Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays, Paperback

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismWinner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeAcclaimed for its frank and f...

In a frank and fascinating exploration of race, racial identity and the legacy of race in America, Biss intimately reveals how families, schools an...

This winner of the 2003 Michael Printz Award and the Carnegie Medal, told in dual narratives, takes the reader on a memorable voyage of discovery i...

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Publisher: UCLan PublishingAuthor(s): Joanna NadinNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 131 x 199 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softb...

Billy is an under-age soldier who befriends a stray dog in France during World War One. When Billy left for dead in the blood-soaked trenches of No...

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A boy from the central Tibetan grasslands grows up in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. Love, loss, bears, bandits and Buddhist mysteries. Tibet...

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 ...

"My name is Rebel Anne Rae... and I am the last remaining human alive on planet Earth."Twenty years from now, the world has been ravaged by environ...

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Reducere. Billy is an under-age soldier who befriends a stray dog in France during World War One. When Billy left for dead in the blood-soaked trenches of No...

Walking straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War, the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the oc...

It's 1914 when everything changes for a group of boys growing up and playing football in the Suffolk countryside. Far away, in a place called Saraj...

Reducere. After his father is accused of murder, combat veteran and Special Agent John Puller must investigate his past and learn the truth about his mother ...

Like its highly acclaimed companions, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and The Outlaw Bible of American Literature, this edition is a prime for ...

Anne East explores the loss of how it is to feel one thing and yet be perceived as another. In this exploration of her own experience as a Brit of ...

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Reducere. Fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll is a gender-blurring, self-described loner whose family expects nothing of her. While her mother lies on the couc...

From Dundee International Book Prize and Bloody Scotland book of the year nominee Neil Broadfoot comes No Man's Land, the first in the white-knuckl...

Reducere. Are you a frequent resident of No Man's Land? Do your dating relationships always seem to fizzle out--or maybe even crash and burn? Ever think to y...

Publisher: Faber & FaberAuthor(s): Harold PinterNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 1997Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

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Of what use were the British cavalry during the years of trench warfare on the Western Front? On a static battlefield dominated by the weapons of t...

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The author has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. Whether discussing t...

Reducere. This collection of images and field notes from conservation photographer and storyteller Deirdre Denali Rosenberg shines a light on her most favori...

Reducere. A provocative collection of narrative essays with a unique point of view. In this book a first generation American New Yorker uses her bold voice t...

A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and ...

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Buy a pair of Levi's, lose the Russian accent, and turn yourself into an American. Really, how difficult could it be?

Reducere. With No Man's River, Farley Mowat has penned his best Arctic tale in years. This book chronicles his life among Metis trappers and native people as...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Robert F. BerkhoferIllustration(s): 8 PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONSNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 1979Dim...

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous of all fictional detectives but, across the Atlantic, he had plenty of rivals.Between 1890 and 1920, American wr...

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Seeds reads like the best of a roundtable discussion amongst John Muir, Bill Bryson, and David Sedaris. From the fields of Gettysburg to the home o...

Reducere. Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's autobiographical novel My Year in No-Man's Bay is "a meditation on two decades of a writer's life culminating in ...

Reducere. At his death in 1990, Walker Percy left a considerable legacy of uncollected nonfiction. Assembled in Signposts in a Strange Land, these essays on ...

Reducere. We can be led to act in our own interest as a group if we tune into, and add to, our mental diets, the liberating thoughts that are provifef for us...

The popular York Notes series of literature revision aids for undergraduates have been given a makeover. This is an established and trusted brand w...

Paperback edition of the latest Rendell novel to feature the former Detective Chief Inspector Wexford. In this 24th in the series, Wexford is retir...