The Grim Life

Reducere. Imagine that, on the night before she is to die under the blade of the guillotine, Marie Antoinette leaves behind in her prison cell a diary tellin...

Reducere. More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American lif...

-On what slender threads do life and fortune hang- Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortres...

Reducere. With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell's 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition. "Orwell saw, to his credit, ...

Reducere. The glamorous world of big-city geisha is familiar to many readers, but little has been written of the life of hardship and pain led by the hot-spr...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wise and funny. . . . The Lorrie Moore short story, or the Tina Fey memoir, of cleaning tutorials. Dwight Garner, The New...

In this stunning, fantastical debut novel from a bold new voice in the bestselling traditions of Christopher Moore and Jasper Fforde, a ferryman fo...

DescriptionCheat death--or at least delay it--with this accessible look into the quest for immortality, and what it means for human civilization. A...

Reducere. A MOTHER'S ONLY CHILD. A GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY. A SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH THAT COULD COST JENNY COOPER HER JOB--AND MAYBE HER LIFE. SEVERN VALE DISTRI...

Will make you grin, grimace and gain gruesome lessons about the perils of modern life Aunt Grizelda (Grizelda Schwarz, born October 31st, 1832, in ...

In Why Grow Up, the latest volume in the Philosophy in Transit series, world-renowned philosopher Susan Neiman looks at growing up as an ideal with...

Reducere. It was a summer of glorious triumph for the mighty Roman Republic. Her invincible legions had brought all foreign enemies to their knees. But in Ro...

Postcards is the diary of a psychopath, relayed in a collection of interconnected short stories revolving around a central character at various sta...

Reducere. The Saints of Salvation is the 3rd book in the Salvation Sequence Series. Humanity is struggling to hold out against a hostile takeover by an alien...

For Jody, growing up in the late eighties and early nineties in the small Louisiana town of Hammond with his best friend Jack was filled with wonde...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Goths, then keep reading...When J. R. R. Tolkien was writing his best-known work, The Lord o...

Reducere. At last After a lifetime of silence; a man- who actually knew the ZODIAC KILLER steps from the shadows and tells his story. Finally we hear the REA...

Reducere. It was late afternoon on a chilly day in March 2019, grim conditions for a baby bird without the warmth of his mother. A great horned owlet, just a...

Reducere. Winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Brave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode a...

Brimming with deliciously mysterious magic, political intrigue, and a passionate heroine who will do anything to save the ones she loves--this high...

Reducere. If one door closes and another one opens, your house is probably haunted. --Bumper Sticker As a Part-time PI and fulltime grim reaper, Charley Davi...

Death is universal, but each culture has found a different way to deal with it. This wide-ranging book examines the compelling subject of death, fu...

Reducere. This true story of the Texas brush range and the first cowboys, as thrilling as any tale of fiction, has become a classic in Western literature. It...

DescriptionThe first great German novel - an extraordinary recreation of the horrors of the Thirty Years War, written by a veteran of the conflict ...

Reducere. This is a colorful and dramatic story for youth about the life of John Henry Newman, famous British priest, preacher and pastor. To the Birmingham ...

Reducere. Winner of the 2021 Silver Independent Publisher's Book Award in Horror, Lacrimore is a gothic novel about the scars history leaves on a place.Sivre...

Reducere. The great war epic of Western literature, in a stunning translation by acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer's...

"A personification of divine forgiveness."-Jill P. May "From American history books to Pirates of the Caribbean, the work of Howard Pyle continues ...

Reducere. "The convertors would spew it out, " employee Arturo Hernandez recalled, referring to molten metal. "You'd see the ground, the dirt, catch on fire....

Reducere. " Behind Howard's stories] lurks a dark poetry and the timeless truth of dreams." -Robert Bloch "Howard's writing seems so highly charged with ener...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sienna TristenIllustrator: Haley Rose SzereszewskiEditor: Avi Silver"Life is transformation. You change or you die."Ashamed...

Contributor(s): Author: Betty ShamiehA play about love, sex, ambition, and the Arab American experience, ROAR is the story of a Palestinian America...

Reducere. After Breed, a thief assassin of small renown is chased by a dragon, tricked by a demon, almost killed by a psychopathic gang boss, and hunted by a...

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. Published in 1893, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets shocked a world unprepared for its grim and starkly realistic exploration of a pretty young girl's...

Reducere. When Marianna was spirited away by unknown raiders, everyone expected a ransom demand to soon follow. Such was the peril of everyday royal life in ...

Reducere. When Rick lost the ability to run, he came one step closer to becoming a hero. New High ScoreNew Record Time Rick nodded with grim satisfaction. He...

