The Hunger War

Ashe led a hunger strike in Lewes Prison in May 1917 and was released under a general amnesty in June. He was re-arrested in August for a speech he...

Author Hans Moederzoon van Kuilenburg was a 10-year-old girl living in Amsterdam when German soldiers invaded Holland in the spring of 1940. The Du...

Set in the Depression era, this novel is written by a key literary figure in the pubs of post-war Fitzrovia.

DescriptionTwo of Archie Horror's biggest series collide in a terrifying crossover event In the world of JUGHEAD: THE HUNGER, there are no vampires...

Reducere. An exploration of the worldviews that underpinned settler colonialism. The sixteenth-century European wars of religion set the stage for mass migra...

Features 12 accounts that describe the battle experience, the different nations' attitudes toward imprisonment, and the often-barbaric treatment of...

Reducere. DescriptionDesperate to solve a global food shortage, ExoGen scientist Dr. Ella Masse oversees the creation and release of RC-714, a gene that unlo...

The third in the }Anarchy{ series sets out with war beginning between Blackwing and Greystone, with Grace unable to hide her allegiance and Hayden ...

Reducere. Description"Beautiful, shocking, at times painful... the magnificently told story of a man who triumphed over the limitations of history to become ...

Reducere. The fourth and final book in the }Red Queen{ series finds Mare resolving to overthrow the kingdom of Norta once and for all. Fans of }The Hunger Ga...

One of thousands of children who fled strife in southern Sudan, John Bul Dau survived hunger, exhaustion, and violence. His wife, Martha, endured s...

Reducere. In a perfect world, Jonas begins to see the flaws...THE GIVER is the classic award-winning novel that inspired the dystopian genre and a major moti...

Reducere. In the irresistible first novel by the author of The Hunger Games, a boy embarks on a dangerous quest in order to fulfill his destiny -- and find h...

Reducere. The thrilling story of one boy's quest to find his father and protect his younger sister during the great Dutch famine of World War II."Sometimes y...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edward L. AyersBut at the time, on the borderlands of Pennsylvania and Virginia, no one expected war, and no one knew how i...

Reducere. Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars, known as much for her role as UNICEF ambassado...

Reducere. By turns tragic and hopeful, the history of Israel and Palestine through the lens of the world's most popular sportSoccer has never been apolitical...

DescriptionNadia is haunted by World War II. Her memories of the war are messy, coming back to her in pieces and flashes she can't control. Though ...

Reducere. From America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes the definitive telling of the war in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to t...

Reducere. Description1 Alone, among other men who are also alone. Sleep a little on deck as others keep watch. Wake up. Shake off the groggies. Clean the gun...

A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime The environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies ...

Reducere. During the First World War, a large group of German settlers in Volhynia and surrounding areas of western Russia became early victims of the 20th c...

Reducere. Based on interviews with the crew and captain of a torpedoed tanker who survived nineteen days in a lifeboat in heavy seas and scorching tropical s...

Reducere. "If a dragonfly lands on you, it means change is coming.You better watch your dreams, Nini."Living in China when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Ni...

Reducere. "If a dragonfly lands on you, it means change is coming.You better watch your dreams, Nini."Living in China when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Ni...

Reducere. From author Frank Herbert, creator of the Dune series, comes this classic science fiction of a sadistic experiment created by a interstellar civili...

Reducere. DescriptionTen years after Alex and Aaron Stowe brought peace to Quill and Artim , their younger twin sisters journey beyond Artim in the third nov...

This is the sordid chronicle of the U-boat war against merchant shipping along the American eastern seaboard in World War Two. Between January 14, ...

Reducere. Many narrative accounts of men in combat during World War II have conveyed the horrors and emotions of warfare. However, not many reveal in such an...

Learn the incredible story of Illinois senator and Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth and see what inspired her to follow the path that made her who ...

Reducere. Anna Elizabeth Brantley tells of her life growing up with her sister, Mary in London England. She is born in the most economic and ever-changing wo...

Reducere. He's the most feared monster in the realm. And she's what he needs to win his war... In a world of warring orcs and men, Lady Norr is condemned to ...

A Book of the Year for The Economist and the Observer Our world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration: divisive po...

Our Daily Bread charmingly weaves together the customs, rituals, anecdotes, legends and sayings that tell the story of bread, from Mesopotamia, thr...

Reducere. When first published in 1935, On the Border with Mackenzie, or Winning West Texas from the Comanches by Capt. Robert G. Carter, quickly became know...

