Dead Famous

DescriptionAl D az and Jean-Michel Basquiat stoked public intrigue in 1978 as teenagers when they began tagging their SAMO(c)... writings throughou...

In Gettysburg: The Living and the Dead, writer Kent Gramm and photographer Chris Heisey tell the famous battle's story through the eyes of those wh...

DescriptionThe official 50th-anniversary book on the festival that epitomizes the '60sThis is the official 50th-anniversary celebration of Woodstoc...

Description The Book of Gates is a rich and epic magical translation of a little-known Ancient Egyptian funerary text that contains a wealth of mys...

Reducere. A master of deductive reasoning who can solve the most difficult crimes by spotting obscure clues overlooked by others, dilettante sleuth Sherlock ...

Reducere. The first comprehensive collection of the words and works of a movement-defining artist. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) burst onto the art scene ...

Reducere. Paul's Letter to the Romans has proven to be a particular challenge for commentators, with its many highly significant interpretive issues often le...

Reducere. "Grown exposes the underbelly of a tough conversation, providing a searing examination of misogynoir, rape culture, and the vulnerability of young ...

DescriptionA treasure trove of memorabilia, photos and writings, the Grateful Dead Family Album is both a candid family history of one of America's...

Reducere. DescriptionCompletely updated to reflect the latest in paddling equipment and kayak technology, William Nealy's illustrated kayaking manual is as p...

Reducere. Welcome aboard Pacific Air Flight 385, with nonstop service from Seattle to Honolulu.Cora is scared to fly again after her husband died in a recent...

Reducere. "The Book of the Dead" is one of the most famous texts to survive from the ancient world. Its original name in Egyptian is literally translated as ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kenneth RobesonAuthor: Lester DentAuthor: Will MurrayTwo new Doc Savage novels in one volume Prospecting in the Wyoming bad...

Introducing amateur sleuths Frances Black and Tom Dod in the first of an intriguing new historical mystery series set in the north of England. 1929...

Reducere. DescriptionEstes Park, Colorado: picturesque mountains, charming shops, a cozy bookstore and bakery... and murder. Quarrelsome Quartz: Book 7As sum...

Reducere. DescriptionBadge and Buckshot is a comprehensive book at many of the once-famous peace officers and outlaws of Old California. Told here for the fi...

Reducere. Peggy Caserta, founder of the famous Haight-Ashbury hippie boutique Mnasidika, and lover and girlfriend of Janis Joplin, was a Louisiana homecoming...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ahmad Ibn FadlanThis is the first English translation of the famous Risala, letters by the tenth-century traveler Ibn Fadla...

Reducere. Master translation of a neglected Russian classic into English Long before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago came Dostoevsky's Notes from the House ...

Reducere. Milwaukee is best known for its beer--and rightfully so. But in the days of Prohibition, the big alcohol suppliers were not Miller, Blatz, Schlitz,...

Reducere. With Hicksville, local historians Richard and Anne Evers take us on a journey back in time from the area's 1648 land purchase from Native Americans...

Reducere. From Jasper to Selma to Hoover, central Alabama is bursting at the seams with unique stories and legendary characters. Read about the Goat Man, the...

Reducere. The ostensible goal of the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond (February 28-March 3, 1864) was to free some 13, 000 Union prisoners ...

Reducere. Introduces a radical new perspective on the historical foundations of monotheism, based on the enigma of the Copper Scroll of the Essenes. - Confir...

Reducere. One of the more dynamic characters of his time, John Old Smoke Morrissey made his way from undefeated bare-knuckle boxer to found the Saratoga Race...

Reducere. The town of Roswell is haunted by the lingering ghosts of generations long dead. In this historic Georgia town, spirits roam through ruined mills, ...

Maeve Winslow hires Veronica Blackstone to help write her memoirs. Maeve is the wife of a famous artist, and claims there's a surprise at the concl...

Reducere. Gordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign-which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civi...

Reducere. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickOne of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense--Agatha Christie--now a Lifetime TV m...

Reducere. Norman Mailer, Susan Mailer's father, was among the most celebrated, talented, and controversial writers of the 20th Century. The Naked and the Dea...

Reducere. 2014 National Book Award FinalistA New York Times Bestseller An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization s collapse...

Reducere. This book, the first comprehensive study in English of Heidegger's philosophy of art, starts in the mid-1930s with Heidegger's discussion of the Gr...

Reducere. For fans of the most famous gothic monsters comes a fantastical YA retelling.Venice, 1865: Sixteen-year-old Ayanda Draculesti doesn't remember her ...

DescriptionThe Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas's most famous and enduring novel, completed its serial publication in the summer of 1844, and by t...

