Fragile World

In this major biography Martin Clarke investigates one of the most popular and influential bands of our time and paints a detailed portrait of thei...

Reducere. Making it up the aisle was the easy part: Rebecca "Bex" Porter must survive her own scandals and adjust to royal British life in this "timely and p...

Reducere. Brystal and her friends have saved the world from the evil Snow Queen and secured worldwide acceptance for the magical community. But in this magic...

Ian and Cortland are all too aware that the bubble they've made for themselves can't last. Shifting relationships and tested friendships may be the...

Step into an epic world of sword and sorcery, intrigue and betrayal...The realm of Drinnglennin hangs poised on the cusp of chaos, for Urlion Konig...

This book illuminates a set of crisis and conflicts that marked the 1920s and 1930s in the area between the Baltic and the Black Seas, demonstratin...

DescriptionThe current blockbuster German TV series Babylon Berlin introduces viewers to the tumultuous period in German history known as the Weima...

DescriptionIn the early hours of Tuesday, 6th June 1944, three divisions of paratrooper and glider forces descended on Normandy. Already assembling...

DescriptionFrom the critically acclaimed author of This Burns My Heart comes a "luminous mother-daughter saga" (Entertainment Weekly) about a young...

Reducere. "Todd has written a first novel that speaks out, urgently and compassionately, for a long-dead generation....A meticulously wrought puzzle."--New Y...

Reducere. 2nd Edition Violet MacRae is one of the aimless millions crowding northern Scotland. In the year 2330, where war is obsolete and only brilliant min...

Reducere. Before there was Glenn Gould or Liberace, before there was Vladimir Horowitz, before there was Arthur Rubinstein . . . there was Frederic Chopin.On...

Set against the dramatic backdrop of America's during the War of 1812, Beverly Swerling's gripping and intricately plotted sequel to the much-loved...

Reducere. DescriptionFor the Shadows, nothing can ever be the same again. Their existence revealed to the world in Of Saints and Shadows, the truth of their ...

Reducere. A no-nonsense, easy-to-understand survival guide on how to prepare for, and survive, an urban disaster. We live in a very dangerous and unpredictab...

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

Reducere. The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for "What I Saw, " a book that has become a classic with five har...

DescriptionNew anthology from the critically-acclaimed editor of Engineering Infinity. HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM... Life is fragile. The differenc...

Reducere. A sparkling debut collection from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet that makes an ecstatic argument for living Containing joy and suffering side by s...

Reducere. Famous theologian Jrgen Moltmann returns here to the theme that he so powerfully addressed in his groundbreaking work, Theology of Hope. In the twe...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingYugoslavia was arguably one of the most unusual geopo...

Reducere. New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Felicity Heaton presents: Esher (Guardians of Hades Romance Series Book 3) Prince of the Underworl...

Volume eight in an extraordinary SF series set 200 years in the future when China rules the world. With Triad bosses and assassins, emperors, whore...

Volume six in an extraordinary SF series set 200 years in the future when China rules the world. With Triad bosses and assassins, emperors, whores ...

DescriptionInternationally renowned artist, Sally Gall's attention and focus is devoted skyward in her highly-anticipated artist book, Heavenly Cre...

Reducere. Did the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001, the massive power blackout of 2003, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the Gulf oil spill of 20...

Reducere. Gretchen Craig's best-selling saga continues in Elysium: Book IV of the Plantation Series. A woman with a secret, Lily Palmer flees with her six ye...

Reducere. Packed with fascinating facts and spectacular photography, this encyclopedia brings you face to face with more than 80 peoples from around the worl...

DescriptionBefore Darwin . . . before Lewis and Clark . . . there was Alexander von Humboldt. Explorer. Naturalist. All-around genius. Lost hero of...

In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life--and she's ...

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

Reducere. Blodeuwedd. Flower Face. Keen-Eyed Hunter in the Night. Dwelling for centuries in darkness, flying on owl wings along the liminal boundary that str...

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

Contributor(s): Author: Michel SerresMarginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gerard CaseyIn Freedom's Progress?, Gerard Casey argues that the progress of freedom has largely consisted in an intermitte...

Within the pages of `Sakura', Myriam San Marco builds a world of unease bound in that fragile scrabble called love.