Reducere. "Mirages" opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anais Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and...

Reducere. DescriptionTwo young witches, once inseparable, are set at odds by secrets and wildly dangerous magic. In the waning days of World War II, with All...

Reducere. Today, the word 'fascism' has become synonymous with political thuggery and persecution. It wasn't always so. Back in the 1930s tens of thousands o...

How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, A...

DescriptionToday, the word 'fascism' has become synonymous with political thuggery and persecution. It wasn't always so. Back in the 1930s tens of ...

Reducere. When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin. Four years late...

Reducere. Now in paperback, the powerful memoir that The New York Times described as "filled with adrenalized scenes...Ciezadlo is the kind of thinker who li...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Karnig PanianWhen World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatol...

DescriptionRoman comedy evolved early in the war-torn 200s BCE. Troupes of lower-class and slave actors traveled through a militarized landscape fu...

Reducere. When Jaan Willem Mobach (1894), his wife Johanna (1896), and their three sons, Piet, Gerard, and Jan, depart for Djokdjakarta in 1930 on the ship I...

Reducere. Fourth Wing is the 1st book in The Empyrean Series. Brutal games, grumpy dragons, sizzling sexual tension... a fantasy like you've never read befor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jex LaneMatthew Callahan has spent seven years struggling against the insatiable hunger for blood consuming him. Unable to ...

Reducere. On the heels of a pogrom of Eastern Nigerians (predominantly Igbos) in the Northern Region of Nigeria in 1966, and an unsuccessful attempt at Media...

Reducere. In the closing days of WWII, the Soviet Union attacked and occupied Japanese-controlled northern China, then called Manchuria. Immediately, misery ...

Reducere. DescriptionOn April 9, 1862, 37-year-old Laura Matilda Towne to Port Royal Island, newly captured by the Union forces in the American Civil War. Sh...

Reducere. For readers of The Hunger Games and Divergent who want to discover something new ... HER FIRST EIGHTEEN YEARS WERE FILLED WITH LIES. SHE IS ABOUT T...

Reducere. DescriptionHe was only a drummer boy, but Orion Howe's courage under fire helped General Sherman break the Rebel hold on Vicksburg. It is April, 18...

DescriptionTHIRTY MILLION READERS WORLDWIDE. INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN CHAPTER.'The Hunger Games meets The Road' MTVThis is the end of u...

DescriptionWith the outbreak of World War I, German-born Kitty Marion, suspected of being a German spy and placed under surveillance, sailed from L...

Reducere. Springtime in Styria. And that means war. There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle wit...

Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore's infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other...

Hyperion! Power Princess! Dr. Spectrum! The Whizzer! Nighthawk! Together they and their many allies are the Squadron Supreme - the mightiest heroes...

Food is always a hot topic - Food waste, food banks, food miles, local versus imported. As we all need food, we can't ignore it. But as some famili...

Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of...

DescriptionMany stories have been told about the famous Lost Boys, but now for the first time, a Lost Girl shares her hauntingly beautiful and insp...

DescriptionThe second volume of Stalag IIB begins when Ren Tardi finally gets a taste of freedom, as prisoners and German officers alike are forced...

Sandy Cox believed WW3 was over. But for those Alien Vampires, war has just begun.Forty-eight hours after a World War 3 treaty is signed Sandy Cox ...

Reducere. The five diarists in this book did not survive the war. But their words did. Each diary reveals one voice, one teenager coping with the impossible....

Reducere. The Circle is robbing the dreams of its citizens.In Logan Kent's world, disease, hunger, and war have all been resolved by the dreams of its citize...

DescriptionTen years after Alex and Aaron Stowe brought peace to Quill and Artim , their younger twin sisters journey beyond Artim in the third nov...

Reducere. Over two centuries, Coweta County has been home to diverse residents who mastered the art of reinventing the county. Initially home to Creek-Muscog...

Reducere. A powerful collection, Confini offers a rare and intimate portrait of refugee life in Sicily, showcasing the complex nuances and heart-wrenching re...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joss StirlingBook 2 in the YA dystopian Peril series. A Tean and Perilous in love? That's not possible, according to the tw...

Reducere. The first of Eileen Chang's novels to be written in English, The Rice-Sprout Song portrays the horror and absurdity that the land-reform movement b...

Reducere. The best series since The Hunger Games just got better: Escape is just the beginning in this dystopian story of two fearless sisters who must defea...