הוצאת Overlook Hardcover
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A young man starts a journey from a dusty village in Saudi Arabia. If his mission succeeds, he will go to his god a martyr--and many innocents will die with him. David Banks is an armed protection officer charged with neutralizing the growing menace to London's safety. His role may n... |
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Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities is Dickens' masterful portrait of Paris and London. The shadow of the guillotine's blade hangs over two reputable men, one French, one English, as they compete for the love of Lucie Manette....
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Little Dorrit, originally serialized between 1855 and 1857, satirizes the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. This popular novel introduces a rich and memorable array of characters trying to navigate an often hostile London symbolized by the Marshalsea gaol, where the Di...
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One of the first English novels to feature a child as its protagonist, Oliver Twist, published in 1838, moves through the Victorian underworld to tell a suspenseful tale of innocence threatened-yet ultimately triumphant. Mining memories of his own youth to imagine the experiences of the found...
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Dickens turns his satirical eye on America in Martin Chuzzlewit (serialized 1843-1844), when young Martin embarks on a voyage that is destined to affect the fortunes of his family and his love. This comic masterpiece is the last of Dickens' picaresque novels and introduces one of his greatest...
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A full cast of Wodehouse creations—including tyrannical relatives, beastly acquaintances, demon children, and literary fatheads—return for further near catastrophes and sparkling comedy
A Gentleman of Leisure is a comic novel dedicated to Douglas Fairbanks—who starred in the film version... |
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Considered by many to be Dickens' masterpiece, Great Expectations, completed in 1861, tells the engrossing story of Pip, a boy whose surprising journey to adulthood is mapped by the unseen hand of an escaped convict he helps one fateful and terrifying night.
Hard Times (1853) is... |
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"Like many fond parents," wrote Charles Dickens, "I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield." First published in book form in November 1850, Dickens' own favorite among his works is his most autobiographical novel, boasting a wealth of adventure and suspense a...
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The millions-selling fantasy epic of the new Russian literary icon-a freeloading freebooter who finds a new home in a magical world Max Frei's novels have been a literary sensation in Russia since their debut in 1996, and have swept the fantasy world over. Presented here in English for the fi...
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On the 25th anniversary of Wodehouse's death, booksellers and readers will be cheered to find the finest editions available of his classic novels--the first in a series of his best known works--by one of the greatest English comic writers of our time.Fans devoted to the master of comic fiction P. G....
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"Slowly, slowly, full" is how the lovely Italian phrase piano, piano, pieno translates, and it describes to perfection the experience of this multiple award-winning cookbook, dedicated to a style of cooking that involves fresh, organic, local ingredients, cooked classically, lovingly, with at...
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A cult author now in the mainstream, the thrilling return of R. Scott Bakker and The Prince of Nothing universe. The Darkness That Comes Before, The Warrior Prophet, and The Thousandfold Thought --collectively the Prince of Nothing Saga-were R. Scott Bakker's magnificent debut...
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Inside Central Asia: A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz
מאת Dilip Hiro
From a critically acclaimed author-a comprehensive history of the part of the world currently making headlines The former Soviet republics of Central Asia comprise a sprawling, politically pivotal, densely populated, and richly cultured area of the world that is nonetheless poorly represented in li...
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HENRI-GEORGES DOLL was a true pioneer of modern applied science - one of the great, but little known French and American inventors of the 20th century. A Sixth Sense is the first biography of a man who became a founder of oilfield giant Schlumberger, and blazed a trail during the golden...
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The Holy Land is unrivalled as a region combining breathtaking beauty with historical and religious significance. Its position as the birthplace of the three major Abrahamic faiths--Christianity, Judaism, and Islam--gives it a special place in the hearts of millions. Rarely does a book come along th...
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The Pure in Heart continues the story of Simon Serrailler, the Detective Chief Inspector to whom readers were introduced in The Various Haunts of Men. Simon is on vacation in Venice, trying to come to terms with the brutal murder of a young woman who had been in love with him. ...
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Against the backdrop of modern Korea's violent and tumultuous history, To Kill A Tiger relates not only one woman's story, but also an ancient people's journey into the modern, globalized world. Drawing on Korean legend and myth, as well as an Asian woman's unique perspective on the United S...
