Elizabeth: 10009 books
by Johann D. Wyss, Elizabeth Janeway
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The classic adventure tale of a brave family who must come together to survive in their new deserted island home.
Swept off course by a raging storm, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and their four young sons are shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island. Thus begins the classic story of survival...
The Original Black Elite
Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Era—embodied...
Round the Sofa
Classic Victorian Collection: A Novel, 6 Short Stories & Biography of the Author: My Lady Ludlow, Round the Sofa, An Accursed Race, The Doom of the Griffiths, Half a Life-Time Ago, The Poor Clare…
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
Round the Sofa is a collection consisting of the novel My Lady Ludlow prefaced by a short story Round the Sofa, which is used to provide a framework for the telling of My Lady Ludlow and the disparate stories. Mrs. Dawson tells the story of "My Lady Ludlow" and then five other narrators...
L'Hôtesse de l'air, tome 1
Le décollage de Scarlett Lambert
Language: French
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Scarlett, trente ans, est agente de bord, mais elle préfère dire « hôtesse de l'air » parce que c'est plus sexy. Ses amies ne cessent de lui répéter qu'elle est trop exigeante envers la vie, et surtout envers les hommes. Pourtant, elle refuse de laisser de côté ses principes par peur d'être...
Those Were the Days
Australia in the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In photographs and words, this beautiful book rekindles memories of the 1960s in Australia: the Vietnam War and the conscription lottery; the Swinging Sixties, with its mini-skirts and changing fashions, the Beatles, Rolling Stones and The Seekers; the loss of a Prime Minister by drowning; the building...
By All Means Necessary
How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on earth. This remarkable transformation has required, and will continue...
by H.P lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names The Damned Thing [Ambrose Bierce] A Prisoner in Fairyland, The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, The Willows [Algernon Blackwood] Wieland: or, The Transformation [Charles Brockden Brown] The Keeper of Cademuir,...
Dorothea Lange
Grab a Hunk of Lightning
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This beautiful volume celebrates one of the twentieth century's most important photographers, Dorothea Lange. Led off by an authoritative biographical essay by Elizabeth Partridge (Lange's goddaughter), the book goes on to showcase Lange's work in over a hundred glorious plates. Dorothea Lange is...
by Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Mary Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell : The Complete Novels - Thomas Hardy : The Complete Novels - Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Complete Novels - Victor Hugo: The Complete Novels - Robert Louis Stevenson: The Complete Novels - Rudyard Kipling...
Militant Visions
Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Militant Visions examines how, from the 1940s to the 1970s, the cinematic figure of the black soldier helped change the ways American moviegoers saw black men, for the first time presenting African Americans as vital and integrated members of the nation. In the process, Elizabeth Reich reveals how...
Flip! for Decorating
A Page-by-Page, Piece-by-Piece, Room-by-Room Guide to Transforming Your Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
In this fresh, fun, and unique book, design consultant and Today show lifestyle expert Elizabeth Mayhew shares essential insider tips for making any space stylish and timeless in a snap. Forget expensive fixes or labor-intensive endeavors, Flip! for Decorating can show you how to redecorate with what...
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was a well known British novelist at one of the peak eras for female writers in England. A novelist and short story writer at the height of the Victorian Era, Gaskells novels weave a comprehensive, detailed image of the lives of all kinds of different classes in society...
Poison Candy
The Murderous Madam: Inside Dalia Dippolito's Plot to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
“This tale of greed and manipulation in Palm Beach County is impossible to put down” (Vanity Fair).
In August 2009, former madam Dalia Dippolito conspired with a hit man to arrange the murder of her ex-con husband. Days later, it seemed as if all had gone according to plan. Beautiful young...
Cat Power
A Good Woman
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
How Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, Survived Herself–and Became the Indie Rock Queen.
Chan Marshall’s stark lyrics, minimal arrangements,and wounded, smoky vocals, were an instant indie hit in the nineties–but her mental instability nearly derailed her career. How this sensitive but headstrong...