Reducere. DescriptionFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series comes a hilarious and high-octane adult novel about a vodka-drinki...
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Reducere. DescriptionCharles Soule brings his signature knowledge--and wariness--of technology to his sophomore novel set in a realistic future about a brill...
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Reducere. DescriptionAbandoned as an infant, fourteen-year-old Anna Maria dal Violin is one of the elite musicians living in the foundling home where the "Re...
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Reducere. The concentration of power in the caudillo (leader) is as much a formative element of Mexican culture and politics as the historical legacy of the ...
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Reducere. WINNER OF THE HARPER LEE PRIZE FOR LEGAL FICTIONWall Street Journal BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONFrom...
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Reducere. Nick Sandman's spine was shattered by a bullet in the Falklands. He has no money and no prospects, only a dream of sailing far away from his troubl...
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Reducere. They came by boat from a starving land--and by the Underground Railroad from Southern chains--seeking refuge in a crowded, filthy corner of hell at...
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Reducere. DescriptionIn this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkabl...
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Reducere. Written by the gifted author, editor, and dance critic Robert Gottlieb, George Balanchine describes the life and art of the celebrated, revolutiona...
Reducere. Ponder, if you will ...What is the difference between a kit and a caboodle?Why don't people get goose bumps on their faces?Where do houseflies go i...
Reducere. It's 1969, and, having just celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, James Bond--British special agent 007--is summoned to headquarters to receive an u...
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Reducere. A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - moth...
Reducere. The beloved author of The Mistletoe Matchmaker returns with an enchanting new novel, perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan, Nina George, and Nancy Thaye...
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Reducere. Daughter of Destiny, the autobiography of Benazir Bhutto, is a historical document of uncommon passion and courage, the dramatic story of a brillia...
Reducere. The Rev. Jonah Dove is the son of a legendary Harlem minister, and a man troubled in both mind and spirit. He feels himself unworthy and incapable ...
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Reducere. A magisterial history of the origins, reality, and legend of the knightBorn out of the chaos of the early Middle Ages, the armored and highly mobil...
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Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FINALIST FOR BEST FICTION AND BEST DEBUT - BOOKBRO...
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Reducere. Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English...
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Reducere. Ponder, if you will . . . Is yawning contagious? Do starfish have faces? Why do they put crinkly paper into pairs of men's socks? Why is it that ca...
Reducere. Barbara Goldsmith's portrait of suffragette Victoria Woodhull and her times was hailed by George Plimpton as "a beautifully written biography of a ...
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Reducere. A fabulously wealthy New York beauty marries a cold-hearted British aristocrat at the behest of her Machiavellian mother - then leaves him to becom...
Reducere. Combining firsthand scholarship and material drawn from the Jefferson Papers, Willard Sterne Randall calls on his skills as an investigative journa...
Reducere. "I'm glad that Rahotep, the policeman from Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead, has had a second outing. The central figure is the best known Egyptian ...
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Reducere. A classic reissue of Richard Holmes's brilliant book on Samuel Johnson's friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Pr...
Reducere. After the success of her New York Times-bestselling childhood memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend, Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva--subje...
Reducere. From the winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize--comes the extraordinary, unexpected debut tale of three generations of Chinese-American women...
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Reducere. "Blau has written an honest, haunting portrayal of a beguiling, yet maddening family, who together come of age amidst the shifting morals of a coun...
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Reducere. A wise and loving portrait of a marriage. . . . Susanna Daniel writes beautifully of matters of the heart. -- Jennifer Haigh, author of The Conditi...
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Reducere. A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and s...
Reducere. From Dan Fante, the son of novelist John Fante, comes a gritty detective novel featuring JD Fiorella, an ex-private investigator who's bent on aven...
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Reducere. A fascinating look at life in the Middle Ages that focuses on eight extraordinary medieval men and women through realistically invented conversatio...
