Fever of War

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Philip ReeveCalled "imaginative, inventive, and exciting" in a starred review from Kirkus, the second adventure in the Feve...

Reducere. A "marvelous" (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star ...

DescriptionFrom the Sibert honor-winning creator behind The Unwanted and Drowned City comes a graphic novel of one of the darkest episodes in Ameri...

Reducere. This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying betw...

Reducere. The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethn...

Reducere. An original, official tie-in novel by New York Times bestselling author Greg Cox based on the hit Syfy drama Warehouse 13 Hidden away in the Badlan...

The Flight of Sarah Battle is set in the turbulent last decade of the eighteenth century in a London where riot constantly rumbles and Bartholomew ...

Reducere. 1 The Devil's Question 3: 45 2 Rose's Beloved Child 4: 51 3 What's Up Bobby? 4: 09 4 Cold War Cocktail 3: 48 5 Little Bentze 3: 14 6 Kurt Complains...

The battle for the Tanto Octopus begins. When the savage Indonesian pirate, Danny Yuda, discovers their hiding place, Katsuko and Taipuitea are for...

Reducere. In 1848 famine gripped Ireland. Nearly a million people would die of starvation and typhoid fever. A million more Irish would abandon their homelan...

A collection that gathers together Pulitzer Prize-winning short fiction, including "Pale Horse, Pale Rider", where a young woman lies in a fever du...

Reducere. What was life like on old Cape Cod?Lunch counters. Working the telephone switchboard. A song called Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs Murphy's Chowder....

Amid the Australian Army hospitals of World War I Egypt, two deeply determined individuals find the resilience of their love tested to its limits I...

Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Los Angeles. December, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. War fever and racial hat...

MacKayla Lane faces the ultimate threat when war breaks out between the kingdoms of shadow and light, as the #1 New York Times bestselling Fever se...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the oldest cities in Texas, Galveston has witnessed more than its share of tragedies. Devastating hurricanes, yellow fever epidem...

Reducere. One of the oldest cities in Texas, Galveston has witnessed more than its share of tragedies. Devastating hurricanes, yellow fever epidemics, fires,...

Reducere. From Lincoln's election to secession from the Union, this compelling history explains how South Carolina was swept into a cultural crisis at the he...

Reducere. Return to a darker Oz with Gregory Maguire. In A Lion Among Men, the third volume in Maguire's acclaimed, New York Times bestselling series The Wic...

Reducere. “Brilliant . . . harrowing. . . . Packs the impact of an exploding mortar shell.”—Kai Maristed, Los Angeles TimesIn the tradition of William Faulkn...

Reducere. Throughout American history, determined African Americans havebecome healers. As doctors, nurses, and scientists, they have madevital contributions...

Reducere. Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as ``brilliant literary ...

Reducere. Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as ``brilliant literary ...

Reducere. Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary c...

Reducere. Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary c...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the last desperate days of the Vietnam War, American soldier Israel Broussard is assigned to a secret CIA PSYOP far behind enemy ...

The friendship between five-year-olds Sara Miller and Judy Levine begins in the summer of 1941, when their families move into adjoining row houses ...

Reducere. When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Americans reacted with revulsion and horror. In the patriotic war fever that follow...

Reducere. Nineteen ninety-seven is the most important year in rugby league history - at least since the Great Schism of 1895. It's also the year the sport's ...

Reducere. Formed in 1866, the African-American army units known as Buffalo Soldiers acquired near-mythical status for their fortitude and courage. At the out...

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DescriptionNapoleon sent an expedition under General Leclerc to reconquer what is now Haiti and what was then Saint Domingue. It was decimated by f...

A girl with wondrous, hidden powers must find the courage to confront her destiny in this breathtaking sequel to The Mapmaker's War, which New York...

Reducere. The life and mission of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos led him from the Bavarian Alps in Germany to the United States where he worked tirelessly to ...

Reducere. #4 in the Young American Immigrants (nonfiction) children's series. Eleven-year-old Samuel is excited to sail with his family from South Africa to ...

Reducere. Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights mo...

Reducere. Edward D. Wood, Jr. was a name forgotten in the history of Hollywood until the release of the 1994 Tim Burton biopic, Ed Wood, starring Johnny Depp...

Reducere. Shane K. Bernard's Teche examines this legendary waterway of the American Deep South. Bernard delves into the bayou's geologic formation as a vesti...

Reducere. One hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. I...

Reducere. An urgent knock on the wooden farmhouse door breaks the midnight silence. Heart racing, she tip-toes down the stairs, draws back the bolts and gaze...

DescriptionJOHNSTONE COUNTRY. THE LAW OF THE LAST MAN STANDING. His country burning with war, his family shattered, a young man strikes off on his ...

Reducere. Now a National Bestseller! Bestselling author Newt Gingrich exposes the anti-American forces that have grown so large and so aggressive in their qu...

Reducere. Tav Falco's sprawling study of Memphis begins with the Civil War massacre at Fort Pillow, the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878 and the grisly murders ...

Reducere. "There's a saying. Hear the cry of the fish eagle and you'll always come back. Bush fever. Call it what you will. That sound is the most beautiful ...

Reducere. Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Descri...

Reducere. We are facing an overwhelming army of deadly, invisible enemies. We need a plan -- before it's too late.Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller, In the Wake of the Plague is a fascinating study of the cultural and religious consequences of one of the deadliest tr...

Reducere. After three long months at sea, Helga Heinrich and her four children sail into the thriving Indianola seaport on the Texas coast in 1853 to begin t...

Reducere. For three years a mysterious potato blight devastated Ireland's clacháns, townlands, and cities. Nearly a million died. Was it the prospect of star...

Reducere. DescriptionMollie is a vivid, high-spirited, and intensely feminine account of city people homesteading in the raw, new land west of the Missouri. ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - MacKayla Lane faces the ultimate threat when war breaks out between the kingdoms of shadow and light, as the Fever seri...

Reducere. Spur Awards"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer, " John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me...

Reducere. An extraordinary saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier. Across the Pecos, the Ri...

Reducere. An instant New York Times Bestseller! "Consider this another vaccine against disaster. Fortunately, this dose won't cause a temporary fever--and it...

DescriptionGeorge Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, but more commonly known as just Byron was a leading English poet in the Romantic Movement along wi...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Donna Grant comes three stories from her Dark Kings series... Dragon King Grace Cla...