Christopher: 7927 books

La lettura di queste pagine, dense e scorrevolissime, è illuminante per la sagacia con la quale l'autore sa individuare e isolare alcune linee di tendenza che, dai primi moti risorgimentali, arrivano fino ai giorni nostri. Corrado Augias, "il Venerdì di Repubblica" Un bel libro...

  Magic, metaphysics, and a chance encounter with a gypsy fortuneteller, coalesce to irrevocably change three lives.   Christopher Hartman and his live-in, Beau, can't understand why their successful magician friend, Marco, "Abracadabra," Scarpucci, is insecure...

The Cemetery Dance Select series invites some of our favorite authors to spotlight a sampling of their own short fiction: award-winners, stories they consider their best or that had the most impact on their career—or neglected favorites they feel deserve a second look.   Long-time...

Christopher Morley showed an unusual talent for humorous writing in many different settings.  Here is an example. His description of a commencement address in the Garden of Eden, is both priceless and timeless. This volume contains the full text of the following manuscripts, as well...

First published in 1949, this book presents the collected works of Christopher Smart, the eighteenth-century poet whose life has an attraction for the curioso of literature. There is the early marriage with Anne Vane, his secret marriage, eighteenth-century Cambridge life, the intrigues of Grub Street,...

Being one of Christopher Marlowes most celebrated plays, The Jew of Malta tells the story of the eponymous Barabas, a wealthy merchant who, as explained in the prologue, has amassed a great fortune through following Machiavellian teachings. His troubles start when he is informed that the fleet containing...

Our story opens in Afghanistan in 2002 and Special Forces operative Jake Walker is trapped on the side of a mountain. His team have been ambushed; they are carrying casualties and are sheltering from a growing number of Taliban fighters and a hidden machine gun. What happens next is an act of bravery...

This issue of Profession contains Russell A. Berman's introduction to his Presidential Forum, Language, Literature, Learning, held at the 2012 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Christopher Freeburg, Jack Halberstam, B. Venkat Mani, and Imani Perry. To mark...

Crossfire is a fast action crime thriller that could take place in any central California town. Dave Bowen and Rick Hoffman are out to make a little side money trading guns when they get a little more than they bargained for in an abandoned warehouse one Saturday morning.A rouge government agent is...

"Christopher Fahy is a Wonderful Writer" - Stephen King. OVERVIEW: The Christmas Star is Christopher Fahy's heartwarming new holiday story, a story of life changing events, that finds one man in a unique situation to discover what life is truly about. When a man is rescued from his snow...

From Reviews of the second edition: 'Christopher Johns is an internationally recognised pioneer of reflective practice in nursing and health care. The first edition of this book was an excellent resource and this updated version is equally impressive. This is a superb resource for nurses and all those...

'Christopher is a sick, sick puppy. I love it.' Yasmin Selena Butt, author of Gunshot Glitter 'A touch of Keith Waterhouse. Spinning Out of Control is a fine comic novel, and a worthy satire of today's media - both local and national... there are even poignant moments of loss.' Jon Bounds,...

Christopher has been writing since jr. high school. He never felt that his work was worthy of sharing with others; it was his personal hobby that he did strictly for himself and a select few of his family and friends. Not until 2013 did he feel that his work could be presented for more than just his...

Carolyn and Christopher were living a normal existence when a positive biopsy for breast cancer changed their lives.  This is a series of insights into what it is like to deal with cancer and the many facets of it's treatment. This is from the perspective of a couple that were unaware of what would...