The Tragic Age

From multiple personal tragedies to the terrible carnage of the Civil War, death might be alongside emancipation of the slaves and restoration of t...

Reducere. Long before her tragic death, Diana, Princess of Wales was a beloved modern icon, relatable to the general public in a way that transcended the bar...

Reducere. During the Great Depression, a sense of total despair plagued the United States. Americans sought a convenient scapegoat and found it in the Mexica...

In 1919, Florence Deshon--tall, radical, and charismatic--was well on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's brightest stars. Embroiled in a clande...

Reducere. Why did America invade Iraq? Why do nations choose to fight certain wars and not others? How do we bring ourselves to believe that the sacrifice of...

Reducere. This is the first full-length biography of Keith Relf, frontman for the Yardbirds and one of the great tragic characters in rock history. Keith's m...

Reducere. Ever since 1821, when he died at age fifty-one on the forlorn and windswept island of St. Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte has been remembered as either ...

Reducere. This collection of essays, which originally appeared as a book in 1962, is virtually the complete works of an editor of Commentary magazine who die...

Reducere. The world is entering a new technological, social and global age and it is our ability to create meaning which will decide whether we face a bright...

Reducere. Here, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James Baldwin's reputation as a writer...

Reducere. Scottsboro tells the riveting story of one of this country's most famous and controversial court cases and a tragic and revealing chapter in the hi...

Reducere. Every shipwreck has a story that extends far beyond its tragic end. The dramatic tales of disaster, heroism, and folly become even more compelling ...

Reducere. "A must-read for any Bailey student, anyone interested in the New Age movement, and for those who wonder, amidst our confused and divided world, wh...

Reducere. Boudica, or Boadicea, queen of the Iceni, led a famous revolt against Roman rule in Britain in AD 60, sacking London, Colchester and St Albans and ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David BaldacciDavid Baldacci's million-copy-plus bestseller is now a feature film available on DVD and video on demand Prec...

Reducere. The Five of Hearts, who first gathered in Washington in the Gilded Age, included Henry Adams, historian and scion of America's first political dyna...

Reducere. This is the HARDBACK version. For Jackey Neyman Jones, who played Debbie in Manos: The Hands of Fate, the "worst movie ever made" is, at its heart,...

Reducere. National Jewish Book Awards WinnerIn 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongfully convicted of being a spy for Germany...

Reducere. Art writing, theory, poetry and more from a leading champion of "painting as a poetic act"This unprecedented collection compiles the writings of ar...

Bold They Rise recounts the golden age of the Space Shuttle-from its first to its twenty-fifth launch, ending with the tragic flight of the Space S...

Reducere. A secret buried for centuries Thrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. B...

Reducere. This beautiful jacketed hardback compendium brings together a selection of Fitzgerald's finest and most iconic novels, novellas and short stories. ...

Reducere. Withhonesty and heart-rending emotion, actress and filmmaker DyanCannon tells the story of her topsy-turvy relationship with Hollywood legendCary G...

"This is a must read book if you care about your health." Jeff Kanter, Co-Founder HealthExcellencePlus.com The 1962 Amendments to the Food & Drug A...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Wisconsin and the Peshtigo Fire of 1871, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one ...

Reducere. " . . . Joe is the consummate professional with a 'can do' attitude that inspires and motivates others to do their best " --Dr. Dale Comstock, MSG ...

Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of extraordinary str...

Reducere. Pax Galactica. Enemies become allies. Old secrets are at last revealed. Long-held beliefs and widely accepted truths are challenged. Man turns to l...

Fascinating and highly readable, this is the definitive social history of the world's most romantic, flamboyant, glamorous, and politically influen...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ron L. James"Ron James is a man who knows what he is talking about. Choices will humble you, inspire you, and make a positi...

It's never too late for a new beginning. Look closely and you'll see that theme all through the Bible. Page after page, God delights in turning tra...

Reducere. A renowned supermodel's world is torn apart in an instant, sending her on an unexpected journey of discovery in this masterful novel from #1 New Yo...

Reducere. Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardy's early work, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the ...

Reducere. During the Cold War, the United States conducted atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. The total explosive y...

Reducere. Amanda Kloots bravely reflects on love, loss, and life with her husband, Broadway star, and Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero, whose public battle wi...

