City Houses

Newcastle is not your average northern city. Visitors and locals are often surprised by what they find, whether it be the elegance of Grey Street, ...

Reducere. When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in . . .For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying e...

Editie BilingvaCartographia, organized in 1954, is the largest map publishing company in Hungary. Its tourist, city, and road maps, and atlases, co...

Reducere. Donald Colletti and Jimmy Pitre are forced to flee their flooded houses as Hurricane Katrina devastates their beloved city of New Orleans. But rath...

Reducere. This book takes a simple look at homes in the past, highlighting the diversity of homes that people lived in around the world at different times. H...

Reducere. Chester Cricket needs help. That's the message John Robin carries into the Times Square subway station where Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse live. Quick...

Reducere. Clod is an Iremonger. He lives in the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items collected from all over London. At the centre is Heap House, a ...

Reducere. The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the ...

The latest adrenaline-pumping instalment in the }Foul Play{ series. A spate of burglaries at the houses of players from City FC, and Danny wants to...

Reducere. Description"...The entire East Side of New York City is in a state of uproar. Mobs of vast size are organizing under the lead of anarchists and soc...

DescriptionMarco Polo Pocket Guide Budapest: the Travel Guide with Insider Tips Explore Budapest with this handy, pocket-sized, authoritative guide...

Reducere. "Unflinchingly honest and jubilantly hopeful, this is nonfiction storytelling at its best." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Mention the civil...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the construction of both buildings during the 19th century *Includes bibliographies for further reading *I...

Shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, Fiction, 2017 ``Ms. Jufresa: Where the f*#did you learn to tell a story so well?`` --Alvaro Enrigue...

DescriptionThree standalone novellas, telling three chilling ghost stories, by three of the finest new voices in fiction. A full-time medium and pa...

Reducere. Ghosts. Unearthly presences. Things that go bump in the night. St. Augustine, America's oldest city, has them all. The unique and often turbulent h...

DescriptionShortlisted for The 2019 Forward Prize for Best Collection.City of Departures is Helen Tookey's second Carcanet collection, following he...

Reducere. The Bear and The Nightingale is the 1st book in The Winternight Trilogy . At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and ...

The Father of the Delta Blues, Charley Patton (1891-1934) was born and raised around Mississippi's cotton plantations. During the 1920s, he was the...

From the window went through the pleasant scent of the countryside. There was neither a breath of wind nor the rustling of the leaves. Nothing brok...

A full colour map showing London about 1270 to 1300 - its walls and gates, parish churches, early monasteries and hospitals, and a growing number o...

Reducere. "Mars the Avenger" is an historical mystery set in the year 158 CE, during the reign of Antoninus Pius, a period often called the height of the Rom...

The multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings and The House of Binding Thorns concludes her Dominion of the Fallen saga, as the gr...

Like the other Sasek classics, this is a facsimile edition of the original book. The brilliant, vibrant illustrations have been meticulously preser...

The one thing Sylvie Townsend wants most is what she feared she was destined never to have--a family of her own. But taking in Polish immigrant Ros...

Reducere. If you lived in Bangkok, would you-- Ride on a boat to get to school? Learn to dance with your fingers bending like melting chocolate bars? Eat you...

DescriptionIn addition to being the most profitable chapter play in the 20-year-history of Republic Pictures-generating more than $1.1 million in w...

Welcome to the world of The Nacullians, three generations of one family, living in a brick house in a line of other brick houses. Craig Jordan-Bake...

"Thirteenth-century Edinburgh comes off the page cold and convincing, from the smoke and noise of the tavern kitchen to Holyrood Abbey under a trea...

1. It Is Not Meant to Be 2. Desire Be, Desire Go 3. Alter Ego 4. Lucidity 5. Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind? 6. Solitude Is Bliss 7. Jeremy's Stor...

DescriptionIs Jerusalem the centre of the world or the place where it will end? For the people of this novel set around 1960 in the divided city, i...

Reducere. Based on true accounts of how Parisiennes resisted the Nazi occupation in World War II--from fashion houses to the city streets--comes a story of t...

Reducere. It's 1980 and Sam Westfall, a recently retired 20-year veteran of the Marine Corp, returns to the Homewood section of Pittsburgh where he grew up a...

Reducere. Do you want to work in publishing? Publishing is a hard industry to get into, and the first few years involve a lot of work for little pay. Through...

Reducere. "David Martinez is like an algebra problem invented by America he's polynomial, and fractioned, full of identity variables and unsolved narrative c...