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Reducere. Oscar Hijuelos vividly brings to life the joys, desires, and disappointment of American life witnessed through the experience of a formerly prosper...
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Reducere. Randall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century...
Reducere. It's Girl Interrupted meets Miranda July--with a touch of Joan Didion--in this captivating collection of original essays revolving around a young A...
Reducere. Bly's imaginative prose poems radiate witty delight. --Library JournalA brilliant collection spanning half a century, from one of America's most pr...
Reducere. When the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the world lost one of the greatest moral authorities of the twentieth c...
Reducere. Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores h...
Reducere. This book offers practical advice on every aspect of writing novels and short stories: plotting and narrative development, characterization and dia...
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Reducere. "A generous and pleasurable collection. . . . Vibrant and illuminating, with quotable lines on every page. . . . [Lessing is] a superb essayist: lu...
Reducere. "This is a book about joy, drive and art, work that we're all capable of if we'll only commit." --Seth Godin, author of Linchpin Public Radio Inter...
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Reducere. From Ross Raisin, the highly acclaimed author of Out Backward--a debut novel Colm Tóibín called "compelling, disturbing and often very funny"--come...
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Reducere. Now in a Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, the timeless novel that chronicles a reckless romance in the wilderness, from Edward Abbey, one ...
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Reducere. The story of a girl who is doing everything to hurt herself and a mother who would try anything to try to save her.True, she had stopped coming dow...
Reducere. 0riginating at the National Theatre of Great Britain, Amadeus was the recipient of both the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Aw...
Reducere. "What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks ...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion, philosophy
Reducere. Jeremy McGrath has been called 'the Michael Jordan of Supercross' by the Los Angeles Times, and in this revealing autobiography fans not only get h...
Reducere. Anna Leonowens, a proper Englishwoman, was an unlikley candidate to change the course of Siamese (Thai) history. A young widow and mother, her serv...
Reducere. In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how ch...
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Reducere. One of The Economist's Best Books of the YearFrom the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning t...
Reducere. "Superb professional history that moves boldly beyond the scholar's monograph to make the American past alive and exciting for the general reader."...
Reducere. The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondr...
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Reducere. The final novel from Aldous Huxley, Island is a provocative counterpoint to his worldwide classic Brave New World, in which a flourishing, ideal so...
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Reducere. Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered -land, freedom, and hope.- The disastrous blizzard of...
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Reducere. Bestselling author Bernard Cornwell takes us back four thousand years, to a vibrant world of ritual and sacrifice that is at once timeless and whol...
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Reducere. DescriptionJust how did Cal Cunningham -- a twenty-five-year-old bookstore stockboy who is new to Manhattan and who has never written anything -- p...
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Reducere. In his inimitable New York voice, Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin gives us a look through the keyhole at the people and places that define the ...
Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Karl BarthBarth stands before us as the greatest theologian of the twentieth century, yet the massive corpus of work which ...
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Reducere. In her riveting memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me, Kaylie Jones--the daughter of author James Jones (From Here to Eternity) and an acclaimed auth...
Reducere. A scandalous story of money, drugs, fast cars, high politics, lowly crime, hundreds of beautiful woman and one man, Porfirio Rubirosa from the cele...
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Reducere. Description"Take Me Home is a riveting novel of two heroic people attempting to transcend the prejudices of their time and place. . . . Skillful ar...
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Reducere. "Fred Kaplan's Lincoln offers penetrating insights on Lincoln's ability to explain complex ideas in language accessible to a broad range of readers...
Reducere. When she was very young, Baby Halder was abandoned by her mother and left with a cruel, abusive father. She was married off at twelve to a man twic...
Reducere. "Portrait in Sepia is the best book Allende has published in the United States since her first novel of nearly two decades ago, The House of the Sp...
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Reducere. From #1 international bestselling author Ami McKay comes The Virgin Cure, the story of a young girl abandoned and forced to fend for herself in the...
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