Mark Twain, the American comic genius who portrayed, named, and in part exemplified America's "Gilded Age, " comes alive in Justin Kaplan's extraor...

"I thought I was cocky. Camacho surpasses me by three or four levels. But when Camacho brags, he's not trying to convince you of anything; he's jus...

Euripides (c. 485-406 BCE) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or so plays survive comple...

Reducere. London Falling by Paul Cornell is an urban fantasy twist on the classic police procedural: London cops versus magical creatures of nightPolice offi...

A philosophical and spiritual defense of the premodern world, of the tragic view, of physical courage, and of masculinity and self-sacrifice in an ...

Reducere. Considered an American classic, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain is a bold coming of age story about a clever school boy who loves to m...

Reducere. A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfa...

Reducere. I was intrigued by Our Little World from the chilling first paragraph. It's a coming-of-age novel complicated by a tragic and untimely death, and i...

Reducere. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography - "One of the most beautiful biographies I've ever read. --...

Reducere. It's never too late for a new beginning. Look closely and you'll see that theme all through the Bible. Page after page, God delights in turning tra...

Reducere. Celebrated in his prime, forgotten in his final years, only to be championed anew by our greatest contemporary authors, Richard Yates has always ex...

Reducere. A Fascinating Guide to Understanding the Sagas, Gods, Heroes, and Beliefs of the VikingsThis book on Norse Mythology is part of the new series "Gre...

Reducere. Are you ready for adventure, mystery, love, and the heartwarming power of family and timeless friendships? Then it is time to escape life and head ...

Reducere. Empire of the Air tells the story of three American visionaries--Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff--whose imagination and dr...

Reducere. She lived at full throttle on stage, screen, and in real life, with highs that made history and lows that finally brought down the curtain at age f...

Reducere. Cicely has got problems. Stuck working a crappy job to take care of her deadbeat father, she's living just a step above homelessness in a town rule...

Reducere. Hailed as one of the Great American Novels, The Great Gatsby delves into the dark corners of the Jazz Age to tell a tragic tale of obsession, love,...

The work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has reverberated through two and a half centuries, altering the course of literature in ways both grand and ...

Reducere. "Don't you know? Animals like you have no soul."Could God ever love a half-blood society looks on with such fear and disdain? Jace once believed so...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the 1970s Claudia Jennings was one ofPlayboy's top models, as well as the undisputedQueen of Cult cinema. This is the complete st...

Reducere. DescriptionCertainly no singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique her...

Publisher: Age-Old BooksAuthor(s): Sean ByrneNumber of pages: 243Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 211 x 179 x 15Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Reducere. Dr. Sarah Halifax decoded the first-ever radio transmission received from aliens thirty-eight years ago. Now, a second message is received, and Sar...

Reducere. Do you want to know more about the Old West's most legendary outlaw? Then keep reading...Billy the Kid once said that he killed twenty-one men-one ...

DescriptionWhen the thirteen year old Margaret Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VII and his wife Elizabeth of York, married King James IV of Scotlan...

Historian Richard M. Jones recounts fifty stories of lost ships throughout history that are among the most important, infamous, and in some cases t...

From the author of The Islanders comes a warm, witty and suspenseful novel filled with small-town secrets, summer romance, big time lies and spiked...

A "beautiful, tragic, and inspiring" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) memoir about three Black girls from the storied Bronzeville section of Chi...

This anthology gathers together the most iconic and entertaining tales of adventure and daring from around the world. From Perseus the Gorgon-Slaye...

Reducere. A FAIRY-TALE BEGINNING. All her life, Bailey Browne dreamed of a storybook rescue: a knight in shining armor swooping in to bring her and her mothe...

This extraordinary investigation of the death of the author's grandson yields a powerful memoir of addiction, grief, and the stories we choose to t...

Reducere. "A must-read for any Bailey student, anyone interested in the New Age movement, and for those who wonder, amidst our confused and divided world, wh...

Reducere. When dinosaur fossils were first discovered in the Wild West, they sparked one of the greatest scientific battles in American history. Over the pas...

Reducere. "A must-read for any Bailey student, anyone interested in the New Age movement, and for those who wonder, amidst our confused and divided world, wh...

Reducere. A finalist for the 1994 Booker Prize, England s highest honor for works of fiction, "Paradise" is at once the story of an African boy s coming of a...