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Wodehouse fans beware: Uncle Fred is in town and that means another literary dose of wacky hi-jinks. Love is in the air in Uncle Dynamite, and good old Fred (a.k.a. Lord Ickenham) resorts to impersonations, blackmail and ridiculous irreverence in an effort to sort out the havoc of a matchmak...
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A wonderful collection of sparkling stories from the master...
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A nervous courier delivers the handwritten manuscript of a dissident Russian novel to Paul Christopher early one morning in West Berlin. Minutes after the handoff, the courier’s spine is neatly snapped by an impact with a passing black sedan. Meanwhile in Rome, Christopher’s wife Cathy takes a f...
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P. G. Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century. His characters and settings have entered our language and our mythology. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, the Overlook Wodehouse will eventually contain all the novels and stories, edit...
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When Bill Bannister meets Dr Sally Smith, love blossoms immediately. Unfortunately there is just the small problem of Lottie Higginbotham, former actress, serial bride and human fireball, with whom Bill is already involved. The well-meaning interference of Bill's old friend, Squiffy Tidmouth, once m...
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Gerard Donovan has drawn comparisons to writers ranging from Kafka and Remarque to Jim Thompson and Stephen King. After over ten years in New York, his writing has come to define our culture as only a truly embedded outsider could do it. Now, in Young Irelanders, a stunning and elegia... |
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After Overlook's amazing success with The Stories of English and How Language Works, David Crystal has been described by the Times Higher Education Supplement as a "latter-day Samuel Johnson." Now, in a delightfully discursive journey through the groves and thickets of th... |
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Blue Mauritius is an adventure that begins at a ball on a tropical island in the Indian Ocean, and unfolds through discoveries of the legendary stamp in Bordeaux, Mauritius, India, and Britain. It is the fascinating story of the birth of philately, the first collectors, and those who ... |
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The Artist's Mother: A Tribute by History's Greatest Artists to the Women Who Created Them
מאת Overlook Press
Perfect for Mother's Day, a unique tribute to their mothers by the world's most famous artists Every genius must have a mother, and often a mother is an inspiration for genius. Over the last five hundred years, artists have found ways to work their mothers into their most famous paintings. T...
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Something Fishy is top-notch Wodehouse. When Keggs was a butler he eavesdropped on a meeting between his employer, J.J. Bunyan, and a covey of tycoons--J.J. and his associates each agreed to put up fifty-thousand dollars, the total to go to whichever of their sons was the last to marr... |
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Another wrenching Simon Serrailler novel of love, loss, dreadful crimes, and terror. We met the enigmatic and brooding Simon Serrailler in The Various Haunts of Men and got to know him better in The Pure in Heart and The Risk of Darkness. The Vows of Silence, the fourth c...
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In the novels Blue, Green, and White, author Benjamin Zucker brilliantly combined contemporary literature with classical literary tradition--telling the story of the Tal family of Manhattan, Zucker interspersed the text with Talmud-style commentary that moves alongside, beneath, and ab...
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An extraordinary ghost story from a modern master, published just in time for Halloween. In the apartment of Oliver's old professor at Cambridge, there is a painting on the wall, a mysterious depiction of masked revelers at the Venice carnival. On this cold winter's night, the old professor has deci...
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Just in time for planting comes this profusely illustrated, immensely practical, and very different approach to gardening-fit for novices and seasoned green thumbs alike.Most homeowners design their gardens as little decorative plots set amid expanses of green lawn. Europeans, on the other hand, hav...
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Although from different backgrounds, David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill forged a close friendship, delighting in each other's wit, oratory and unconventionality. Both were outsiders. Neither attended university. Above all, both loved political sparring--often together, in the epic parliamentar...
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For more than fifty years Milton Glaser has designed much of the world we experience every day. His posters, books, albums, restaurants, advertisements, and so much more have made him the preeminent force in design in America. Drawing upon an amazing vocabulary of images and techniques, Glaser has n...
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Ayn Rand made a profound impact as both a philosopher who founded a school of social thought, Objectivism, and as a novelist of penetrating insight and vision. Her works are founded on heroic ideals, demonstrating the maxim that, "man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress."
The phot... |
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Based on the critically acclaimed documentary, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 tells the story of the most famous college football game in history Harvard Stadium, November 23, 1968: For the first time since 1909, the football teams of Harvard and Yale are undefeated as they meet for their final ga...
