Karl: 3048 books

A ravenous creature that devours its victims, leaving nothing behind. A hero intent on stopping it before the creature kills again. A powerful magician, left for dead in the ruins of his father's castle, alive and thirsting for vengeance. Garrius Arilius rides to Quisin.  There...

Carrying the theme of religious intolerance racism and aggression Karl May narrates the story of a young apache chief who had to endure the deaths of his close ones. Propounding on how the trans-continental mingling affected the life-styles of Indians the book is set in 1800's and in the South-West of U.S. An enthralling and captivating tale of murder and revenge.

On January 7 1943, the German Government, in order to free adult soldiers for frontline duty, ordered that all male students of secondary schools born in 1926 and 1927 be drafted into anti-air craft service in the homeland. Students were to arrive in batteries on February 18 1943. After serving...

The Dolomites, a range of mountains in the Southern Alps, are widely celebrated for their bizarre rock formations, light colour hues, and pristine nature. It is no coincidence that UNESCO declared the Pale Mountains a World Heritage Site and that, every single year, they attract tourists and nature...

The third volume—the book that made Knausgaard a phenomenon in the United States—in the addictive New York Times bestselling series A family of four—mother, father, and two boys—move to the south coast of Norway, to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the...

Home alone during a storm, two young brothers play a game to entertain themselves, a game that will quickly spiral out of control, a game that will have consequences as tragic as they are frightening. In a dark alley, a man regains consciousness and discovers that he has superpowers. He can...

An English professor, shot dead in his office. His neighbor, a professor of mathematics, who discovered the body and called the police.  And is the most likely suspect. A police detective, seemingly more interested in the apple pie at the local diner than in solving the case. A...

Priss Maybry is good at what she does . . . removing human trash from the streets of Miami. But sometimes you get dirty . . . even damaged . . . and nothing will wash off the stench. She hides her vulnerability behind a mask of sandpaper and grit, but in her business, sometimes its just not enough....

Do you want to expand your mental power? Think more clearly, logically, and creatively? Improve your memory? Solve problems and make decisions more effectively? Brain Power introduces the six functional thinking abilities you need to become an adaptive, innovative thinker. As you develop your...

First published in English in 1953, this important book from eminent philosopher Karl Jaspers deals with the philsophy of the history of mankind. More specifically, its avowed aim is to assist in heightening our awareness of the present by placing it within the framework of the long obscurity of prehistory...

The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer 2 June--It is completely dark out now. It is twenty-three minutes to midnight and you have already slept for four hours....

This “toothy follow-up to Datlow’s first-rate Blood Is Not Enough” offers “admirably inventive variations on vampirism” (Kirkus Reviews).   Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper of Blood is a “consistently engrossing anthology”...

A volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology West Baltimore stands out in the popular imagination as the quintessential “inner city”—gritty, run-down, and marred by drugs and gang violence. Indeed, with the collapse of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s, the area...

Like the Sydney Opera House or Uluru, the kangaroo is a unique symbol of Australia. This is the remarkable story of our most famous marsupial, from its ancient origins and prehistoric significance to current-day management and conservation. Marsupial specialists Stephen Jackson and Karl Vernes...