From the author of The House by the Divina, the second part of a colourful life. Fraser recounts the early years of married life in India and provides a fascinating view o...
The sequel to "The House by the Dvina". This book completes the story with Eugenie Fraser's first return visit to Russia 50 years after her family fled to Scotland due to ...
The classic ultra-splatter roadtrip in the spirit of Natural Born Killers and The Devil's Rejects. Roxie is the goth girl of your dreams. There's just one problem-
she'...
George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute is a moving tour of the underworld of society.
Written when Orwell was a strugg...
Предлагаемый читателям психологический роман "Великий Гэтсби" (1925) нравственно развенчивает безоглядное восприятие "американской мечты" - идеи социального преуспеяния ли...
How well do you know the people you chat with on a social network?
Thirty-seven year old Ellie Blake is about to find out. Her Bible Belt community wouldn't dare accep...
Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superstition. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of Pamela...
Fighting the Bolsheviks: The Russian War Memoir of Private First Class Donald E. Carey, U.S. Army, 1918-1919
Neil G. Carey, Donald E. Carey
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In January 1918, when 25-year-old Michigan school teacher Donald Carey received his draft notice and joined "Detroit's Own" 339th Infantry Regiment, he expected soon to be...
Anzacs In Arkhangel: The Untold Story Of Australia And The Invasion Of Russia 1918-19
Michael Challinger
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(1)In November 1918, as World War One was coming to a close and soldiers were returning home, a small group of Australian men signed up for more fighting. Yet this time, the ...
The writer of this book went to North Russia as a Y.M.C.A. secretary assigned to work with the army, landing at Murmansk just before Thanksgiving, 1918. I reached Archange...
So I was the 6787th person in Beijing wanting to act in the film and TV industry. There were 6786 young and beautiful, or ugly and old people before me trying to get a rol...
Delve into the tantalizing works of Wrath James White with this thrilling romp through 15 of his most disturbing stories. Devilishly thought-provoking, this collection exp...
Chinese literature published in the United States has tended to focus on politics — think the Cultural Revolution and dissidents — but there's a whole other world of writi...
For centuries, Beijing was closed off to the world, turned inward and literally built around the imperial Forbidden City, the emblem of all that was unknowable about China...
Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompr...