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Reducere. Evoking two of the most famous battles of the Ancient World--the Battle of Marathon and the Last Stand at Thermopylae--The Gates of Athens is a bra...

Reducere. The surprising and illuminating look at how Tolkien's love of science and natural history shaped the creation of his Middle Earth, from its flora a...

Reducere. A friend once said of Churchill "He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything." But dinners for Churchill...

Reducere. A rousing historical narrative of the best-known and arguably most significant battle in English history. The effects of the Battle of Hastings wer...

DescriptionFor the armchair traveler or for those looking to take a trip back to the colorful time of Henry VIII and Thomas Moore, A Journey Throug...

Reducere. In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. at master would become Kin...

Reducere. Rudyard Kipling, a major figure of English literature, used the full power and intensity of his imagination and his writing ability in his excursio...

Reducere. A memoir by UNC basketball player Wes Miller, who went from walk-on to starter in three years with the legendary Tar Heel basketball team.

Reducere. Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wroteThe Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins, not twenty years later, ...

Reducere. A masterful portrait of two remarkable women, revealing how two turbulent lives were always haunted by the dangerously enchanting, quicksilver spir...

Reducere. A fascinating history of the practice of surgery from one of the leading figures in the field, chronicling centuries of scientific breakthroughs by...

Reducere. For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the r...

Reducere. Thomas Cook has always been drawn to dark places, for the powerful emotions they evoke and for what we can learn from them. These lessons are often...

DescriptionA kinswoman to Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys had begun the Queen's glittering reign basking in favor and success. It was an honor that sh...

Reducere. But before the darlings of London theater--Henry Irving and Ellen Terry--take their acclaimed Macbeth to the Edinburgh stage, terror treads the boa...

Reducere. The finale of the Storms of War trilogy finds Celia de Witt in glittering 1920s New York, hunting for Michael, the son who was taken from her at bi...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty--all have been as...

Reducere. Specially commissioned by the Mysterious Bookshop, the "bibliomysteries" in this unique collection feature original stories by the genre's most dis...

Reducere. DescriptionSince Hannah has been admitted, two women have died, including Charlie, one of her closest friends in the institution. It's a high-risk ...

Reducere. DescriptionWritten with verve and enthusiasm, Higher Calling explores why mountains have such a magnetic appeal to cyclists the world over. But Max...

Reducere. The definitive account of the last serious threat to Western civilization by the armies of Islam. The siege of Vienna in 1683 was one of the turnin...

Reducere. One of our most eloquent nature writers offers a passionate and informative celebration of birds and their ability to help us understand the world ...

Reducere. Description125 Gower Street, the residence of Sidney Grice, London's foremost personal detective, and his ward March Middleton, is at peace.Midnigh...

One woman's incredible story of life on the front lines as an emergency medical worker in New York City. On the streets of New York City, EMTs and ...

Reducere. A brilliant and breathtakingly vivid tour of the universe, describing the physics of the dangerous, the deadly, and the scary in the cosmos. So you...

Reducere. Twelve years after Tim Moore toiled around the route of the Tour de France, he senses his achievement being undermined by the truth about 'Horrid L...

Reducere. This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3, 500 Jews under the noses...

For the first time, the life and mind of Anders Behring Breivik, the most unexpected of mass murderers, is examined and set in the context of wider...

Reducere. DescriptionOn today's world stage, there is one leader who stands apart from the rest. Queen Elizabeth II has seen more of the planet and its peopl...

Evoking the spirit--and danger--of the early American West, this is the story of the Battle of Beecher Island, pitting an outnumbered United States...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat was it like to be John Lennon? What was it like to be the castoff child, the clown at school, and the middle-class suburban boy who...

In the aftermath of the Great War, the de Witt family is struggling to piece together the shattered fragments of their lives.Rudolf and his wife, V...

Reducere. Life's tough for a Gypsy detective in Budapest. The cops don't trust you because you're a Gypsy. Your fellow Gypsies, even your own family, shun yo...

Reducere. Despite Mouse's power, her father always wanted a son--and now, at long last, he has him. And Mouse has a brother, someone else in the world just l...

Reducere. While on the modelling dais, Picasso gives her a job: to find his wife's portrait, which has gone mysteriously missing. That same night, her spymas...

Exciting investigations in northwest China are set to reveal more of the mysteries of the huge mausoleum of the Qin Emperor, a portion of which was...

