The River Between Us

The year is 1861. Civil war is imminent and Tilly Pruitt's brother, Noah, is eager to go and fight on the side of the North. With her father long g...

Reducere. The year is 1861. Civil war is imminent and Tilly Pruitt's brother, Noah, is eager to go and fight on the side of the North. With her father long g...

Reducere. They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in A...

Reducere. River cruising is one of the hottest trends in travel right now-and it's one of the best ways to see the world-but know before you go: understandin...

This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience--an end-to-end, rim-to-river exploration of the Grand Canyon. The authors have debuted a film-Into the Cany...

Reducere. Ophelia's tragedies haunt us: grief leads her to insanity, and the river takes her life. Yet madness and water may act as conduits for the cycle of...

Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017 Mohawk midwife Katsi Cook lives in Akwesasne, an indigenous community in ups...

Reducere. Great Lakes Book AwardsBestselling author Alex Kotlowitz is one of this country's foremost writers on the ever explosive issue of race. In this gri...

Reducere. Mort Rosenblum, a celebrated foreign correspondent, invites us aboard his fifty-four-foot launch tied up in the center of Paris and introduces us t...

Reducere. One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. I...

Reducere. We live in a future-facing world, consumed by a sense of urgency. Responsibilities press upon us and, inevitably, the stories of where we live scat...

Reducere. Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River ... inspired, lyrical short storiesReading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of s...

Reducere. RiverAs the perilous journey across a country I believed destroyed begins, I no longer know who I am or what I'm becoming.With every passing day, m...

Reducere. The Wergens: a highly sophisticated alien race biochemically infatuated with humans. They crave us, they need us, while we need their technology.Hu...

DescriptionPuerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In ...

Guns of the Pee Dee is a fantastic spell-binding tale woven between a group of Civil War hobbyists searching for a sunken Confederate warship and t...

Reducere. Farm Girl is a memoir of urgent grace that crosses boundaries of genre and time. In her second year of college, Megan finds herself bonded to a lov...

Reducere. Gunboats versus cavalry? Preposterous Not so fast. This unique form of Civil War combat is covered extensively for the first time in Iron Maidens a...

This wonderful new book takes us back in time to visit the rural communities that thrived along the banks of the Kennebec River around the turn of ...

Reducere. The Powder River country of what is now north central Wyoming was one of the most resource-rich regions of the northern plains in the nineteenth ce...

Reducere. This is one helluva narrative about one helluva woman who believed that Hells Canyon was her heaven. You'll be captivated by Violet Wilson Shirley'...

Reducere. The 1848 treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War described a boundary between the two countries that was to be ascertained ...

DescriptionPlunge into mountain lakes and drift along meandering rivers in Swims, the debut poetry collection by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett.A long poem...

Reducere. The first major battle between the U.S. Army and the Cheyenne Indians took place on the south fork of the Solomon River in present-day northwest Ka...

This detailed study reveals the history of the Meuse-Argonne campaign, the US Army's first full-scale offensive against German forces in France. Wh...

"In The Lowering Days Gregory Brown gives us a lush, almost mythic portrait of a very specific place and time that feels all the more universal for...

Reducere. Texas is now hidden in a dense pine forest. Anthropologists have long divided American Indian cultures into southeastern and southwestern cultural ...

Reducere. From USA Today bestselling author and former US Navy pilot Andrew Watts comes a series made for fans of Tom Clancy and Vince Flynn."Frighteningly r...

Reducere. From USA Today bestselling author and former US Navy pilot Andrew Watts comes a series made for fans of Tom Clancy and Vince Flynn."Frighteningly r...

Reducere. Exploring the little-known history behind the legal doctrine of prior appropriation--"first in time is first in right"--used to apportion water res...

Reducere. Meander tells the story of the Great Lakes region's experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water. Drawing on her own exper...

DescriptionFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Mountain Between Us comes a new, spellbinding story of buried secrets, lost love, and ...

*Includes pictures *Discusses the political and religious history of both main branches of Islam *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further...

Reducere. Charles H. Sternberg was a young man of 28 when he came to look for fossils near the John Day River. Early in his career as an internationally accl...

With grace, poetry, clarity, and expert knowledge, artist Etienne Appert brings us a book about the very origins of the art of illustration--what i...

Reducere. If I'm in the game, I play to win. So as captain of my team in the River Heights Biking for Bucks charity road race, my goals are to bring my team ...

Reducere. Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great S...

