Vivid Faces

A cultural history of the remarkable generation who transformed Ireland through the Irish Revolution. From an Oxford professor of Irish History. No...

Reducere. On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublin's streets to proclaim an independent republic. Ireland's long struggle for self-government ...

This vivid drama from author of }The Infatuations{ features a deceitful marriage, a man with many faces and an unpaid debt to the secret service, b...

Beecher Stowe's vivid descriptions uncover the harrowing situations faced by slaves in Civil War America. When a Kentucky farmer faces financial ru...

Reducere. Ghost Dogs, Dion O'Reilly's fine first poetry collection, will haunt you the way art should. Bristling with pain, wit, desire, and tenderness, thes...

Reducere. After being forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy, Julian Assange is now in a high security prison in London where he faces extradition to t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anthony C. ThiseltonAnthony Thiselton's lengthy New International Greek Testament Commentary volume The First Epistle to th...

Reducere. It has been home to the Lakota and Pawnee, to Buffalo Bill and the "Great Commoner." From its earliest days, Nebraska has held a strategic place in...

Reducere. Description"I was expecting this to be good, but it's wonderful. Seeing these pieces together makes me realize what a vivid, authentic and importan...

The son of an Irish soldier, Kim doesn't really fit in with the other residents of his native Lahore or among India's British transplants. The 13-y...

Reducere. She is enveloped in a storming sea of light and sound. Navigating a world where she can hear everything yet nothing, and where faces are no more th...

Reducere. "A gritty, high-stakes adventure set in a futuristic world where oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer." In America's Gulf Coast region, grounded o...

Contributor(s): Author: Earl SwiftA brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesa...

Reducere. Is there a mystical consciousness particularly natural to women? And if so, what role is it playing in the spiritual evolution of our world? To ans...

Reducere. A New York Times BestsellerIt's the darkest year yet for Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling's hero in the Harry Potter series. In Rowling's fifth book Har...

Reducere. Paris in 1200 was a city in transition. The great cathedral of Notre Dame was halfway through its construction and walls were being built to enclos...

Reducere. In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former finance minister and the author of the international bestse...

Reducere. On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors--Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell--crashed in the mountaino...

Vivid and entrancing, the images of New Hampshire's Lakes Region included in this volume span more than a century of memories. Residents of the are...

Amid the oppressive heat, and in the aftermath of the exuberance of Seville's Expo '92, Marina spends a chaotic summer with her grandmother while h...

Reducere. This thrilling bestseller and National Book Award Finalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties, se...

Reducere. A companion to Cain's award-winning The Way I Feel, The Way I Act uses detailed illustrations, type faces and vivid color to complement the simple ...

Reducere. (Humor, bilingual) "Comically freaking out ... suspenseful without ever getting too intense for younger readers." - Kirkus Reviews. Have you ever b...

Reducere. TRUST NO MAN, the gripping, fast-paced, debut novel by CA$H, is an urban street tale told in such vivid detail and with such gritty and compelling ...

DescriptionHow often do you have your neighbors over for dinner? How do you define your community? Where do you feel the most connected in your lif...

Reducere. Between the Great Depression and the mid-1970s, hitchhikers were a common sight for motorists, as American service members, students, and adventure...

Reducere. Pat-a-cake and peek-a-boo. You see me and I see you! Celebrate baby's busy day with this fun and playful book. Babies will enjoy and respond to the...

Children's book, bedtime stories, brilliant, vivid illustrations, creative storytelling at its best.In this wonderfully illustrated children's stor...

Reducere. Today is a happy day for all the workers. Today is payday! I got up early to reach the bank before the crowd. When I arrived at the bank, I met man...

Reducere. It's 1976, and the counterculture has taken a dark turn in San Francisco. Former '60s revolutionary Billy Johnson, now a 27-year-old aspiring write...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ca$hTRUST NO MAN, the gripping, fast-paced, debut novel by CA$H, is an urban street tale told in such vivid detail and with...

Reducere. Dateline: March 11, 2004The Madrid Train Bombings Kill 193 Innocent Civilians. What the terrorists didn't know was on that fateful day they also su...

Reducere. As a British national living in Germany, Fadi did not find it easy to adapt to the German way of life at first. He constantly bemoaned their lack o...