City of Light, Paperback - Rupert Christiansen

An account of the reinvention of Paris in the mid-nineteenth century as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world - a position it has never re...

Reducere. A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French emperor Louis ...

Account of the reinvention of Paris in the mid-19th century, charting the 15-year project which war, revolution, corruption and bankruptcy couldn't...

Reducere. DescriptionBestselling author Marge Piercy celebrates the lives of the brave and dedicated women who changed the destiny of a nation in this novel ...

City of Light is published here for the first time in English in a translation by Linda Schenck, and is a fitting culmination to her many years of ...

Reducere. The first in an all-new futuristic fantasy series from Keri Arthur--the New York Times bestselling author of the Souls of Fire novels. When the bom...

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After the unexpected end of her decades-long marriage, Sonia Choquette relocated to a Paris still reeling from the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Together...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tyler StovallA history of black Americans who settled in Paris, France, from 1900 to the present.

Reducere. "A top-notch walking tour of Paris. . . . The author's encyclopedic knowledge of the city and its artists grants him a mystical gift of access: doo...

Reducere. Paris is "the world capital of memory and desire, " concludes one of the writers in this intimate and insightful collection of memoirs of the city....

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Susan CahillIllustration(s): Includes 25 color photographs throughoutNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2...

The Ballets Russes not only left a matchless artistic legacy - they changed style and glamour, they changed taste, and they changed social behaviou...

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. Traveling in 1995 around war-torn Bosnia and Croatia, where he had gone to stage a peace concert, this author encountered The Emissaries: a small g...

An enchanting array of lovely, love poetry.

The sea gives and the sea takes. The sea took Bonnie's mother away from her, to a new life on a distant shore. And now it has brought her three thi...

Two Earthlings find themselves at the mercy of a stringent religious sect on a far-off planet when they rescue a young woman with a bizzare secret ...

Reducere. In New Mexico, during Lent and Holy Week each year, the Penitent Brotherhood enacts a primitive Passion Play, which in its traditional ritual of se...

Reducere. From Terry Kay, one of America's most gifted storytellers, comes a poignant novel of love, acceptance, and the wonders of the world in which we liv...

Sings in the rhythms of ritual and folktale, praise songs and anecdotes, blending lyricism with a cool wit, finding the languages in which poetry c...

Reducere. We associate light with the radiant beams that make the world visible to us. But the visible spectrum is only a tiny percentage of an electromagnet...

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. The poems in Tricks of Light, a breathtaking collection from award winning writer Thaddeus Rutkowski, meditate on myriad ways of seeing not merely ...

Reducere. As an "omniscient and obnoxious" teenager in 1969, Alan Richardson wrote to the occult author William G. Gray in pursuit of instant magical enlight...

An intoxicating Inspector Montalbano mystery.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Andrea CamilleriNumber of pages: 288Collection: Inspector Montalban...

A beautiful and nuanced historical novel about maternal failures, sibling affection and the everyday savagery of family, from the author of Ghost W...

Luke Skywalker meets Indiana Jones...Eleven-year-old George Mullin knows crazy when he sees it. Or at least he thinks he does. When his grandfather...

A mythical tale of genuine power from a true wordsmith

Reducere. A riveting blend of apocalyptic YA adventure-thriller and spellbinding alien-invasion sci-fi for fans of "The Maze Runner, " "The Martian, " and "T...

A compelling and provocative debut novel told in intersecting timelines over a tumultuous, defining year in one woman's life.Simone is trying her b...

Reducere. It seems to us that some people are getting to know the Galactic Federation of Light. Therefore, we decided writing some books about it. This one i...

Reducere. The coreseal is shattered and a new darkness is rising.Chrys swore to never again let the Apogee take control but, in a moment of desperation, he g...

DescriptionIn 2014, at the age of 90, at the request of Nadine Epstein, Moment Magazine editor-in-chief, Theodore Bikel reexamined his own roots pi...

In the Syrian city of Akka, Nathanael, a young Jewish doctor, and a Muslim girl called Zohra are about to fall in love. But Saladin's army has just...

Reducere. As a young boy, Gabriel Martinez had his family-his entire life ripped away from him. Revenge and indignation become his means of survival. Several...

Reducere. This book starts with the description of polarization in classical optics, including also a chapter on crystal optics, which is necessary to unders...

Reducere. DescriptionWhere is God when you need him? After struggling to fit into a new town and school, Sadie faces questions about her faith, family, and f...

This moving story, based on the communications Helen Greaves received telepathically from her deceased friend, is an inspiring testament to the end...

Reducere. #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts opens the door to one woman's search for truth and passion in the first Key Trilogy novel. Malory...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nate KenyonThe High Heavens are healing after the fall of the Prime Evil. The Angiris Council has recovered the Black Souls...