Periodic Tales

This new collection presents seventeen classic stories, spanning a period from the 1880s to the 1970s, by a host of Scottish authors alongside writ...

Reducere. Dundee Worthies, a collection of tales of colourful Dundonians, was first published in 1934, compiled by George M Martin. Reminicences of the city,...

Reducere. The Tales of Ise is a collection of waka poems and associated narratives, dating from the Heian period. The current version collects 125 sections, ...

Reducere. #1 Amazon New Release in U.S. Colonial Period HistoryI think we all want to know where we came from. I was lucky enough to have loving parents and ...

Reducere. It's 2020 and children are stuck indoors as the novel coronavirus finds its way into India. A nationwide lockdown is announced and amidst the growi...

Reducere. Parisian Pauline Guyot (1805-1886), who wrote under the nom de plume Camille Lebrun, published many novels, translations, collections of tales, and...

Historic desperadoes tell their tales of holdups, shootouts and desperate flights from the law in this chronicle illustrated with many rare photogr...

In Caroline Hardaker's first full-length collection of poetry, readers will find tales of human evolution and natural laws, of technology, of the w...

Reducere. Volume 2 in The Dung Beetles of Liberia series. In April of 1979, Ken Verrier and his wife, Sam, return to Liberia to buy diamonds. They did not re...

Reducere. High Adventure in the Netherlands of the Eighty Years War periodAlthough the novels in this volume are part of Baroness Orczy's 'Scarlet Pimpernel'...

From "one of the greatest writers of our time" (Toni Morrison)--the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God--a collection of remarkabl...

Reducere. Once again, #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn transports her readers to historical romance heaven! Quinn's Just Like Heaven is the d...

Even before its immense population surge, Arlington never dreamed small. In the 1930s, Arlington Downs attracted thousands to its state-of-the-art ...

Reducere. On the heels of volumes covering practitioner skills and medicinal plant profiles, we bring to you a compilation of writings enlivening the many as...

In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories burst upon the scene, featuring over sixty new traditional Sherlock Holmes adventures, all set ...

Reducere. High Adventure in the Netherlands of the Eighty Years War periodAlthough the novels in this volume are part of Baroness Orczy's 'Scarlet Pimpernel'...

Reducere. To celebrate one of the best artists in British history Pook Press has compiled 150 of Arthur Rackham's best illustrations in one beautiful volume....

Reducere. Award NameLiterary AwardAward categoryScienceFrom New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language...

Reducere. The author lays the foundation in his account of his own life as a student during the last years of the "Old U"-a period that came to a natural end...

Reducere. The complete supernatural fiction of a Victorian scholarThe second half of the nineteenth century was a golden age for supernatural fiction and suc...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING SERIES. The ninth anthology of tales set in Eric Flint's phenomenal Ring of Fire universe--all selected and edited by F...

Reducere. Rarely do books have such a great influence on a genre as Lest Darkness Fall has had on science fiction. Frequently quoted as one of the favorite b...

Reducere. Generations of visitors have found health and prosperity in the French Lick-West Baden region of Indiana. The history of these communities is fille...

A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier with an Introduction by Sir Albert Gray. William Dampier, baptised 5 September 1651; died March 171...

Reducere. Explore Captivating Viking Tales and SagasTwo captivating manuscripts in one book: Viking Sagas: The Captivating Tale of Ragnar Lothbrok, Ivar the ...

Reducere. Remembering Green features Wenonah, an Ojibwe girl from the Lac Du Flambeau tribe in northern Wisconsin in the early 1900's during the forced assim...

Reducere. The Bridge to the New Testament covers the 420 years between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament. This period gave ...

Written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus in 121 AD while he was the personal secretary to emperor Hadrian, "The Twelve Caesars" is a series of twelve...

Description'The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon...' The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature ...

DescriptionNinjas--Japan's famous black-clad spies, saboteurs, and undercover fighters, equipped with superb martial arts skills and an uncanny apt...

Reducere. L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been enter...

Reducere. L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been enter...

Reducere. The life of Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski reads like an adventure story, an adventure story that could be written by somebody like Joseph Conrad...

An exploration of werewolf beliefs and legends from Classical Antiquity to the post-medieval period - Examines werewolf tales and stories from earl...

