The Bicycle Man, Paperback

It was not the first time he had pedaled toward a horizon thousands of miles away, but never before had there been no horizon. Under the cloud of a...

Reducere. DescriptionAged twenty-two, Charlie Walker left home in search of adventure. Fleeing the boredom that comes with comfort, he set off on a secondhan...

From the author of The Stolen Bicycle - longlisted for the International Man Booker PrizeOn the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on...

Reducere. Death by gunshot. That was the somewhat belated opinion of the doctor who examined Bella Wright's body. Death by gunshot in a lonely Leicestershire...

Reducere. Using glowing, hypnotic images and a funny, provocative text, the narrator relives his father's most amazing childhood Christmas. A moody young boy...

Carter followed the Thames to the sea, embarking on an epic 5000 mile bicycle ride around the entire British coastline, the equivalent of London to...

The mania for bicycle racing in Flanders, with the small and sparsely-populated region producing eight Tour de France winners, is the phenomenon ad...

Reducere. A Secret. A Bicycle. A Promise... While the elusive Secret Symphony of Giovanni St. John captivated the world's fascination, it left his daughter c...

Reducere. "The Ride of Our Lives, Lessons on Life, Leadership, and Love" is an inspirational story about a man and his family on a transformational journey a...

Reducere. The Divorce tells about a man who takes a vacation from Providence, R.I. in early December to avoid conflicts with his newly divorced wife and smal...

Reducere. This collection includes seven short plays based on Anton Chekhov's short stories: THE MAN IN A CASE by Wendy Wasserstein, VINT by David Mamet, DRO...

Reducere. DescriptionFree-spirited Lucy Prestipino has a new life, a new job, and a new look. The U.S. Marshals Service has hidden her in a small town nestle...

Hebrew is a very, very old language. It was spoken in ancient Israel many thousands of years ago, and has been kept alive for centuries by Jews and...

The exploits of the great Victorian Detectives, PoeAbout the AuthorThe Case of Laker, Absconded by Arthur Morrison The Fenchurch Street Mystery by ...

Reducere. To observe a ridge of sandhills was to wonder what lay beyond them... Perhaps it was the sense of freedom, both physically and spiritually, the kno...

Reducere. Gospel Drunk follows a speaker's journey to find clarity and identity as he contemplates his Catholic upbringing and struggles with loneliness and ...

Trevor McFarquhar lives a controlled, contrary existence. Traumatized by early childhood loss, the silence surrounding those losses, and then a sud...

Paul Shreeve is an English professor who gets mistaken for a ghost by his neighbors. Though a man of strict rationality and analysis, he cannot sha...

Remember when Edith Bunker was sexually assaulted on All in the Family? Or when abortion was the hot topic on Maude? Did you know that Leave it to ...

Reducere. "See this paper?" The ragged old man pushed it under my nose. I stepped back."I have bought the house, " he said, "and you will be my wife." Indepe...

Reducere. The third and final book in the Lipton St Faith Mysteries.The village of Lipton St Faith in Norfolk is a tranquil spot.The most excitement it sees ...

Adventure girl, Maureen Quinn, isn't yet sure of her life's direction, but she knows she isn't cut out to be a bookkeeper for the town's undertaker...

Reducere. The true tale of a voyage that broke a man down and built him back up, with the help of one special horse. At 36 Jesse McNeil--at times carpenter, ...

Reducere. Since his friend died in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001, David Sylvester adopted a mission to enhance the world one interacti...

Reducere. More Than a Race is about the notorious Race Across America (the RAAM) known as the world's toughest bicycle race. The story tracks a four-man team...

Going to the Dogs is set in Berlin after the crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of rising unemployment and financial collapse. The m...

Reducere. A puppy who became a true American hero. The blind boy who let nothing stop him. When they finally grew up and met, it was magic. On September 11, ...