timeless, Evan I. Schwartz tells a tale of genius versus greed, innocence versus deceit, and independent br...

Reducere. Jonathan Kwitny, hailed as the John le Carre of non-fiction crime, is one of America's top investigative journalists. In this explosive expose he r...

Publisher: Poetry Wales PressAuthor(s): Nia WynNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 196 x 125 x 14Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Sinuciderea lui Anthony Bourdain, in 2018 a socat intreaga lume. Bourdain parea sa le aiba pe toate: o personalitate irezistibila, un job de vis, o...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book Named a best book of the year by Amazon, Wall Street Journal...

Reducere. A fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb--"The best work ever written on thi...

Reducere. DescriptionIn a nation that worships the automobile for the freedom, style, and status that it confers, the Indianapolis 500, run on or near Memori...

An 18th-century adventure - a true story of love, murder and survival...

It began with the breathtaking Daughter of Smoke and Bone... the story continues in the astounding, must-read sequel, Days of Blood and Starlight

Reducere. DescriptionSLEEP MY DARLINGS Diane FanningOn January 28, 2011, the Tampa Police Department received a phone call from a woman who was worried about...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bonnie WardWinds of Skilak traces a young couple's adventurous move from the suburbs of Ohio to a remote island on ill-temp...

Reducere. In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players--including Shoeless Joe Jackson--agreed to throw the 1919 World Serie...

Already, Demuth is a legend. Funny how a man can disappear.... There is left only the smoke, the souvenir--the essence, I suppose you could call it...

Reducere. Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind's essential link to the animal world. --The Ne...

Reducere. It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson ...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): John ThompsonNumber of pages: 173Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 141 x 206 x 16Cover type: Paperback / so...

The characters who defined the inter-war years are considered in terms of the connections between them, including stories about the inter-war traje...

Reducere. Description'West puts the battle in its historical context, and shows how it set the course of history for more than a thousand years.' Piers Paul ...

'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detectorPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Amit KatwalaNumber of pa...

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. DescriptionMurder and Mayhem -- true stories of crimes in the United State's fourth corner. Everything from public hangings, husbands killing wives...

Reducere. "Disturbing and riveting...Grann has proved himself a master of spinning delicious, many-layered mysteries that also happen to be true...It will se...

Reducere. There may not be a more fascinating a historical period than the late fourteenth century in Europe. The Hundred Years' War ravaged the continent, y...