Reducere. DescriptionIt's a busy, busy day for the mail truck. There are lots of cards and packages to deliver to people along the route. A dog gets a brand-...

Reducere. Named 1 of 6 must-read poetry books in April 2019 by The Millions.The co-winner of the inaugural Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. Through the lens of h...

DescriptionWhat do you do when your dreams come true? When you were twelve, camping out in the back yard, you told your best friend that if he coul...

At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child -- the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide...

DescriptionFrom the author of the acclaimed The Dry Grass of August comes a richly researched yet lyrical Southern-set novel that explores the conf...

'Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com The Iremongers have taken up what was not wanted and wanted it.Clod is an Iremonger. At the centre...

Chicago--the reigning #1 city in homicides--has no shortage of deadly gangs. And all those gangs know well that the Cross crew occupies a cinderblo...

A funny and intimate travelogue of one woman's unexpected adventures in Japan. French illustrator Julie Blanchin-Fujita arrived in Tokyo for what s...

The West End musicals, Ronnie Scott's jazz club, Abbey Road, mod culture, the Kinks, the Who and the Rolling Stones are just as much a part of Lond...

The New York Times bestselling author of 500 Miles from You tells the hilarious and heartwarming story of twin sisters who set out to London in hop...

-The ultimate insider's guide to Amsterdam -Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides -Part of the internation...

Reducere. Neon Gods, PaperbackHe was supposed to be a myth.But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell...he was, quite simply,...

Reducere. Progessive History With a Mystery TwistThe eight Sage Adair Mysteries are set in 1902, Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. These adventure ...

DescriptionWhen 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become "the next Marian Anderson"-veered away from both o...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Captivating History of Ur This book is about the city which houses the mighty Ziggurat. The Biblical

Remarkable Power of Stimulus is the sequel to These Scattered Houses. Sherlock Holmes returns to London after three years away. Traveling from New ...

Reducere. A Recommended Book of the Season fromVanity Fair * Entertainment Weekly * Vulture * The Millions * Publishers Weekly * EsquireFrom bestselling auth...

Reducere. Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American r...

Reducere. Description"The exciting beginning of a promising new epic fantasy series. Prepare for ancient mysteries, innovative magic, and heart-pounding heis...

Reducere. No one had ever seen big Peter before, and no one ever saw him again, and no one ever saw him at all but small Peter who lived in dingy, squalid ol...

Emerging out of the 1940-1941 London Blitz, the drama of these two short works by Inez Holden, a novel and a memoir, comes from the courage and end...

DescriptionIn an extensive but accessible format, City Living presents small-scale contemporary urban residences that prove domesticity can be comp...

Reducere. Sixteen-year-old Roni and her family, lead a normal Muslim American life. As the youngest member of the family, Roni spends her summer vacations in...

Two Essence(R) bestselling Urban Books authors have teamed up to bring the Motor City drama in this latest installment of the popular Girls from da...

Reducere. Gustav Klimt, one of the great painters of fin de siecle Austria--and the subject of Helen Mirren's latest film, Woman in Gold--takes center stage ...

Reducere. The city has fallen. And the enemy is coming through the gates. Taleh knows what it's like to be a woman of Ammon. No rights, no worth, no say. Not...

Reducere. Tina Chang's poems address the problems of family and heritage, initially inhabiting formally patterned stanzas that mimic the boundaries and bonds...

Reducere. Get to Know the Wisconsin City's Most Vibrant and Historic Neighborhoods Milwaukee is richly historic. This savvy, entertaining guide explores the ...

Reducere. On April 30th, 1665 Samuel Pepys wrote "Great fears of the sickenesse here in the City, it being said that two or three houses are already shut up....

Reducere. A collection of three illustrated essays looking at the preservation of three historic houses--and the layered, messy process of reconstructing our...

Award-winning illustrator Gabriel Campanario first introduced his approach to drawing in The Art of Urban Sketching, a showcase of more than 500 sk...

Reducere. A gritty, breakneck debut novel by a popular Croatian writer of the country's "lost generation." Dada's life is at a standstill in Zagreb--she's sl...

As a working palace, the Istana is tradition firmly rooted in the present. It has links with Singapore's colonial past, being first a nutmeg planta...

DescriptionIn 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who is no stranger to casual vi...

DescriptionTime Out Amsterdam gives the lowdown on where to go and what to see in this dynamic city. The expert local writers take you beyond the g...