Fragile Lives

Kathy Reichs meets Fragile Lives in this fascinating and compelling memoir by one of the world's leading forensic scientists, Professor Angela Gallop

Reducere. A powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers, Russell Banks's Continental Drift is a masterf...

The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling trilogy, Wool is the story of a community living in an underground silo completely una...

The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling trilogy, Wool is the story of a community living in an underground silo completely una...

Reducere. The poems in this collection speak in many voices and touch on many themes: COVID-19, love and loss, uncertainty, well-being, migration, power, vio...

Reducere. True enemies. False hope, Sephy is part of the ruling class. Callum is considered a second-class citizen. They have been friends all their lives, s...

In Bibi June's Kinsey Scale, our lives are not represented by rigid numbers, but by poetry on queer love, happiness, protest, friendships, and the ...

Reducere. Sixteen-year-old Marnie lives in the idyllic coastal village of Clevedon. Despite being crippled by a childhood exposure to polio, she seems set to...

Reducere. The author of The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail now raises challenging questions about some of the major issues of our time--AIDS, d...

Reducere. Whether recalling the poignant presence of her friend Joseph Cornell or simply marveling at the facades along a Venice canal, "their filmy reflecti...

Contributor(s): Author: Naomi Glenn RodriguezIn the past decade, debates over immigrant rights and family rights, and accompanying concerns over bi...

DescriptionOne Sunday morning in her suburban home in Connecticut, Wendy Kann received a phone call: her youngest sister, Lauren, had been killed o...

Reducere. Jenna and Jeremy knew their parents' marriage was in trouble. But no one could have predicted what would come next. Now with Mom dead and Dad in ja...

Reducere. Fretwork hazards a response to its dilemma by turning, skeptically and resiliently, toward the materials of lyric poetry and empathetic action, how...

Join naturalist Curtis J. Badger as he explores the last unspoiled barrier island ecosystem in the eastern United States. Badger's own ancestral ro...

Sometimes it takes a long time to sound like yourself(Miles Davis) Two men meet at a funeral. Gil knew the deceased. Benny did not. Before long the...

Reducere. "Sometimes life is just like paper wings. Fragile, easily torn apart, and often there are too many pieces to pick up."In the tradition of the best ...

Reducere. "This is a beautiful retelling ... perfect for anyone who likes darker-themed romance, horror stories, or plain ol' lesbian vampires." -The Lesbian...

Reducere. A man becomes obsessed with expanding his body, putting on weight and enlarging himself until he swallows his surroundings. Another man is imprison...

Reducere. DescriptionLonglisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize Felipe and Iquela, two young friends in modern day Santiago, live in the legacy o...

Reducere. Every morning Chicagoans wake up to the same stark headlines that read like some macabre score: "13 shot, 4 dead overnight across the city, " and n...

Reducere. This book is a collection of true accounts of ordinary women's lives. Some were forgotten in obscurity; some were forced into slavery, others into ...

Reducere. Bailey is deeply in love with her boyfriend Dino. She has dreams of being his wife and living happily ever after. But sometimes a man can push a wo...

Reducere. In former NFL football player and Super Bowl XII runner-up Randy Rich's new book, Nothing Wasted: Learning to Believe You Are Enough in a World of ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kristin HannahIn her remarkable New York Times bestseller, Summer Island, Kristin Hannah struck a chord in readers and crit...

Reducere. Description"Mukherjee's novel encapsulates the heady breathlessness of falling in love." --Publishers Weekly One of the Huffington Post's Most Anti...

Reducere. DescriptionNora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November da...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Magically written, heartbreakingly honest." --Jodi Picoult Two women running away from their marriages collide on a fog...

Reducere. A woman wakes up in the middle of the night. A strange man is in her bedroom. She lies there in silence, paralyzed with fear. The woman is an autho...

Reducere. In a new world isolated by a rising, toxic sea, a single bridge connects Askala to the Outlands. Those who remain will need to pass a Proving to de...

DescriptionAn owl swoops down to lay her egg in a coal yard - a dangerous spot for a fragile egg Rescued by Walter, a bird expert with a big heart ...

Melissa Hekkers recounts her footsteps as she joins the journey of thousands of refugees seeking safety in Europe.Pushing the boundaries of creativ...

Reducere. DescriptionSeizing his one chance to escape, Ethan Hosking leaves his violent ex-boyfriend, leaves his entire life, and walks into the path of a ra...

Reducere. Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States.He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and ...

DescriptionThe Record Keeper is a visceral and thrilling near-future dystopia examining past and present race relations. After World War III, Earth...

DescriptionThe year 1187 is one of the most fateful for the Christian crusades in the Holy Land, and one of the most disastrous. With an act of sav...

