The Violent Century

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

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. 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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 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. 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...

"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. 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 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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...