The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave--its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna,...

DescriptionHaruo Shirane's critically acclaimed Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, contains key examples of both hi...

Reducere. The Tales and Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum) are a key source of evidence for the practice and theory respectively of eremiti...

DescriptionThe modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, the supernat...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Monroe's owner must leave for a while, he worries that the time apart is going to be tough. While jumping sky-high for a ball to wa...

Reducere. Award NameSpur AwardsAward categoryNonfiction-BiographyThe events of July 19, 1878, marked the beginning of what became known as the Lincoln County...

Reducere. A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It tells the story of bitter old miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation re...

Reducere. THE OFFICIAL, DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO BARSOOM AND THE WORLD OF JOHN CARTER OF MARS**Fully Illustrated**COME TO BARSOOM... AND ENJOY THE WONDERS OF ERB'...

Reducere. According to legend, Moll Dyer was chased from her burning home by a mob in St. Mary's County in the year 1697. Blaming difficulties from weather t...

Reducere. In this eighth volume of the author's Pennsylvania Fireside Tales series, the reader will find more additions to the considerable collection of old...

DescriptionShe said, "I became a singer because I couldn't get work as an actress, " but Barbra Streisand not only became both but revolutionized t...

Reducere. Tales of shipwrecks have a definite fascination and a universal appeal. They are not only exciting and thrilling but usually contain some element o...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the second half of the 19th century, two brothers living in Ukraine, both Hasidic rabbis, became fabulously wealthy within a short ti...

Following the success of the earlier volume, The Baker Street Case-Files, we have another collection of previously unknown Holmes and Watson tales ...

Reducere. True vignettes and traditional verse, set against starkly powerful images, tell the story of enslaved Africans in America as it has never been told...

DescriptionNEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING SERIES. The eighth anthology of tales set in Eric Flint's phenomenal Ring of Fire universe--all selected and...

Reducere. The grand age of steamboats on Keuka Lake began in 1835 and was vital to the development of the region. The boats carried excursionists--Victorian ...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, an...

DescriptionA young readers edition of the New York Times bestseller The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary stories behind one of the...

Reducere. At the turn of the twentieth century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a celebrity--acclaimed as a leader in the feminist movement and castigated for h...

Reducere. In this second volume of S. T. Joshi's landmark history of supernatural fiction, the initial focus is on an incredible efflorescence of weird writi...

Once again, the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson continue in this acclaimed anthology series, with thirty-seven new tales presented in ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Real Daft Punk answering the questions who is Daft Punk? What is their purpose? Where did their unique sound originate? When did the...

Reducere. For two seasons, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine(R) chronicled the intense struggle of the Federation, fighting alongside the Klingons and the Romulans ...

DescriptionTHIS IS A SERIES OF TALES, MOSTLY IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, ABOUT THE SHORT RHODESIAN COLONIAL PERIOD UP TO 1980, AFTER WHICH TIME THE COU...

Reducere. DescriptionThe sentimental novels of the early national period were considered a danger to society and were criticized for the corrupting influence...

An anthology of Italian tales covering the period roughly from 1370 to 1630, during which the novella was the dominant form of prose fiction.

Reducere. The true story of King Arthur From Michael Fraley comes this history of the famous character known as King Arthur. This fully illustrated graphic n...

This is the first of two volumes reprinting copious amounts of comics stories and recounting the career of cartoonist Basil Wolverton. Based on his...

Reducere. Roger Williams purchased the fertile Aquidneck Island from the Narragansett tribe in 1637. It was here that Anne Hutchinson, along with William Cod...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Real Daft Punk answering the questions who is Daft Punk? What is their purpose? Where did their unique sound originate? When did the...

Reducere. Groucho Marx was a comic genius who starred on stage and in film, radio, and television. But he was also a gifted writer - the author of a play, tw...

Reducere. 'When a man plants a tree, he plants himself. Every root is an anchor, over which he rests with grateful interest, and becomes sufficiently calm to...

Reducere. Should I be concerned if my cycles are rarely 28 days? Why do I often feel so emotional before my period? And how can I know when my period's reall...

Reducere. L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been enter...

Reducere. "Robb continues to adeptly blend politics with period detail and three-dimensioned characterizations in the Owen Archer tales." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY...