Author: David Beaty Synopsis: The author lavishes his immense knowledge and zest on the intenselhy dramatic true story of how the airmen conquered the North Atlantic "About this title" may...
Authors: Jane Goldman, Chris Carter Synopsis: This title explores the fascinating phenomena featured in series two and three of "The X-Files" television series. These include alien abduction, animal mutilation, voodoo,...
Author: Wendy Mulford For centuries women have written about love with passion, humour, frustration and despair; but never before have their voices come together as in this exhilarating and timeless...
Author: Hilary Rosenberg A look at vulture investors--the investors who capitalize on bankruptcy by feeding on businesses in trouble--presents anecdotes on such big-time investors as Mary Whiteman, revealing their secret...
Author: Albert Einstein Synopsis: In a group of essays, letters, and speeches, Einstein relates his views on politics, religion, morality, and the place of science in the modern world About...
Author: Charles Kingsley The adventures of Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, who is stolen by fairies and turned into a water baby....
Author: Carol Ann Duffy The World's Wife is a joyous exuberant book of poems about women usually excluded from myth and history' GuardianWith an introduction by Jeanette WintersonThis unique collection...
Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford Synopsis: Book by Bradford, Barbara Taylor From the Inside Flap&colon A Main Selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book ClubHe is Maximilian West--billionaire tycoon...
Authors: Robert Kerrey, Robert A. Manning, Dov Zakheim "Though a central part of our modern history, Southeast Asia has tended to be relegated to the backwaters of U.S. foreign policy...
Author: Timothy Garton Ash Synopsis: Political Science "This is a kind of writing - it could be called the history of the present-for which it is not easy to find...
Author: Niall Ferguson 1st complete history of the Rothschild banking dynasty with full access to worldwide archives. Ever since the Rothschild's spectacular rise to preeminence in European finance during the...
Author: J. John Palen This text presents a cross-cultural look at cities and suburbs around the world. It offers an overview of the changing urban scene, covering evolving patterns and...
Author: Balli Kaur Jaswal Full of warmth and laugh-out-loud funny, the new novel from the author of Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows British-born Punjabi sisters Rajni, Jezmeen and Shirina have...
Author: Maxine Hong Kingston Synopsis: Woman Warrior From the Inside Flap&colon erican woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her...
Author: Morgan Matson Synopsis: From Morgan Matson, the bestselling author of "Since You ve Been Gone" comes a feel-good story of friendship, finding yourself, and all the joys in life...
Author: Raymond Flower This overview of Singapore's history sweeps the reader along from its colonial beginnings as a trading outpost of the British Empire in the 1820s to the independent...
Author: Andrew Farley Synopsis: Jesus called his followers to exchange the heavy yoke around their necks for his light one. So why are so many Christians feeling weighed down and...
Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki Synopsis: "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" will... - Explode the myth that you need to earn a high income to become rich - Challenge the belief that...
Synopsis: This book makes no attempt to cut life up into chunks. Dog and man take us, meandering, through a series of happenings and experiences. They take us through the...
Author: Jules L. Coleman
Jules Coleman discusses the conflict between the goals of justice and economic efficiency in the allocation of risk, especially risk pertaining to safety.
Authors: Richard N. Goodwin, Richard M. Goodwin An intriguing look at the tumultuous 1960s offers portraits of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and the presidential campaigns of Eugene McCarthy and...
Author: Eddy Shah Synopsis: Mark Duncan is an intelligence officer for the SAS. When an old friend, Victor Oldenburg is kidnapped while making arrangements for a planned royal visit to...
Author: James Clarke Holt Synopsis: Separates fact from myth in examining the story of Robin Hood and shows how the legend has evolved About the Author&colon J. C. Holt was...
Author: Kelly A. Turner, PhD In her New York Times bestseller, Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds, Dr. Kelly A. Turner, founder of the Radical Remission Project, uncovers nine...
Author: Richard Pipes Synopsis: “For anyone who wants an insight into the nature of Russian society before the revolution, there is no doubt that Professor Pipes has written the book.”—Lionel...
Author: Diane Seed Synopsis: Has everything from Walnut sauce, Aubergines sauce, Lemon sauce to Courgette Flowers, Pumpkin to Tuna to Ham and on and on and on! The San Francisco...
Author: Mitch Albom This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man...
Author: John W. Santrock Synopsis: This is the International Edition. It IS in English and is exactly the same as the original book. About the Author&colon John W. Santrock insegna...
Author: Richard James Best-selling author Richard K. James presents the latest skills and techniques for handling real crisis situations. Authoritative and based on the author's extensive experience teaching crisis intervention...
Author: Becca Fitzpatrick A sacred oath, a fallen angel, a forbidden love... This darkly romantic story features our heroine, Nora Grey, a seemingly normal teenage girl with her own shadowy...
Author: Becca Fitzpatrick
Sixteen-year-old Nora Grey struggles to face the truth while coping with having a fallen angel boyfriend named Patch and unraveling the mystery surrounding her father's death.
Author: Becca Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick delivers the breathtaking conclusion to the New York Times- bestselling Hush, Hush saga. Armed with nothing but their absolute faith in each other, Patch and Nora...
Author: Philippa Gregory Sequel to the outstanding historical novel Earthly Joys, and written by the bestselling Philippa Gregory, the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin's Lover. John...
Synopsis: The riveting story of Margaret Pole, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, one of the few surviving members of the Plantagenet dynasty About the Author&colon Philippa Gregory was an...
Author: Scott O'Dell
A map-maker accompanying a ruthless band of Coronado's soldiers in their search for gold must battle against his own sudden greed. A Newbery Honor book. Reprint.
Author: Peter Walker Like the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall, The Courier's Tale is set in the treacherous worlds of the English court of Henry VIII, where Thomas Cromwell holds sway,...
Author: Tracy Chevalier Synopsis: A brilliant historical novel on the corruption of innocence, using the famous painting by Vermeer as an inspiration. Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in...
Author: Keeland, Reg, 1943- Synopsis: The essential companion to Stieg Larssons bestselling trilogyand director David Finchers 2011 film adaptation Stieg Larssons bestselling Millennium TrilogyThe Girlwith the Dragon Tattoo The Girl...
Author: Philippa Gregory Kateryn Parr, a 30-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover, has no choice when a man old enough to be her father who has...
As sisters they share an everlasting bond; As queens they can break each other’s hearts.“There is only one bond that I trust: between a woman and her sisters. We never...
Author: Elizabeth Kostova Propelled by the discovery of an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters, a young woman plugues into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family'...
