The Doomed City

The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors ann...

DescriptionTanith Lee wrote hundreds of short stories in her lifetime, many of which appeared only in small press magazines and anthologies, and ot...

Reducere. Let the games beginDoctor Rodney McKay can't believe his eyes when he discovers a moon leaving planetary orbit for a collision course with its own ...

Reducere. Perfect for fans of The Cruel Prince and A Court of Thorns and Roses, this romantic series about a mortal girl and her dealings with a roguish Fae ...

In the spring 2003, kids, parents, teachers, librarians—whole communities—discovered and fell in love with Jeanne DuPrau's story about a doomed cit...

When the Shepards' car breaks down in pre-War New York City, a chain of events is set in motion that will transform the lives of the beautiful but ...

Presents the tragic tale of doomed love, set in Verona, Italy, where the Montagues and the Capulets constantly feud and bring unrest to the city.

'That is how it works in the City. Like the City itself, however, it is a journey that is doomed, and so all that is left is Anna's unwritten accou...

From the acclaimed Soviet authors of ROADSIDE PICNIC comes a novel so incendiary that it could not be published until the freedom of perestroika ca...

Reducere. Percy Fawcett was a mapmaker and an adventurer. In the early 1900s, he spent years mapping out the jungles of South America. Fawcett became obsesse...

Sets out to trace many of the lost buildings of Scotland's capital city and find out why they were doomed. This illustrated book offers an insight ...

In the spring 2003, kids, parents, teachers, librarians--whole communities--discovered and fell in love with Jeanne DuPrau's story about a doomed c...

The legendary Boss Tweed effectively controlled New York City from after the Civil War until his downfall in November 1871. A huge man, he and his ...

Eminent neurologist A.J. Lees travels in the footsteps of his childhood hero, the Victorian explorer Colonel Fawcett, who disappeared in 1925 whils...

Reducere. The final volume in Robin Hobb's popular Rain Wilds fantasy series, Blood of Dragons completes the story of the dragons, their keepers, and their q...

A modern-day classic. This highly acclaimed adventure series about two friends desperate to save their doomed city has captivated kids and teachers...

Reducere. The Murders at Argos retells the Oresteia story with Orestes and Electra as murderous teens. Cressida Among the Greeks takes place during the last ...

Reducere. Something smells very fishy in the city of Bumblyburg. It also smells like moldy gym shoes, rotten eggs, and spoiled milk. What's to blame? The Abo...

Reducere. Everything looks different underwater. Even murder. Los Angeles 1937. A nasty heat wave and crippling drought set the city on edge. LA desperately ...

Things have started to return to normal in Brett's life, and he's happily participating in a practical joke competition with Poppy and Joe. But whe...

Celebrate the Girl of Steel with the Supergirl Hardcover Ruled Journal, based on CW's hit show. Twelve-year-old Kara escaped the doomed planet Kryp...

Reducere. A Murder and a MasqueradeBrianna loves her new job as maid to Lady Marguerite. Like many high nobles, Marguerite is attended by echoes, silent crea...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jake MaddoxIllustrator: Sean TiffanyTanner Ryan hates everything about his new town. All of his friends are back in his old...

Forty years after the Oblivion crisis, the empire of Tamriel is threatened by a mysterious floating city, Umbriel, whose shadow spawns a terrifying...

Reducere. Although most Romans lived outside urban centers, the core of Roman civilization lay in its cities. Throughout the empire these cities--modeled as ...

Reducere. A modern-day classic. This highly acclaimed adventure series about two friends desperate to save their doomed city has captivated kids and teachers...

Reducere. A skeleton and a missing woman. A doomed romance. A mystery spanning two generations.Liverpool, 1961. A group of young men come together seeking fa...

Publisher: Capstone Global Library LtdAuthor(s): Cindy L. RodriguezNumber of pages: 32Collection: Deadly ExpeditionsPublication date: 2022Dimension...

The tragic tale of doomed love, set in Verona, Italy, where the Montagues and the Capulets constantly feud and bring unrest to the city. So how cou...

Reducere. On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at hi...

In a time like the present, in a world that may or may not be our own, three young people-Ginny, Jack, and Daniel-dream of a decadent, doomed city ...

Reducere. In this riveting biography of Elizabeth Seton critically acclaimed and bestselling author Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose...

Reducere. My name is John Taylor. I'm a PI for hire in the Nightside, the dark and corrupt city within the city of London. Where the sun never shines and whe...

Reducere. "A torrid, atmospheric fantasy that satisfies on all fronts." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)When monsters stalk the darkness of Prohibition era C...

DescriptionThe city of Aquora has been infested with a plague of tiny robots that are controlling people's minds. Can Max and Lia find out who's re...

