Historic Bay Area Visionaries

Reducere. DescriptionFor centuries, California's environment has nurtured remarkable people. Ohlone Lope Inigo found a way to protect his family in troubled ...

Reducere. This anthology of work by members of the Bay Area Travel Writers transports readers to destinations around the world, moving from Tibet to Morocco ...

In 2003, the United States had about 60 craft distillers; today there are over 2, 000 in all corners of the country, 500 of which are making whiske...

Reducere. BLACK & WHITE INTERIOR - Every Saddlebred enthusiast should have this book in their Saddlebred library. It is an excellent reference book with inte...

Reducere. About DK Eyewitness San Francisco and the Bay AreaDiscover San Francisco and the Bay Area - a region renowned for its culture, history, natural bea...

Reducere. Twelve-year-old budding scientist Lucy Lavender loves exploring. After Dad dies, Mom pieces jobs together and struggles to provide a home for Lucy....

Reducere. San Francisco was booming in the mid-nineteenth century, and along with adventurers seeking their fortunes came sacks of green coffee beans. The ol...

Reducere. Roller Derby found a home in the San Francisco Bay Area following its Depression-era Chicago origins. An early television sensation, it faded to a ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Ex...

Reducere. Wittily entertaining and astonishingly wise, this novel of the life of Marie Antoinette finds the characters struggling to mind their step in the g...

Reducere. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, love...

Aviation in Northern California 1910-1939, Vol. 1: San Francisco Bay Area is the only book to give a detailed account of early flying in the Bay Ar...

Reducere. In the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider's account of the rapid transit system's ince...

Reducere. A critically acclaimed novelist pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this "masterful" look into his life before Gatsby ...

Reducere. One snowy New Year's Day, in the midst of the Great Depression, Dr. James Delaney--haunted by the slaughters of the Great War, and abandoned by his...

Everywhere hailed for its emotional intensity and unflagging narrative momentum, this magnificent novel transports us to the turn of the twentieth ...

A young woman's impassioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T. S. Eliot's letters lies at the heart of this emotionally charged novel -- a story of ma...

Reducere. A WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA "marvelous" (Wall Street Journal), "enthralling" (New York Times Book Review) debut novel about lov...

A powerful testament to the human spirit, STORM BAY looks back to the early days of Van Dieman's Land and the thousands of prisoners who suffered t...

Thousands flock to the beautiful coastline along Penobscot Bay every year, but the dark sea has often turned treacherous. Temperamental skies becom...

Reducere. Set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri, WOE TO LIVE ON explores the nature of lawlessness and violence, friendship and loyalty, through th...

Reducere. International Bestseller One of the most anticipated books of 2017: The Millions, CBC, Chatelaine, Globe and Mail, Maclean's From the author of The...

Reducere. In a hidden Ireland where fishermen and tenant farmers find solace in their ancient faith, songs, stories, and communal celebrations, young Honora ...

Reducere. Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier ...

Reducere. The women in an Arctic village must survive a sinister threat after all the men are wiped out by a catastrophic storm in this "gripping novel inspi...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Gordon family have a historic woolshed, which was built in 1886. It has been turned into a museum to the sheep industry and has an a...

Reducere. Seattle 1955. When a wealthy matriarch dies under questionable circumstances, Inspector Michael Riggs is assigned to the high-profile case. Riggs i...

Reducere. DescriptionFour young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minu...

Reducere. The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19th-century ...

Reducere. At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny, QUEEN OF AMERICA tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming o...

Reducere. Both a sweeping love story and a luminous portrait of a city, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the mesmerizing historical novel of an ill-fated young woman ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anita Shreve"A marriage is always two intersecting stories." This realization comes perhaps too late to the husband of Etna...

Publisher: Destinworld Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Paul ChrystalPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 13Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesc...

This darkly gripping dual-time debut, will transport readers from World War One England to present day Australia, with a thrilling story of family ...

This darkly gripping dual-time debut, will transport readers from World War One England to present day Australia, with a thrilling story of family ...

Celebrate the career of a true Marvel Visionary Relive some of Rascally Roy Thomas' greatest stories as, under his pen, the Fantastic Four confront...

Reducere. Area 51 It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in N...

City Integration and Tourism Development in the Greater Bay Area, China explores the tourism development related issues of city integration in the ...

Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Julie BrooksPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 233 x 33Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecu...

Reducere. April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower-who, ...

"...Sweeping and intimate, warm and gripping. I loved it " --Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache nove...

Reducere. A young Russian woman comes into her own in the midst of revolution and civil war in this "brilliant" novel set in "a world of furious beauty" (Los...

Reducere. In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best ...

Reducere. Now an award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage's acclaimed Western is "a pitch-p...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Ib SvaneIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 30Cover...

Reducere. Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more i...

Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more i...

Publisher: Rare Bird BooksAuthor(s): Katharine Ogden MichaelsNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 267 x 250 x 29Cover type: Hardba...

DescriptionCelebrate the career of a true Marvel Visionary The Incredible Hulk, the devastating Dragon Man, the epic end of the Norse gods themselv...