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Every Year I Bury a Couple Hundred of My Townspeople. So opens the singular testimony of the poet Thomas Lynch who like many poets is inspired by death, but unlike the oth...
Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother's, and as the narrator wanders the...
Jane falls in love with Duncan easily. He is charming, good-natured, and handsome but unfortunately, he has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City, Michigan. Jan...
"Беговой клуб Конца света" - роман Адриана Уолкера.
Когда наступает конец света и вы оказываетесь в затруднительном положении на другом конце страны, важна каждая секунда...
Every dog has its day…
And for Lineker, a happy go lucky mongrel from Peckham, the day the world ends is his: finally a chance to prove to his owner just how loyal he can...
The Crimea, Its Towns, Inhabitants and Social Customs, by a Lady Resident Near the Alma
Mrs. Andrew Neilson
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"Крым, его города, жители и общественные обычаи. Написано дамой, проживающей близ Альмы".
Уникальное историко-биографическое свидетельство середины XIX века. Автор книги...
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Stephen E. Ambrose
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(1)'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Je...
Bird (1831-1904) recounts her rugged passage through the Himalayas by horseback and her four-month sojourn amid «the pleasantest of people.» Bird's evocative accounts...
The intrepid explorer recounts her 1878 excursion by pack horse, rickshaw, and foot into the back country of the Far East. In poignant, vivid letters, Bird describes the v...
Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
William Queen, Douglas Century
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(3)n 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential informant” made c...
*Watersgreen House Classic Editions' Herman Melville Collection places Melville's early novels in the canon of gay literature. *"Redburn [is] one of [Melville's] most appe...
Soon to be a major television event from Apple TV and Steven Spielberg, and companion to Band of Brothers and The Pacific.
'Seconds after Brady's plane was hit, the Hundre...
If the Marines are “the few, the proud,” Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick’s career begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior ...
From dust jacket flap: In 2004, at the age of 48, Dr. Dave Hnida, a family physician from Littleton, Colorado, volunteered to be deployed to Iraq and spent a tour of duty ...
The definitive account of the American military's tragic experience in Iraq from a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. Thomas E. Ricks, senior Pentagon correspondent for the ...
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a...