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In the summer of 1977, seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu falls in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. She can...

From longtime "New York Times" columnist Bob Herbert comes a wrenching portrayal of ordinary Americans struggling for survival in a nation that has lost its way Inhis eighteen years as...

The book titled Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams by the author David Shipler. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Benjamin Weaver is awaiting death in Newgate gaol. Mysteriously convicted for a murder he didn't commit by a judge determined to see him hang, he is suddenly - and equally...

The book titled The Wilder Shores of Love by the author Lesley Blanch. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Andrew grew up in the 1970s with his funny, loving but deeply unstable mother. Life with her was totally chaotic. She left him alone in motel rooms at night and...

A humble laird from Largoshire, Andrew Wood's determination to avenge his father's murder by English pirates, led to his national renown as a pirate-slayer. This brought him to the attention...

The book titled The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom by the author Sandra Mackey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer by the author Richard Holmes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A lyrical and haunting new work of fiction by one of Ireland's greatest writers...Alexander Cleave has never been able to rid himself of the feeling that he is in "a...

In the second part of the Mordred Cycle trilogy, Mordred's quest leads him to a world of women where he confronts his destiny in the form of Morgan - Arthur's...

Science FictionLarge Print EditionOLeary displays his mastery of fantasy and social motifs, weaving familiar themes into a heartwarming, enchanting story. starred, Publishers Weekly A story within a story, The Gift...

A glowing first novel that brings us "historical fiction in the grand epic manner, beautifully felt and written" It is England, in the fourteenth century -- a time of plague,...

The 1990, ninth edition, of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised is the only currently authoritative volume to contain the complete Robert's Rules of Order subject matter. It has been...

This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a...

'This was a time where Spain was revered, feared and hated in the easterly seas; where the devil had no color, no name and no flag, and where the only...

The book titled The Rise of Modern Japan by the author W. G. Beasley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Wood explains why the financial world has prospered in the 1980s and predicts that it will collapse and be felt by everyone. He describes why the end of financial fever...

One of Europe's smallest countries, with a population of less than 2 million, Slovenia has an ancient and distinct national culture. Traces of the Slovene language are found in documents...

'If artists betray the social conscience and the basic principles of being human, where does art stand then?' Ai Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist - extended...

A new collection of journalism from one of the great titans of twentieth century literature \"I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the...

Why has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it? In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in...

The book titled The Sixth Continent: Russia and Mikhail Gorbachev by the author Mark Frankland. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction-a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He...

The story of the Mannion family continues after the Bligh rebellion. As the young Mannions grow to maturity, so too the settlement at Sydney Cove develops into a town of...

Sydney Cove, 1799, and three years since Governor Phillip departed. Against a background of continuing convict settlement, hunger, rebellion and the terrifying force of a barely understood land, the saga...

The book titled The Tiger by the author Sophie Masson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This practical guide is designed to assist professionals with the problems involved in developing complex software systems, presenting a set of guidelines and tools to manage the technical and organisational...

A growing interest in the object-oriented programming paradigm prompted the editors to compile a wide-ranging introduction to the subject, beginning with basic concepts and then covering a variety of applications...

'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768)...

In this fascinating, mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing account of the origins of language ever published. He sheds new light on how language affects the way we...

The book titled Muhammadanism by the author Sir Hamilton Gibb. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A re-reading of The Prelude in the light of post-structuralist and feminist theory, Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference is the first major study of The Prelude by an author distinguished...

Why did the most advanced civilization in the world lose its power and fall under the domination of others? This book examines how Middle Easterners responded to Western challenges in...

Lorenz Hart singlehandedly changed the craft of lyric writing. When Larry Hart first met Dick Rodgers in 1919, the commercial song lyric consisted of tired cliches and cloying Victorian sentimentality....

For nearly half a century, James D. Hart's Oxford Companion to American Literature has offered a matchless guided tour through American literary culture, both past and present. Hart now presents...

This varied, unusual selection of short stories presents Victorian love in all its moods, from triumphant to tragic. Covering a period that embraces both Elizabeth Gaskell and Somerset Maugham, these...

Just over a sixth of the world's population subscribes to the Muslim belief that `there is no god but God, and Muhammad is his Messenger'. Michael Cook gives an incisive...

This book consists of fifteen dialogues between Bryan Magee and some of the outstanding thinkers of the twentieth century. It is based on a highly successful BBC television series which...

Seduced and abandoned by her feckless lover, Esther is forced to bring up her child alone. Her life is hard--she is first employed as a wet-nurse by heartless Mrs. Rivers,...

Written before Jane Eyre, "The Professor" challenged contemporary expectations of the novel by its brevity, realism, and insistence on a working career both before and after marriage for its hero...

Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as 'A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines,...

Allan Quatermain , sequel to King Solomon's Mines and based on Haggard's own experiences in Africa, was written in just ten weeks in 1885. Once more Allan Quatermain and his...

The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister's classic popular romance, and the most significant shaping influence on cowboy fiction. Its narrator, fresh from the East, encounters in Wyoming cattle country a...

B`An unquiet and mysterious country of inextinguishable desires and fears' `The Lagoon' creates and sustains an ironic tension between reality and romance thatpreoccupies all of the twelve stories in this...

Willa Cather's first novel, "Alexander's Bridge" (1912), tells the story of Bartley Alexander, a successful engineer torn between his duties to his career and his wife Winifred, and his passion...