Green: 4240 books

With a "crooked stick," filmmaker Oscar Micheaux (1884–1951) sought to hit a "straight lick" by stressing the strategic importance of class mobility, or "uplift," for African Americans. A theme in all of his more than 40 feature-length, black-produced, black-directed, black-cast, and black-audience...

Real, raw, and funny, the voice of John S. Green takes you on a lifelong journey of seeking sacred resting places in the middle of lifes ever increasing chaos and distractions. Headlines scream, Beware! Look out! The end is near! A lightning, flashing, neon pulse that blinds us from the ordinary light....

Blickt man anders auf das durchlebte Zeitalter, wenn der Tod näher rückt? Wird das, was früher wichtig war, unwichtig? Wo hat man geirrt? Was hat man bewirken können – und was ist geblieben? Seit vielen Jahren führt ZEIT-Feuilletonchefin Iris Radisch Gespräche mit Schriftstellern und Philosophen...

Lucid dreams are dreams in which a person becomes aware that they are dreaming. They are different from ordinary dreams, not just because of the dreamer's awareness that they are dreaming, but because lucid dreams are often strikingly realistic and may be emotionally charged to the point of elation. Celia...

Miss Tayke receives an invitation to a Burns Night Supper at the famous Boisdale of Belgravia in the west end of London. Accompanied by Cedric and Bunty she revels in the delights of superb Scottish cuisine and entertainment but the enjoyment of the evening is cut short when the chairman drops dead...

Miss Tayke visits the January sales to purchase new curtaining but becomes involved in the investigation of a brutal murder within the store. She outwits the local CID by deploying her considerable skills in tracking down the culprit.

Six passengers board a tiny ferry on a crossing that takes only three minutes. One of them is brutally murdered on board the vessel but neither the pilot nor any of the other five passengers admit to witnessing the crime. Police officers investigating the incident are completely baffled until a chance remark from an old man leads them to the murderer and a bizarre twist to the mystery.

Collection of six murder mystery stories from the urbane to the macabre: (1) Horror story set in 1930 when hanging was the norm for convicted murderers: Nine people involved in a recent murder trial are invited to dine at a forbidding old mansion on the pretext of hearing news to their advantage....

Crime is no different, a few make a great deal of money and get to spend it. Most don't. I wasn't one of the clever or lucky ones and when I took a bullet I decided it was time to quit. A new life in a new place was what I was looking for well away from the big city. What I found was Sonny, his father and his brother. This is their story.

Featuring the comedic adventures of short and swarthy Ginger Harrison and his tall lanky mate Sticky Albright over a two-year sojourn in defence of king and country; the skives and the scams, the conflicts with irascible Sergeant ‘Bandy’ Jordan and supercilious Squadron-Leader Aljonquin Phartingail...

The rise of cities in the United States from the early seventeenth century to the 1960s is the subject of this sophisticated and witty appraisal by a Pulitzer Prize historian. Constance McLaughlin Green traces the forces - economic, political, social - that led to today's urban civilization,...

Ever wondered how Chris Pratt rose to stardom? People everywhere can appreciate a rags to riches story: someone from a humble background works hard and eventually becomes rich and famous. However, the story is usually a bit more complicated than that. Sometimes being at the right place at the...

The Trotter family have been pillars of the Peckham community for decades, so when a bin man found this folder of documents at the bottom of the refuse chute in Nelson Mandela Towers and saw that it had official council and even police documents in it, he thought it might be worth something. He passed...

American and European societies have struggled with the recurrent problem of Islamophobia, which continues to surface in waves of controversial legislative proposals, public anger over the construction of religious edifices, and outbreaks of violence. The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine...