The Tragic Age

Poetry Potpourri is an electic collection of poetry penned by Annette (Wengert) Tarpley. It includes a very few personal poems, including a poem wr...

"Love the tone in this book. It's reminiscent of classic literature, starting light and as the Prince matures, the tone grows progressively darker....

Reducere. Dancing at Lake Montebello begins at the dawn of the civil rights era, calling up memories of life in Baltimore, the most segregated U.S. Northern ...

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

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...

From an award-winning Turkish novelist comes a powerful English-language debut about a girl's coming of age amid violent unrest--and her unexpected...

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...

DescriptionThe lives of scientist Alan Turing and author William Burroughs are turned upside down in this off-the-wall sci-fi caper from Rudy Rucke...

Reducere. Inspired by the author's immigrant ancestors, this is an intimate account of seven unforgettable women surviving extraordinary challenges and hards...

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. DescriptionTheir love story is not one of fairy tales. It is one of faithfulness from the beginning through to its tragic ending. Richard and Marga...

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

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. 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. 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. 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...

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...

Reducere. "Abbs has found a gripping and little-known story at the heart of one of the 20th century's most astonishing creative moments, researched it deeply...

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...

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. 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...

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

The Widow of Rose House is close to perfection and any lover of historical romance will adore this debut. - Smart Bitches Trashy Books It's 1875, a...

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

Reducere. Leonard S. Marcus... has masterfully written about a fascinating woman who in her short life changed literature for the very young. I was throrough...

Reducere. Sixteen-year-old Lorena Leland's dreams of a rich and fulfilling life as a writer are dashed when the stock market crashes in 1929. Seven years int...

Hindsight is 20/20. As I look back over the past twenty-eight years, it is clear that God had a purpose and plan for my messy life I stand correcte...

CAN CHOICE EXIST WITHIN THE CONSTRAINTS OF A PROPHECY?Angelika Juris unexpectedly becomes legal guardian to her sister's rejected child, Dani... a ...

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. The life of Georg Buchner was short, intense, and tragic--and extremely significant for the development of modern drama. His three plays, Danton's ...

Reducere. Peterson Hits the Bestseller Lists Again and Again Emmalyne Knox and Tavin MacLachlan were destined to be together...until the tragic deaths of Emm...

Reducere. War changed Clinton Brown. Permanently disfigured by a tragic military accident, he's struggling to find satisfaction from life as a rewrite man fo...

Reducere. Born under an evil moon harboring dark secrets, Earl Cain C. Hargreves, the youthful heir of the aristocratic Hargreves family, is a man on a quest...

Reducere. Published for the fiftieth anniversary of her tragic death, this definitive account dispels the rumors and sets the record straight on her last two...

Driven into exile from Carmena, Spain, in 1577, to escape the threat of death by the Inquisition, the Robledo family immigrates first to New Spain ...

Reducere. In 1930, four decades after the surrender of Geronimo, anthropologist Grenville Goodwin headed south in search of a rumored band of "wild" Apaches ...

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. Audie Murphy, the son of an itinerant Texas farmhand, was born in 1925. The teenager enlisted in the US Army in 1942. At that time, he stood 5' 6" ...

Reducere. DescriptionSohmeng Par is sick of being treated like a child. Ever since a tragic accident brought her mountain community's coming-of-age ritual to...

Reducere. A personal memoir of a woman's journey through pyschotherapy. In middle age, Janyne began to sense that her wonderful, successful life was a cover ...

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

Attractive, wealthy and influential, Katherine Willoughby is one of the most unusual ladies of the Tudor court. A favourite of King Henry VIII, Kat...

Reducere. A celebration of Diana's life, the book commemorates this remarkable woman's life from her childhood to her tragic premature death at the age of 36...

I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me --Marilyn Monroe Nearly sixty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains an ic...

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

"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...

"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. Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow ...

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. What would you do for your man? Would you whore for him? Victoria Gray is one of the most beautiful women to ever set foot on the hoe stroll. She g...

Reducere. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology. Its tales ...

Reducere. The collected short work of an American master, including The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Stephen Crane died at the age...

Yukari Kobayakawa, an accomplished author at the age of 17, writes with amazingly accurate details about historical Japan. As it turns out, he has ...

Reducere. Think and Grow Rich: The Legacy is the essential modern companion to the bestselling self-help book of all time, Napoleon Hill's 1937 classic, Thin...

A captivating blend of true adventure and natural history by one of today's leading penguin experts and Antarctic explorers. George Murray Levick w...

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. 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 ...

DescriptionProgressive faith is at a crossroads. Liberal pulpits ring with grand sermons about the arc that bends toward justice, and about progres...

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

Reducere. Everyone who has watched a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) match or tournament has heard of "the kimura, " a specialized arm lock that many people try to ...

Reducere. A CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF A YOUNG LIFE IRREVERSIBLY ALTERED BY ILLNESS "I know about needles." All her life, Andie Dominick adored her older sister, Den...

Reducere. A disturbing story of a devious serial killer: despite his low IQ, David James Torgerson continually outwitted the mental health and justice system...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF BLACKOUT: AFTER THE STORM Scott Harvard's life is falling to pieces. His mother has passed away. The love of his life has died i...

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...

Liz Murray never really had a chance in life. Born to a drug-addicted father who was in and out of prison, and an equally dependent mother who was ...

Reducere. For Jackey Neyman Jones, who played Debbie in Manos: The Hands of Fate, the "worst movie ever made" is, at its heart, a home movie that just happen...