The Violent Century

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant, Canterbury Christchurch University College The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometime...

DescriptionDrawing upon his experiences as the captain of a steamer on the Congo River, Joseph Conrad wrote "An Outpost of Progress, " a sharp crit...

Reducere. THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY In this powerful new novel, William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone chronicle Smoke Jensen's early...

Ninety years ago the Toomey brothers, along with twenty-five other men and four thousand head of cattle, vanished en route to Arizona. When writer ...

The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of politi...

Jordan is going to join a gang. But just as he's about to start his future with the Cobras, his past calls him back. Way back--to the nineteenth-ce...

Raised to be weapons, Sentinels spend their lives fighting the monsters that prey upon humanity. Their hands will shape the world, and their swords...

Reducere. The novel takes place in the Netherlands and is a colourful fictional portrait of early 19th-century Dutch life, as well as a tale of youthful hono...

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 ...

"I do not draw cats well, " Beatrix Potter reportedly complained to her publisher in 1916. But Potter continued to draw cats, and drew them well, p...

Reducere. This book describes some of the intriguing people who have lived in the 1300 and 1400 blocks of Pierce Street in Lynchburg, Virginia, but it is als...

Reducere. A slasher movie turns real when two young actors are brutally murdered on a remote island film set. Their severed heads and arms are posed in macab...

Reducere. From the author of The Horse Whisperer comes the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, an extraordinary new novel of love, family, and man's str...

Reducere. Welcome to the family! It's time get out your colored pencils and officially become a Made Man or Woman.This unique adult coloring book features so...

Reducere. A quest for knighthood motivates Myles Falworth through rigorous training and dangerous jousting tournaments to confront a lifelong enemy and claim...

Reducere. DescriptionAn historical novel that interweaves historical and fictional characters. The action takes place immediately before and during the Merce...

"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his br...

Some bodies won't stay buried.Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has ...

Reducere. In the Mediterranean at end of the 17th century, former songstress Armeria disguises herself as a boy and boards the ship of the pirate Skulls--the...

Reducere. Emma Goldman's strident critique of capitalism and equally passionate defence of anarchy raised her from a penniless Jewish immigrant to 'Red Emma'...

UPDATED AND REVISED JULY 2019The United States is coming apart at the seams. Hostilities between the parties to the national debate, substantially ...

Reducere. This is Lenin's seminal text on social revolution and how to achieve it, published some 16 years before Russia's October 1917 Revolution. His plan ...

'My Husband' combines fifteenth century imagery with themes of morality and forgiveness in a historical novel that takes inspiration from a true st...

To make a revolution is to subvert the ancient state of our country; and no common reasons are called for to justify so violent a proceeding Burke ...

LAIRIES is the brilliant and brutal debut from Steve Hollyman, mapping the lives of violent young men at the start of the twenty-first century, liv...

The saga of the Logan family--made famous in the Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--concludes in a deeply fulfilling story, now av...

Destruction and violence How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance; that it's power of destruction is t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Susan TanThis novelized account of the life of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, a married Chinese-Filipino layman, retraces the series o...

Reducere. The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts h...

How the French invented the barricade, and its symbolic impact on popular protests throughout historyIn the history of European revolutions, the ba...

Reducere. Originally published in Ladies' Home Journal magazine (January 1960), THE NATIVE DOCTOR is A. J. Cronin's romantic and thrilling tale of Dr. Robert...

Reducere. The sleepy seaside town of Taviscombe has more than its share of gossips and schemers. It also has Mrs. Sheila Malory, a widow whose gift for judgi...

Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence, and the price of family bonds. Repelled by her une...

DescriptionThe FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe c...

** Richard Lloyd Parry is the winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize **In the last years of the twentieth century, Richard Lloyd Parry found hims...

Reducere. DescriptionTrade unionist and Marxist politician William Z. Foster explains the organization and failure of the steel strike in 1919, an action whi...

Reducere. Millions of babies. All girls. Why?In a dark and divided dystopian America, an ambitious reporter must risk her life and reputation to find out why...

Reducere. The once-famous Hotel Iberia was where society's finest gathered in the days before 1859 when Victory, Louisiana became a ghost town. A building wh...

Reducere. Each book in the Northern Michigan Asylum Series is a stand alone novel. The sprawling Kerry Manor has stood abandoned for nearly a century.But tha...

Reducere. The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in educatio...

Reducere. Cumbres Borrascosas, de Emily Brontë, una de las tres hermanas Brontë, contiene la quintaesencia de la novela romántica inglesa decimonónica. En su...

Reducere. Complex and hauntingly beautiful, Lygia Fagundes Telles's most acclaimed novel is a journey into the inner lives of three young women, each reveali...

Reducere. Named 1 of 6 must-read poetry books in April 2019 by The Millions.The co-winner of the inaugural Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. Through the lens of h...

Reducere. A celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it? Millions of people today are still enslaved; ne...

Reducere. The White City, 1893: In turn-of-the-century Chicago, with the World's Fair bringing bustle and excitement to her home city, sixteen-year-old Emily...

Reducere. ``These pocket-sized titles are stunning....They make the perfect stocking stuffers `` - Metro ``Bought together or separately, these fiction title...

Reducere. "Gripping and believable...you can almost smell the streets of 14th-century York as you delve deeper into an engrossing plot." --PRIMA In the year ...

The author has spent years talking to terrorists - from Gaza and Afghanistan, to Indonesia and Europe. In this book, he delivers a fascinating jour...

An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An African Amer...

Reducere. A quest for knighthood motivates Myles Falworth through rigorous training and dangerous jousting tournaments to confront a lifelong enemy and claim...

The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of th...

Reducere. "Suffragette" is now on release as a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst. . Illustrated with sixteen photographs. . In...

New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. It i...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the projects' construction *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The Transcont...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading " T]he Stasi often used a method which was really diabolic. It...

DescriptionA chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell ...

Reducere. Rowing upon the Tigris River to enjoy a summer campfire on the tiny islands that emerged every summer, teenaged Joseph Samuels never could have ima...

The Magi, or Three Kings, of the Nativity story are among the best loved yet most mysterious figures in all history. The fleeting and sparse accoun...

Reducere. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and young British subject Anson Granville Staplyton has traveled to Ireland, where his regiment has been sent to ...

Reducere. What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers th...

Reducere. Herself Surprised is the story of Sara Monday, a former housemaid who tells of "her grand days" and of all her "coming down days since."Looking bac...

Reducere. "Heartbreaking and hilarious, tender and violent." --New York Times Book Review"Jordi Nopca's stories, written with clarity and flair, are smart an...

Reducere. From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz cultu...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling authors including Karin Slaughter, Lee Child, Peter Robinson, Laura Lippman, John Connolly, and others, combine their ta...

Reducere. DescriptionThe greatest unsolved mystery of the 20th century--until now.Fact: During the night of February 1, 1959, in the remote reaches of Siberi...

It is 1900, the dawn of a new century. Even as the old Queen's health fails, Victorian Britain stands monumental and strong upon a mountain of tech...

This work records the many kinds of violent physical and verbal abuse perpetrated against women in Britain and her colonies, both domestically and ...

Reducere. A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann ...

Reducere. A gripping and sensational tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion uncovers the radical eighteenth-century people's movement, l...

"A vivid ride through eighteenth century Europe with darkness and dread creeping at its corners. Utterly enchanting." - Emily A. Duncan, New York T...