The Violent Century

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 ...

A sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities The West and Islam--...

Reducere. One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His...

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...

Reducere. This omnibus edition includes books five and six in the bestselling World's Scariest Places series.Mountain of the Dead - The greatest unsolved mys...

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. The West Virginia and Colorado Coal Mine Wars of the early twentieth century was a tumultuous and violent time in our nation's history. At the cent...

Reducere. In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization ...

Reducere. This omnibus edition includes books five and six in the bestselling World's Scariest Places series.Mountain of the Dead - The greatest unsolved mys...

Reducere. The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots. The most populous Arab country and the historical center of Arab intellectua...

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

Reducere. An impossible killer stalks the streets of London.Jack the Ripper faded into history over a century ago, his identity lost to the ages. Until a wor...

The astonishing true story of "one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation" (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize-...

Reducere. An impossible killer stalks the streets of London.Jack the Ripper faded into history over a century ago, his identity lost to the ages. Until a wor...

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...

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...

Reducere. For more than a hundred million years, the Dark Continent has kept a savage secret. While on the trail of a stolen tactical nuclear weapon, Jack Si...

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

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. 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...

Reducere. Description"Under The Trestle" is the true story of the most compelling murder case in Virginia history. In 1980, beautiful Gina Renee Hall, a Radf...

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 ...

David French warns of the potential dangers to the country--and the world--if we don't summon the courage to reconcile our political differences. T...

Reducere. In this one-of-a-kind atlas, scores of archival maps and dozens of newly created maps trace the battles, political turmoil, and great themes of Ame...

Reducere. Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr's death ...

Reducere. For weeks in 1902 it commanded headlines. All of Wyoming and much of the West followed the trial of Tom Horn for the murder of a fourteen-year-old ...

Reducere. Mao Zedong (also known as Mao Tse-tung) is regarded as one of the most controversial figures in modern world history. Having conquered the country,...

Reducere. An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis A deeply researched and ...

"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...

Reducere. Description'A thorough reinvention of the Gothic landscape . . . Gregory's voice and vision are wholly original.' - Ramsey Campbell 'Admirable . . ...

Reducere. Beautiful actress Martha Lawrence has a problem. Her once loving husband, Dirk, has become violent and controlling, and she doesn't know why. When ...

Reducere. What would Jesus do? This is an old question that Christians of each successive generation have had to pose anew if they want to be faithful discip...

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

Reducere. Abraham's God is the incredible story of the origin of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and how they came to the shared faith in the God of Abraha...

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

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...

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. DescriptionUleyli is a princess-but she isn't happy with all that comes with it. She'd rather daydream and create art than learn how to rule her pe...