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Reducere. John Fisher's times are remembered, but he is often not. While information on the Tudor period proliferates, with so many studies in art, architect...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Pencil of Nature by William Henry Fox Talbot. The Pencil of Nature, published in six installments between 1844 and 1846, was the "fi...

Reducere. Aside from Experiencing God, Henry Blackaby has made his greatest impact by ministering directly to Fortune 100 and 500 CEOs, advising them on how ...

Reducere. Rich in intrigue and scheming, love and lust, Sherry Jones's vibrant historical novel follows four women destined to sway the fate of nations and t...

Reducere. Secrets lead to lies and lies to murder in this pulse-pounding mystery with lots of shocking twists.Has former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas finally ...

Reducere. "Moorhouse, in his use of the Bible, was "a man apart" in the sphere of evangelism. Like others of his day, he rose from the ranks of the poor, and...

Reducere. In New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott's latest novel of riveting psychological suspense, an uneasy alliance forms as two widows delve in...

In Southern Maryland's serene Amish country, one young woman's life is changed by an unexpected request . . . "She's yours." Until now, Rosanna Mas...

Reducere. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, a critically acclaimed novel for readers of all ages in which a young girl discovers a passa...

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Reducere. The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback-- the heroic tale of Agincourt.Bernard Cornwell, the New York Times bestselling "reigning...

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Reducere. When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him might...

Reducere. Description"Two very startling things arrest us in John's vision of the future. The first is that the likest thing to Heaven he could think of was ...

A Parisian civil servant turned prot g of Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant is considered not only one of the greatest short story writers in all of Fren...

Reducere. This collection gathers together every short story featuring one of Agatha Christie's most famous creations: Miss Marple. Described by her friend D...

Reducere. The early nineteenth century in New Bedford was a time of unimaginable wealth, intellectual ferment and artistic treasures. Prosperous whaling magn...

Reducere. Hailed by Henry James as ``the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country, `` Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reache...

Reducere. ``The Living Reminder was like a visit from a friend I needed to speak with. The surprise for me was how much I needed to hear him say familiar thi...

Reducere. Children often have a big problem understanding how dinosaurs fit with Creation and the Bible. Yet the basic mystery about dinosaurs is easy to sol...

Reducere. A powerful poem and stunning, handmade-paper art encourage children to protect nature."Where once there was a wood, A meadow and a creek . . . "Ins...

Reducere. This edition of the Bondage of the Will was translated by Henry Cole in 1823. "Free will was no academic question to Luther; the whole Gospel of th...

Reducere. Lindsey Althorp, the only son of a wealthy baronet, has never worked a day in his life. Aubrey Warren was born in a workhouse and hasn't stopped wo...

Reducere. Giant pandas have been causing a stir ever since their formal scientific discovery just over 140 years ago. Yet in spite of humankind's evident obs...

Reducere. DescriptionHe immortalized Henry Frankenstein in Hollywood's Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, but his too-brief life was often a horror saga...

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The beguiling stories in Electricity & Other Dreams are in their own category, which might be described as Southern gothic meets tall tale meets di...

Reducere. The rugged beauty of the Cape's landscape has been captured in writing since the days of Henry David Thoreau. Yet few mention the area's architectu...

Reducere. Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country, " Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Cat PatrickEach night at precisely 4: 33 am, while sixteen-year-old London Lane is asleep, her memory of that day is erased...

Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from John Bartram's botanical garden in Philadelphia and the a...

Reducere. Go on the road with your favorite WWE Superstars Your favorite WWE Superstars have more road trip stories to tell than they have frequent flier mil...

Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908), endowed with an equipotent facility with sketch-pad and rhyming dictionary, created some of the most arresting sketches ...

Since its introduction in the late 1980s, DNA analysis has revolutionized the forensic sciences: it has helped to convict the guilty, exonerate the...

The ability to imagine is at the heart of what makes us human. Through our imagination we experience more fully the world both around us and within...

Reducere. In 1889 two Russian immigrants, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, met in a coffee shop on the Lower East Side. Over the next fifty years Emma and...

Reducere. Tony Conrad is exemplary of the 1960s artist who remains inassimilable to canonic histories. Creator of the "structural" film, The Flicker, collabo...