Reducere. And then six tiny coffins are uncovered, inside each a handful of dried flowers and a bundle of mouldering rags. When Jem comes across these strang...

Reducere. DescriptionScotland has often been depicted as a land of haunting, misty moors and literary genius. But Scotland has also been a place of brutal cr...

Reducere. Max Leonard flips the Tour de France on its head and examines what these stories tell us about ourselves, the 99% who don't win the trophy, and for...

Reducere. From "The Four Hour Body, " to "Atkins, " there are diet cults to match seemingly any mood and personality type. Everywhere we turn, someone is pre...

Reducere. DescriptionTeaching herself to hunt and fight, Atalanta is determined to prove her worth to her father and, disguising herself as a man, she wins a...

The intoxicating history of an extraordinary city and her people--from the medieval kings surrounding Berlin's founding to the world wars, tumult, ...

Reducere. Groundbreaking anthropologist and memory champion Lynne Kelly reveals how we can use ancient and traditional mnemonic methods to enhance and expand...

Reducere. The third novel in an imaginative Victorian series narrated by the young Arthur Conan Doyle. As the inspirational model for Sherlock Holmes, the br...

Reducere. DescriptionThis narrative follows the everyday reality of the trial, from the early days of scandal and scheming in 1305, via torture, imprisonment...

Reducere. Description The American public's introduction to nuclear technology was manifested in destruction and death. With Hiroshima and the Cold War still...

Reducere. A warm and unforgettable portrait of a family letting go of the known world to encounter an unfamiliar one filled with rich possibilities and new u...

Reducere. DescriptionWith the city unsettled and rife with rumors, Eleanor Clifford's abrupt return to York upon the mysterious death of her husband in Stras...

At the age of 19, scared and illiterate, James Pennington escaped from slavery in 1827 and soon became one of the leading voices against slavery pr...

Reducere. A brilliant, impassioned, unflinching account of the firestorm of #MeToo, how we got there, and where we must now go. In Women, Men, and the Whole ...

Reducere. Kimi's Obaachan, her grandmother, had always been a silent presence throughout her youth. Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, ...

DescriptionThe Story of Britain is an accessible one-volume history that clearly depict Britain's origins--and explain how the past shaped the nati...

Reducere. DescriptionSome of the best-known and most influential pieces of crime fiction have been from African American writers. Be it Walter Mosley's great...

Reducere. Andrea Buchanan lost her mind while crossing the street one day. Suffering from a horrible cough, she inhaled the cold March air, and choked. She w...

Reducere. DescriptionIt was clearly no ordinary drowning. Inspector Louise Rick is immediately called out to Holbaek Fjord when a young immigrant girl is fou...

Reducere. The intimate story of a unique marriage spanning the heights of British glamour and power that descends into infidelity, manipulation, and disaster...

Reducere. His face is recognized the world over, his story is well-known. But what is Prince William really like? As Diana's eldest son, he was her confidant...

DON'T DIG DOWN BELOW . . .When Human Protection League agent Professor Bob Chambers is called to London to investigate the macabre discovery of an ...

The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy.Illustrations: 16 pages of B&W photographs

An award-winning historian of religion examines the role a "messiah" plays in Western culture, from its pre-Christian roots to modern interpretatio...

Reducere. A luminous narrative inspired by the fascinating real case of "the Blue People of Kentucky" that probes questions of identity, love, and family. In...

The surprising story of perhaps the darkest episode in American espionage history: the "midnight war" to depose Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. It re...

From "pharma bros" to everday household budgets, just how did the pharmaceutical industry betray its own history--and how can it return to its trad...

Reducere. "A remarkable book that takes us to the heart of Shakespeare's art and influence."--James Shapiro When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life...

Reducere. Filled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States--and...

A New York Times bestselling author reveals the story of a nearly forgotten moment in American history, when mass violence was not an aberration, b...

Napoleon is one of history's most fascinating figures. But his complex relationship with Rome--both with antiquity and his contemporary conflicts w...

Reducere. Alexandra "Al" Silber seems to have everything: brilliance, beauty, and talent in spades. But when her beloved father dies after a decade-long batt...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president" as well as "the first who rose above the prejudice of his...

Reducere. The definitive biography of one of English literature's most beloved, and misunderstood, female writers.