Caught in the Revolution

A history of the Russian Revolution, told through the eye-witness accounts of foreign nationals in Petrograd, who saw history being made on the str...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Young-Ha KimTranslator: Charles La Shure"'Can a nation disappear forever?' . . .In] a tale of collective loss, political re...

Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant, Senior Lecturer in English, Canterbury Christ Church University College This novel traces the private liv...

Reducere. Travel two centuries back in time to the final battle of the American Revolution at Yorktown, Virginia. Cousins Patrick and Beth sneak through tren...

Outer Critics Circle Award Nominee - Outstanding New Broadway Musical Two men in love with the same woman. Two cities swept up in revolution. One l...

Reducere. They were the two youngest daughters of the world's most powerful man - Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia. Known to their family and friends as "The Litt...

DescriptionThe dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revol...

Unpredictable, haunting, with a streak of black humour, this collection of short stories ranges across the world, from Petersburg to Guyana, Syria ...

Episodes as romantic and dramatic as any in fiction fill this gripping story of a life in Russia before, during, and immediately after the Revoluti...

Reducere. Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon ...

Award winning author Gregory S. Kealey's study of Canada's security and intelligence community before the end of World War II depicts a nation caug...

Reducere. As the American Revolution rages on the mainland, the British Navy prepares for action at sea. Against a growing fleet of American and French priva...

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...

In 2003, the author arrived in Egypt as a 23-year-old trainee journalist. She found a country on the brink of change. In this book, she unravels th...

DescriptionIn the late 1630s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to set...

In this moving and thought-provoking volume, Arthur Kleinman tells the unsettling stories of a handful of men and women, some of whom have lived th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William LavenderWhen Lady Jane, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charlestown, South Carolina, in 1776, she ...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of the Culper Ring Spying and warfare have always gone hand-in-hand. From Julius Caesar to modern generals, we have...

Les Misérables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris's criminal...

Les Mis rables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris's criminal...

A storm of rebellion is gathering, and its dark clouds overshadow Yale College. First-year student Asa Rush isn't surprised that he's one of a hand...

Reducere. Marguerite's Landing is based on the true story of Marguerite Lossieux and Christophe Poulain du Bignon of Jekyll Island, Georgia. A widow with thr...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of the Culper Ring Spying and warfare have always gone hand-in-hand. From Julius Caesar to modern generals, we have...

Reducere. Gritty, compelling, and packed with action, the saga of the Outlaw Ranger rages forward - from bestselling and award-winning author James Reasoner....

Reducere. Espionage played a vital role during the American Revolution in Rhode Island. The British and Americans each employed spies to discover the secrets...

Reducere. After finding a compass and clues left by Kallista's father, Leo Babbage, Trenton and Kallista head west aboard their homemade mechanical dragon to...

Reducere. In this entertaining and informative memoir, University of Virginia alum Joel Gardner delves into the four most turbulent and transformative years ...

A riotous, bitingly funny, and supremely clever novel from one of our most distinctive voices in the English language. The year is 1970, and Keith ...

A story of revolution and oppression, privilege and poverty, love and betrayal from the critically acclaimed author of Pao Fay Wong is caught betwe...

"Deeply moving...A first-rate, highly readable intellectual history." -The Wall Street Journal The drama that shaped today's Iran, from the Revolut...

Reducere. In this book, Sander Van der Leeuw examines how the modern world has been caught in a socio-economic dynamic that has generated the conundrum of su...

Reducere. It's 1964, and Sunny's town is being invaded. Or at least that's what the adults of Greenwood, Mississippi, are saying. All Sunny knows is that peo...

Reducere. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE From the pen of one of Iran's rising literary stars, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is...

DescriptionTHIS IS A SERIES OF TALES, MOSTLY IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, ABOUT THE SHORT RHODESIAN COLONIAL PERIOD UP TO 1980, AFTER WHICH TIME THE COU...

Reducere. "Nothing lasts! The faun sleeps, / Smiling, mute, remorseless." - Ludmila Jevsejeva, Autuna Melodio In St. Petersburg, amidst an uneasy truce with ...

Reducere. On the rainy afternoon of November 28, 1938, a slight 18-year-old Austrian man took in his first impressions of Shanghai. Paul Hoffmann had left hi...

DescriptionIn Victorian London at the height of the industrial revolution, Horatio Lyle is a former Special Constable with a passion for science an...

Reducere. Everything sparkles inside the French court, and nothing shines brighter than Queen Marie Antoinette. But on the grim streets of Paris, the people ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe book opens with an outline of the history of Almaty, from its nineteenth-century origins as a remote outpost of the Russian empire, ...

Reducere. Against the pomp and pageantry of turbulent seventeenth-century England, Elizabeth Goudge weaves the poignant tale of Lucy Walter, the proud and be...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes Elliot's own quotes about her life and career *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading *I...

Reducere. The doomed love story of Josiana Greenwood and Walter Rancon sets the scene as the destiny of the great Suffolk house known as the Old Vine continu...

Reducere. Walk through history in the footsteps of Johann Henrich Wagner, a.k.a Henry Wagner, a.k.a Henry Waggoner of Russell County, an early 18th century G...

Reducere. Ron Ridenour's book, The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert, a true historical page-turner, is destined to endure and inform future readers, w...

DescriptionA Humanitarian Approach to a Technologically Innovative Future ​In The transHuman Code, authors Carlos Moreira and David Fergusson ask, ...

DescriptionBITTERSWEET FREEDOM - A Magnificent Drama of human suffering, courage, man's mortality, and selfless love. Gripping, funny, sad, galvani...

Reducere. A timeless novel of adventure, intrigue, and romance is sparked by one man's defiance in the face of authority... The year is 1792. The French Revo...

Instant New York Times bestseller In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life--and heart--to take back her country in this exhilaratin...

A lady must have money and an army of her own if she is to win a revolution--but first, she must pit her wits against the wiles of an irresistible ...

A fascinating historical biography of the man who brought fame, grandeur and revolution back to the Palace of Versailles. Henri de Nolhac grew up w...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat if you could replace every neuron in your brain with an exact duplicate, but instead of a nerve cell made of flesh, it was made of ...

Reducere. What if you could replace every neuron in your brain with an exact duplicate, but instead of a nerve cell made of flesh, it was made of silicon? Ev...

Reducere. In the beginning of the year 1920 I happened to be living in the Siberian town of Krasnoyarsk, situated on the shores of the River Yenisei, that no...

Reducere. Magic takes many forms. From malignant hexes to love charms gone amok, you'll find a vast array of spells and curses, creatures and conjurings in t...

Reducere. This collection of 17 uplifting short stories and poems by 13-18-year old writers from 10 countries is a short read that will give you hope for the...