Reducere. The Columbia commemorates the disciplining and conversion of a wilderness river from a water passageway to a powerhouse and a source of irrigation....

Reducere. THE BALANCE OF GLOBAL POWER HAS SHIFTED.THE NEXT WORLD WAR IS ABOUT TO BEGIN."Frighteningly real.""I honestly don't remember a storyline that has s...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Yellow Earth, the site of Three Nations reservations on the banks of the Missouri River in North Dakota, Sayles introduces us to Harl...

"Readers will be rewarded by a knowledgeable presentation of modern minisub technology, and the extended escape-and-evasion narrative..." --Publish...

"Readers will be rewarded by a knowledgeable presentation of modern minisub technology, and the extended escape-and-evasion narrative..." --Publish...

Reducere. In J. L. Torres's second story collection Migrations, the inaugural winner of the Tomás Rivera Book Prize, a "sucio" goes to an underground clinic ...

Reducere. The family of James Alvis Lynch headed west from Denison, Texas, to find a dry climate that would alleviate Lynch s symptoms of malaria and his wif...

DescriptionThis title is highly illustrated account of the Ia Drang campaign of 1965, a key event in the Vietnam War, which was immortalized in the...

Reducere. Not quite the United States and not quite Mexico, La Junta de los Rios straddles the border between Texas and Chihuahua, occupying the basin formed...

Reducere. RiverWhen I find myself face to face with Lucifer, I realize what he wants from me could annihilate Hell and Earth. I would do anything for those I...

Reducere. The benchmark for US railroad operations, the Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway is often referred to by other American railroads as the best-maintai...

Reducere. DescriptionThe benchmark for US railroad operations, the Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway is often referred to by other American railroads as the b...

Reducere. Poems by Nguyen Phan Que Mai Translated from the Vietnamese by Bruce Weigl and Nguyen Phan Que Mai Nguyen Phan Que Mai is among the most exciting w...

Reducere. Grace the Cat is not at all like me, as she is forever bent on mischief. But because I am an older and wiser cat, she looks to me for counsel, and ...

Reducere. Over the course of two decades and six books, Peter Markus has been making fiction out of a lexicon shaped by the words brother and fish and mud. I...

Reducere. Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Missi...

The thrilling, long-awaited return of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant In 1866, with the country barely recovered from the ...

Reducere. Moved by the desire for adventure and a yearning to help the Ute Indians, twenty-year-old Shiloh Wainright impulsively accepts a teaching position ...

Reducere. DescriptionFollowing the multi award-winning "The Diamond of Drury Lane, " here we present the sixth volume from our famous feisty heroine Cat Roya...

Reducere. At the turn of the twentieth century, the photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky undertook a quest to document an empire that was undergoing rapid cha...

Reducere. Drawn from her own experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana, Melissa Fischer weaves a rich tale set in 1992, Obuasi, a mining boomtown. The g...

Reducere. GLOBAL STRIKE: The final book in the USA Today bestselling War Planners series.It has been over a year since the war began. A year since China laun...

Examines how student protest against structural inequalities on campus pushes academic institutions to reckon with their legacy built on slavery an...

Reducere. Explores an area that has long intrigued scientists and educators: the linkages between the side of the body we favor for seeing, hearing, touching...

Reducere. DescriptionTogetherness is a powerful state of connection between individuals that can lead to amazing triumphs. In sport, teams win matches, but t...

Reducere. DescriptionEnjoy the Mouth Health You Deserve Dr. Ellie challenges the traditional dental mantra that tells us to "brush and floss" because she bel...

DescriptionApril 2011 marked the 150th anniversary of the attack on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and the beginning of the American Civil War. It al...

Some of the most brutally intense infantry combat in World War II occurred within Germany's Hrtgen Forest. Focusing on the bitterly fought battle b...

Reducere. "Chicago is a tale of two cities, " headlines declare. This narrative has been gaining steam alongside reports of growing economic divisions and di...

Reducere. From Spur Award-winning author Charles G. West comes a blistering tale of the American West, where guns are the law, good men are outnumbered--and ...

Reducere. Geno and Vinnie were born on the banks of the Urubamba River between Cusco and Machu Picchu, Peru. This area is known as the Sacred Valley. Geno an...

Reducere. Winner, Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry In this debut collection, Anna Lena Phillips Bell explores the foothills of the Eastern U.S., and the old-tim...

Reducere. The delicious true story of an inventive chef and the serendipitous events that led to the creation of the world's favorite snack--nachos Ignacio A...