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For nearly sixty years, Alistair Cooke reported on American life. Now, to coincide with what would be his 100th birthday, the Overlook Press is proud to publish Reporting America, which collects Cooke's coverage of the most momentous half-century in American history.
Compiling his most ... |
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The extraordinary Overlook Wodehouse series continues, with Big Money, one of Wodehouse's most irresistible comic tales. When Lord Biskerton--bearing only the beginnings of a mustache and a noble distain for work, and his friend Berry Conway, who sadly succumbed to economic pressure t...
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Sacred Places is a stunning photographic journey to places considered sacred to people of ancient civilizations and increasingly to modern-day men and women. The sites included are associated with great religious or mythological events; they are hallowed burial grounds, manmade edifices and n...
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Growing up in rural Georgia during the 1940's, Joseph Vaughan finds himself at the center of a series of mutilations and killings of young girls. Just a teenager, Joseph becomes determined to protect his community from the killer, but he is powerless in preventing more murders-and no one is ever cau...
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The fourth book in the beloved Zamonia series by Overlook’s bestselling Walter Moers The first three books set in Zamonia (the mythical land created by the genius of Moers, whose work has been compared to J. K. Rowling, Douglas Adams, and Shel Silverstein) have achieved raucous critical acclaim a...
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"My father," Psmith had confided to Mike, meeting him at the station in the family motor on the Monday, "is a man of vast but volatile brain. He has not that calm, dispassionate outlook on life which marks your true philosopher, such as myself. I --" "I say," interrupted Mike, eyeing Psmith's moveme...
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Trapped in the rural hell-hole of the Steeple Bumpleigh with his bossy ex-fiancee, Florence Craye, her fire-breathing father, Lord Worplesdon, her frightful Boy-Scout brother, Edwin, and her beefy new betrothed, 'Stilton' Cheesewright, Bertie Wooster finds himself walking a diplomatic tightrope. Wit...
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The eagerly anticipated debut novel by the highly visible author of The Blair Years Martin Sturrock desperately needs a psychiatrist. The problem? He is one. Alastair Campbell, critically-acclaimed author of the bestselling memoir The Blair Years, offers much more than a glimpse into ...
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Words that Ring Through Time: The Fifty Most Important Speeches in History and How they Changed Our World
מאת Terry Golway
The fifty most important speeches of all time: their context, history, and meaning for our world The speeches remembered by history are rarely remembered in context; but it was almost always the context, not the speech itself, that made each address so significant. Terry Golway has selected fifty s...
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The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26, 1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes. Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the mysterious haze. Were Japanese saboteurs responsible? A reckless factory? The truth was much worse--it came from within, from Southern C...
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Roman Britain, 366 AD: Minna, an eighteen-year-old Roman serving girl, leads a quiet life with her grandmother, a Celtic herbal healer. But when her beloved grandmother dies, Minna must make a difficult choice--marry a man she loathes, or venture out alone to track down her brother, a soldier in a R...
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A Dangerous Liaison: A Revelatory New Biography of Simone DeBeauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
מאת Carole Seymour-Jones
A Dangerous Liaison tells the intense, passionate, and sometimes painful story of how two brilliant free-thinkers, lovers, and rivals came to share a relationship that lasted more than fifty years. Moving from the corridors of the Sorbonne to the cafés of Paris's Left Bank, we discover ho...
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Bill the Conqueror finds Felicia, a sprightly girl calculated to put the stuffing into any man, about to be married off to the dreary Roderick Pyke. But when Bill West arrives from New York she suddenly recognizes in him the man for whom she should forsake all others. ... |
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More than thirty years after his death, Elvis Presley remains indelibly etched into the American psyche. As the Elvis of myth--an embodiment of the American Dream in the flesh--has become synonymous with Elvis the man, the subject of countless books, articles and songs, it has become increasi... |
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The Wodehouse series continues—a sparkling novel from the master of hijinks and social comedy A penniless Englishman falls in love with a lively American girl, loses her, finds her again, is rejected, but finally discovers true love after many comic adventures. In Barmy in Wonderland this c...
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Who was Jesus Christ? Did he exist?