Reducere. In the early 1900s, Bessie Bawtry, a small child with big notions, lives in a South Yorkshire mining town in England. Precocious and refined in a l...

Reducere. The first complete edition of Peter Pernin's legendary survivor's account of the Great Peshtigo, Wisconsin Fire of 1871, fundamental evidence for t...

Reducere. "This is true crime at its most enthralling--prepare to be transported." --Terri Cheney, New York Times bestselling author of Manic The 1830 murder...

Reducere. First appearing in 1899 The Awakening is regarded as work presaging both feminist fiction and literary modernism. The author's clear vision of a wo...

Reducere. The first complete edition of Peter Pernin's legendary survivor's account of the Great Peshtigo, Wisconsin Fire of 1871, fundamental evidence for t...

Reducere. It's scones and scandal for Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning in this Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. ...

Reducere. Jane Eyre is a plain, determined and intelligent child. Orphaned and poor, she is adopted by her Aunt and Uncle Reed. The death of Uncle Reed allow...

Reducere. Two immortal brothers crisscross the American Southwest to elude a murderous biker gang and protect a young woman in this "utter triumph and deligh...

Harrowingly honest and strangely uplifting, this is a courageous testimony written from the soul of a unique, if not peculiar, woman whose tale tra...

Reducere. 961H.G, Wells' timeless story of arrogance and monstrosity caused consternation when it was first released. Edward Prendick is stranded on a remote...

Reducere. FINALIST FOR THE BEST BOOK AWARD FOR NEW NON-FICTIONA boy's enchanted childhood in a coastal town on the Isle of Man - one of rabbit hunts, darkene...

Reducere. A dead girl searching for truth.Twelve-year-old Molly suddenly wakes up dead in Limbo after spending four years in and out of hospital beds. Fearfu...

Reducere. Eight years ago, seasoned photojournalist Annie Hawkins Green barely survived a Taliban ambush that left her military escort dead and a young Afgha...

Reducere. From New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes a novel of chilling intrigue, a decades-old disappearance, and one woman's quest to ...

Description"An excellent addition to libraries seeking graphic novels, especially those looking for hi-lo titles for teens interested in paranormal...

Reducere. Brimming with deliciously mysterious magic, political intrigue, and a passionate heroine who will do anything to save the ones she loves--this high...

Reducere. Rick Joyner brilliantly relays a panoramic vision of the ultimate battle between the forces of good and evil, taking place just beyond the veil of ...

Reducere. But the story is by no means entirely grim and solemn. Young explorers get lost in the woods and climb trees to escape "roaring lions." There is a ...

Reducere. A gorgeously illustrated 35th anniversary edition of the urban fantasy classic, featuring a new foreword by Megan Lindholm and illustrations by Tom...

This is an intoxicating tale of love and wonder, mothers and daughters, spiritual values and the grim legacy of slavery on the French Antillean isl...

Reducere. Father Francis Duffy, U. S. Army chaplain during World War One, recalls his time fighting alongside the famous 69th Infantry Regiment on the wester...

Reducere. DescriptionThe zombie apocalypse was just the beginning of vampire hunter Emily's problems. Now she must team up with Death himself in this thrilli...

Reducere. DescriptionThe zombie apocalypse was just the beginning of vampire hunter Emily's problems. Now she must team up with Death himself in this thrilli...

Reducere. "The Wrong Family is your new obsession. It's full of twists you'll never see coming and you'll be breathless until the end. Trust me: you've never...

Reducere. A unique and splendidly researched story, following the trials and triumphs of Julius Caesar's Legio X-arguably the most famous legion of its day-f...

"The Wrong Family is your new obsession. It's full of twists you'll never see coming and you'll be breathless until the end. Trust me: you've never...

DescriptionFor fans of The Graveyard Book and Through the Woods comes a different kind of YA fantasy graphic novel, in which a teen boy's search fo...

DescriptionEvidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a se...

Reducere. In the bestselling tradition of espionage novels by John LeCarre and Alan Furst, Istanbul Passage brilliantly illustrates why Edgar Award-winning a...

Reducere. In 1993, Amira Hass, a young Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story-and stayed, the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian encl...

Reducere. Book 5 of the Pendragon Cycle. A magnificent epic set against the backcloth of Roman Britain and Celtic legend. 'Only that which endures beyond tim...

From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall', this is a dark fable of lost faith and awakening love amidst the moors. Fetherhough...

Reducere. Inspired by a real midwife who became one of the most controversial figures in Victorian New York City, this "daring page-turner" (O, The Oprah Mag...