Reducere. DescriptionWar of 1812The War of 1812 is often forgotten when we think about the history of the United States. Yet the effects of what seems a mino...

A thirty year retrospective of Roman subway graffiti with stories from 90 of the most prolific writers in the Roman scene. This is a thoughtful jou...

DescriptionThe Social Foundations Reader is meant for undergraduate and graduate students in introductory foundations of education classes. No othe...

"Partners both in throne and grave, here rest we two sisters Elizabeth and Mary, in the hope of one resurrection."This inscription is visible on th...

Reducere. Shakespeare's Richard II presents a momentous struggle between Richard II and his cousin Henry Bolingbroke. Richard is the legitimate king; he succ...

Stand-up: it's the ultimate solo art form. Yet, behind the scenes, you will increasingly find the shadowy figure of a director. For comics themselv...

Reducere. A collection of The New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America--including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilto...

Reducere. In Matthew 15-28: A Handbook on the Greek Text Wesley Olmstead provides a foundational analysis of the Greek text of Matthew 15-28. The analysis is...

Reducere. Description"Hits the mark."--KirkusAn engaging middle-grade nonfiction narrative of the American Indian soldiers who bravely fought in the Civil Wa...

Cities burn, electricity crackles, and the world hangs in the balance as the award-winning alternate-history graphic novel trilogy comes to a stunn...

DescriptionA major new account of the most intensely creative years of Luther's careerThe Making of Martin Luther takes a provocative look at the i...

• Autor distins cu Premiul Nobel pentru literatura in 1991. Henry Lawson, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer and Chinua Achebe are respectively Austral...

Reducere. Lily Larsen has never been afraid of anything, yet the effects of the war are wearing her down. Her beautiful home in Cades Cove, Tennessee, lies d...

In Heather Kassner's spine-chilling fantasy novel, reminiscent of Serafina and the Black Cloak, an orphaned girl chases a thieving boy into a magic...

Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of ...

Reducere. Carl Maxey was, in his own words, "a guy who started from scratch - black scratch." He was sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane Childre...

In W. Stone Cotter's Second Chance, the young readers fantasy sequel to Saint Philomene's Infirmary for Magical Creatures, a brother and sister duo...

The Victorian fin de siecle has many associations: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on ...

Reducere. A common stereotype about American Indians is that for centuries they lived in stataic harmony with nature in a pristine wilderness that remained u...

Reducere. A shaman and visionary-not a poet in any ordinary sense-Mar a Sabina lived out her life in the Oaxacan mountain village of Huautla de Jim nez, and ...

"The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective-wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes."- E...

Reducere. ``Sexy, surprising, funny, insightful, and wildly entertaining`` (Huffington Post)--the definitive biography of Giacomo Casanova, the impoverished ...

Reducere. "Somewhere the ghosts of Shirley Jackson and the Henry James of The Turn of the Screw are smiling, because a wildly talented young writer has joine...

Heads you win. Tails you die ... Can one man's revenge become his redemption?Young Luke Tyler has everything going for him: brains, looks and a lar...

Reducere. Rev. Henry Maxwell, speaking slowly and determinedly, yet not fully realizing the implications of what lay ahead of him, repeated his astounding pr...

DescriptionIn 1461 Edward earl of March, an able, handsome, and charming eighteen-year old, usurped the English throne from his feeble Lancastrian ...

From bestselling author, beauty expert and TV personality Chantel Guertin, an intelligent yet swoon-worthy rom-com about modern relationships, mode...

Reducere. From her eleventh year to the month of her death at age fifty-five, Louisa May Alcott kept copious journals. She never intended them to be publishe...

Reducere. CONSUMED: Tales Inspired by the WendigoEdited by Hollie & Henry SniderHunger that changes you...consumes you...turning you into a nightmare version...

DescriptionWhen Mary Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VIII, succeeded to the throne of England in 1553 it was with wild rejoicing and a degree of po...

This classic book on the role of the Supreme Court in our democracy traces the history of the Court, assessing the merits of various decisions alon...

Reducere. The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T....

DescriptionMary, Elizabeth and Henrietta Anne, the daughters of King Charles I and his queen, Henrietta Maria, would be brought up against the back...