For millennia the world has been driven by the differences between the great patriarchal religions. Western civilization--or Christendom, as it was once called--received its values and its confidence from a belief in God, the Father, and Jesus, his only son. ... |
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What torments the souls of men? What would lead a respected scholar and preacher to suddenly lock himself away in a room with a strange man for forty days and nights--and then to spring forth illuminated, dancing, ignited with passion and knowledge? What leads a solemn scholar to become Rumi... |
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Although Porius is widely regarded as John Cowper Powys's finest achievement in fiction, it has never been published in its intended form--until now. Abridged in every prior publication, the true Porius is presented here for the first time, carefully restored by Powys experts M...
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A consuming story of love, loss, and redemption set in the classical world of Rome and Greece, The Republic of Vengeance is the story of a young man's pursuit of his father's murderer and of the values and qualities he develops that will make him a man--a man capable of a deep, noble, and enduring l...
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A gripping thriller set in the wilds of nineteenth-century Australia by the critically acclaimed author of Courting Shadows. When past indiscretions catch up with Charles Redbourne, a minor English landowner, he is propelled from England to Australia, where he plans to make his mark as a nat...
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In this utterly enthralling novel, some of the great themes of 1930s Europe are refracted through the eyes of a child who is both naive and wise beyond heryears.
Kully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that ca... |
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The wickedly funny collection of nursery rhymes for the South Park generation-illustrated by the incomparable Barry Moser. Andrew Hudgins, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-nominated author of the critically acclaimed Ecstatic in the Poison, brings us this new collection of laugh-out-lo...
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The story of why and how some businesses thrive‹while others die‹in today¹s ferociously competitive online era Winners & Losers tells the stories of some of the most innovative businesses of recent times, explaining how a few succeeded in creating and dominating entirely new markets whi...
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The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II-Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire
מאת John Freely
A gripping biography of one of the most sensational figures in Turkish history Sultan Mehmet II, known to his countrymen as “the Conqueror” and to much of Europe as “the Terror of the World,” was once Europe’s most feared and powerful ruler. Now, Turkey’s most beloved America...
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The first complete biography of the beloved children's book author Walter R. Brooks, creator of Freddy the Pig.In the last ten years Overlook's Freddy the Pig rediscovery has delighted hundreds of thousands of readers around the world. But who created this famous pig? Walter R. Brooks shared ...
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Sam the Sudden chronicles Spike Murphy, of the John B. Pyneet Export and Import Company's heroic contest for the Office Boys' High-Kicking Championship's final against a willowy youth from the Consolidated Eyebrow Tweezer and Nail File Corporation....
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A unique and largely unseen picture of the excitement of New York in the 1970s Preface by Yoko Ono, foreword by P.J. O'Rourke. New York in the 70s is a personal collection of photographs documenting an exciting chapter in New York's history-and a remarkable body of work produced by ...
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From the folks at Overlook who brought you The Weekend Book, now an all-American companion Three years ago, Overlook debuted The Weekend Book, an enchanting treasury of off-hours activities from the England of yesteryear. An enormous success, now this famous publishing tradition move...
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A compellingly inspirational memoir of a young woman confronting the battle of her life with hope, humor, and style....
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One morning, fifty-five-year-old Lydia Raurell stumbled across an ad in the local paper that read "Walk in Monday, dance out Friday." She did just that. A year later she reigned atop the national leader board--a first for a newcomer. This is her amazing story, recorded in her own words and in over o...
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The Wodehouse series continues—a sparkling story collection from the master of hijinks and social comedy These early stories, first published together in 1917, show Wodehouse perfecting his craft. Characters include a talking dog, a private eye who wants to be an actor, a bank clerk who cannot dan...
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Operation Kronstadt: The True Story of Honor, Espionage, and the Rescue of Britain's Greatest SpyThe Man with a Hundred Faces
מאת Harry Ferguson
Part Blackhawk Down, part The Riddle of the Sands, former MI6 officer Harry Ferguson has written an extraordinarily gripping non-fiction thriller Operation Kronstadt not only reveals the early days of intelligence services but also uncovers a truly dramatic story from the Russia...