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 ...

``Time Salvager: ``a fast-paced time travel adventure from Wesley Chu, the award-winning author of ``The Lives of Tao.``In a future when Earth is a...

Reducere. Minutes before supertanker "Exxon Valdez" ran aground on Bligh Reef, before rocks ripped a huge hole in her hull and a geyser of crude oil darkened...

Reducere. First published in hardcover to vigorous praise, Colm Toibin's New York Times bestselling novel is about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the...

Reducere. In the Trenches of the Abortion Battle Every day, thousands of children-fragile, innocent, alone-are abandoned. They are brutally snuffed from the ...

Reducere. Newly victorious at the Battle of Trafalgar, England now rules the seas and is free to colonize the furthest reaches of the world. Captain Thomas K...

DescriptionA new voice reveals the unique character of the upper MidwestIn the spirit of other writers who share an affinity for the natural world-...

A literary fiction about climate disaster and a scientist imploding on a journey to the Antarctic Zeno Hintermeier is a scientist working as a trav...

Brings alive the richly diverse world of an underwater paradise: the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. Stretching 625 miles through the Caribbean Sea alon...

Reducere. There is a time to move on, a time to let go . . . and a time to fly.Anxiety rules Annemarie Zimmer's days--the fear that her relationship with the...

Reducere. Heed the call of the wild with this brand-new, action-packed animal fantasy series from the #1 nationally bestselling author of Warriors. Enter the...

A stunning fantasy debut, enter the unique world of the Spell Breathers. Rayne had always known that word magic was powerful, but she didn't know h...

Book 11 in the extraordinary Chung Kuo series, set 200 years in the future when China controls the world. With Triad bosses and assassins, emperors...

new edition: The development of the destroyer from fragile torpedo boat to the torpedo-armed fleet destroyers, with a directory, specification boxe...

Spectacular images from one of the most celebrated wildlife photographers in a much-anticipated photo book. Krebs focuses his lens on this fragile ...

From the Orinoco River to the hothouses of Kew, this is a dark and humorous tale of orchid smugglers, visionary breeders; of corruption and murder;...

Poems radiate a love for life, the world, and the temporal nature of existence. Roots of memory and nostalgia become the architecture of the mind a...

Reducere. DescriptionShe is a woman on the run. Pain, loneliness and terror are what she is leaving. Where she is headed doesn't matter as long as it's away ...

Reducere. DescriptionA multicultural American family comes together just as the world around them begins to fall apart When Vic Singh finds a dead blue butte...

DescriptionA powerful and heartfelt memoir. After her mother's sudden death and the end of a passionate relationship brought her close to breakdown...

Gods in Print is the first comprehensive collection of early hand-colored lithographs, multiple-block chromolithographs, and offset print images of...

Reducere. When Neil's past catches up to him, Kelsey must choose between her new family and an old love... With tensions rising between the Council and demon...

DescriptionThe Giver is a modern classic and one of the most influential books of our time. Now in graphic novel format, Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal...

Reducere. Description1968 was a year of unrest: many nations were at war. People marched for peace, fairness, and freedom. At the same time, the Apollo 8 cre...

Description"Masterful." --Outside Magazine Disappointment River is a historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to...

DescriptionWhen Michelle tunneled into her family's history, she triggered a truth bomb that exploded into an inferno scorching everyone in its wak...

Reducere. DescriptionImagine learning that someone you loved, the person who had been your role model and rock, had a past life so deep and dark that it obli...

DescriptionAvailable post-free in the UK from the publisher's website, www.lifeisamazing.co.uk. When in 1887 Beeton's Christmas Annual included a s...

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

Contributor(s): Author: Amos Oz"Oz's strangest, riskiest, and richest novel." --Washington Post Book World Israel, just before the Six-Day War. On ...

With over 50 endangered and vulnerable creatures and landscapes to colour, this book will raise awareness of our fragile world and inspire conserva...

DescriptionIn the second book in The Evermore Chronicles by Emily R. King, Everley Donovan plunges into the roiling waves of a strange new world to...

DescriptionA fierce young female adventurer battles time itself to claim her destiny in a sweeping new fantasy saga from the author of the Hundredt...