The Fire Portrait

Set in 1930's, The Fire Portrait starts with an epic relocation from England to a hamlet in South Africa and offers insights in art and the rural c...

Set in 1930's, The Fire Portrait starts with an epic relocation from England to a hamlet in South Africa and offers insights in art and the rural c...

Reducere. William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages.About the Author: Wil...

A vivid portrait of a woman convinced that life has more to offer her than the tedious routine of her days.

Reducere. DescriptionT. E. Lawrence's classic Seven Pillars of Wisdom made the Arab revolt a legend and helped turn him into the mythical "Lawrence of Arabia...

Reissue of a wonderfully evocative book that reflects a place and a taste never to be forgotten once sampled: the perfect book to curl up with in f...

The author of }Fire Sermon{'s debut short story collection provides a striking portrait of the intersection of infidelity, faith and family against...

Internationally acclaimed as one of the most exciting debuts of the year, this stunning memoir has put Andrea Ashworth on the literary map as one o...

'Hugely readable and entertaining' JIM AL-KHALILI 'An accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline's breadth, largely told through its ...

Reducere. DescriptionSohrab Ahmari was a teenager living under the Iranian ayatollahs when he decided that there is no God. Nearly two decades later, he woul...

Reducere. Fire from Within is the author's most brilliant thought-provoking and unusual book, one in which Castaneda, under the tutelage of don Juan and his ...

Reducere. On Saturday night, November 28, 1942, Boston suffered its worst disaster ever. At the city's premier nightspot, the Cocoanut Grove, the largest nig...

Reducere. In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the ...

Reducere. Awarded the 2017 Northern California Book Reviewers (NCBR) Recognition AwardWinner of the Gold Medal for Photography in the 2018 Independent Publis...

Reducere. ``A keen, passionate portrait of the author as a poetry-spouting romantic punk torn between literary dreams and his roots in the Bronx... Prodigal ...

Reducere. In this unique collection of black and white photography, acclaimed artist Gruenholtz has accomplished something very rare in male erotica. In the ...

Reducere. Forever a Soldier captures the personal side of war in 37 extraordinary narratives that bear eloquent witness to both the life-changing experience ...

Reducere. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 161...

Reducere. From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle A...

Reducere. DescriptionAt Forevermore, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest, campers are promised adventures in the woods, songs by the fire, and lifelong...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephen PuleoBetween 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis from an insulated New England town into one o...

Reducere. What would it look like to genuinely love God with our head AND our heart? To have a faith marked by right thinking AND right feeling? To know God ...

Reducere. "Fascinating. . . . Jardine takes a complex view, according Hooke with the respect and dignity that eluded him for so long. . . [and] with this com...

Reducere. Abington, Jenkintown, and Rockledge presents a portrait of the area that was originally the township of Abington, now a northern suburb of Philadel...

Reducere. To millions, he was the rebellious Man in Black, the unabashed patriot, the redeemed Christian-the king of country music. But Johnny Cash (1932-200...

"A writer of exceptional gifts and grace." --Joyce Carol Oates A young fireman battles to provide for his family--and struggles to avoid the traps ...

Written in the 1950s and discovered by family members years after her death, Margaret Brown Kilik's shocking coming-of-age novel of the emotional a...

Reducere. A New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable BookTheirs was the most captivating American political partnership since Ric...

Reducere. No European jazz musician has so enchanted the word as Django Reinhardt, the gypsy guitarist whose recording with Stephane Grappelly and the Hot Cl...

Reducere. A collection of The New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America--including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilto...

Reducere. From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compil...

Reducere. With equal parts wit and empathy, lived experience and cultural criticism, Kelly Davio's It's Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability explores what it m...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatr...

Reducere. Baldwin's Harlem is an intimate portrait of the life and genius of one of our most brilliant literary minds: James Baldwin. Perhaps no other writer...

The unauthorized biography of Canada's most famous artist couple and the rivalry that drove them. She painted as if with pure light, radiant colour...

Reducere. Against the pomp and pageantry of turbulent seventeenth-century England, Elizabeth Goudge weaves the poignant tale of Lucy Walter, the proud and be...

Reducere. From the acclaimed author of The Night Portrait comes a stunning historical novel about two women, separated by five hundred years, who each hide L...

Bob Marley was a reggae superstar, a musical prophet who brought the sound of the Third World to the entire globe. Before the Legend: The Rise of B...

Reducere. In this prize-winning portrait of a time and place--Montana in the 1930s--that at once inspires and fulfills a longing for an explicable past, Ivan...

Reducere. Following the War of Independence against the British Crown, a band of Tennessee settlers begins to carve out a new state in a young nation but fac...

DescriptionA year in the life of a peasant woman in medieval England is vividly evoked in this extraordinary portrait of Marion, a carpenter's wife...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alice McDermottFrom National Book Award-winner and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Alice McDermott, The Ninth Hour is the criticall...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Malia Mattoch McManusHAWAI'I, 1891. As the heiress to a plantation fortune, Eliza Dawson occupies a privileged place in the...

Reducere. During the night of April 10, 1734, Montr al burned. Marie-Joseph Ang lique, a twenty-nine-year-old slave, was arrested, tried, and found guilty of...

Reducere. CD 1 - Four For Trane (1964)1. Syeeda's Song Flute - 8: 262. Mr. Syms - 7: 383. Cousin Mary - 7: 114. Naima - 7: 065. Rufus - 6: 23CD 2 - On This N...

From the critically acclaimed author of Be Safe I Love You comes a haunting novel of love, friendship, and survival set in the red light district o...

"A remarkably complex portrait of Aretha Franklin's music and her tumultuous life." --Rolling Stone Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daught...

There are dark closets in every powerful family's mansion.Fifteen years ago Piper Boone's only child died in a boating accident, and Piper's almost...

Reducere. DescriptionThe remarkable, improbable story of a small, makeshift library in the Syrian town of Darayya, and the people who found hope and humanity...

Reducere. DescriptionCarla Neggers' sizzling novels are loved for their deliciously funny dialogue, electrifying suspense, and heart-stopping romance. Here, ...

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook offers a timely novel featuring his most fascinating character yet, a Vietnam ...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the award-winning author of The Running Dream and Flipped comes a remarkable portrait of a girl who has hit rock bottom but begins ...