Reducere. A glamorous birthday dinner in the Hollywood Hills ends with the famous host dead and every guest under suspicion in this dark, cinematic suspense ...

Reducere. Magic is out of fashion. Orio City is where that's decided.When his best friend Mr. Dart unexpectedly needs to make an urgent trip to Orio City, Je...

Reducere. In late February and early March of 1836, a Mexican army led by General Antonio L pez de Santa Anna lay siege to a mission known as the Alamo, held...

Reducere. Mad and wonderful. I thought I was reading one thing, then discovered--several times--that I was reading a different, even better thing."--Roddy Do...

A murderer's out to spoil Hayley's honeymoon in national bestselling author Lucy Burdette's eleventh Key West Food Critic Mystery. Key Zest food cr...

Reducere. Fourteen years after the monumental publication of the international bestseller The Raw Shark Texts, Maxwell's Demon heralds the triumphant return ...

Reducere. The first in an exciting new historical mystery series set in the home of Agatha Christie! Colleen Cambridge's charming and inventive new historica...

Reducere. When first published, The Beast Master was a new kind of science fiction adventure, featuring a Native American (Navajo) protagonist, Hosteen Storm...

The dramatic story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman Empire, as revealed by the archaeology of its famou...

DescriptionA group of notable writers--including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow--celebrate our...

Nineteenth century private investigators American Matthew Grand and Englishman James Batchelor investigate the murder of Charles Dickens. June, 187...

Reducere. The most famous speedboat racer, the creator of the famous Cigarette fast boats, the boat of choice for drug smugglers, is murdered in Miami in bro...

A major new book on the sensational Portland Spy Ring and its famous trial in 1961

Reducere. First published in 1897, "The Blood of the Vampire" is a vampire novel by prolific writer Florence Marryat. The story revolves around one Miss Harr...

Reducere. When a popular singer goes from retired to dead the day before New Year's Eve, Ellery Queen is certain it's murder. Luckily, just before she died, ...

Reducere. Newbery MedalNobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer introduces readers to the village of Chelm in this Newbery Honor Book. Chelm is a village of fool...

Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influentia...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Egyptian Book of the Dead is an ancient collection of spells designed to guide the departed through the perils of the underworld, ul...

SUPERMAN IS DEAD. But now, four mysterious beings appear--all with the powers and abilities of the Man of Steel One claims he is a clone from the D...

Reducere. In The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria, Laura Joh Rowland once again has written a book in which an exotic setting, seventeenth-century Japan, and a s...

Reducere. DescriptionAn impossible truth. An impossible love. After a summer spent reclaiming her sanity and trying to forget the boy she fell in love with--...

Reducere. THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER The second book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comache Moon takes us once again into the world of the America...

Reducere. Hamburg is perhaps South Carolina's most famous ghost town. Founded in 1821, it grew to four thousand residents before transportation advances led ...

'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where and ...

Reducere. There are some things nobody can possibly know...and others that nobody should dare to guess... A pair of thrill-seeking boys crept into Palisades ...

Reducere. Welcome, foolish mortals, to spooky Halloween stories about all things Disney Step into the dead center of the book to learn about the ghosts, devi...

Reducere. TODAY I WAS SUPPOSED TO MARRY THE GIRL OF MY DREAMS. SHE DIDN'T TURN UP.Life in world-famous rock band, Everhide, has pushed Kyle's and Gemma's hea...

Can it still be hurricane season? Must be, because here come Serge A. Storms and his perpetually stoned bro, Coleman, in Tim Dorsey's gonzo crime c...

Reducere. THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME--NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT ``The murderer is wit...

DescriptionWhen one of Oslo's hottest celebrity chefs is murdered, Hanne Wilhelmsen is called back into action in "a nearly pitch-perfect procedura...

Reducere. This guide to the famous rock churches of Lalibela in Ethiopia is the only book that explores the deeper mystical purpose implied in its artworks a...

Reducere. Springtime in Styria. And that means war. There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle wit...

Reducere. When a dead body is found on one of Sanibel's beaches, clutching a rare Scotch bonnet shell, everyone is shell shocked. Can reporter Guinivere Jone...

Reducere. Winding up an interpreter job in Bassano del Grappa at a conference on artist Jacopo da Bassano, a famous native son, Rick Montoya looks forward to...

DescriptionFrom Christi Daugherty, author of The Echo Killing, comes another pulse-pounding suspenseful thriller featuring crime reporter Harper Mc...

Reducere. ..". imaginatively written and meticulously researched biography." --Elizabeth Sherman, The Boston Sunday GlobeHer rallying cry was famous: "Pray f...