Reducere. "A Southern Gothic for the video-game age, mixing scares and shootouts, relationships and reprisals in one big, brash package." -Leslie Mizell, Edi...

Reducere. With the legendary sword Zariduke and the Coffer of Devla securely in the hands of Lord Alistair, the fate of the Revolution-along with the Blackwo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Wahida ClarkThis is the first Street Lit book to be written in reverseThuggz Valentine is the story of a modern day Bonnie ...

Reducere. Calmly nestled among the glacial streams and hills of central New York, residents of Ithaca may find it hard to believe that their city began with ...

Reducere. In a single day and night of misfortune, the island of Atlantis disappeared into the depths of the sea - Plato, 360 B.C. Ever since Plato first pon...

Reducere. "In these stories, from Biloxi to Hattiesburg, from Jackson to Oxford, the various crimes of the heart or doomed deeds of fractured households are ...

Reducere. An adventure story and a deeply considered meditation upon the sea itself. "Beautiful and original...a resonant and symbolical story of nine doomed...

Peter Harmsen has once again ingeniously woven a vast range of Chinese, Japanese and Western source materials into a vivid tapestry of intense pers...

Reducere. Trying to carve a new career for herself at 'The City Herald' newspaper, journalist Ana Davenport is tasked with writing trivial article about the ...

Reducere. Before moving, Will announced his intentions. "We feel obliged to insist you take us to St. Mary's Hospital and Infirmary in the city proper. We ai...

Reducere. Before moving, Will announced his intentions. "We feel obliged to insist you take us to St. Mary's Hospital and Infirmary in the city proper. We ai...

Reducere. The literary dormitory at Moscow University becomes a kind of Russian Grand Hotel, serving the last supper of empire to a host of writers gathered ...

Reducere. Salammbo is the daughter of a Carthaginian general and statesman, who becomes the object of desire of the warrior leader who has invaded her home. ...

DescriptionAvailable for the first time, Victor Serge's intimate account of the last decade of his life gives a vivid look into the Franco-Russian ...

Reducere. DescriptionSet in rural Tennessee, QUIVER, a YA novel by Julia Watts, focuses on the unlikely friendship between two teens from opposite sides of t...

Reducere. DescriptionF. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage, anticipated the master stroke-The Great...

Reducere. Written between Szentkuthy's first major work, Prae (1934), and the first book of the St. Orpheus Breviary (1939), Chapter on Love (publ. 1936) exe...

Reducere. Sexy, sword-swinging ladies in an epic medieval monster hunt. Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences rated teen plus. In a world where monste...

Reducere. When an assassin kills Princess Jiara's older sister Scilla, her vengeful ghost is doomed to walk their city of glittering canals, tormenting loved...

Reducere. After years abroad, Jasper Wainwright returns to Beaufort, South Carolina, home of his unruly youth. Slavery and Sea Island cotton have made this s...

Reducere. COUNTDOWN It's 1999. Party like there's no tomorrow. Pray that there will be. JANUARY On New Year's Day, it happens: Over six billion people die wi...

Reducere. A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical world-...

After China's November 1950 intervention in the war and the subsequent battle of the Chosin Reservoir, UN forces faced a new onslaught in the sprin...

Reducere. Mumford, Texas, the summer of '69. Matt Ruggirello believes he is doomed to enter the farming life, just like everyone else in his family. Josh, hi...

DescriptionHans Sch ufler fought as the commander of a Jagdpanther tank destroyer in rearguard actions against the Red Army in East Prussia in 1945...

Beautifully painted grotesque body horror from the Judge Dredd universe, starring beloved villains The Dark Judges Can humanity escape the icy clut...

Reducere. Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a "...

A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the sam...

Reducere. A "balanced, engrossing account" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of the Bay of Pigs crisis drawing on long-hidden CIA documents and delivering the...

Scott Smithfield knew he was in for one hell of a summer since purchasing his new RV that he teasingly christened "The Titanic." Unbeknownst to him...

A hardback collection of all eight Ghosts of the Shadow Market stories, along with two brand new ones, about characters from Cassandra Clare's inte...

The second book in China's bestselling crime series to date. THE LAW IS WEAK Last week, the vigilante killer who terrified and thrilled the city of...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Holy Land, 1187Ten-Year-old Lucca the Louse narrowly escaped the worst disaster to befall the Kingdom of Jerusalem, but he's not saf...

Reducere. DescriptionThe hu-amorous true story of an animal-phobic, city robotics engineer who learns too late that his new bride's dream is to have a farm w...

Reducere. A spunky, feminist take on the myth of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, war, and courage From the moment she sprung from Zeus's head, Athena wa...