Reducere. Two childhoods destroyed. One story they will never tell. Until now. Beth ran away from her family when she was a teenager. She left behind a terri...

Reducere. 'No one gets to the heart of human relationships quite so perceptively as Brookfield.' The MirrorOn a normal day, in a normal house, on a normal st...

Reducere. An insider's guide to astronomy reveals everything you need to know about the planets, their satellites, and our place in the solar system. We have...

Two fragile people. One desperate second chance. Reeling and desolate, Adrienne Willis needs space to rethink her life after her husband leaves her...

Bauen im Bestand erfordert mehr als praktische L sungen und Sicherheit in Stilfragen. Wenn bei der Umnutzung von Bauten die neuen Programme und Fun...

Reducere. Master storyteller Christopher Paul Curtis's Newbery Honor novel, featuring his trademark humor, unique narrative voice, and new cover art--now in ...

Reducere. When Michael jumps into the Thames it is only the beginning of his story. He is about to embark on an journey that will take him from London to the...

Reducere. Lydia's job at the library is her world--until a mysterious patron catches her eye . . . and perhaps her heart. Just months after the closure of th...

Reducere. Like everyone reading the newspapers these days, 10-year-old Barney Roberts knows the killer will strike again soon. The victim will be another boy...

Crooked Kingdom the highly anticipated sequel to Leigh Bardugo's thrilling #1 New York Times-bestselling Six of Crows.Kaz Brekker and his crew have...

Reducere. From the award-winning author of Remains of the Day comes an inspired sequence of stories, which is as affecting as it is beautiful. With the clari...

Reducere. As a world-class equestrian and Olympic contender, Annemarie Zimmer lived for the thrill of flight atop a strong, graceful animal. Then, at eightee...

Reducere. "If you grew up believing there was no better place to be than the nearest river or stream, this book is for you. From start to finish, it's a remi...

Faye Martin never expected her husband to abandon her and their three children . . . or that she'd have to struggle every day to make ends meet. So...

Reducere. "Most of us will never be ok, we'll just get better at dealing with it. I hope the flashbacks make sense now."Somewhere along the journey of social...

Born to a mother who doesn't want her, Caroline lives in a world that doesn't understand her and she's fuelled by anger and hatred. She dreams of a...

THE SECRET MUST BE KEPT... For three thousand years, the Herculean Society has preserved the legacy of the ancient hero, Hercules, protecting histo...

Poetry Chapbook by John Belk, produced by Cathexis Northwest Press.John Belk is an Assistant Professor of English at Southern Utah University where...

Reducere. Long live Solaris. One bloodthirsty ruler has been overthrown by another, casting the shadow of death over the Solaris Empire. Vhalla Yarl stands u...

Reducere. Long live Solaris. One bloodthirsty ruler has been overthrown by another, casting the shadow of death over the Solaris Empire. Vhalla Yarl stands u...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William R. ForstchenBob Petersen arrives with his daughter at the Middle Grade school in Maine where he teaches, expecting ...

Reducere. In Discreet Power, Christina Garsten and Adrienne S rbom undertake an ethnographic study of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Accessing one of the pr...

DescriptionThe truth behind the rise of China and whether or not it will be able to maintain itHow did China transform itself so quickly? In Red Ca...

DescriptionBecoming a doctor requires years of formal education, but one learns the practice of medicine only through direct encounters with the fr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sarah Addison AllenAuthor: Kathryn MagendieAuthor: Phyllis SchieberBright lights flicker in the dark evenings of summer. Pi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Silas HouseAuthor: Jason HowardForeword by: Lee SmithLike an old-fashioned hymn sung in rounds, Something's Rising gives a ...

Reducere. Tayshas ReadingDo you believe in fairies? How about high fashion? Enter the exquisite world of fairie fashion - where feathered hats are designed f...

Reducere. Three generations of Stewart women with secrets to keep. One unforgettable summer that will change their lives forever. Lauren has the perfect life...

Reducere. Bright lights flicker in the dark evenings of summer. Pinpoints of hope float against the black descent of night. The sweetest of small and innocen...

Reducere. In the mid-nineteenth century, Thoreau recognized the importance of preserving the complex and fragile landscape of Cape Cod, with its weathered wi...

Reducere. With the publication of Kafka's Curse, Achmat Dangor established himself as an utterly singular voice in South African fiction. His new novel, a fi...

Reducere. From his first book, Killing the Hidden Waters, to his most recent, Murder City: Cuidad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields, Charles...

DescriptionIn this luminous novel about romance and illusion--and what's left of love when they're stripped away--an American Anglophile is drawn i...

Reducere. Louisa May Alcott's iconic novel-the beloved portrait of a nineteenth-century New England family in wartime The classic story of the March family, ...