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Spilling the Beans: The Autobiography of One of Television's Two Fat Ladies
מאת Clarissa Dickson Wright
Clarissa Dickson Wright, famously half of television's Two Fat Ladies, was born into wealth and privilege. Her mother was an Australian heiress, her father was a brilliant surgeon to the Royal family; as a child, shooting and hunting were the norm and pigeons were flown in from Cairo for supp...
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Translated from the Danish by Anne Born From Denmark to Riga and back, through two World Wars, to India and Afghanistan, to America as it was and as it is, and through boarding schools, mental hospitals, and almshouses for the poor, Suzanne Brogger's The Jade Cat is a sweeping family saga of...
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Simon Serailler is back in this pulse-pounding, wrenching novel of action, love and loss. We met Simon Serailler first in The Various Haunts of Men and got to know him better in The Pure in Heart. Susan Hill is not afraid to tackle difficult themes, always prepared to face up...
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The true story of a black musical savant in the era of slavery. Born into slavery in Georgia, Tom Wiggins died an international celebrity in New York in 1908. His life was one of the most bizarre and moving episodes in American history. Born blind and autistic-and so unable to work with othe...
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In October 2005, only a few months after her Turkish husband is detained and her five-year-old son distributed to a foster family by United States border patrol, Jeannie Wakefield disappears. She leaves behind in Istanbul a fifty-three-page letter to M, an investigative journalist whom Jeannie beg...
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Splendidly Unreasonable Inventors: The Lives, Loves, and Deaths of 30 Pioneers Who Changed the World
מאת Jeremy Coller
A brilliant and humorous analysis of thirty inventors who changed the world Jeremy Coller, a pioneer in the world of private equity, argues that there are three basic personality types in the arena of invention. The Principal, Broker, and Consultant each display certain traits that dictate the poten...
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In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of `curious' gardeners was pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son were at the vanguard of this change: as gardeners, as collectors and above all as exemplars of an age...
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At the dawn of the fifteenth century, Islam invaded Europe from the East and it seemed that Christendom itself was under threat. In an attempt to save the Christian world, the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund called a conference at Constance, beside the Rhine. The council attracted the greatest minds i...
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By the author of Zanesville, a seductive story of grit, gunplay, vampirism, and a bit of bondage. Detective Birch Ritter is a man on the edge-of himself. His past is filled with secrets, shadows, guilt, and ghosts. Then a dubious police buddy he hasn't seen in a year introduces him to a myst...
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Hugh Thompson has made a career exploring the mysterious pre-Columbian cultures of ancient Peru, providing unforgettable accounts of South America's most strange--but enduring--culture. In A Sacred Landscape, he takes us from the great Moche pyramids to remote sites in the Central hig...
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Manuel Rivas is "an author who knows how to introduce poetry not just into his sentences but into his way of looking at the world" (Le Monde). Now, Rivas turns his poetic eye upon his native region with this collection of stories. A traveling lingerie salesman is helped miracul... |
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A mind-bending voyage into the underground realms of Russia and beyond by the author of Lost Cosmonaut. When Daniel Kalder descended into the sewers of Moscow in pursuit of the mythical lost city of tramps, he didn't realize that he was embarking on a bizarre, year-long odyssey that would lea...
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Peaches and Daddy: A Story of the Roaring 20s, the Birth of Tabloid Media, and the Courtship that Captured the Hearts and Imaginations of the American Public
מאת Michael Greenburg
On the evening of March 5, 1926, well-known, fifty-one-year-old Manhattan millionaire Edward "Daddy" Browning waltzed through the doors of the legendary Hotel McAlpin and into the life of a fifteenyear- old high school girl named Frances "Peaches" Heenan. Thirty-seven days later, amid blaring headli...
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An eloquent and enlightening account of America's postwar assumption of power Following the devastation of the Second World War and the realization that the damage to Europe was irreparable, the balance of world power shifted across the Atlantic from the old powers of Europe to the extremely...
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A thrill-ride adventure novel capturing the adventure, mystery, legend, and lore of America Year of the Horse is literary fantasy at its very best—a novel that delves into our myths, legends, hopes, and fears; a coming-of-age fable set in our fondly remembered (if often fictional) past—a...
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Ceremonial Violence analyzes the Columbine high school shooting and four other cases and explains for the first time why teenagers commit school rampage shootings. These cases include: Brenda Spencer, 16, who after shooting at elementary school children for no apparent reason explaine... |
