Author: Everett De Morier
Publisher: Blydyn Square Books
ISBN: 0985705566
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Thirty-three Cecils
Author: Everett De Morier
Publisher: Blydyn Square Books
ISBN: 0985705566
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Publisher: Blydyn Square Books
ISBN: 0985705566
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The Other Queen
Author: Philippa Gregory
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416549129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Presents a tale inspired by the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, in a work that follows the doomed monarch's long imprisonment in the household of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his spying wife, Bess.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416549129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Presents a tale inspired by the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, in a work that follows the doomed monarch's long imprisonment in the household of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his spying wife, Bess.
Crib Notes for the First Year of Marriage
Author: Everett De Morier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781577490302
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
To save the two and a half million couples who marry each year in the U.S. time, frustration, and money, this book answers those questions most frequently asked by newly married couples. A helpful index directs readers to information on taxes, household software, phone numbers for credit organizations, the affordability of a house or car, also handling stress, marital fighting, and much more. A must read for any couple planning to marry or live together.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781577490302
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
To save the two and a half million couples who marry each year in the U.S. time, frustration, and money, this book answers those questions most frequently asked by newly married couples. A helpful index directs readers to information on taxes, household software, phone numbers for credit organizations, the affordability of a house or car, also handling stress, marital fighting, and much more. A must read for any couple planning to marry or live together.
Fat Man Walking
Author: Steve Vaught
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780060899387
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The author chronicles his mission to walk across America, from San Diego to New York City, in an effort to lose weight, shape up, and come to terms with the demons that had been controlling his life.
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780060899387
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The author chronicles his mission to walk across America, from San Diego to New York City, in an effort to lose weight, shape up, and come to terms with the demons that had been controlling his life.
Kentucky Clay
Author: Katherine R. Bateman
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1556527950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Eleven generations of a founding American family are examined in this sweeping history that traces the Clays of Kentucky, a true So
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1556527950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Eleven generations of a founding American family are examined in this sweeping history that traces the Clays of Kentucky, a true So
Serena
Author: Ron Rash
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061470856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Penned by an award-winning writer, this Gothic tale of greed, corruption, and revenge is set against the backdrop of the 1930s wilderness and America's burgeoning environmental movement.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061470856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Penned by an award-winning writer, this Gothic tale of greed, corruption, and revenge is set against the backdrop of the 1930s wilderness and America's burgeoning environmental movement.
The Proud Tower
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307798119
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” (The New York Times)—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev’s Russian ballet and Stravinsky’s music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close. The Proud Tower, The Guns of August, and The Zimmermann Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307798119
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” (The New York Times)—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev’s Russian ballet and Stravinsky’s music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close. The Proud Tower, The Guns of August, and The Zimmermann Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era.
It Devours!
Author: Joseph Fink
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062476084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A new page-turning mystery about science, faith, love and belonging, set in a friendly desert community where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are commonplace parts of everyday life. Welcome to Night Vale… “Brilliant, hilarious, and wondrously strange. I’m packing up and moving to Night Vale! –Ransom Riggs, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. From the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the growing relationship between two young people who want desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the Smiling God. Nilanjana Sikdar is an outsider to the town of Night Vale. Working for Carlos, the town’s top scientist, she relies on fact and logic as her guiding principles. But all of that is put into question when Carlos gives her a special assignment investigating a mysterious rumbling in the desert wasteland outside of town. This investigation leads her to the Joyous Congregation of the Smiling God, and to Darryl, one of its most committed members. Caught between her beliefs in the ultimate power of science and her growing attraction to Darryl, she begins to suspect the Congregation is planning a ritual that could threaten the lives of everyone in town. Nilanjana and Darryl must search for common ground between their very different world views as they are faced with the Congregation’s darkest and most terrible secret.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062476084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A new page-turning mystery about science, faith, love and belonging, set in a friendly desert community where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are commonplace parts of everyday life. Welcome to Night Vale… “Brilliant, hilarious, and wondrously strange. I’m packing up and moving to Night Vale! –Ransom Riggs, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. From the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the growing relationship between two young people who want desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the Smiling God. Nilanjana Sikdar is an outsider to the town of Night Vale. Working for Carlos, the town’s top scientist, she relies on fact and logic as her guiding principles. But all of that is put into question when Carlos gives her a special assignment investigating a mysterious rumbling in the desert wasteland outside of town. This investigation leads her to the Joyous Congregation of the Smiling God, and to Darryl, one of its most committed members. Caught between her beliefs in the ultimate power of science and her growing attraction to Darryl, she begins to suspect the Congregation is planning a ritual that could threaten the lives of everyone in town. Nilanjana and Darryl must search for common ground between their very different world views as they are faced with the Congregation’s darkest and most terrible secret.
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
Author: Charlotte Mosley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340638057
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
The writers Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were great friends, and their friendship gave rise to the 500 letters full of malicious jokes and social gossip, presented in this collection.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340638057
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
The writers Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were great friends, and their friendship gave rise to the 500 letters full of malicious jokes and social gossip, presented in this collection.
Malgudi Days I
Author: R. K. Narayan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description