The Tragic Age

Reducere. Join Captain Nemo and the Nautilus as they journey into the deep in Jules Verne's classic science fiction tale. In an age that has seen the wildest...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Turin born Guido Gozzano was the first and finest representative of the Crepuscolari, the poets of the twilight. Before his tragical...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jewel E. Ann"In another life, she was my forever." An unexpected tragedy leaves Professor Nathaniel Hunt a widower alone wi...

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. In his too-short life, Aaron Swartz reshaped the Internet, questioned our assumptions about intellectual property, and touched all of us in ways th...

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...

One of the most significant literary personalities in the world. Italo Calvino Georges Perec, author of the highly acclaimed Life: A User s Manual,...

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. DescriptionExtract: "I was eighteen years of age when love opened my eyes with its magic rays and touched my spirit for the first time with its fie...

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

The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a si...

One of the greatest playwrights of Ancient Greece, the works of Euripides (484 406 BC) were revolutionary in their depiction of tragic events cause...

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. DescriptionFrom the gene that causes people to age prematurely to the "bitter gene" that may spawn broccoli haters, this book explores a few of the...

From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes the first novel in her all new series, The Hudson Sisters, following a trio of reluctan...

Reducere. A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended generation, language, and culture to become one of the most popular novels ever written....

DescriptionThe heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations o...

Reducere. A true-crime, coming-of-age story with a tragic twist: a New York editor's quest to uncover the truth about the brutal murder of her wild and seduc...

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...

DescriptionA QUEER COMING-OF-AGE REMIX Locked in his bathroom during a tragic third date, Willy Hudson asks: are you a Top or a Bottom? Bottom is a...

Reducere. Against the pomp and pageantry of turbulent seventeenth-century England, Elizabeth Goudge weaves the poignant tale of Lucy Walter, the proud and be...

Reducere. Winner of the 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award The Marquis de Lafayette at age nineteen volunteered to fight under George Washington and b...

Reducere. DescriptionJames DeanJames Dean is known as the first rebel. He was a '50s-styled, leather-clad biker rebuking authority. With his black turtleneck...

Reducere. DescriptionFor close to a decade, twenty-five-year-old Felicity Lonsdale has masqueraded as a dowager almost twice her age--selling caterpillars to...

Reducere. Now in Spanish paperback edition, the number one New York Times hardcover bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven-- from the author of the Ne...

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. Chris Perez tells the story of his relationship with music star Selena in this heartfelt tribute. One of the most compelling and adored superstars ...

Reducere. DescriptionAnna Akhmatova (June 23, 1889 - March 5, 1966) is considered by many to be one of the greatest Russian poets of the Silver Age. Her work...

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

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. ``The definitive account of one of hardcore punk's most enigmatic figures.`` --Lucky Lehrer, Circle Jerks drummer In 1983, Circle Jerks bassist Rog...

Reducere. “Brilliant . . . harrowing. . . . Packs the impact of an exploding mortar shell.”—Kai Maristed, Los Angeles TimesIn the tradition of William Faulkn...

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...

Reducere. Anna Forster is only thirty-eight years old, but her mind is slowly slipping away from her. Armed only with her keen wit and sharp-eyed determinati...

Reducere. Ed Norris' career arc was dazzling.He spent 20 years as a crime-fighting savant with the New York Police Department, rising from beat cop to deputy...

Reducere. ``Shows how Finnish mythology and folk tales were instrumental to how Tolkien created his own legendarium.``--Boston Globe Kullervo, son of Kalervo...

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...

Reducere. The powerful story an illegitimate, black foster care child, the unwavering faith of his white adoptive mother, and their improbable journey to pro...

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...

'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin' Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet mischief crab catching, te...

'Into the jaw of Death Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred' As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's ...

Reducere. Mutual-fund superstar Peter Lynch and author John Rothchild explain the basic principles of the stock market and business in an investing guide tha...

Reducere. These are the stories of the manitous--the spirits who inhabit the supernatural world of the Ojibway (the Native American tribe of the Great Lakes ...

Reducere. King Arthur's stories are timeless tales that have been told countless times since the fifteenth century when Sir Thomas Malory introduced them in ...

True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba's coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending r...

Reducere. The inimitable Colleen Doran adapts Neil Gaiman's tragic coming-of-age fantasy masterpieceWhen Jack was a young boy, his world was full of ghosts a...

Paperback edition of the latest novel from the bestselling and acclaimed author of }The Pure Gold Baby, The Peppered Moth, The Red Queen{ and many ...

Reducere. From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes the first novel in her all-new series, The Hudson Sisters, following a trio of reluctan...

The doomed mutual attraction of a middle-aged widow and her new son-in-law, who is much closer to her own age than her daughter's, forms the centra...

DescriptionIn the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as ...

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. High King Agamemnon lusts to conquer the wealthy city of Troy. He leads his army across the sea, fighting all the way. On the island of Tenedos jus...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: V. C. AndrewsNew York Times bestselling author and literary phenomenon V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jose SaramagoTranslator: Margaret Jull Costa"Small Memories is a . . . nourishing last gift from a great writer."--Washingt...

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. 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...

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. Inspired by the life events of Antje Paarlberg, So Big is an award-winning drama that depicts the life of Selina Peake de Jong. Raised in a strict ...

Reducere. The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream Since it was first performed in 1949, Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-win...

DescriptionNewsweek's Best Comic Books of 2018Thrillist's Best Comics & Graphic Novels of 2018 ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS-the bestselling creato...

In Young Hearts Crying, Yates movingly portrays a man and a woman from their courtship and marriage in the 1950s to their divorce in the 70s, chron...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Greg PratoOne of the most tragic stories of the 1990's rock world was that of singer Shannon Hoon, and his band, Blind Melo...

Reducere. National Book Critics Circle Award0ne of the most feisty, spellbinding and engaging heroines in modern fiction captures the essence of her own life...

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...

A lyrical coming-of-age story from a three-time Newbery Honor winning author Thirteen-year-old Staggerlee used to be called Evangeline, but she too...

Reducere. An exquisitely told tragic tale of thwarted love, My Policeman is soon to be adapted into film by Amazon Prime starring Harry Styles and Emma Corri...

This is the story of Billy Kinsey, heir to a lottery fortune, part genius, part philosopher and social critic, full time insomniac and closeted roc...