Storm of the Century

Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy st...

Reducere. From the author of The Horse Whisperer comes the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, an extraordinary new novel of love, family, and man's str...

Based on a true story, Arthur Miller's play All My Sons was his first major success, a moving exploration of denial, guilt, social responsibility a...

Reducere. Driven from his home by the Ku Klux Klan and still reeling from the death of his mother, Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to the desola...

The Ming dynasty becomes a battleground for the Brotherhood of Assassins and the Order of the Templars in this blockbuster action novel from a prev...

Reducere. Since Audubon visited Galveston in 1837, artists have flocked to the island, some just passing through and others staying their entire lives. But b...

Reducere. [Genoa] invites us to pass our minds down a new but ancient track, to become, ourselves, both fact and fiction, and to discover something true abou...

Reducere. "We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake, " said Fredrick Douglas about the abolitionist movement in 1852. Jennifer Jean's latest coll...

Katie's Picture Show was originally published in 1989 and has captured the imagination and hearts of budding art lovers for a quarter of a century....

Reducere. This outstanding new translation brings a uniformity of voice to Zbigniew Herbert's entire poetic output, from his first book of poems, String of L...

DescriptionThe Paris Wife meets PBS's Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history's most remarkable women: Winston C...

Reducere. DescriptionFrench and Indian War The French and Indian War is one of the most significant, yet least acknowledged and understood, periods of Americ...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for W Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, agreed to be Maugham's m...

Reducere. Dracula's Guest (1914) is a collection of short stories by Irish author Bram Stoker. Edited and published by Florence, the author's wife, following...

Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bai...

Reducere. "She was like a storm." --Leonard CohenJoni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century...

Reducere. True History (2nd century C.E.) is a satirical novel by Lucian. Written in ancient Greek, True History is thought to be the first work of science f...

DescriptionErnst J nger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important--and most controversial--writers. Decorated for bravery in World War ...

Reducere. Welcome to a landscape of ancient evil . . . with stories by masters of horror Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James​, Ra...

Reducere. They rise, limbs interlocked like a mighty phalanx engaged in a slow northward march along Florida's coast. Collectively, they are battered and dim...

DescriptionWhen the Nazis took power in 1933, most Germans did not foresee the oncoming storm. Many were wildly enthusiastic; some were alarmed; mo...

Reducere. Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as ``brilliant literary ...

Reducere. A prizewinning historian tells the dramatic story of the siege that changed the course of the First World WarIn September 1914, just a month into W...

Reducere. The second book in the critically acclaimed Obsidian and Blood trilogy: The year is Two House, and the Emperor of the Mexica has just died. The pro...

Reducere. Since the dawn of time, across almost every culture, there have been legends of shapeshifters. Men who turn into beasts and prey upon anyone unfort...

Reducere. The sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying aceAt the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies--the car a...

Reducere. Our civilization as we know it, is running out of time, but most fail to see the sudden destruction, soon to fall upon us. "When conditions are at ...

Many consider the nature of human consciousness to be one of the last great unsolved mysteries. Why should the light turn on, so to speak, in human...

Description"Burned-over District was a name applied to a small region, during a limited period of history, to indicate a particular phase of develo...

Reducere. A powerful new series from the author of the Raine Stockton Dog Mysteries... Almost two years ago the sleepy little community of Dogleg Island was ...

Reducere. With little more than courage and ingenuity, five Union prisoners escaped the siege of Richmond-by hot-air balloon. They have no idea if they'll ev...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading"Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate w...

Reducere. The Pirate Queen begins in Ireland with the notorious Grace O'Malley, a scourge to the most powerful fleets of sixteenth-century Europe. This Irish...

Reducere. Acclaimed storyteller Nancy Roberts takes the reader on a haunted tour of coastal North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia in this engaging new ...

Don't be miserable, you wonderful woman; be a mermaid. There's the ocean; throw yourself in. Fall in love with some poor mortal and drag him down w...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Eagle and the Dragon takes the reader on an epic journey of thousands of miles by sea and land across three continents.When Senator ...

There are two styles of leadership at war in the world.On one side the mechanical leader casts a vision of heroic action aided by pragmatism, reaso...

Reducere. The fog released more of the ship. As he watched the bow slowly emerge, Stanton saw something that made his gut twist. "This can't be." Stanton sta...

'It would be hard to imagine a more thoughtful, intelligent and companionable person to go to sea with than Paul Heiney.' Bill Bryson 'High comedy ...

Reducere. This is that rarest of books, the one you grab when the house is on fire, or you're about to be marooned on a desert island with nothing else to re...

Reducere. A bloody massacre. An ancient curse. One young German holds the course of history in her hands.Engineering student Amalia Weber is only training in...

Can the power of love overcome life's darkest memories and deepest losses?When her favourite beech tree is felled in a storm, Ann feels as if someo...

Reducere. The riveting story of the slave ship Whydah, captured by pirates and later sunk in a fierce storm off the coast of Massachusetts, energizes this la...

Reducere. DescriptionA young man from the countryside comes to Reykjavik to work as a taxi driver, and strikes up an acquaintaintance with a wealthy young wo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dianna LoveThe Beladors are back in WITCHLOCK, Book 6 of the bestselling urban fantasy series by New York Times bestseller ...

Reducere. DescriptionOh, for a simpler time Paradise Jones dreams of the Hollywood glamour days. Clothes, hair, vintage car--you name it, she's got it. She's...

Reducere. The extraordinary career and devastating life of T.S. Eliot.T.S. Eliot is a hollow man trapped in a dreary world. He works at a bank, a slave to th...

Reducere. A memorable tale of adventure on the turbulent seas of the Great Southern and Atlantic oceans--on one of the most historic voyages of our time--fin...

Reducere. A TALE OF MURDER, THE SS CLALLAM SHIPWRECK, AND THE TRUE COST OF GOLD The 20th Century opens with unbridled growth in the frontier town of Seattle....

Contributor(s): Author: R. M. BallantyneOne night, soon after we entered the tropics, an awful storm burst upon our ship. The first squall of wind ...

Reducere. I looked and saw water rushing in from Galveston Bay on one side and from the gulf on the other. The two seas met in the middle of Broadway, swirli...

DescriptionShe's a surgeon with a future. He's a Scottish laird in the past. Will their love be a timeless treasure or an eternal curse?Dr. Gwendol...

Reducere. HERO AND PROTECTORFormer bounty hunter, expert gunslinger, and the toughest sheriff Dodge City has ever known, Truman Wade is a real man from the t...

DescriptionRobinson Crusoe is an Englishman from the town of York in the seventeenth century, the youngest son of a merchant of German origin. Enco...

A challenging, innovative approach to a delicate subject. It's sure to benefit church leaders and members of all ages who dream of a "reinvented" c...

Reducere. It's Yuletide at Conall Castle.Christmas is quickly approaching, and Adelle is determined to make this Christmas the best one Conall Castle has eve...